A broke sword boy says 'no thanks' to destiny and starts swinging anyway.
A seemingly ordinary but collapsing town becomes a chessboard for various powers, where the humble youth Chen Ping’an uses his pure heart and ultimate sword mastery to defy destiny and carve a path to survival amid the falling heavens.
Production
Zhang Chiyu's worldbuilding finally gets the budget it deserves.
Costume
Threadbare authenticity — Chen Ping'an actually looks poor.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Xianxia's 'cultivation' genre exploded in Chinese web fiction; this adappts one of its most poetic sources, where power comes from suffering endured, not shortcuts taken.
Leo Wu fought for this role after reading the novel during a career slump; the author apparently wept at his audition tape.
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