A blood jade stirs the winds, and a youth in blue steps into the game.
Lu Chen, a frontier youth burdened by the bloody vendetta behind the destruction of the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, brings a jade stained with blood to the capital and unleashes a maelstrom where the martial world and the imperial court collide. Eighteen years of medicinal baths have tempered his bones, yet even skin of bronze and blood of iron cannot withstand the treachery of human hearts.
A wanderer of the martial world crosses paths with the Chancellor's daughter, while political intrigue surges beneath the clash of blades. The remnants of the former dynasty pursue him relentlessly. The meridians tempered by medicinal baths conceal a mystery, while the dying words his father whispered at the end of a narrow mountain path, "wash the marrow and cleanse the sinews," finally reveal a startling truth amid the bloody storms of the martial world: eighteen years of suffering in the medicinal cauldron have forged Lu Chen into the sharpest blade under heaven.
Riding hard in his blue robes, he cannot cut through the tangled web of grudges. The moon reflected in the cold pool reveals whose heart is true? When Lu Chen grips his saber and cleaves through the bloody conspiracy, he learns that this martial world has never been only about revenge and adventure...