Beastmaster of the Myriad Realms

Beastmaster of the Myriad Realms is a long xianxia cultivation novel by Xiao Jiu, serialized on Qidian from August 5, 2020, and completed in May 2022. It runs over 1,300 chapters and about 5.04 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Qin Feng, is a visitor from another world reborn as a youth of the Qin family in Kuncheng in the Bihuo Great World. The Qin family has served the great cultivation sect Beastmaster Sect for generations; its hereditary art centers on contracting spirit beasts and fighting with man and beast as one. At fourteen, Qin Feng opens his spirit aperture and, with his father Qin Long's support, wins a place in the Beastmaster Sect's grand selection. Along the way he chance upon a damaged immortal artifact, the Demon-Refining Pot. The pot contains nine levels of space, each able to nurture one demon king, which can refine the bloodlines of its own kind to advance; it can also hold vast numbers of demon beasts and feed their growth with spiritual energy converted from dead beasts returning to their origin. With the Demon-Refining Pot and the True Scripture of the Origin of All Beasts, Qin Feng rises from outer disciple to true disciple and takes a master among the elders, cultivating lifebound spirit beasts such as the Ruyi Golden Snake, the Heaven-Swallowing Toad, the Ghost-Faced Spider, and the Fire Ape. In the middle and later sections the story turns to war across the myriad realms: after an ancient war against outside realms, the cultivation civilization retreated to the Star Sea; centuries later, with resources running short, the Beastmaster Sect leads the first expedition into other worlds. Qin Feng follows the army into demon lands, the western continent of druids and the Church of Light, and a wizard world, commanding dragons and behemoths against otherworldly powers, and encountering necromancers, evil gods, elves, and orcs. The book concludes with him proving the Dao of Hunyuan and merging the Nine Heavens into Bihuo.