The Dust-Breaking Martial Emperor

At the age of seven, Xie Chen was abducted by the Shadow Pavilion, an organization of assassins, and plunged into a lightless hell. After ten years of brutal training, he became the Pavilion's sharpest blade, code-named “Shadow Seven.” His fingertips were stained with blood, and numbness was all that remained in his heart. Then one night, the flames of a border town illuminated the cries of children. The blade wielded by one of his companions cleaved open the humanity he had buried.

He led three companions in a defection, only to be betrayed by a mole. After fighting their way out in a shower of blood, only he and a young woman named Ling Yue survived. The Shadow Pavilion's pursuit followed them like a shadow. When Ling Yue disappeared, he took the alias Chen Feng and scraped by at the bottom of society. By chance, he obtained a fragment of the Dustbreaker Art. The assassin's ruthlessness and the martial artist's compassion clashed within his very bones.

From a lone figure in an underground fighting ring to leader of the Dustbreaker Stronghold, from lifting a curse in Miaojiang to the final battle in Luoyang, he rallied the oppressed and exposed the Northern Desert Dynasty's conspiracy behind the Shadow Pavilion. At last, he performed the Fengshan Sacrifice on Mount Tai and established the New Rules of the Martial Way under the name “Dustbreaker Martial Emperor.” With the keen eye of a former assassin, he saw through the chaos, and with the power he had gained at the summit, he forged a lasting peace. The hand that once wielded a blade to slaughter became a shield protecting all under heaven.