Slaying Demons in the Three Kingdoms

Slaying Demons in the Three Kingdoms is a Three Kingdoms-themed web novel by Yan Lin, first released on 3G Book City (later serialized on Fanqie and other platforms). The book is complete, running roughly between two million and four and a half million Chinese characters (platform counts vary). The story opens with Chu He, a twenty-four-year-old librarian and amateur martial artist who, after years of training under his master on Mount Heng, sets out to test his skills, walks into a fog that never lifts, and is transported from the modern era to the late Eastern Han, more than eighteen hundred years in the past. He wakes to an age of Yellow Turban rebellion and warlord fragmentation. Chu He has no system and no noble lineage—only a body tempered by ten years of martial arts, a hot-blooded spirit, and the perspective of a modern man. Starting from the Changshan area, he makes his name amid mountains of corpses with a single great spear, passing through eerie places such as the Lost Forest of Liangjie Mountain, the Yin-Yang Grotto-Heaven, the Sage's Tomb, and the Gate of the Five Virtues, and is drawn into the Black Mountain bandits, the chaos of Luoyang, and the wars of the warlords. The book interweaves cold-weapon warfare with yin-yang arts and xianxia fantasy; the protagonist must contend with Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao, and other powers while facing supernatural foes such as the demonic chaos of the Way of Great Peace, zombie armies, and demonic cultivators. Its main thread is "one great spear, one hot-blooded heart," telling how a transmigrator rises from a lowly martial artist, gathers heroes, builds a power, and ultimately walks the royal road of restoring the Han.