Sword and Fairy 3

A broke pawnshop assistant with big dreams of getting rich, Jing Tian spends his days haggling over antiques in a backwater town. Then he picks up a cursed demonic sword, gets tangled up with a spoiled martial arts heiress who wants nothing to do with him, and discovers that zombies are overrunning her family's estate. Turns out he's the reincarnation of a banished divine general who used to trade blows with the Demon Lord himself — he just doesn't remember any of it yet. This 26-episode ONA is adapted from one of China's most iconic RPGs, and you can feel the game DNA in the best way. There's a clear party dynamic — the clueless hero, the sharp-tongued love interest, the stoic swordsman from a mystical sect — and they're all on a quest to gather Five Spirit Orbs before a demon-sealing tower collapses. The structure has that satisfying RPG progression where every new location brings new lore, new fights, and new complications tied to past lives the characters don't fully understand. The reincarnation angle gives the relationships real weight. These people have history stretching back a thousand years, and watching it surface through the present-day bickering and alliances is genuinely compelling. The 3D animation leans into classic xianxia imagery — sword-flying, celestial realms, elaborate traditional architecture. If you liked the supernatural adventure of Inuyasha, the cultivation world-building of Mo Dao Zu Shi, or the party-based journey of Soul Land, this one fits right in that lane.