Family saga | Military formations and tactics | Decisive and ruthless | Passionate defense of the frontier | Ensemble cast growth | Realm-wide rivalry | No System
The night Shen Changge was born, the ancestral tablets toppled all over the ancestral shrine.
Sixteen years later, that child became the young lord of Burial Bone Pass. Beyond the pass were the wolf riders of Beiman; within it were the disdainful eyes of the Heavenly Sword Sect. To the sect, a military family with three centuries of service was nothing but expendable cannon fodder. On the day the confiscation order arrived, Zhao Wuji stood across the city moat and gave him three days to hand over the family heirloom and his life.
That night, Shen Changge entered the ancestral shrine again. The Stele of the War Lord's Battle Soul cracked, and an aged voice rang out in his mind:
"My lord has waited three thousand years. You are the one he has been waiting for."
The Blood of the God of War awakened. The stronger his killing intent, the greater his battle power. But with every seal broken, the backlash of baleful energy grew more severe. At the end of the road, his soul would be annihilated.
The Heavenly Sword Sect wanted his life, and Beiman wanted his blood. The Demon Abyss sealed away three thousand years ago was beginning to stir.
Gripping the formation-breaking spear, Shen Changge led his Shen clan to stand in the middle of the shattered city gate.
"If you want to take the Shen clan's battle souls, come and get them."
They held the pass for a hundred years. They held it until a small frontier clan became the foremost military family of the Xuancang Realm, and until the names of the fallen from every generation sank into the clouds of battle souls, guarding the Nine Heavens for eternity.
