The Wind of Changbai: A Century-Old Blade Soul

In 1895, at Weihaiwei, Old Master Liu carried his hunting knife toward the gunfire, leaving his wife with an unborn child and a home he had devoted his life to protecting.

Grandma Liu, who had fled alone into the Changbai Mountains, passed her Bajiquan and Four Directions Saber techniques on to her son and grandson. In 1931, the gunfire of the September 18 Incident shattered the peace of Manchuria. Liu the Elder took sixteen-year-old Liu Jiadong south of the Shanhai Pass to join the Twenty-Ninth Army. Beneath the moonlight at Xifengkou, father and son drenched their broadswords in enemy blood and came to understand: step back, and you protect your home; advance, and you defend your country.

Armed with his family's saber techniques and the sniping skills he had learned in the army, Liu Jiadong returned to the dense forests of the Changbai Mountains. He pledged allegiance to no faction. Instead, driven only by his patriotic fervor, he formed the Mountain Guard and swore to protect the people and preserve their homeland. Then, in 1943, a blood-soaked huntress named Fengya entered his life. Her father had been killed by the enemy, and after taking revenge alone, she had fled into the mountains.

From the gunfire at Weihaiwei to the broadswords of the Twenty-Ninth Army, from the forests of the Changbai Mountains to the oath at Yingzui Cliff: one ancestral hunting knife, four generations of unyielding spirits. They may never have made it into the history books, but through wind and snow, they stood tall as the backbone of their country.