Tales of the Desert Outlaws

He was born alone, and sometimes thought he was doomed to a life of solitude. Orphaned as a child, he was taken in by the master of the Golden Saber Sect and raised atop the Qilian Mountains. Who could have imagined that in a single night, the Golden Saber Sect would be drenched in blood, its halls littered with corpses? To avenge them, he trained in martial arts relentlessly for eighteen years. They say that whenever the Saint Luo Iron Fist appears, the martial world is swept up in bloodshed. Eighteen years later, he pursued his enemies across the land, leaving the Sangkun Sect in ruins. Who could have imagined that the imperial court would issue wanted notices throughout the land, hunting down a murderous demon king? To villains, he was a demon king; to the common people, a great hero. He fled from martial artists pursuing him at every turn, yet kept stumbling upon strange and wondrous things. It turned out that it was all a farcical tangle of misunderstandings, ordained by fate. He is the sole direct disciple of Jin Wudi, founding patriarch of the Golden Saber Sect. He is also the trusted companion of the Saint Luo Iron Writ, Nieying, and Xue'ao. Some call him Jing Yihong, while others call him Shan Liuxiu. He seeks neither office nor wealth, only to live a life worthy of the Golden Saber Sect. Beyond the passes, foreign barbarians strike with sword in hand, and life and death are separated in an instant. In the Khanate of Turpan, he meets someone who has no idea that his own past is so extraordinary. The sorrows of life, illness, old age, and death all follow a destiny laid down in the unseen. The ties between people, the past, the martial world, and its bloody storms have all passed away. What makes a great hero? What is the martial world? What is the jianghu? Jing Yihong spends his life upholding loyalty and righteousness, but in the end, it is all in vain.