Sword and Saber Divine Emperor

Sword and Saber Divine Emperor is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Luan Shi Kuang Dao (real name Li Guorui). It began serialization on Zongheng Chinese in April 2013 and concluded in May 2015, totaling about 3.84 million characters. The story opens as Ding Hao, a Chinese high school student, is transported overnight to a world called Shen'en Continent, where he becomes a nobody in the Wenjian Sect, one of the nine great sects of Xuezhou in the Northern Region. The fusion of two lifetimes of souls gives him comprehension far beyond his peers; by chance he also obtains the weapon spirits of an ancient ice sword and flame saber left from the primeval divine war, and after being purified by primordial immortal milk, he forms the rare "Sword and Saber Twin Holy Body," mastering both blade and sword, offense and defense. Ding Hao then rises through sect conflicts, duels with prodigies, and struggles between factions: the entrance trial, the sword tower armory, the demon wilderness, the five-academy tournament, until he is acknowledged as the foremost figure among Xuezhou's nine great sects. As the mystery of his origins is revealed layer by layer, he is drawn into the feuds of the Divine Court, the Ding clan, and various powers, with the schemes of his nemesis Ding Tong running throughout. In the end, with a wild saber in his left hand and a heavenly sword in his right, Ding Hao climbs from Xuezhou to the summit of the continent, earning the name "Sword and Saber Divine Emperor." The whole book centers on the imagery of "one ice sword, one flame saber" and is one of the author's representative works in the "ever-hot-blooded" style.