Peerless Martial Emperor

Aoshi Wuhuang (The Martial Emperor Who Scorns the World) is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Cengjing Yongyou de Fangxiangguan. Serialization began on Qidian Chinese Network in 2014 and concluded on September 24, 2015; the book runs about 2.96 million characters. At the story's opening, the youth Jiang Shou, seeking medicine to cure his seriously ill father, petitions fifty martial schools in succession and finally kneels outside the gates of the Dayuan Sect for three days and three nights; during this time he is publicly humiliated by the inner disciple Gu Lieyang but never bends his spine, and is eventually taken into the Dayuan Sect as a menial laborer. After joining the sect, Jiang Shou gains a formidable physique and near-immortal powers of recovery through a strange "black" transformation, and from there rises from the sect's lowest rung, the Menial Valley: in the Blood Prison Trial he trades grave injury for advances in martial technique, makes a stunning showing at the menial laborers' great contest, then advances level by level through the outer and inner gates, distinguishes himself at the Hundred Sects Martial Gathering, and is drawn into secret-realm conflicts such as the Five Nations War and the trial grounds of the ancient divine race. As the scope widens from one nation to a star domain, he undergoes wars between races and explores star roads, his cultivation rising from the nine tiers of martial spirit communication through Martial Sage and other realms until he reaches the position of "Martial Emperor." Driven by a hot-blooded, satisfying rhythm and the counterattack formula of "playing the pig to eat the tiger," the book is the author's seventh full-length work after Super Absorption and Super Fusion, and one of his Eastern fantasy works with the greatest completed word count.