On the day Jiang Li was born, the ancestral sword of the Jiang family rang out, and celestial omens appeared across the heavens and earth.
Everyone said she was a forbidden child who should never have existed.
She bore the blood of the divine clans of the Upper Realm and mortals of the Lower Realm, yet received none of the glory. Her mother died young, her father vanished, and she was sent to a collateral branch of the Jiang family, where she grew up amid cold stares and contempt.
For sixteen years, she had no master, no resources, and only an ordinary sword.
But she never accepted her fate.
Others practiced the sword in pursuit of powerful techniques and higher realms. She practiced only to ask why the sword in her hand was drawn.
At the family tournament, she stepped onto the martial stage as a member of a collateral branch and defeated a Jiang family prodigy with a single strike, revealing to the world the edge she had hidden for sixteen years. But just as she was about to uncover the truth, the Jiang family chose to cast her into the abyss once more.
To find the secret her mother had left behind, Jiang Li entered the legendary Sword Burial Abyss.
There she met Pei Ji, the nameless Sword Venerable forgotten by the world, discovered an ancient sword that had slept for ten thousand years, and learned for the first time that the bloodline within her was tied to a secret buried for ten thousand years.
From the Nine Provinces to the myriad worlds, from mortals to gods.
She would meet companions who walked beside her, and face deities enthroned high above.
Some said the fate of all living beings had long been decreed by heaven.
Jiang Li refused to believe it.
She believed only in the sword in her hand.
With this strike, she would cut through prejudice.
With this strike, she would challenge heaven's decree.
With this strike, she would illuminate the land.
