All-Around Martial God

The Almighty Martial God is an Eastern fantasy novel serialized on Qidian Chinese Network by the web author Tian Tian Fang Bian Mian. Spanning over 900 chapters and approximately 2.86 million Chinese characters, it began serialization in 2014 and concluded in August 2015, and was an entry in Qidian's "Primordial Century Writing Contest." The story begins with Chu Chen, a youth from Haifeng City in the Nanyun Domain: orphaned at ten and taken in by the Fengbo Manor, within two years he cultivates to the seventh level of Body Refinement and is hailed as a once-in-a-million genius. Yet just as he is about to comprehend his attribute, he is struck by a meteor, and a "Meteor Tear" appears in his sea of consciousness. From then on it devours the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy he painstakingly absorbs, and his cultivation stalls for four years without the slightest progress, reducing him from a prodigy whom everyone looked up to into a well-known worthless failure across the entire city. While gathering herbs for his mute uncle, Chu Chen is forced off a cliff by a blood fox demon beast. In desperation, heedless of damage to his meridians, he frantically absorbs fire spiritual energy, which instead allows the Meteor Tear to accumulate enough power and emit light, leading him into the "Martial God's Legacy Vault" left by his forebears—opening a door that rewrites his fate. Drawing on the ancient techniques and inheritances within the vault, he sets foot on the path of cultivation once more, expanding from pure martial arts into alchemy, artifact refining, formations, medicine, and many other fields, truly mastering them all. Thereafter he confronts enemies in succession with sword techniques, palm techniques, blade techniques, and finger techniques, rising to fame step by step through the Seven-City Tournament and the conflicts among sects and the imperial city, ultimately defying fate and becoming a Martial God of his generation under the name "Almighty." The book follows a typical "training and leveling up" formula: loser opening—cheat-like inheritance—repeated face-slapping—layer upon layer of realm ascension. With its brisk pace and dense payload of satisfying moments, it is one of the representative specimens of mid-2010s Qidian martial power-fantasy, and also drew polarized reviews for its heavy reliance on formula and relatively thin character portrayal.