One Word Through the Ages

Shen Mobai, the last scion of the Shen family of Yunmeng Marsh, is a down-and-out scholar who can barely lift a chicken. His entire family was wiped out three years ago. Now, three years later, his enemies have come to finish the job. On the brink of death, he takes up his brush and writes three words: Wind Rises, Men Halt, Enemies Fall. At that moment, a mysterious being that had slumbered within him for ages awakens. A book without a single word can deduce the laws governing all things and see through every cultivation technique. The price is that each use costs him one of his most precious memories. A reclusive master tells him, “Your talent for the literary path is rarer than any in all of history.” A cultivation sect teaches him to kill with poetry, form arrays with verse, and use literature to break every technique. At first, he thought this was just a story about a scholar making a comeback...