Abandoning the Blade

For ten years, night rain has fallen over the jianghu, and the blades of the Wuyin Pavilion have never missed.

Shen Qi is the Wuyin Pavilion's top-ranked assassin, known as the “Untraceable Blade.”

Seventy-three missions in ten years, not one failure.

His blade leaves no trace, and few in the world can withstand three full-force strikes from him. He follows just one rule: he kills only the most heinous criminals, and never spills innocent blood.

But he is still an assassin, a blade in someone else's hand, unable to escape the reins of fate. A single written order sends him far away to Jiangnan to kill Su Wandeng, a blind qin player.

In a small pavilion on a rainy night, his blade rests a mere half-inch from her throat. She plucks a string and speaks a single line, exposing the nightmare he has hidden for twenty years. This mission was never a simple assassination. It was a trap from which there was no escape.

The truth behind the “Forgotten River massacre” twenty years ago, Pavilion Master Ghost's collusion with the eunuch faction, his plot to overthrow the court and the martial world, and Shen Qi's own origins all become the sharpest pieces in this conspiracy.

From Jiangnan's drizzling rain to the snowstorms of the capital, from the ancient ferry at Forgotten River to the walls of the Forbidden Palace, every flash of steel brings a storm of blood.

He has seen the darkest hearts and encountered the warmest lights.

In the end, before the eyes of the whole world, he abandons the blade he has wielded for ten years and, with a mortal's body, defies a monstrous conspiracy. He becomes a legend in the jianghu that will never fade.