Data Knight-Errant

Data Knight-Errant is a fantasy online-game web novel by Qichi Jushi. Serialized on 17K Novel Network in 2013 and now complete, it runs to roughly 1.42 million characters in 222 chapters, divided into several parts including "This Is the Jianghu," "Peach Blossom Hut in Peach Blossom Dell," "The Number One Martial Arts Tournament," and later arcs that extend into urban superpowers in the real world. The story is set in a full-immersion wuxia online game called Jianghu: soon after entering, the protagonist is set up by others and trapped inside the game, unable to move or log out, left to grind the Shaolin basic internal-energy art day after day. Rather than deleting his character and starting over, he uses near-obsessive focus and formidable logical analysis to break meridians, internal energy, and martial moves down into data models and reason them through. This earns him the ability of inner vision and lets him create a top-tier internal-energy art of his own, finally shattering the system's shackles. Once free, he settles old scores in the game world, maneuvers among the various guild factions, and fights his way through "The Number One Martial Arts Tournament." In the later stages the story expands from the virtual jianghu to superpower awakenings and ruin expeditions in the real world, weaving game and reality into a dual narrative. The book's core appeal is "deducing martial arts from data," fusing traditional wuxia moves and internal arts with game numerical mechanics; tightly paced and meticulously designed, it is one of the more representative high-IQ works of early online-game fiction.