A Single Sword Startles the Mountain

Li Xiaoyao, the top wastrel disciple of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect, spends his days drinking, playing with birds, and dodging punishment, known to all as a 'good-for-nothing.' No one knows that he bears a rare 'Heaven-Leaking Physique,' where all cultivation dissipates within three days, sealing him from the path of immortality. He chooses to drift through life, hiding his edge. Until one day, the alarm bell rings nine times across Shu Mountain—Qiu Yingying, the snake demon princess of the Hidden Immortal Sect, on a secret mission, infiltrates the forbidden area and falls severely injured into Li Xiaoyao's secluded 'Listening to the Waves Pavilion.' Pursuers arrive, swords gleaming like a forest. Drunk and bleary-eyed, Li Xiaoyao casually swings his sword. In an instant, mountains and rivers lose color, all swords fall silent, and the ancient Shu Mountain protective formation hums in submission to that seemingly careless strike! A single stone stirs a thousand ripples. Hidden secrets begin to surface: What did Qiu Yingying steal? What truth lies behind Li Xiaoyao's true identity and the 'Heaven-Leaking Physique'? And is that seemingly chance encounter a cruel joke of fate, or the beginning of a karmic cycle spanning a thousand years?