The Supreme Sword Immortal

The Supreme Sword Immortal is a classic xianxia web novel by He Buyu. It premiered across the Shuqi original platform and runs to 871 chapters, roughly 1.89 million Chinese characters; it is now complete. The protagonist is Jiang Cen, a high-school senior who begins like any other city teenager, studying for exams—until he discovers he is trapped in an inescapable time loop: whenever he falls asleep, his consciousness is pulled into a bizarre world of cultivation, and if he dies there, reality resets to the starting point and he must begin again. The plainest and cruelest rule of survival thus confronts him: he must not die. Jiang Cen has to survive cautiously through loop after loop; once he joins a sect, he must practice the way of the sword, travel the world, explore perilous places, and contend with immortals, demons, monsters, and ghosts. From the scattered clues he gathers in each cycle, he gradually pieces together the whole picture and touches a truth far vaster than he imagined: a vanished Pangu cultivation world, mysterious immortals, and layer upon layer of heavenly realms together form a net that covers everything. The work blends time loops, mystery and puzzle-solving, and ordinary-protagonist cultivation; the early chapters build tension and suspense through "loops and riddles," while the protagonist, through life after life, matures from a naive youth into someone reserved and resolute, exploring the theme that "cultivating immortality is cultivating the heart, and the way of the sword is the great Way."