Sword God of the Boundless

Sword God of the Boundless is a long Eastern fantasy by the online author Fire God, serialized on Zongheng.com from 2013 and completed on July 15, 2016. It runs to 1,569 chapters, about 4.913 million characters, and has not been published in print. The story is set on the Tianwu Continent, a world of countless sects where the strong prey on the weak. The protagonist, Su Yun, was once a prodigy of the Su family, but after the age of ten his talent vanished and his cultivation stalled; his parents disappeared, he was banished to the family's outer branch, and he became known to all as "trash." Only his maid, Su Qing'er, remains loyal to him. Because of her exceptional talent, Su Qing'er is forcibly demanded as a bride by the Tianwei Sect, a demand that is in truth a plot; she refuses to submit, flees the Su family, and is ultimately killed by the Tianwei Sect's master. This turn of events awakens Su Yun completely. He roams the various realms seeking a way to restore his talent, even willingly embracing demonic cultivation in exchange for power, yet still cannot turn fate around. He later meets a mighty elder and learns that he suffers from a rare affliction and is given a cure—but before he can save himself, he dies in battle in the great war between the demon realm and the orthodox sects. When he opens his eyes again, he is back fifteen years earlier, on the fourth day after being driven out of the inner family. Armed with the memories and resolve of his previous life, Su Yun regains his talent and, by chance, obtains the Boundless Sword Case and masters the Boundless Sword Art; the 108,000 immortal swords within the case suppress a peerless ferocious sword. Starting from the lowest rank of spirit mystic apprentice, he fights his way through sect trials, ventures into Soldier Bone Mountain, and battles at Arrogant Bone Mountain, rising against the odds while protecting those around him. He gradually uncovers the secrets of his own origins and the ferocious sword, and ultimately turns his blade against the Tianwei Sect and the immortal-court powers above it. The cultivation system begins at spirit mystic apprentice and advances through spirit mystic scholar, spirit mystic heart, spirit mystic soul, spirit mystic yang, spirit mystic sovereign, and spirit mystic god, beyond which lie the Guixu, Deification, and Ancestor realms. The plot centers on hot-blooded leveling and revenge, interwoven with multiple romantic threads, and culminates in a decisive battle amid the ferocious sword's world-ending crisis.