Body Possession

Body Possession is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Muniu Liumao, serialized and completed on Qidian, totaling about 420,000 characters. The novel builds a world that has evolved from remote antiquity through the early, middle, and late ancient eras to the present age of numerous cultivators: though immortals are no longer seen, the coexistence of many paths and the contention of a hundred schools continue, with everyone probing the heavenly Dao and pursuing longevity in their own way. The protagonist Ye Xuan was originally a lone cultivator; while exploring an ancient immortal estate he was ambushed, his physical body destroyed, and only through his prior Soul Fortune Pill and the secret art of soul concealment did he preserve a thread of his primordial spirit. By chance he possessed the body of a thirteen- or fourteen-year-old youth named Lu Li in the White Jade Dynasty, reopening his eyes in another's identity. The new body's cultivation is low, only lower grade nine, yet its foundation is solid and its age young, and behind it lie family grudges and an old feud with the Taiyi Sect. While adapting to this body and experiencing blood-tied family affection, Ye Xuan step by step restores his cultivation, pursues the truth of the ambush, and is thereby drawn into the larger conflicts of the White Jade Dynasty and even the Tianyuan Continent. The work opens with the possession-and-rebirth premise, blending cultivation growth with a revenge thread, concise in length and brisk in pace.