Devouring Heaven Art

Devouring Heaven Art is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Tie Ma Fei Qiao, serialized on Zongheng Chinese since June 2012. It is complete, and physical volumes have been published by Beijing Yanshan Press in installments since 2014. The protagonist, Chen Xuan, is an ordinary young man who has just graduated from university and is entering society (another version describes him as a soul from Earth). By chance he crosses into the ancient and mysterious Tianling Continent, where everyone aims to become a powerful cultivator and the eternal law is the survival of the fittest. Reborn into the Chen family, under the guidance of Elder Li, an old man dwelling in a soul stone, he learns the domineering technique "Devouring Heaven Art," masters martial skills such as "Seven Killing Blade" and "Nine Phantom Transformations," and advances from postnatal body refining through Spirit Martial, True Martial, and Origin Martial to ever higher realms. Facing the combined suppression of the Wu and Li families, he defends his family alone; he then enters the Danxuan Sect as a disciple of Lianshan Peak, the lowest-ranked of the sixteen peaks, rises through the sect tournament and gains fame, and is drawn into the demon battlefield, Shura relics, and conflicts among the great sects and clans. The book's core pleasures are "devouring, plundering, leveling up." The Tianling Continent is divided into the Eastern Wasteland, Southern Region, Western Liang, Northern Region, and Central State, and the cultivation levels form their own system. It is a typical long male-oriented Eastern fantasy. The physical publication is divided into volumes by plot, each volume standing as its own arc; this entry corresponds to the physical edition of Devouring Heaven Art published by Beijing Yanshan Press.