There is a legend in the martial world that a “Skylark” roams the snowy lands of the Northern Frontier. She never kills anyone. She steals only one thing: the regrets of the dying.
The Skylark's real name is Shen Que. Her lightness skill is unrivaled, but she has sworn never to kill. She wanders through a world of flashing blades, fulfilling the dying's unfinished wishes in exchange for their final secrets. Some say she's a bodhisattva, others call her a thief. Most suspect she's only trying to atone for her own sins.
Then she receives the strangest commission of her life: to assassinate herself.
The client is someone who should have died a year ago: her master, the Sword Saint Pei Jinghan. Not only is he alive, he tells her himself, “I took you as my disciple so I could kill you.”
At the same time, a “Skylark Hunt” quietly unfolds, sweeping across the martial world. The Divine Constables of the Six Gates, the Demon Cult leader, wealthy merchants from Jiangnan, princes of the imperial court... every faction throws itself into the fray. Some want her dead, some want her for themselves, and some want her to protect a secret powerful enough to bring the world to ruin.
Only then does Shen Que realize that her origins, her master's betrayal, and the name “Skylark” that has always circled above her were never the fate she chose. They were all part of a plot twenty years in the making.
And she was nothing more than the most insignificant pawn on the board.
The Skylark doesn't kill, but the Skylark holds a grudge.
She decides to flip the board.
With a lightness skill that leaves no trace in the snow and a promise to stay true through life and death, the most “useless” rule in the martial world becomes the sharpest blade of all, one that can overturn the world.
