Aogiri Yin

During the Longqing period, Baoning in northern Sichuan. Deng Wu, a young man from Youfang, was determined to change his life by taking the imperial examination. On the wharf, I stood up for the tea farmers, but was robbed of my job by the guards; I met an old Taoist in gray robe at the city wall, and heard him assert: "If you are not good at writing, you will not be good at martial arts - the green air between your eyebrows is a sign of immortality." He didn't believe it. Until the day when the results were released, he lost his reputation, until the imperial examination case came up and he was imprisoned. At the critical moment of life and death, the old man came with his sword hanging. From then on, he went up to Yuntai Mountain, worshiped the Three Treasures, and read Taoist scriptures. After practicing hard in the White Crane Tower, the Qinglong Sword Technique was first perfected; pills were formed on the Feixian Cliff, and the Purple Sun Magic Technique was invented. The Chunfeng Ancient Tomb contains the Alchemy of Zu Lu, the ancient demon is sealed under the dry well in Heming Mountain, the twenty-four artifacts in the Sanxing Cave of Xianyue are scattered among the five sects, and the Taihao Golden Crow Divine Wheel in the ancient city of gods recognizes him as its master. The five sects in Shushan are fighting openly and secretly, the Huangtian Sect is causing trouble in Sichuan, and the evil spirits on the Tibetan border are pressing harder and harder. Mentors, best friends, and beauties came into his life one by one, and left him one by one. The Ningxia Mutiny, the Imchen Japanese Rebellion, the Bozhou Rebellion, and the Saar Hu—he personally experienced all the ups and downs in the last seventy years of the Ming Dynasty. I use my sword to ask questions, and I personally experience the world. I know that the building is about to collapse, but I still want to ask this world: Is there a way to return to heaven? From the failed scholar on the banks of the Jialing River, to the ascetic on the top of Shushan Mountain, to the last sword guarding his hometown in times of crisis. With history as the sutra and fantasy as the weft, this is a textual research-level epic of the late Ming Dynasty.