Master of Both Pen and Blade

Master of Both Pen and Blade is an otherworld-transmigration web novel by Weimeng Xianren, serialized on 3G Book City starting in August 2014 and completed on July 6, 2020, with 587 chapters totaling roughly 1.96 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Su Yun, is a literature student who unexpectedly transmigrates to the Tianlong Continent but finds himself trapped inside the mind of the host body he occupies, Su Wentong. For six years he is firmly suppressed by the host and can only keep handing over the poems and verses stored in his memory, watching helplessly as Su Wentong uses them to earn the title of the greatest talent of Daluo. Only when Su Wentong dies under mysterious circumstances does Su Yun finally gain control and take over the body, truly beginning his own path of comeback. In this world, cultivators are divided into two systems: battle cultivators who train battle qi and mind cultivators who train psychic power. Battle cultivators advance from Warrior and Battle Master up to God of War, while mind cultivators rise from Mind Adept and Mind Master to Mind God. Su Yun makes his name on the literary path through the classical literature he accumulated in his previous life, and on the martial path he advances rapidly by relying on his formidable soul power and the mysterious technique Tianqiao Jing, step by step through academy rivalries, secret realm explorations, and power struggles among various factions. With "mastery of both pen and blade" as its throughline, the novel interweaves academy conflicts, life-and-death duels, camaraderie, and mysteries of identity, shaping a complete story of a man who grows from an oppressed soul into someone who stirs the winds and clouds of the continent.