Records of the Tang Dynasty’s Martial World: I Walk the Sword Path Alone

This is a Great Tang where poetry and the sword coexist. A true dragon lies hidden in the Eastern Sea, swordsmen hail from Beiman, blade wielders shine in the southern borderlands, and a demon king devours the Western Regions. … Pei Zhan is a born sword prodigy, trained by Lu Zhaolin. At eighteen, he comes to Luoyang after his family patriarch, Pei Yan, is imprisoned, and enters the Golden Scale Martial Contest. He defeats Shangguan Wan'er in the first round, Chen Ziang in the second, and He Zhizhang in the third. He becomes commander of the Golden Scale Guard and is swept into the bitter struggle between Wu Zetian and the old officials of the Li Tang dynasty. Fame, power, wealth, beauties, divine weapons, secret manuals. Wu Zhao, Wan'er, Taiping, Wei Lian, Gongsun, Yuhuan. Pei Zhan has it all. Then he casts it all aside. Defeating the strongest fighters in Records of the Great Tang Martial World and standing atop the martial path: that is his one eternal pursuit. “I question the boundless road of a lifetime; my sword heart marches only toward its end.” [Historical figures and original content. Read the setting for this book first, then decide whether to continue.]