The Imperial Way

The Imperial Way is a male-oriented fantasy novel by the web novelist Wuwai Jiangshan, serialized on Zhangyue (Shushan Chinese Network), about 1.94 million characters in total, and completed. The protagonist Ye Jiangchuan is a young swordsman with a clear sword heart and invincibility beneath his sword, who unexpectedly gains a strange ability: by means of the moonlight in the sky, he can travel back and forth between ancient and modern times. This heaven-defying power puts him against the mighty and binds the survival of the human world tightly to him. To protect his homeland and the common people, he cultivates and maneuvers step by step, seizing the initiative in the pattern of "Xuanyuan governs life, Huangquan dispenses death," and ultimately grows into a supreme strongman capable of contending with ancient gods and supremes. The work takes "destroy the gods, slay the supremes" as its main line, unfolding a world that blends elements of the primordial flood, ruins of divine kingdoms, and ancient civilizational myth; it sets up progressive cultivator realms of spirit, earth, heaven, sage, god, and eternity. It contains both the protagonist's indomitable decisiveness in killing and the deep devotion of powerful female characters such as Hua Qianxun and Yuan Qing. The whole book has a brisk pace and grand setting, and the ending is often considered by readers to be rather rushed.