World of Martial Spirits

World of Martial Spirits is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Decadent Smoke 121, serialized on the Zhulang novel site from February 2014 and completed in April 2016, totaling about 8.89 million characters in 2,507 chapters. The protagonist, Yuan Feng, is an ordinary person at the Dazhao Temple in modern society who is accidentally swallowed by a beast relief on a mural that "comes to life" and is transported to a cultivation world founded on "martial spirits," where he possesses a boy of the same name. This third young master of the Yuan family is still stuck at the second level of the Condensed Origin realm at sixteen and is called "Loser Feng" throughout Fengtian Commandery. But his martial spirit is the rare "Devouring Heaven Martial Spirit," which can devour all things in the world and turn external objects into his own use; relying on this devouring power, Yuan Feng devours techniques, combat skills, and treasures all the way, growing from a Yuan family youth into a martial prodigy who shocks the continent. The novel builds a tiered system of techniques and combat skills from the Yellow, Mystic, Earth, and Heaven ranks up to the Divine rank, and a world structure layered into the initial world, the intermediate world, and the higher world; the protagonist's footprints extend from the Yuan family, the Danxia Sect, the Black Mountain Kingdom, and the Sword Sect all the way to the Dharma Image Realm and the Purple Cloud Palace of the Wuwang Realm. His companions include the demon octopus beast Little Eight, the black dragon divine beast Big Black, and his wife Yun Mengchen. Overall it is a typical long-form "leveling-up" power fantasy, fast-paced and dense with battles, suited to readers used to reading very long works and fond of Eastern fantasy cultivation systems. This entry follows the web serial version; print publication information has not been verified.