The Reticent Blade is, first and foremost, a wuxia novel, meaning that the world and its character’s powers and abilities are more grounded. Instead of cultivators who can soar through the heavens and shatter planets, you will find martial artists who can still perform superhuman feats but not so fantastical as to tear through space or achieve immortality.

The world of The Reticent Blade is one of medieval China, loosely based upon the time period of the Ming Dynasty. It is a time of chaos and strife, where war and death are rampant. We follow the intertwining story of several protagonists and antagonists as they navigate the chaotic times, unraveling the threads that connect the past, the present, and the future of the world.

The Reticent Blade is a story of heroism, love, revenge, and cruelty.

The Reticent Blade is a story of both the righteousness and vileness of the Jianghu.

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Official Blurb:

Someone once asked me, "What is the jianghu?"

I thought for a moment, and what came to mind was…

A jug of unrefined wine on a weathered table,

A lone silhouette fading into the distance under the setting sun,

A nameless grave bathed in moonlight,

The smoldering incense in my grasp, its final wisps dissipating.

They then asked me, "Where is the jianghu?"

I smiled faintly and lifted my gaze beyond the window. Out there, beneath the vast heavens, countless jianghus lay.

A single soul carries his own story.

When two paths cross, a jianghu is born.

After his sudden death, he became the manager of 9527, the abandoned land of the garbage dump of the universe.

A ruined city connecting all the heavens and worlds.

Recruit creatures from all over the world to work, comment on all over the world at will, the worst worker Mengpo, the three traitors in mythology, the arbitrary and eternal emperor of the wilderness, the ten most powerful kings in the world, the ten most technological civilizations in the world, and the supreme mythological world in the world!

In the historical plane, historical figures starting from little Sizi gather together.

In the military dimension, there are Li Yunlong and Zhou Weiguo from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and Leng Feng from the modern era...

Anime dimension, King Daimao, Dumb Goose, Retarded Goddess, Spider-Man, Emperor Huang Tian, ​​Emperor Ye Tian, ​​Ruthless Man, Li Xingyun, Yan Lingji...

Magical plane, the Queen of Elf, the God of Light, the Goddess of War Athena...

Mythological plane: Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, and Nezha, the three rebels gathered together, as well as the Jade Emperor, Buddha, the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa... and even the great god Pangu.

【Exile + Space + Poison & Medicine + Strong Female Lead + Revenge + Nation-Building】

Ye Chutang, a powerhouse from the 23rd-century apocalypse, transmigrated into the body of the disgraced eldest daughter of a high-ranking minister’s family, who had been abandoned in the countryside for fifteen years.

Starting off with a bang—she’s drugged by a scheming maid and offered to the maid’s son as a plaything?

One kick to castrate him, two kicks to wipe out his whole family!

With no antidote for the beastly drug, she plunges into an icy river to cool off—only to crash straight into the arms of a breathtakingly handsome man.

"Hey, handsome, let’s sleep together—I promise you won’t regret it!"

She wakes up to find the beauty gone and her scumbag father at her doorstep.

What? He wants her to replace her stepsister and marry a sadistic old eunuch as his "companion"?

She strips the stepsister naked, tosses her onto the eunuch’s bed, and leads a crowd to witness the scandal!

When her pregnancy is discovered, her stepmother tries to drown her in a pig cage?

No problem—she tracks down the father of her unborn child and forces him into marriage, parading down the aisle with a grand procession as the wife of the legendary War God Prince!

On their wedding night, the emperor sends an edict of exile and confiscation as a "gift"?

No fear!

With her spatial supernatural ability and medical skills, the physician-queen thrives anywhere.

She empties the prince’s manor! Loots the imperial palace! Cleans out the minister’s estate! And raids all her enemies’ treasuries!

While others suffer hunger and cold during exile, Ye Chutang lives lavishly, feasting and flourishing.

Along the way, she cures plagues, averts disasters, eliminates threats, and stockpiles resources.

She even gives birth to twins and is pampered beyond belief by her doting husband.

Arriving at the desolate northwestern border, Ye Chutang sees the suffering of the people.

"Time to get rich—starting with nation-building!"

She constructs city walls, digs wells, builds greenhouses, paves roads, starts farms, opens schools, plants crops…

When the barren wasteland turns into a land of abundance, the emperor panics and sends an execution decree.

Qi Yanzhou tears the edict to shreds, smirking. "Darling, I read the stars last night—our son has the aura of an emperor."

Ye Chutang waves her hand. "Then what are we waiting for? Let’s march back to the capital and rebel!"

The protagonist Fang Ming was hit by the statue of the land god in the land temple, and his soul traveled to Daqian and became a ghost. He obtained the runes of the land god, started from the land of a village, gathered incense, ascended to the position of god, conquered the world, and became the emperor of heaven.

I just want to cultivate the immortality quietly, and drink tea, eat and sell vegetables in my spare time.

But why don’t people want to be left alone?

All kinds of people are hanging around me, some are looking for trouble, some are looking for trouble, and there are many girls who come to me every day.

Don't come! In fact, I really just want to stay quietly and practice well.

College student Zhou Rui traveled to a parallel world and became an 80-year-old man. Now he is very old and dying.

Just when he thought he would not live for more than a few days, he unexpectedly awakened the entertainment role-playing system!

As long as you successfully play various film and television roles in this system, you can obtain the character's abilities and treasures through a lottery!

Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully playing as Xiong Ba and obtaining Sanfen Guiyuan Qi!

Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully playing the role of the Golden Lion King and obtaining the Lion's Roar skill!

Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully playing the Sword Saint and obtaining the Sword Controlling Technique!

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Zhou Rui continues to unlock classic roles and quietly grows into a global movie star!

A thousand nights rise from hardship and fall in betrayal.

Since then, a person, a gun, walked between eternal night and dawn, but walked out of a legend.

If eternal night is destined to be his fate, then he will also become the ruler of the king.

The story picks up at volume 2 and increases in pace thereafter. Volume 1 is more or less a long prologue.

A martial arts rookie with a narration system that changes the fate of himself, the protagonist, and the supporting characters.

There are already "Swordsman", "Heavenly Swordsman", "Young Zhang Sanfeng", "Golden Silk Rain"......

This is a world where ghosts and myths are intertwined. Countless ghosts and gods are derived from the well-known myths and stories.

The heart-cutting star god hanging upside down in the air, the water-dividing general wandering in the deep sea, the Jiazi Taisui sitting on the clouds...

Who would have thought that the end of mortal cultivation would be a group of ghosts and gods.

[Warrior: Eat like a glutton, refine hungry ghosts into Dantian, and those with a strong appetite will have abundant blood and qi. ]

[Qigong: Use the ghost pupils as eyes, know the yin veins of the world, and practice breathing in and out yin. ]

[Poison Master: Corpse worms enter the heart, and the stomach ghosts replace the stomach and intestines, so as to raise poison worms. ]

[Sword Cultivator: The mother ghost attached to the spine turns into a sword spirit, and the sword weapon merges into the child ghost, and controls the flying sword for hundreds of miles to take people's heads. ]