Martial God Imperial Court

Martial God Imperial Court is a wuxia fantasy web novel by Gou Paozi, a top author on Yuewen Group's Qidian platform. It ran on Qidian and concluded on August 31, 2020, with 1,053 chapters and roughly 2.42 million characters. The story is set on the Water Blue Continent. Beneath the imperial court, dynasties are everywhere; the realm looks a thousand years stable, but in truth the court seethes with intrigue and the jianghu is overrun with bandits. Ye Canghai, grandson of a former imperial tutor, scrapes by in a remote corner of Qingmu County in a small frontier state, carrying a debt of blood. When the soul of a modern man enters his body, he activates the "Punish Evil and Reward Good Lottery System," which lets him steadily build his martial cultivation by rooting out villains. Starting as an eighth-rank county school instructor, Ye Canghai solves cases and quells unrest, wipes out the Yellow Wasp Stockade, topples corrupt officials, and contends with clerks, county captains, prefects, and even great clans, gaining a foothold on both the official and jianghu fronts, gradually drawn into the core of imperial power, until at last he ascends to the heights of Lingxiao and remakes the imperial court. The book fuses court intrigue, jianghu bloodshed, and a martial cultivation system (Body Tempering, Inner Gang, Divine Void, Mystic Core, and so on) and unfolds a map of factions including the Black Cavalry Army, the Divine Constable Hall, and the Sea God Pavilion. The author describes the book's core as "a god of death in the officialdom, sweeping away demons and bandits, with a tender chivalrous heart—who says my blade cannot uphold justice," offering both the cerebral pleasure of official scheming and the thrill of a wuxia hero who lives by his blade. The book has not been published in print; during its web serialization it circulated widely in forms such as the "Zhixuan Library carefully edited complete edition."