Chen Ye inherits a martial arts school on the verge of going under. He plans to make money by teaching self-defense classes using the “Protective Stance” his grandfather taught him.
Then an underground fight ring comes to collect a debt. When Chen Ye lands a punch with explosive force at close range, he realizes this seemingly ordinary technique is rooted in the long-lost traditional martial art, Chen Style Six Harmonies Close-Range Boxing.
His grandfather died branded a traitor who stole the manuals, yet his belongings contain a fragment of the Compendium of a Hundred Schools. The keepers of the various schools’ secret manuals have their own demands: some will fight to the death to test his fists, some will only spar in friendship, and others have long since been bought off by money and fame.
The New Martial Alliance wants to standardize, digitize, and commercialize the traditional arts of the hundred schools.
But Chen Ye isn’t trying to collect every secret manual and become the greatest under heaven.
He just wants to use a single Protective Stance to protect those who deserve it, then test his fists against the hundred schools.
“We can settle the score slowly, but I won’t take a punch for nothing.”
