After My Wife Left, I Slashed Through the Immortals with Her Dowry Sword

My name is Jiang Chen, a mortal scholar too weak to even truss a chicken. I have a gentle, virtuous wife, and we are newlyweds, perfectly in tune with each other.

But on the second day of our marriage, she left without a word, leaving behind only a letter and a chest of dowry, and telling me to wait for her return.

To find her, I opened the dowry. Inside was nothing but an anonymous sword manual.

When I mastered the first sword technique and could cleave a rushing river with a single stroke, a passing elder from a sect bowed before me, saying I was the heir to a reclusive Sword Demon.

When I mastered the second technique and could summon heavenly lightning with a thought, a powerful cultivator facing his tribulation went out of his way to avoid me, saying I had inherited the legacy of a forbidden female immortal.

After traveling across countless mountains and rivers, becoming the greatest swordsman of my age, I finally found a clue about her... The entire cultivation world was abuzz with rumors: the greatest female sword immortal of all time, who once overturned the Heavenly Dao single-handedly, had returned!

That was when it finally hit me.

My shy, fragile wife, who always blushed and needed me to protect her... was the very forbidden legend they were talking about? Then this dowry I’ve been cultivating with all this time, could it be...