One Sword Cuts Six Realms: The Lintai Assembly and the Way of the Heart

The story revolves around Lu Yan, a half-human, half-demon youth who sets out from the blacksmith shop in Yuehua Village to investigate the cause of a blood feud. Accompanied by seven disciples, he journeys north, experiencing the ideological clash of the Lintai Assembly, the carnage of the Snow Valley War, and the nihilistic questioning and ultimate martyrdom of the Fissure War. In the end, he breaks the eternal rule-setters, transforms the cosmic Dao, resurrects the dead, and retires to realize the Dao. The ultimate answer: the Dao-heart is the human heart; the Dao is not far from humanity. The novel integrates the textual research of the Hundred Schools of Thought, ancient myths (Zhenwu, Zhulong, mythical beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas), the entropy-increasing cosmology (heat death), the conflicts and strategies of myriad races, and the warmth of mortal life, with the human heart and Dao-heart as the core thread.