The Wild Goose Returns to Hengyue

At the end of the Yuan and the dawn of the Ming, the seventy-two peaks of Mount Heng become a gathering place for heroes and rising storms.

Liu Jian, the Hengshan Sect leader's senior disciple, sees his mentor murdered in a single night. The only clue left behind is the phrase "Nanyue Grand Temple." To avenge his master, he sets out on a perilous hunt for the killer, accompanied by Chen Rui, a tea merchant's daughter and his childhood sweetheart.

From Huiyan Peak to Zhurong Peak, from Water Curtain Cave to Sanqing Temple, the savory aroma of Zha Jiang rice noodles, the delicate freshness of Nanyue mist tea, the sweet chewiness of bianba, and the mellow richness of Ling wine mingle with the incense of Hengyang's "Eighth Month Festival" and the candlelight of the "Fire Lantern Festival." The pair must contend with the treacherous pursuit of the traitor Zhao Wuji, unravel the Yuan loyalists' many ambushes, and uncover, through the "Thirteen Forms of Mist," a blood feud buried for twenty years and a secret tied to the survival of the Hengshan Sect.

The Xiang River gleams like a ribbon, and a flock of geese shivers in the cold. An ancient sword, a treasure map, and a peerless sword manual.

When flames rise atop Zhurong Peak and swordlight flashes in Water Curtain Cave, can Liu Jian master an unrivaled sword technique and slay his enemy? And can Chen Rui, an ordinary woman, protect the one she loves?

With the eight hundred miles of Mount Heng as witness, behold how the heroes of the martial world write a legend of courage and tenderness amid the chaos of war.