Eternal War Emperor

Eternal War Emperor is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Nie Xiaodao, serialized on 3G Book City from 2014; it runs to 1,046 chapters and about 2.42 million characters and is a typical "transmigration + system + revenge and growth" genre work. The protagonist, Xiao Yi, was an international mercenary in the twenty-first century who, after saving a beauty, unexpectedly transmigrates into a martial-arts world and becomes a mediocre, constantly bullied member of the Xiao family. The turning point comes with his awakening of the "Hatred System": hatred others feel toward Xiao Yi is absorbed by the system and converted into hatred points, and every hundred points accumulated can open one acupoint, thereby breaking through the limits of his aptitude. Xiao Yi thus turns "making enemies" into fuel for cultivation: the more he is humiliated, provoked, and besieged, the faster his strength grows, and he rises all the way from the family laughingstock to a powerhouse who shakes the great world. The story unfolds layer by layer through family, sect, and auction-and-appraisal-convention settings, interspersed with training in martial techniques such as the Traceless Snowstep movement method and the Thunderclap Palm, and with adventures such as subduing factions and charging into killing formations; the martial realms are graded as acupoint opening, qi condensation, primal fetus, dragon soar, and divine bridge, while characters such as the maid Xiao Ling'er and the fiancée Lin Shiyin form the emotional thread. The overall pace is fast and the conflicts dense, with the satisfying revenge core of "those who insult me shall die"; it is one of the earlier representative works of system-driven Eastern fantasy.