King of the Immortal Kings

King of the Immortal Kings is a fantasy cultivation novel by the web author Heaven Is Not Lonely, serialized on Qidian from April 2012 and completed in February 2013, totaling about 290,000 characters. The novel is built on the author's original three-tier cultivation system of "body meridians—immortal meridians—heavenly meridians": ninety-nine body meridians, whose opening grants long life; a hundred and ten thousand immortal meridians, one of which lets you tread beyond the heavens; and the single heavenly meridian, which can shake the universe. The protagonist, Ye Hao, was a peerless powerhouse of the Haotian Secret Realm; having chanced upon half of the Heaven-Upholding Immortal Art, he was besieged by many masters of the realm and forced to leap into the Abyss of Certain Death. Seemingly destroyed, he is actually wrapped in the art, which preserves a wisp of his remnant soul and lets him possess a new body and be reborn in Shenzhou. With the memories and experience of his past life, Ye Hao starts cultivation again from the bottom: opening heavenly meridians, moving stars and moons, traveling the five continents and four seas, accumulating resources and gathering forces through secret-realm expeditions and sect intrigues, until he reaches the summit of ruling the eight directions and ascending as Immortal King. The book moves briskly, its main line a rebirth-and-revenge tale layered with cultivation and leveling up, interspersed with soul arts, sword flight, and other combat mechanics; its style leans "light, satisfying, and hot-blooded," a typical male-oriented cultivation power fantasy, suited to short, stress-relieving xianxia reading in spare moments.