The Sword of Kunlun

The Sword of Kunlun is a long online novel written by Jiu Wei Yin Jiu, in the game/virtual online game style, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network and completed, about 1.56 million characters in total. The story is set in a future world: an era of spiritual energy revival is approaching, and to let the public adapt in advance to the great upheaval， humanity collectively enters a holographic wuxia online game based on The Legend of Sword and Fairy to rehearse the jianghu, thus opening the era of online gaming for all. The protagonist Wang Qing by a twist of fate joins the Kongtong Upper Court of the Kunlun Sect and even becomes its grand senior brother. Embarrassingly, the entire Kunlun Sect is deserted; other sects have hundreds of millions of players, while Kunlun has only a few cats. He is forced to stay on the mountain reading, drawing talismans, practicing swordsmanship, and cultivating the Dao, watching players below the mountain charge in and out of battlefields while he cannot even find monsters to fight. His family is likewise full of stories: his sister is a problem girl hiding in Miao territory raising snakes and refining poison; his parents live as an immortal couple at Wudang and do not much look after their children, and he went up the mountain partly out of a private wish to avoid his parents. The first half of the novel consists mainly of gentle daily life and sect life, describing the protagonist polishing his character in solitude and practicing non-combat skills, then gradually emerging through descending the mountain to suppress bandits and roaming the jianghu battlefields, from being held back on the mountain to being released like a tiger to stir up the jianghu. The whole book leans Buddhist, slow-paced, combining the jianghu atmosphere of wuxia with the leveling fun of online-game systems.