Heaven's Proud Martial God

Heaven's Proud Martial God is an Eastern fantasy novel by Long Hou, serialized on the Zhulang website from May 2014 to December 2017, comprising about 878 chapters and roughly 2.7 million characters. Set on the Taichu Continent, the story begins after a golden age when the bloodlines of humanity's strongest fade. The peak powerhouses of humanity gather, using their essence blood and flesh as a cauldron and their supreme power to forge humanity's legacy. Ten thousand years later, the protagonist Lei Yan appears, bearing the fate of a declining family and his own hidden bloodline, rising step by step from young heir to the Sacred Path and the Martial God's throne. The narrative centers on Lei Yan's growth: early sections cover beast-hunting trials, family strife, and trials at the Nanxuan Academy, intertwined with the Sima family's entanglements and upheavals in the City of Compassion; later it shifts to conflicts in the Taiyan Empire, auction houses and gladiator arenas, expeditions to ancient ruins, and confrontation with the Soul Clan, as core setups like the "Tripartite Alliance" and "Reincarnation Tribulation" surface, culminating in the Battle to Defend the City of Compassion. The work follows a classic long-form hot-blooded leveling path: with "breaking the Sacred Path and restoring the bloodline" as its thread, battles and breakthroughs drive the pace, interspersed with classic tropes like auctions, treasure grabs, academy sparring, and faction warfare—sweeping and satisfying.