The Strange Romance of Song Xia

The protagonist was once a young book attendant, but his fate changed overnight when he was caught up in a conspiracy to assassinate a loyal official and throw the martial world into chaos. By chance, he learned the arts of both Buddhism and Taoism, and grew into a great hero who fought against the Jin across the territories of the Myriad Immortals Cult, the White Lotus Sect, the Eight Characters Army, and the Jin kingdom's Great Yan Sacred Temple. For love, and to find allies against the Jin for the Southern Song, he traveled through countries such as Western Liao, Western Xia, and Nanzhao, caught between his homeland and the martial world. Along the way, however, he saw how corrupt and rotten the Song dynasty had become, while the people's anti-Jin forces had degenerated into charlatans who preyed on ordinary folk. Disillusioned, he stopped involving himself in the wars between nations. With the one he loved, he roamed the martial world, stood up for the wronged, and did what he could to help ordinary people.