At the foot of Qinglong Mountain, Li Yi is just a humble hunter who feeds his family with a bow and traps.
On one trip into the mountains, a demonized giant bear hunts him down. He falls into a deep ravine and unexpectedly acquires the dual blade-and-sword inheritance of the Qinglong Heavenly Sect, destroyed three hundred years ago.
His left bone is yin, his right bone is yang. A heavy sword in his left hand, a swift blade in his right: with both weapons, he is invincible among his peers.
But his rough, stone-like physique draws a sneer from the bloodline examiner of a great clan, who barely gives him a glance. "A useless bone. Get out."
Li Yi offers no defense. Reading the wind, tracking, setting ambushes, predicting escape routes: these are the most valuable skills he's gained in seventeen years of life.
Then the day comes when Qinglong true qi bursts forth like a stone shattering, and every expert in the hall turns pale.
"So, who's useless now?"
From village bullies to bloodline clans, from royal power games to the Heavenly Domain's divine court, the deeper he investigates, the more he learns: the decline of martial arts across the Nine Provinces is no act of fate. Someone has cut off every lower-realm warrior's path forward.
If the way ahead is sealed, then he will cleave open the mountains with his blade and break the chains with his sword.
He has never believed in fate. There is only one thing he wants to prove: if a hunter can become a Martial God, then anyone in the world can choose their own path.
