Silent Snow on the Mountain: The Awakening of the Broken Blade

In the final years of the Great Yong dynasty, imperial power wanes and eunuchs run rampant. Cao Yan, the director of the Eastern Depot, controls the court, and his assassin organization, the Twelve Ghosts of the Underworld, runs amok. Twenty-year-old Shen Guhong leaves the mountains carrying the Broken Water Blade and the Awakening Sword, seeking vengeance for the massacre of his family ten years ago. As he steps into the martial world, he discovers that behind the annihilation lies a court conspiracy that could topple the realm. From hiding in a border town to making his mark at the Luoyang gathering, from being hunted by the righteous to outsmarting corrupt officials in the capital, he is accompanied by the physician Su Banxia, his sworn brother Zhao Dahu, and the reclusive master Su Qingya. In this chaotic era, he struggles between personal revenge and saving the world. After his mentor falls in an Eastern Depot siege, he realizes that his blade is not only for revenge but to cut down injustice, and his sword is not only for self-defense but to protect the people's hope. A broken blade awakens, and the snowy mountain falls silent. Can the tyrant Cao Yan withstand the justice that has been delayed for twenty years?