Martial Sage

Martial Sage (cataloged on some platforms as Martial Sage!) is an Eastern fantasy novel by Lian Qingyi. Completed in September 2021 on an online platform, it spans 863 chapters and roughly 3.69 million Chinese characters. The protagonist, Lin Yu, was originally an orphan from Black Stone Village in Qingyun City. Two years earlier, he was abducted by the Evil Tiger Stockade and taken up the mountain to serve as a bandit, tending horses on Pingjiu Peak in a lowly position with only third-stage body tempering cultivation. In an accident, a strange object falls from the sky and destroys the stable, killing even the mounts of several stockade leaders, which puts Lin Yu's life in grave danger. Amid the chaos, he obtains the supreme treasure "World-Refining Cauldron" — a cauldron capable of refining all things, which clears away obstacle after obstacle on his path of cultivation. With the cauldron's aid, Lin Yu rises step by step from the ranks of bandits and embarks on the long road of martial cultivation, constantly breaking through realms and revealing his brilliance in a cultivation world where "countless martial paths and myriad sacred physiques" coexist. The work's core premise is "once the divine cauldron appears, all things are refined," and its main narrative line follows the protagonist's climb from a lowly nobody to the pinnacle of martial arts. It is a typical power-fantasy Eastern fantasy: briskly paced, with clear progression, a protagonist who stays rational, and relatively delicate emotional writing.