The Hundred Poisons Compendium

In the final years of the Dayan dynasty, the skies are clear and the days are long. The Jin army's hoofbeats press against the northern frontier, undercurrents surge through the court, and yet the martial world has its eyes fixed on one thing: the Xie family's medical compendium.

The compendium has three volumes: medicine in the first, poisons in the second, and techniques in the third. Six years ago, the Xie clan, a family of distinguished generals, was wiped out overnight, and the compendium scattered across the martial world. Six years later, a disciple of the Valley of the Undying, going by the alias Li Lu, descends the mountain with a box on her back. Petal-made hidden weapons are concealed in her sleeve, and beneath her tongue lies the feigned-death technique her master taught her. She is the Xie family's sole survivor, Xie Xiaoyue.

From the gu plague in Withered Leaf Town on the northern frontier, to the successive mysterious deaths of the Hundred Flowers Sect's twin leaders, to the living skin-swapping at the Ten Thousand Swords Sect, to the disciples of the Azurefall Sect slowly poisoned, and finally the extravagant banquet at the Beautiful Mountain Villa, where cups clink and guests mingle, she examines corpses, investigates cases, identifies poisons, and unravels schemes, pursuing the hand making moves behind the medical compendium. Along the way, Cheng Yuan of the Ten Thousandfold Tower brings her a thousand lanterns to light the night, the mysterious Pei Qingyan hurries to her through the rain, and a faint scar on her wrist, left when she was eight, leads to a pair of jade pendants she had deliberately tried to forget.

Medicine is medicine, poison is poison, and medicine can also be poison. As the truth slowly comes to light, her revenge is nearly complete. But the question waiting for her is harder:

With the truth revealed and blood debts repaid, what makes anyone think this world can be better?