Sword Emperor of the Nine Heavens

Sword Emperor of the Nine Heavens is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Qiyue Xue Xianren, completed on Qidian.com in 2015 at roughly 1.2 million Chinese characters and more than 300 chapters. The story begins with a death: Chen Xiao, a modern university student, dies by accident and wakes in a world called Shenzhou as his namesake, the legitimate grandson of the Chen family, one of the seven great clans of the kingdom of Jianwu. This youth had been solitary since childhood for lack of talent in martial cultivation; after his parents died he was gradually forgotten by the clan, and eventually he hid his name and went to the Sword Sect as an unnoticed menial disciple, dying alone in a sickbed. The Chen Xiao who takes over the body faces mediocre aptitude, constant bullying, and a past identity no one claims. The turning point comes from an encounter in the Sword Tomb: he receives the legacy of the Primeval Sword God, gains a mysterious place called the Sword Pellet Space, and is able to cultivate the Chaos Sword Body. Thereafter, from a menial disciple trodden underfoot, he draws his sword and strikes back step by step amid sect strife, pressure from peers, and family grudges; from the Sword Tomb, the Langya Realm trial, and the Heavenly Punishment Platform he battles his way toward ever higher realms, crossing swords with prodigies, supreme sages, and even gods and demons. With its rousing declaration—“If the gods deceive me, I slay the gods; if heaven oppresses me, I cleave heaven”—the novel follows the typical path of transmigration plus sword cultivation plus invincible protagonist: brisk pacing, direct conflict, and one of the more representative completed works in Qidian’s Eastern fantasy category.