Supreme Throne

Supreme Throne is a long fantasy web novel by the online author Huang Feng, serialized on Qidian since 2011. It runs to about 4.788 million Chinese characters in 701 chapters and is complete. The story is set on the Martial God Continent: the protagonist Ye Chen was a hitman in his previous life and, while on a mission, was pulled into another world by a mysterious force; he wakes up as the illegitimate son of the head of the Ye family in the Huangfeng Kingdom. Though this body has remarkable talent, it fails for three years after the age of sixteen to awaken the Azure Dragon bloodline, so the clan mocks him as trash and he holds a low position in the family. By chance he lets his blood drip onto a qilin ring left by his mother; the Qilin bloodline revives, and he later obtains the Azure Dragon aura in the ancestral pavilion, setting him on a path of heaven-defying cultivation. The work centers on bloodlines and domains: Ye Chen inherits the Qilin bloodline and masters the Fire God domain, possesses the Azure Dragon bloodline and masters the Wind God domain, and, relying on his memories and temperament from his previous life, keeps breaking through realms amid family feuds, sect wars, imperial struggles, exploration of the Sword Tomb, and campaigns beyond the realm. He becomes the sect master of the Sword God Sect and the fifth-generation Moon God, earns the name Blood Hell Emperor in the Sword Tomb, and is also called the Cangyan Sovereign. The book follows the passionate power-fantasy path of the underdog's rise, and the author says his protagonist would "rather be a heretical emperor than a dragon among men." In the ending, after entering the Realm of Seeking Defeat, Ye Chen chooses to seal the Moon God Seal and the Emperor Seal, gives up condensing the Supreme Throne, and returns to a quiet life, giving the highest seat of power named in the title another layer of meaning at the end.