Tales of the Dark River: I Use Jin Yong’s Martial Arts to Subdue the Martial World

[One male and one female lead] [Personally, I think the The Blood of Youth arc is better than the Tales of the Dark River arc. Later on, the story won't follow the original as closely as Tales of the Dark River does, and will have its own original plot. After The Blood of Youth ends, there's also the [Immortals Beyond the Border arc], but it doesn't start as a separate volume, so just keep reading after The Blood of Youth.]

[Tales of the Dark River arc: complete, Chapters 1–138]

[The Blood of Youth arc and Immortals Beyond the Border arc: complete, Chapters 139–263]

Mu Huaijin, a young man from the modern world, has had a rough life.

After an accident, his soul transmigrates into this thriving martial world, carrying the complete memories of his previous life.

Heroes rise across the martial world, martial arts flourish, and immortals from the Four Realms live hidden among mortals, looking down upon the world through the ages.

With his memories of his previous life, Mu Huaijin assumes he knows this world and can use his past experience to find a safe place in it.

But fate has other plans. He arrives three years after the Eastern Expedition of the Demon Cult ended and Ye Dingzhi died in battle.

The upheaval of the chaotic era has yet to settle, and the balance of power has quietly shifted. This era, out of step with his own, is nothing like the world he knows.

Unknown dangers lurk on every side. He keeps his head down and proceeds cautiously, hoping only to survive in peace.

But the martial world has never been up to him.

An inexplicable rumor spreads, and the cold, mysterious Dark River suddenly tracks him down, closing in step by step.

His sealed past is abruptly revealed, and the once bright, pure, cheerful young man becomes the son of a killer, scorned by the martial world.

The light of the past is gone, a vile reputation clings to him, and the world changes in an instant.

Mu Huaijin is stunned, and in a moment, his future is overturned.

He has nowhere to hide and nowhere to run.

From then on, he is forced into the whirlpool of the martial world, bound for life in an inescapable tangle of fate with the sinister, inscrutable Dark River…