Supreme Immortal and Demon

Supreme Immortal and Demon is a long fantasy cultivation novel by the web author Qi Zhu Nan Xia (original name Jin Xi He Xi), serialized on Qidian from October 2013, complete at roughly 4.8 million characters. The story is set in a cultivation civilization restarted after the "Great Extinction." At that time, the Human Immortal Dynasty, the Yin Chuan Wasteland City, the Nine Heavens Immortal Court, the Demon Cult Palace, and the Ten Great Immortal Office schools all entangled and vied with one another; geniuses emerged in numbers and immortal and demon warlords rose together, plunging the Nine Heavens realm into prolonged conflict. "Since ancient times, cultivation transmits the Way but not the fire; without the fire, one cannot cultivate the Way"—this rule of "fire-transmission foundation building" forms the underlying worldview of the entire work. The protagonist, Luo Chuan, is a fifteen-year-old concubine-born son of the second branch of the Luo family of Tang Kingdom in a remote domain. Framed into a scandal with his elder brother's wife, he is driven to the brink of death; by chance he encounters a foundation-building demonic art that even the Nine Heavens Demon Lord dismissed, and unexpectedly obtains part of the memory inheritance of the Nine Dragons Lord. From then on he forsakes the ordinary path of alchemy and martial arts, and with the conviction that "the human body holds a great medicine that can achieve the Great Way; seeking life through nine deaths, the nine-turn supreme method," he becomes a unique cultivator who simultaneously cultivates the three great secret realms of Huangting, Lingtai, and Tianmen, and step by step rises from a marginalized youth to the stage contending for the "Supreme" Way amid the multiple chess games of immortal dynasty and demon palace, sages and emperors. The book's main threads are realm leaps, clashes of powers, and the protagonist's counterattack; it is one of the representative works of the Qidian xianxia section, grand in scale and complete in its setting system.