The Great Wilderness is divided into five continental regions, four seas, and countless wild lands, with thousands of sects.
There are no true immortals in this world, and eternal life is a distant dream. Only the Venerable Taiping travels the land, guiding people through virtue and maintaining the balance with the Voidheaven Sword. His final words were: "The sword shall belong to the virtuous, and bring peace to the Great Wilderness."
The world acknowledges the Heavenly Dao Pavilion of the Central Plains' Divine Land as supreme. Its pavilion master, Liang Shangxuan, is known as the True Man of Profound Heaven. He projects a benevolent and sage-like image, yet conceals profound schemes beneath it. His actions are measured and hard to predict.
The Venerable Taiping suddenly died by the Jing River. His body bore traces of a hundred poisons, and his true essence was in turmoil. The Voidheaven Sword had vanished without a trace, shaking the world and destabilizing its order.
The Heavenly Dao Pavilion spared no effort in searching for the sword, hoping to find it before the Venerable's burial and stabilize the situation.
The great sects of the five regions and the powers of the four seas each harbored their own intentions, while undercurrents surged.
Among them, the Northern Water Palace Sect's master was ambitious and deeply calculating, hoping to use the upheaval to break the old order.
The protagonist, Lin Jianwei, is the personal disciple of Du Qinghe of the Heavenly Dao Pavilion. He received small kindnesses from the Venerable Taiping in his youth and has a forthright nature. By chance, he becomes entangled in the mystery of the missing sword.
As the investigation deepens, the evidence suggests that the Venerable did not die while enduring danger to test poisons. Instead, it seems someone secretly poisoned him with a mixture of rare toxins and used a special method to disrupt his true essence, faking a death in meditation.
The source of the poisons, the strange state of his true essence, and the whereabouts of the Voidheaven Sword: three clues intertwine as the mystery deepens. Both Ling Shangxuan and the master of the Water Palace Sect are suspects, but there is no solid evidence.
With Du Qinghe's covert support, Lin Jianwei pursues the truth, searching for clues amid the competing factions. He gradually draws closer to the truth behind the Venerable's death and the disappearance of the Voidheaven Sword, and will also face a sweeping upheaval that will engulf the Great Wilderness.
Not bad, not bad. The scenes are grand and the characters are well created. The more you go on, the more interesting it gets.