[A Jin Yong-style story] [No System, no transmigration, not a xianxia tale] [Ensemble cast] [Mind games and political intrigue] [Dark]
The legend of the Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Saber has become history, while undercurrents stir throughout the martial world. In the Ming palace's secret library, eight-year-old Little Beggar is taken under the wing of Eunuch Kui. The library houses martial arts manuals plundered from across the land when the previous dynasty swept through the Central Plains, but Eunuch Kui allows him to practice only one incomplete martial art.
Three years later, Eunuch Kui dies, casting Little Beggar into the court's most secretive assassins' organization, the “Forty Punishments.” The organization's goal is to wipe out the entire martial world and use a thousand years of martial arts knowledge from the library to mass-produce human weapons on par with the leader of the Demon Cult.
“May I ask, is there truly no danger in accepting a hundred years of internal energy through such a shortcut?”
Shadow Zero looked at him and said slowly, “To prepare this generous gift for you all, the court has readied ten thousand people for you to drain of their internal energy.”
The hall fell into utter silence.
But everyone overlooked one thing: a group of people with the power to overturn the martial world are, in themselves, a martial world even bloodier and more perilous.
