Sword Proud Rebirth

Sword Proud Rebirth is a long Eastern fantasy work by the web author Meng Bai, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network from December 2010 and completed in December 2013, with 1,428 chapters and about 3.83 million characters. At the story's opening, the protagonist Feng Ziyue is already recognized as the "Sword God": he entered the Dao through the sword, broke through to the innate realm, and with one sword from the west, the world bowed. Yet this invincible master's life has been profoundly bitter—blind and one-armed since childhood, his relatives scattered one after another, he traveled all nine provinces yet found nowhere to lay his regrets to rest. To glimpse a higher martial realm, he obtains the secret manual The Supreme Mystery Resonance, but while comprehending it he is surrounded and killed by many masters, and ultimately perishes together with them. When he opens his eyes again, Feng Ziyue finds himself back thirty years in his youth, his sight restored, at his hometown of Wuyang City, while his young sister Xue'er is facing a life-or-death crisis. Carrying his past-life sword Dao memories and all his regrets, he begins to play his pieces anew from this family bloodshed: protecting his loved ones, reclimbing the martial path, and making up for old debts. The work threads the ten sword forms of the original Sword God Formula through the internal strife of the Feng family, the trials of Tianwu, breakthroughs to the Void-Breaking realm, and ultimately the secrets of the universe's creation, with repeated confrontations between the protagonist and nemeses such as Chu Kuangren running throughout. The novel is one of the representative works of the "strong-man rebirth" school of Eastern fantasy, noted in its early period for its characters' integrity and brisk pacing, shaping a sword cultivator who values loyalty and righteousness and knows what to do and what not to do.