In the third year of Yongchang, the Great Liang Dynasty was nearing its end. Feng Chen, a centurion in the frontier army, received a bloodstained military order: slaughter every last one of the hundred-plus people in Qinglin Village.
When he led his troops into the village, he spotted a familiar figure at the front of the crowd: the limping old doctor who had once saved his life with half a bowl of rice porridge. With the order in hand and a blade at his side, Feng Chen felt his first doubts about the court he had sworn to serve.
That night, he did not swing his blade. Instead, covered in wounds, he rescued seven children. From then on, the name of a “traitorous general” appeared on the Great Liang’s wanted list.
As he fled, Feng Chen gradually saw the truth about this world: the so-called rebels were ordinary people with no way left to survive, while the so-called soldiers were wolves who looted and slaughtered. When he unexpectedly obtained the legendary Evil-Slaying Blade, he found a blood-written letter from a famous general of the previous dynasty hidden inside its scabbard: “Whoever wields this blade must give the world a guiding purpose and secure a future for its people.”
From a lowly frontier soldier to the leader of a rebel army, Feng Chen no longer wielded his blade for the powerful. Whenever he drew it, the hopes of countless displaced people stood behind him, and its edge pointed at the rotten foundations of this cruel world. But when he faced a siege by his former comrades, the blade that had once slain countless enemies trembled in the rain for the first time...
