This Sword Has a Flaw

The Flaw in This Sword (Qingya)

Lu Chenzhou, a hunter's son, found a broken sword in front of his father's grave when he was seventeen. A remnant soul dwelled within it, able to see through the flaws in every sword technique and cultivation method in the world: which strikes were feints, which realms were incomplete, and who was putting on an act.

His father had died at the hands of the Xuandu Sword Palace. Carrying the broken sword on his back, Lu Chenzhou climbed Qingya and started as the lowest-ranking servant. He cultivated his way from Dao Qi entering the body to Foundation Building, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, and Divine Transformation, climbing one realm at a time. The entire sect laughed at him as a mere fire-tender, but he alone knew that he was drawing closer and closer to the Sword Inquiry Platform.

When he finally stood on the platform, he understood: above every enemy was another enemy, and beyond every flaw lay another flaw. The remnant soul's identity, the broken sword's origins, and the deadly trap that had claimed his father all pointed to the greatest old case in the eight-hundred-year history of the Xuandu Sword Palace.

The path of the sword cultivator begins with Dao Qi and ends with True Immortality. Someone asked him what he was after.

He said, "I want to be the one who questions the sword that day."