Zui Tangmen

The Most Tang Sect is an Eastern fantasy novel by web author Wang Pao. Serialized on Qidian Chinese Network starting February 22, 2012, the complete work runs to roughly three million Chinese characters (counts vary by platform) and has been published in traditional Chinese print editions. The story opens at the end of the Ming dynasty, where Tang Jue, the foremost master of the Tang Sect in Sichuan, duels atop a snowy mountain against a rival known as the "Number One Lecherous Monk Under Heaven." The monk, risking the rupture of his meridians, forces out a Lion's Roar technique that triggers an avalanche, burying Tang Jue beneath centuries of ice and snow. A thousand years later, Tang Jue awakens in a laboratory, stripped naked and strapped to a table, only to learn that his fate is to be dissected for research. Armed with the Tang Sect's inherited concealed weapons, poisons, and internal-energy arts, Tang Jue breaks free, escapes the quarantine zone, and emerges into a future world dominated by mecha, fractured by warring gangs, and where combat strength is rated through "Guardian Arts" and mecha. He gains a foothold through a clash with the Black Dragon Gang, returns to the Tang family fortress on Sunset Mountain to claim the family crest and the Heaven-character Token, and restores the Tang Sect's prestige. Using an identity card, he enters the online game The Most Era, where a level-one throwaway character defeats the server's top experts and shocks the Federation Guardian Arts Association. He is then drawn into conflicts among the Black Triangle, the Tang family fortress, the Guardian Association, and the Free Alliance, subduing powerful enemies, forging tribal alliances, and mounting expeditions into the stars, until he finally confronts a global crisis unleashed by an insect swarm, bringing the story to a close with the chapter "Swarm Assault." The work fuses the hidden weapons and poison arts of wuxia with futuristic mecha, interstellar settings, and online gaming, delivering brisk pacing and a steady stream of satisfying payoffs in the classic male-oriented "strongman's return" vein.