Ultimate Sovereign

Ultimate Sovereign is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Liulian Guo, serialized on Qidian and other platforms since November 2014. The protagonist, Fang Zhan, is an ordinary youth who transmigrates from Earth to another world. Mysterious golden thunder descends from the sky and becomes his "third eye," causing him—whose dantian was destroyed and whose aptitude was mediocre—to unexpectedly awaken the "Sovereign's Eye" and gain cultivation talent far beyond ordinary people. Thereafter he breaks through level by level along the cultivation system of Spirit Body Realm, Spirit Intent Realm, and others, rising against the odds amid family strife, sect selections, and the clashes of various factions: from a despised youth to a peerless powerhouse who crushes powerful enemies, swallows the starry river, and dominates all. Set in the Sacred Fire Dynasty and other places on a foreign continent, the novel blends awakened powers, realm breakthroughs, and power struggles. It follows the typical "trash turned triumphant + cheat upgrade" formula, with a brisk pace and dense satisfying moments, and is a representative long-form serialized work in the Eastern fantasy category on Qidian in the mid-2010s.