Mortal Bone, Eternal Sword

At seventeen, Shen Zhaoye was judged to have a crippled bone by the Qingyue Sword Academy. Steward Han Song forced him to sign a resignation form; if he signed, his sister could still receive three more days of medicine; if not, even the broken sword left by his father would be taken away. Shen Zhaoye did not sign. That night, he was thrown into the Sword Graveyard, where amid the dying echoes of hundreds of broken swords, he heard the first sword hum from his father's broken blade. From that day on, he could hear the final cries of defeated swords, see the flaws in lost sword techniques, and forge sword power from broken blades using his mortal bone. The noble clans called him boneless, the academy said he should leave, and the nine sects claimed commoners could only kneel and wait for quotas. But Shen Zhaoye insisted on wielding a broken sword, fighting from Qingyue's sword trials to the Nine Sects' Spring-Autumn Platform. He had to save his sister's life and uncover the truth behind his father's treason charge. All sword cultivators revered sword bones. He, with a mortal bone, would suppress the ages.