This Is the Jianghu

The renowned Jianghu prognosticator Rong Guolao once declared, “No one can match the Autumn Water Swordsmanship. The greatest swordsman under heaven is in Jiangnan!” Before his prediction could come true, someone had already killed Rong Guolao with a single sword thrust to the throat. One prediction and two sealed letters sent the Autumn Water Swordsmanship quietly into the world, while the Liu family of Jiangnan rose to power. Who was pulling the strings behind it all? A hundred and eighty years ago, the peerless prodigy Mo Ming became famous throughout the land for the Asking Heaven Sword in his hands. His swordsmanship was without equal. A hundred and eighty years later, the Asking Heaven Sword quietly reappeared in the Jianghu. A young man and a sword drew out all the masters who had long since retired. The long-dormant Jianghu might just come alive again. It began when a simple young man from the mountains took up his family’s battered old sword and embarked on a path through the Jianghu from which there was no return.