Sword Comes Opening Guide: Start at Chapter 1
Start 剑来 (Sword Comes) at chapter 1, 惊蛰, on Qidian. The original is still serializing. This note used the catalog, not the chapter text.
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Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no later plot, no claim that a drama episode equals a chapter.
Search 剑来, or Sword Comes, after the drama, and the useful question is still smaller than the book. Where do you start. The catalog’s first story is 第1章 惊蛰. Much later, the same contents list starts counting at 1 again. The newest button lives in that second count. A skip list will call that “the latest.” A skip list is how you walk into the wrong volume with a smile.
Start at 第1章 惊蛰
Open 第1章 惊蛰 on Qidian and follow that book’s own order from the front. The Chinese original, 剑来, is the book page. On 13 October 2026 the mobile page called it 连载, author 烽火戏诸侯, shelf 仙侠·幻想修仙, last update 2025-11-26 04:35:10, with a stats line of 1301.56万 characters. The public description names 陈平安 and one sword. That is the pitch on the book page. It is not a scene this page read, and it is not a summary of what happens after the title.
The next catalog title was 第2章 开门. That is a label on a contents page. This note did not open it.
The newest button is the wrong door
The same book page’s “latest chapter” was 第52章 也曾少年思无邪, timestamped 2025-11-26. It is a chapter slot on this book, not an ad for a different title. It is still the wrong start. In the catalog, 第1301章 此句压轴 comes first. Only after that title does the numbering begin again, at 第1章 少年游. The newest 第52章 sits in that restarted run. Tap it because the drama made you impatient, and you skipped 惊蛰.
Qidian also keeps a polished print listing beside this serial. This guide’s door is the serial, book 1012261200.
1301.56万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first title that says 惊蛰 is your kind of door. You are not signing up to finish a book that is still marked 连载.
Who should start here
Try it if the drama sent you, you want the Chinese original while it is still updating, and you can tolerate a catalog that reuses chapter numbers. The first door is one chapter. The second “chapter 1” is a different life of the same book. This page will not tell you which volume to skip, because this page did not read the volumes.
Finished catalogs on this shelf open cleaner. Perfect World starts at the prologue 序章 大荒. Shrouding the Heavens starts at chapter 1, a bronze coffin. Both pages used the contents list and did not read the chapters.
Leave it if you want a public ranking fight in the first scene, a newcomer’s first chance at training, or a mystery about whose name you woke up wearing. Those doors are the Battle Through the Heavens opening guide, the RMJI opening guide, and the Lord of Mysteries opening guide. Those pages stay inside chapters they actually checked. This one does not pretend to. The shelf is the Sword Comes reading series.
Sources and limits
Checked on 13 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. Book 1012261200: title 剑来, author 烽火戏诸侯, status 连载, shelf 仙侠·幻想修仙, update time 2025-11-26 04:35:10, stats line 1301.56万 characters, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/1012261200/. The public description names 陈平安 and one sword. That sentence was not copied here as chapter text. First catalog story: 第1章 惊蛰, chapter 415182562. The next catalog title was 第2章 开门, chapter 415182566, which this page did not open. Later in the same catalog, 第1301章 此句压轴, chapter 805553493, is followed by a restarted 第1章 少年游, chapter 827519596. The newest listed title was 第52章 也曾少年思无邪, chapter 872079974, in that restarted stretch. Those three titles were not opened. No chapter body was copied. A reader-count line on the book page was not treated as a word count; the 1301.56万 figure is the line labeled 总字数.