The Supreme King

The Supreme King is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Fast Food Restaurant, serialized on Chuangshi Chinese Network and Qidian Chinese Network from June 2013. About five million words long and now complete, it follows Zhao Feng, a member of a branch of the Zhao family in Yuyang City, Qinghua Domain. Stubborn in will but average in talent, he is marginalized within his family. In a freak accident when heavenly lightning strikes, a mysterious eyeball-shaped black pearl pierces his left eye. He thus merges with the eye of an ancient deity, awakening the Ninth Divine Pupil, and his constitution, bloodline, and reflexes are transformed; from then on he rises like a comet. Built around the core conceit of divine pupils and bloodline ocular powers, the novel weaves together psychic force, soul force, spatial laws, and various esoteric powers into a highly distinctive cultivation system. Zhao Feng begins with a one-move victory at the family martial tournament, then goes through trials at Fuluan, inner-sect conflicts in the Xiaoyue Sect, the Purple Sage Ruins, Heaven's Edge Island, and the Savage Divine Domain, breaking through the True Spirit, Pill Origin, and Void God stages and onward to True God, Ancient God, Divine Lord, and Divine King, climbing step by step in a great era of rival sects, countless prodigies, and ancient races contending. He ultimately ascends to the seat of the Supreme and, with companions such as Zhao Yufei, Liu Qinxin, and Tiny Thief Cat, enters a new cycle in the Formless World. Fast-paced, satisfyingly progressive, and grand in scope, it is one of the more representative works of the loser's-revenge-with-an-ocular-cheat type.