Immortal Tribulation

Immortal Tribulation is a xianxia cultivation novel by the web author Muhua. It was serialized on platforms such as Sina Reading under the title Taiyi Jinxian: Immortal Tribulation, and the proofread complete text circulating online runs to about 1.5 million characters; the story is finished. The story is set in a cultivation world where "the immortal tribulation is at hand": the tribulation descends, ten thousand immortals perish, the three thousand worlds shatter, and billions of beings face extinction—even the supreme immortals cannot escape death. Heroes rise in the chaos as various factions contend for a sliver of survival and try to restore heaven and earth. The protagonist, Xiao Han, is of humble birth, his parents dead and his neighbors slaughtered. By chance he joins the Taiyi Mystic Sect, a giant sect on the Tianyuan Continent, becoming an ordinary inner disciple of mediocre aptitude who is bullied by his fellow disciples. One day his blood drips onto a jade pendant he has carried since childhood—a pendant neither wood nor metal—and the pendant gains a spirit. He refines it by the method for refining magical treasures, and it turns into a fist-sized sphere that enters his body and occupies his dantian, forming a mysterious space he can enter: the spiritual qi inside is as dense as a celestial blessed land, and there is also a strange aura that both nourishes his wood-element spiritual root and promotes the growth of spiritual herbs. This stroke of fortune becomes his greatest capital for standing firm in a cold cultivation world. Thereafter Xiao Han rises step by step through the jade-pendant space and the treasures and divine arts he obtains, cultivating supernatural powers amid the bloody chaos under the looming immortal tribulation, contending with the mighty, and pressing ever forward toward "defying heaven and changing his fate." The book follows the typical "underdog rise + portable space + ruthless decisiveness" power-fantasy formula, with a fast pace and dense leveling, plus such familiar set pieces as sect intrigue, secret-realm treasure hunting, and great battles between the righteous and the demonic.