Arrow Demon

Arrow Demon is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Mingyue Yese, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network from 2016 and completed in May 2022, about 11.1653 million characters and 5,235 chapters. The story is set in the world of the Nine Provinces: the protagonist Bai Li was once crowned "Arrow Demon" in the world of competitive gaming, the only archer in the history of the Immortal Throne, but unexpectedly falls at the moment of reaching the top and is reborn in the Nine Provinces with those memories of his past life. Now he is a castoff of the Haoran Sect—brought into the sect by an elder, his talent mysteriously vanishes, and he loses a hundred matches in a row in the Grand Illusion Realm, becoming the laughingstock of the whole sect and finally being expelled from the inner sect and punished as a menial laborer. The turning point comes with an "Arrow Demon Ring": once activated, he retrieves the warehouse, equipment, and skill system from his past gaming life, and takes up the bow again. In the Nine Provinces, where the world regards archery as "a minor skill that cannot reach the great way," Bai Li rebuilds his cultivation path around the bow, breaking through realms via the Grand Illusion Realm trials, alchemy, and enchanting systems, rising from the lowest menial in the sect, clashing repeatedly with powerful enemies, the sect, and fate, and gradually re-establishing the name of "Arrow Demon." The book is driven by dense combat descriptions and realm breakthroughs, blending system-flow, invincible-flow, and grassroots-rise narrative elements; its style is hot-blooded and gratifying, emphasizing skill settings and the "technical" writing of combat details, and it is a representative long male-oriented fantasy novel with an archer as the protagonist.