The Eternal Corpse King

The Eternal Corpse King is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Tang Xiaomi, completed in September 2019, totaling about 638 chapters and over 1.3 million characters. Its digital rights were provided by Tianying Jiuzhou, and it was serialized on platforms including Ali Literature, Tomato, and Qimao. The story is set in Shenzhou, in the northern borderlands of the Tongtian Continent: Xiao Fenglin, an outer-sect elder of the third-rank sect Liuyue Sect, has a son of mediocre aptitude who is beaten by fellow disciples, his bones broken and his dantian sea erased; with his breath gone, he is thrown into the perilous Forbidden Ridge. Deep in the ridge he happens upon a wisp of remnant soul left by an ancient Corpse Ancestor, and through the "corpse-borrowing art" he is reborn, becoming the only zombie in the world. Reborn in a corpse body, he is no longer a wastrel to be bullied at will, but rises step by step over mountains of corpses and seas of blood left by sects, academies, the Wanyan Sect, and other factions, seeking the Corpse Ancestor's legacy and the truth of his own origins amid a chaotic era of rampant beasts and great upheaval, and exacting blood debt from his former enemies. The work follows the classic male-oriented "wastrel's counterattack plus power growth" path, with brisk pacing and dense combat, combining a cultivation system with a zombie premise; it suits readers who enjoy traditional Eastern fantasy and satisfying level-up fiction.