Sword Saint inheritance, heaven-defying skills, roaming the alien world. Thief stealth? That won't work, in front of the wind step, not even dust can be eaten. Magic mirror image? Can it kill people? No? Then what are you talking about, my mirror image clone has reached a high level, and even the original body can't beat it. What? You said you have a fighting spirit burst? Can it increase your strength several times? No? My fatal blow can destroy everything in the world. You said you have a forbidden spell? I don't even dare to use my blade storm, it's too devastating.

Sword Xia of the Shu Mountains《蜀山劍俠傳》by Huanzhu Louzhu 還珠樓主 (lit. Master of Returning Pearl Loft) was published between 1932 and 1948 and is one of the most influential wuxia novels of all time. Many of the elements in this novel became standard tropes of the wuxia genre. It is also the forefather of the modern xianxia cultivation novel. Huanzhu’s cultivation system became the standard, fusing the Daoist quest for transcendence with the Buddhist reincarnation cycle and tribulation system, as well as the Confucian virtue of humaneness 仁 and the chivalrous xia 俠 archetype. At over 4.1 million Chinese characters, it is also one of the longest wuxia novels, though it remains unfinished due to the civil war in China. So the first cultivation novel was also eunuched—rather fitting.

The story follows multiple protagonists as they gradually gather together, fighting heretical sects and spirit elementals on their way to founding the Mount Emei Sect. Most outstanding among these protagonists is Li Yingqiong, who begins the novel as a girl with no martial arts abilities, and through the course of the novel cultivates to become a transcendent (aka immortal).

In this novel, plants, animals, and monsters can all become human and cultivate to transcendence, or lose their primordial spirit (aka nascent soul) and have to start all over, or be obliterated completely after failing their tribulation. Grotto-heavens and magic treasures abound, and we see the beginning of sects as major organizations in wuxia novels with important roles in the plot, such as Emei, Qingcheng, Mount Hua, Wudang, Mount Huang, Snowy Mountain, Kongtong, Kunlun, and Wutai, as well as the emergence of what would later become the archetypal eccentric beggar character. There are miraculous drugs, sword kinesis, and battles between mythical beasts, and heretic cultivators trying to cheat their way to a faster transcendence. In short, pretty much all of the elements one normally sees in the typical xianxia cultivation webnovel.

A Chinese medicine student who stayed up late to cultivate immortality fell to the ground, and when he woke up, he was already in the early Tang Dynasty!

He found that this was not the Tang Dynasty in the history textbook, nor the mythical Tang Dynasty in Journey to the West.

However, an unexpected trip to the Rat Kingdom opened the mysterious veil of the path of cultivation.

Li Dandao, who aspired to become a member of the Tang Dynasty immortals, began a journey to become a Taoist doctor.

He inherited a small medicine shop at the beginning! Becoming an immortal is not a dream.

What? Your name is Lv Yan? What? You are Zhongli Quan?

How can the Eight Immortals of Shangdong not include me, Li Dandao?

Bai Mudan, a famous prostitute in the capital! Zhong Kui, a ghost-swallowing scholar.

Li Bai, the Green Lotus Sword Immortal!

A romantic figure in the Tang Dynasty! How can I be missing?

Wine! Sword! Poetry!

My father is Song Yuanqiao, the current leader of Wudang.

My grandmaster is Zhang Sanfeng, known as a martial arts legend.

My name is Song Qingshu, but I am not the original one who fell in love at first sight with Zhou Zhiruo.

I possess a Cavern-Heaven Fragment, which seems to contain a real world.

Within the Cavern-Heaven Fragment, there is a World Tree capable of condensing various Dao Fruits with diverse effects: cleansing marrow and purifying essence, healing injuries, deducing martial arts techniques...

Furthermore, visitors from beyond can enter my Cavern-Heaven Fragment.

The first to arrive was the young Li Canghai of the Xiaoyao Sect, followed by...

Later, I discovered that I could also travel through all the heavens and roam the stars via the World Tree.

There, I witnessed powerhouses who could destroy cities with a single saber strike, met enchanting and peerless demonesses, and even saw legends...

Tags: Martial Arts, Demoness, Mythology, Wulin (Martial Arts World), Love at First Sight

What is fate? Destiny? God's will? Irreversible? I don't understand. I just know I can't bear to see a beauty's gray hair, and a sword will destroy my love. -------------------------------------------------------. The most beloved beauty, the love story I hate the most. It seems that no great writer has written about it yet, so I have to do it myself to resolve my resentment. Recently, the updates have been unstable, so I am immature, long-winded, and slow to warm up. Please forgive me. [Thanks to Yiqiankejun for the cover]

Zhou Yi woke up and found himself in the Taiping Daoist Temple.

The old Celestial Master said, "Heaven has perished, the Yellow Heaven shall rise. From now on, you are the leader of the Taiping Sect."

Zhou Yi: "What, me?"

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A failed art student, bringing order to a chaotic jianghu!

A Blue star teenager Yang Ming, by chance, came to the world of Blood of Youth. He tried for several years, to step into the free realm. Then resisted the attacks and killing of the dark river organization, save Zhao Yuzhen and Li Hanyi. Zema River Lake dream, leaning on the sword to sing. In this world, Yang Ming left a legend of his own! ...