Three years ago, the temple was burned to the ground and her master was killed. All that remained was a rusted, broken sword and the words, “Stay alive.”
Shen Qingwu concealed her identity and trained in swordsmanship, all to kill her enemy with her own hands.
But as her eighteenth birthday approaches, the power known as the “Sword Bone” within her is about to awaken. An envoy from the “Heavenly Palace” in the Upper Realm arrives as promised, calling her both a “vessel” and a “key.”
To uncover the truth behind the massacre of her family, she is forced to step into a treacherous martial world and the path to immortality.
She meets the mysterious wandering swordsman Xie Wuyi, joins forces with other heirs who bear the Sword Bone, and gradually uncovers a secret buried for ten thousand years:
The so-called Sword Bone is a fragment of the broken Heavenly Dao. The so-called pursuit of the Dao is actually a fraud that demands lives as its offering.
When the Heavenly Gate opens once more, will she become the sacrifice that completes the Heavenly Dao, or wield her sword to shatter this prison of fate?
This is a story about finding oneself and breaking free from destiny.
The blade points forward not out of heartlessness, but in search of the Dao within.
