Proud Sovereign of Cultivation

Proud and Unrivaled in Cultivation is a long-form wuxia-cultivation web novel by the online author Nine Palaces Soul. It was serialized on Fengling Novel Network (with additional serialization records on platforms such as Novel Reading Network), ran to approximately 950 chapters, and concluded in September 2013. The story follows its protagonist, Ling Aotian: born into ordinary circumstances, he is cast out by his family for certain reasons and, after leaving the clan, endures constant mockery and cold disdain from its members. In a mountain valley, he happens upon a low-grade cultivation manual and thereby sets foot on the path of cultivation. Ling Aotian possesses no enviable innate aptitude, yet his cultivation speed far surpasses that of ordinary people. Relying throughout on astonishing speed and strength rather than high-grade techniques or powerful artifacts, he rises from the human realm to the immortal realm and then to the divine realm, crossing swords repeatedly with rivals such as Ling Ming and Jiang Xiaoyun, and ultimately completes his counterattack from family outcast to powerhouse of the three realms. Through the protagonist's line of growth, the novel links together the survival rules and power system of the cultivation world, making it a typical cultivation power-fantasy of the "trash-to-legend counterattack plus monster-fighting and leveling-up" type, with a direct pace and dense conflict. It should be noted that this is a web-serialized work with no official published edition; most copies found on the market are complete or carefully proofread electronic texts compiled by netizens themselves.