The Sword Creation Manual

One sword breaks ten thousand arts, one sword fells ten thousand foes, one sword guards ten thousand realms. Ye Chen is a good-for-nothing from a collateral branch of the Ye family. Born with an incomplete sword bone, he is still stuck at the third level of Qi Refining at eighteen. He risked life and limb for his clan, only to have his cultivation crippled in front of everyone and be cast out. At death’s door, he falls to the bottom of the Abyss of Ten Thousand Swords and unexpectedly inherits the legacy of the Sword Emperor. The Sword Emperor’s path allows only one person to reach the summit. From then on, the good-for-nothing rises against the heavens.