Ascension Again

Ascension Again is a long-form web novel by Canbing, serialized on Qidian from May 2007 to its completion in June 2009. It runs to 292 chapters and roughly 1.02 million Chinese characters. The protagonist's past life was Lu Xuan, a peerless master who cultivated martial arts to sagehood. Adept in technique, he created his own signature move, "One Hand Splits the Heavens," and once challenged the finest martial artists of many nations without defeat; his feats were sealed away as top-secret files. Yet he long neglected the tempering of raw power and physique, and at the moment of ascension he could not withstand the violent astral winds; his body collapsed and he perished. A wisp of his soul crossed time and space and was reborn in the futuristic world of 2207 as Lu Xuan, son of Lu Tianming, Asia's second-largest arms dealer. In this life he resolves never again to rely on technique for victory, and even seals "One Hand Splits the Heavens" of his own accord, starting instead from the basics in pursuit of ultimate strength and physical fortitude. In a world of "techno-cultivation" where light-brains, mecha, brain crystals, and gravity energy-absorbing devices coexist with traditional cultivation, Lu Xuan maneuvers among the various factions as the scion of an arms-dealing family while honing his body through an almost ruthlessly data-driven, calculative regimen. Through gravity training, mecha combat, and battle after battle, he finally confronts formidable foes such as the Black Pages Group head-on. The novel's core question remains constant: when power reaches its peak, can power and technique truly become one? And with his second life, he must walk once more the road to ascension.