War Blood Soars the Heavens

War Blood Soars the Heavens is a long-form otherworld fantasy novel by author Yue Yang, serialized on Zongheng Chinese Network starting June 3, 2014, comprising 954 chapters and roughly 4.32 million Chinese characters. The story is set in Tianxuan Continent, a fictional world where martial prowess is paramount: Lin Feng, the youngest son of the Lin family in Qingyang City of the Moyun Kingdom in the Iron Cloud Empire, is at birth determined to have "severed meridians," unable to absorb the power of heaven and earth, and endures cold looks and bullying within the family. His mother Ji Qingqing's early death leaves him without protection in the Lin household. After a particularly humiliating encounter, Lin Feng's fate turns—within him sleeps a "war meridian," a rarity unseen in ages. The war meridian makes cultivation twice as effective and leaves him nearly unmatched among peers, yet it is flawed because heaven and earth begrudge it: opening it requires enduring heavenly thunder, and if he cannot comprehend the war meridian before eighteen, he will either die from his body bursting or suffer cultivation deviation. Under the guidance of a slovenly old man named Mu Di, Lin Feng opens his war meridian and leaves Qingyang Town, ventures through the Ten Thousand Beasts Forest, Tianyun City, and various family factions, learning sword intent, refining martial techniques, and forging weapons, clashing repeatedly with forces like the Golden Sword Sect and the Beast Soul Hall. When his mother's memorial tablet is destroyed, he breaks completely with the Lin family, changes his name to Ji Feng, and continues his defiance of heaven under a new identity. The book follows a main line of "war meridian awakening—martial breakthrough—faction warfare," threaded with ancient ruins, imperial secret arts, the power of the five elements, and the legend of the emperor's tomb, and closes with "returning to the beginning," resolving on the theme of faith and struggle against fate.