One-Punch Magician

One-Punch Magician is a long-running web novel by Yin Yu Zhe. It began serialization on Qidian on April 15, 2015, and concluded on January 22, 2016, totaling roughly 1.45 million Chinese characters. It is classified under Science Fiction · Future World, with the tags "planes, parody, invincible protagonist, mage." The work's own tagline reads: "There is no problem in this world that one Fireball cannot solve. If there is, then two." The story takes place on Earth after a century-long "Dark Age." Former nations have been replaced by vast super-cities, the population has shrunk to around three billion, and creatures from other planes pour through spatial rifts with increasing frequency; disasters are graded Human, Ghost, Earth, Dragon, Heaven, and God. The Guardians' Alliance, made up of espers, handles monsters ordinary people cannot. The protagonist, Qi Yu, is a freelance illustrator living in Qian City—in truth an amnesiac mage who, with magic far beyond reason and an almost unstoppable Fireball, easily resolves every crisis. He encounters the runaway girl Guardian Chen Qin, the "fraud Guardian" Qiao Yi, the Daoist Ming Yue, and others, and is drawn into a series of events involving Saint Yilan Magic Academy, other-plane expeditions, and interstellar-scale affairs, all brought to a close amid absurdity and bustle. The book's tone is light and comic, known for its "one punch solves everything" pacing and dense snark, and readers often call it a representative work of the "invincible" genre.