Peerless

Peerless is an Eastern fantasy novel by Ni Cangtian, a contracted author on Zongheng Chinese Network, first serialized there on June 22, 2019, and now complete. The story is set in the vast Heaven and Earth, where the world is divided into three lands: the silent, demon-haunted Continent of Silence and the Continent of Qianxuan, home to ordinary people, lie apart from each other. On the Continent of Silence, Hong Qi, the gifted sect master of the Medicine God Sect, is unable to cultivate all his life; nearing the end of his span, he tries to refine a Reincarnation Pill for rebirth, but at the crucial moment his senior fellow disciple Zhong Chenchen makes a secret move, scattering his soul to the winds. Across the deep Sea of Life and Death and the perilous Road of Reincarnation, three hundred years later his remnant soul is reborn in Yu Yuan, a youth of a precarious family in a small border town on the Continent of Qianxuan. Yu Yuan has lost his heaven-soul and earth-soul; for years he has been muddled, unable to remember past events or people, and is taken for a simpleton. After a night of awakening, heaven and earth are overturned. Drawing on what he learned in his past life and the mysteries of the three souls, he refines his earth-soul into a yin spirit, advances his heaven-soul into a yang spirit, and transforms his human-soul into a primordial spirit, step by step repairing his damaged souls, uncovering the truth of his origins and of his murder in the past life, and thus setting out on the road of vengeance against Zhong Chenchen and other sworn enemies, ultimately achieving the legend of "three souls peerless." Built on a framework of cultivation realms and multiple worlds and peopled with sect strife, family grudges, and the karma of reincarnation, the book is another passionate long novel from Ni Cangtian after Killing God and King of Ten Thousand Domains.