Rainbow Skirt and Feathered Robe

In the first month of the seventh year of Xiande under the Later Zhou, the Khitans invaded south, and Zhao Kuangyin led his troops to Chenqiao Post. At dawn, the army mutinied and draped the Yellow Robe over him. Thus began the three-hundred-year foundation of the Zhao Song dynasty. In Luoyang, Yu Qiao, a minister entrusted with the young emperor by Shizong, died defending the Yu estate in a bloody siege. With his dying breath, he entrusted the twin swords Purple Lightning and Green Frost, along with Shizong's blood edict, to his only son, Yu Feiwan. The maids Green Ant and Red Clay were secret agents of the Yu family: one wielded a soft sword that made wine foam white, the other poisoned stings that stained it red. They protected their master as he fled. A young nobleman of the Yu family, Yu Feiwan now stepped into the world of martial arts. At the Yellow River ferry, he met the drunken swordsman Qian Xiaoge and the blade-wielder Wei Qingshu; at the foot of Mount Wangwu, the diviner Wu Daofeng read the stars and spun his tales. He also crossed paths with two extraordinary women, Zhao Nishang and Sun Yuyi, and amid the flames of war and the fate of their homeland, a tragic love unfolded. Purple Lightning rules death; Green Frost rules life. When the two swords unite, what fate awaits all beneath heaven? This two-hundred-chapter epic captures the founding years of the Northern Song, from the heights of the imperial court to the distant world of martial heroes. The distinction between loyal and treacherous, the love between men and women, and the fate of the common people are all entrusted to a single sword.