Martial Qi Soaring to the Heavens

Martial Qi Soaring to the Heavens is an Eastern fantasy novel by Baoxing. Starting in March 2013, it was serialized on Xiaoxiang Academy and then on Qidian, running for more than a year and concluding on May 21, 2014. The complete work is about 3,578,400 characters in 1,210 chapters. The story is set on the "Martial Qi Continent," where sects are countless and the strong are as numerous as a forest. This is a world without technological civilization, where martial prowess is supreme: families, sects, and empires fight endlessly, and internal strife and conquest play out every day; a century-old prophecy hangs overhead, the shadow of foreign invasion draws nearer, and various forces take turns appearing as the whole continent faces the choice between destruction and rebirth. According to the synopsis on the Qidian work page, the protagonist Lin Chen "accidentally dug a hole into another world; a divine jade changed Lin Chen's fate, and the name of genius came from it." To avenge his "unreliable old man" and to keep others from coveting his little loli, he has no choice but to cultivate desperately. The work's main growth line is "entering the Way through martial arts, breaking through the nine heavens with martial power," depicting his rise from the bottom, the companions he makes, and his battles against powerful enemies. It should be noted that another synopsis circulating on online platforms names the protagonist "Wei Hong": a martial arts expert from a previous life, Wei Hong, has his soul cross over during a breakthrough and takes over the body of the youngest son of the Wei family in Songlin Town, Wuji Kingdom, on the Martial Qi Continent; after merging memories, he inherits his previous life's martial arts experience and, with techniques such as the Overlord Art, Wave-Treading Step, Overlord Blade, and Azure Dragon Seal, and with blade intent, rises from family infighting to sect hegemony. In addition, the encyclopedia also gives the book's cultivation realm system—from low to high: Martial Warrior, Martial Master, Martial Ancestor, Martial Venerable, Martial General, Martial King, Martial Emperor, Martial Lord, Martial Sage. The work is a typical long-form leveling fantasy: the map keeps expanding, from family and city to sect, dynasty, and continent, with conflicts escalating layer by layer. Readers can treat it as a fast-paced story dense with satisfying moments, meant to be followed chapter by chapter.