Emperor Xuantian

The story begins in Luohuang City, situated in the Gucang Mountains of eastern Xuantian Continent. The protagonist, Li Chen, is a medicine slave belonging to the Li family, one of Luohuang City's three great clans. Though he carries a wisp of a special bloodline, a drop of true blood from the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Demons, the Devouring Kunpeng, lies sealed within his body, preventing him from condensing inner breath. For years he has been steeped in medicinal vats as a test subject, his face scarred, despised as a good-for-nothing whom anyone can bully. Pushed to the brink of death as a medicine slave, he devours a demon core whole, accidentally activating his bloodline, cultivating the Nine Meridians Heaven-Reaching Art, forging the Primordial Chaos Body, and forging a destined bond with a Devouring Cauldron.

From there he storms sect gates, battles rival clans, subdues demons, and crushes imperial bloodlines, rising from Luohuang City through sect factions and the Northern Wasteland to the myriad heavens beyond the realm. Amid sect conflicts, ruin explorations, and revelations about his origins, he continually breaks through cultivation boundaries, ultimately standing above all living beings through the might of the Devouring Cauldron, earning the title of Emperor Xuantian and bringing the book to a close with the "reopening of an epoch." The work employs a tiered cultivation system progressing through Inner Breath, True Refinement, Origin Consolidation, Dan Vortex, Star Sea, Mystic Astral, Spirit Stillness, and Heaven Void realms up to Half-Saint, Saint Sovereign, Saint King, and the realms of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, making it a quintessential progression-style long-form fantasy.