The Divine Throne

The Divine Throne is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Huangfu Qi. Serialization began on Qidian on September 17, 2012, and concluded on January 10, 2014, totaling roughly 3.3477 million Chinese characters across 1,114 chapters. The story's core premise is a legendary "Divine Throne": whoever possesses it gains endless lifespan and supreme authority over heaven and earth, and it is the ultimate destination for which every powerful figure in the world fights. The road to the throne is paved with bones and rivers of blood, and only the strongest can ascend. The protagonist, Lin Xi, is a seventeen-year-old high school student on Earth who, during a family trial, is caught in a mountain flood; his soul crosses into another world and is reborn as the young sect master of the Five Thunder Sect. He awakens to a near-hopeless situation: his body is crippled and he cannot practice martial arts, his father has been murdered and his backing has collapsed, the council of elders has jointly impeached him, and the sect is beset by internal and external crises. Relying on his insights as a transmigrator and his unyielding spirit, Lin Xi cultivates techniques such as the Art of Ruling the World, gradually restores his strength, subdues artifacts like the Myriad Emperors Diagram and allies such as the Hell Demon Dragon Motu, and breaks through from the Qi Refining realm all the way to the Immortal Path realm. The story is driven by sect power struggles and planar warfare, expanding beyond the Great World of the Immortal Path into a multi-planar landscape that includes the Great World of Hell, the Great World of Thunder, and the Great World of the Demon Race. Along the way he meets Su Zixuan, Shangguan Yaoxue, Wang Luoying, Long Bingyan, and others, ultimately moving toward the final battle for the Divine Throne. The book is briskly paced with frequent satisfying payoffs, and is a representative commercial work by Huangfu Qi following Ascension and The Great Zhou Imperial Clan.