At the Abyss, I Ask the Sword

The most useless good-for-nothing youth in Shouyuan Town hides an old sword scar in his palm that can "read swords." Jiang Ye has played the coward and guarded the abyss for three years, and everyone takes him for mud that won't hold up a wall—until a broken sword stained with the blood of the Sword Master from three hundred years ago is carried into town. From the sword he reads a dying message: "In the Shouyuan Bureau, there is a ghost." The good-for-nothing everyone took him for is actually the true heir of the Sword Abyss. Black hands from the Ghost Market come knocking, the trial's sacrifices vanish one after another, and every sword he has questioned points to the same answer: back then, who killed the Sword Master? — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: At the Abyss, I Ask the Sword — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠