The Holy Fire Stays Bright

Young Zhang Chaozong has lived on Ice and Fire Island for eighteen years, practicing swordsmanship, watching tides, and practicing martial arts. He thought that Jianghu was just a distant legend. His father's name was Zhang Wuji, and his mother's name was Zhao Min, but no one had ever mentioned the grudges and bloodshed behind these two names to him. Until that day, news of the demise of the Sky Eagle Sect came from across the sea. Yin Tianzheng's grandson Yin Huan knelt on the Yanwu Ping with blood all over his body, begging Zhang Wuji to come out and save people. Zhang Wuji did not take action personally. He only gave Chaozong an old sword, a pseudonym, and an instruction: "Use martial arts to make friends, and use your brain to see who is not a friend." From the moment he set foot in Ningbo Port, Chaozong stepped into a large network that had already been laid out. Jinyiwei's spies are lurking on the pier, carrier pigeons are flying towards Yingtian Mansion in the night, and deeper, two sets of grand strategies spanning the court and the rivers and lakes are competing fiercely. One set is called "Ice Erosion Flow", which was personally instructed by Zhu Yuanzhang. It uses infiltration, cleaning and high-pressure control to completely freeze the remnants of Mingjiao. One set is called "Still Waters and Deep Flows". It is planned by Guangmingding Yang Xiao and Ksitigarbha. They do not strive for temporary victory, but only secretly promote the direction of history - from the Hu Weiyong case to the Li Shanchang case, from the Lan Yu case to the Kongyin case. Behind the bloody major cases in the Hongwu period, these two sets of strategies were secretly competing. On the surface, it is a legend of the growth of a young hero who robbed the court and broke into the imperial prison; secretly, it is a long showdown between two major plans with the empire as a chessboard. The dark red agate on the scabbard of the old sword in Zhang Chaozong's hand reflects exactly the same light as when his father was young.