Peace in the Martial World

The Immortal Physician Zhang Jicang was killed in his own thatched clinic. The doors and windows were intact, and the killer left behind only a hair-thin sword mark. Only the Nangong family’s Phantom Eight Swords could inflict a wound like that. Now the entire martial world is demanding that the Nangong family pay with their lives. But no one has seen them use that sword technique in twenty-five years.

Gu Zhuying, clad in white as bright as snow, refuses to believe the rumors. Following the murders from city to city, he investigates the case. Su Huiling keeps a two-page-missing ancient manual hidden in her sleeve. Those who play the zither hear the killing intent before those who draw their swords.

The closer they get, the more people die. Everyone wants to find the real killer, yet everyone is being used as a piece in someone else’s game. The first move in this game was made one night, twenty-five years ago.

On March 20, the case will be heard in Gusu. It is not the real killer on trial. It is the entire martial world.