Blazing Heaven: The Divine Slayer

Blazing Heaven: The Divine Slayer is a long wuxia/xianxia novel by the web author Hun Sheng, serialized on Qidian from May 2013 and now completed, totaling roughly 1,380 chapters. The protagonist, Bai Yi, wanted nothing more than a carefree life of "raising spirit beasts and teasing fairies," but because he possessed the secret tome Blazing Heaven War Code, he was betrayed by the woman he loved, and the Bai clan was massacred. Bearing a blood feud, he devotes himself to mastering the war code, tempering his body with lightning, breaking through the limits of his innate constitution, and defying heaven, cultivating his battle body, and slaying gods and demons. What drives him is not ambition to become a god or a sovereign but a single obsession: you sold me out for power, so I will slaughter everything you rely on; when you have no backer left, kneel and beg me. The work takes as its central proposition "What is righteous? What is evil? If heaven and earth are heartless, I would rather become the evil sovereign," combining the loyalty, love, and vengeance of traditional wuxia with a cultivation leveling system. Beyond the revenge main plot, it lays out a grand scope of family rise, sect warfare, and cross-realm conquest. The narrative pace is hot-blooded and brisk, with dense battle scenes, and the romance line revolves around female characters such as Bai Xuan, Bai Qingqing, Zhong Wei, and Shen Xue. With its massive length and complete worldbuilding system, it is a typical male-oriented cultivation epic from the early 2010s, suited to readers who like to binge-read.