Blaze God: The Inferno

Blaze God: The Inferno is a xuanhuan web novel by Xi Feng, serialized on the Taduo Literature platform from May 15, 2013, and completed in January 2016. The full work runs roughly 2.9–3 million Chinese characters (platform counts vary slightly, with chapter counts between 1,386 and 1,410). The story is set in Wufeng City on the Flame Soul Continent: the youth Chu Yun has no martial flame seed and cannot cultivate. His father, Chu Hanfeng, was once a prodigy but died in an accident eight years earlier, and his mother passed away from grief after giving birth to his younger brother, Chu Yi, leaving Chu Yun to scrape by on odd jobs. The clan looks down on him at every turn, even publicly humiliating his parents. One day, while cleaning a house on the back hill, Chu Yun finds in a wooden chest a white jade pendant carved with the characters "Hanfeng" and a black jade dagger. The black dagger emits a faint blood-red glow, and his fate changes from that moment on. Armed with the mysterious black dagger and the Heaven-Burning Divine Flame, Chu Yun awakens the power of his bloodline and sets out on a heaven-defying path of cultivation to break through his shackles. The novel unfolds through dramatic changes in the clan, sieges by powerful enemies, a fierce battle with the Rat King, exploration of secret realms, and more, threading together his growth and gradually unraveling the mystery of his origins; as rival factions escalate their power struggles, he must also face formidable foes such as the Son of the Divine Emperor and disciples of the Lord Gods. The book constructs a flame-martial cultivation system spanning from the Qi-Refining Realm to the Flame-Aura Realm, with each major realm divided into nine minor realms—a classic example of the traditional xuanhuan framework built on underdog-turned-hero fervor.