The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber Sequel: Nine Suns Return to the Void

Twenty years after the end of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, the martial world is no longer what it once was. The Ming Dynasty has secured its rule, and imperial power looms over all. Shaolin, Wudang, and Emei each harbor their own concerns. The Beggars’ Sect has fallen into decline, and the last traces of the Ming Cult have faded away. The Persian headquarters watches like a tiger ready to pounce, while sinister arts from beyond the borders wreak havoc in the Western Regions. Zhang Guijin is the only son of Zhang Wuji and Zhao Min. Raised on the grasslands of the north, he has known nothing of the martial world and its blades since childhood. Yet within him lies the purest Nine Yang True Qi in the world, vast as the sea and beyond anyone’s understanding. A runaway horse leads him to an unexpected encounter with Su Ningyue, an heir to the ancient tomb lineage of Mount Zhongnan. Cool and radiant as the moon, she moves with peerless grace and carries a century-old tradition. She has emerged into the world only to find the young man destined to inherit the legacy of Nine Yang. And so the boy from the grasslands steps into the martial world of the Central Plains. He possesses peerless inner power, but his techniques are crude. Kindhearted by nature, he is repeatedly looked down upon by the various sects. But when he catches a sword barehanded, sends a crowd of heroes reeling with his own body, and makes the Nine Yang True Qi resound across the battlefield, the entire martial world finally understands: The Heaven Sword may have reached its end, but Nine Yang has not been extinguished. The young man’s arrival stirs the winds of change once more. This is a story of origins, destiny, martial arts, the imperial court, and the martial world. It is also a legend set after the Condor Trilogy, as a century of martial history reaches its final end.