Gu Changfeng, a servant disciple of the Qingyun Sword Sect, swept the grounds for three years and was called a good-for-nothing for all three.
Then, on the day the outer sect's top fighter trampled him in front of everyone, the rusty sword his father had left behind drank his blood.
Something awakened inside the sword and told him it could devour anything. Palm strikes, sword energy, deadly poison, cultivation methods: it swallowed them, refined them, and made them his.
So he broke an arm with one strike, and made his tormentor kneel to repay the humiliation. The spirit-testing stone shattered, and he turned the tables in a duel to the death.
But the more he won, the more he realized something was wrong. The seal on his meridians came from the inner sect. His father, who had died as a "traitor to the sect," had once been the senior disciple.
The ninth floor of the Scripture Pavilion held an empty room, and the old groundskeeper had sword calluses across his thumb and forefinger.
Someone wanted to repeat the blood sacrifice that wiped out the Sword Guarding Clan thirty thousand years ago.
This time, the stele had chosen its master. And the master would not be easy to kill.
[Tags]
Xianxia | Good-for-Nothing's Rise | Sword Cultivator | Golden Finger (Devouring Evolution) | Sect | Mystery of His Origins | Feel-Good Power Fantasy | Face-Slapping | One Female Lead (Slow Burn) | Ensemble Cast
