Fallen noble family’s genius young lady * Left Chancellor who serves in court by day and roams the jianghu by night
Natural-born rebel * Abstinent on the outside, scheming underneath
On a bleak, wind-swept autumn afternoon, Li Shiqi avenged her parents by wiping out the leaders of all thirty-two mountain strongholds across the land, then escaped unscathed.
Warrants for her arrest spread far and wide, and everyone sighed in regret.
The young lady had once been the pride of the heavens. When she tested her sword in her youth, her eyes were as clear as still water and her sword aura as fierce as a sudden gale. Her legendary exchange of one sword strike for every line spoken with the Sword Immortal, the greatest swordsman under heaven, is still fondly remembered.
Sadly, all of that has faded away with the wind.
Everyone knows that, with the entire jianghu hunting her, even the young lady probably won’t survive much longer.
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Amid a storm of rumors, Li Shiqi carried her newly sharpened sword and made her way east in silence.
Ever since the day her entire family was slaughtered, she had known that she, too, was doomed to die.
But before she died, she was determined to find the supposedly deceased Sword Immortal in Chang’an and fight him once more.
She would ask his sword: who, in truth, deserved to be called the greatest under heaven?
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I bear a sword that bids my hometown farewell, its jade edge sharp enough to cleave the clouds.
A traveler rides through Xiangyang, his spirit brimming with spring.
- Li He,
