Mystic Derivation Divine Art

Mystic Derivation Divine Art is a long xianxia novel by Yi Jie Bai Yi on Zongheng Chinese. Serialization began on December 30, 2013, and the final chapter was submitted in June 2016, totaling about 4 million characters. The story begins after the Pure Yang Tribulation: Xiao Nanli, sword master of the Sword Studio, splits the Divine Land into five continents—Qingzhou, Shenzhou, Shangzhou, Luzhou, and Juzhou. Five thousand years later, in the second year of Chengyuan in the Great Lü Kingdom of Qingzhou, an anomalous star descends, seen as an omen of impending catastrophe. In the fourteenth year of Chengyuan, the entire Su family of over a hundred people in Zhaoyang City, Qingzhou, is massacred overnight, and the long-ailing youth Su Fu becomes the sole survivor. He meets a mysterious woman in palace robes, follows her guidance onto the path of cultivation, and receives a letter of recommendation to the Sword Studio. Su Fu is tainted by a demonic spirit; the slightest fluctuation of his mind risks possession, and the pressures of revenge and self-preservation weigh on him at once. The book builds its cultivation system around realms such as the Origin-Returning Realm and the Spirit-Communicating Realm, and uses techniques such as the Supreme Sense Chapter and the Mystic Heaven Reflective Great Derivation Art as threads, linking sect conflicts, the situation across the five continents, and the movements of the demon clans, until at last the young wandering cultivator reaches the step of confronting the demonic spirit head-on.