[The posted chapters will be revised. If you like this premise, you can save the book for later.]
In the final years of Changtu, demons and evil spirits ran rampant.
Every night, hideous monsters took to the streets and wreaked havoc with cruel, bloody methods.
Humanity was plunged into misery. Children grew up in fear, while adults could only hold them tightly and pray they would live to see the next day's sun.
A sixteen-year-old girl swordswoman traveled alone to the perilous northern mountain of Baiwu to seek a master.
Legend had it that within this mountain range, forever buried under snow, lay a sword art of pure yang and fiery power that could set every demon and evil spirit ablaze.
'Why have you come here?'
'To learn how to vanquish demons and evil spirits.'
'Why do you want to vanquish demons and evil spirits?'
'To bring peace and prosperity to the world, and peace for all time.'
'Then from this day on, you will be my first student, and my last.'
'Teacher, I want to ask... isn't he your student?'
The girl knelt in the snow. Fresh snow fell from between the conifer branches, fluttering down like woven threads.
She pointed at the boy peeking around behind her teacher and asked coldly.
The boy darted in front of her at once, grinning and making a funny face. 'I'm not the teacher's student. I'm just a wild kid the teacher picked up in the mountains.'
Reading Guide:
1. My take on Eastern fantasy: high martial arts, low magic, many original settings, entirely fictional world
2. The romance is one-on-one throughout, with a happy ending
3. Emotionless swordswoman heroine x sunny, lovesick male lead
4. Old-school flavor, with faked deaths, more than once
Theme: At the deepest point of love, the living can die, and the dead can live.
