Peerless Divine Emperor

Peerless Divine Emperor is an Eastern fantasy novel by the author Buxie, serialized and completed on Qidian, spanning approximately 1,359 chapters (including the completion remarks and new-book announcement), with the main story concluding at Chapter 1,357, "The Axe That Shaped the Cosmos." It is one of Qidian's early long-form leveling-up novels. The story begins with Jiang Xuan, a youth from the floating city of Yunhai Realm: born into poverty with nothing but bare walls, he lives with his disabled grandfather. When their ancestral home is forcibly purchased by the Li family and the general's mansion quietly applies pressure, a top-ten finish at the martial academy's graduation ceremony becomes his only way out. A meteorite falls from the heavens, and a seven-colored spider egg (the Heaven-Bane Spider) unexpectedly awakens in his sea of consciousness. His physical body undergoes transformation, allowing him to devour mystical weapons and absorb the power of heaven and earth through the spider egg, setting him on a path to defy the heavens with a mortal body. He stuns everyone at the graduation ceremony, rises to prominence in the Star-Plucking Sect trials and the deadly battles of the Yunhai Secret Realm, inherits the "Dao-Derived Myriad Flower Pupil" eye technique, and contends with forces such as the Blood Transformation Sect and the Demon Dragon Cult. The story gradually expands from the conflicts of a single city and sect to ruling the Northern Abyss, forging an Eastern Domain alliance, fierce battles at the Mountain of the Undying, breaking through the Yellow Springs Realm, and even traversing the chaos of inter-realm conquest. The novel follows the rise of a impoverished youth to become a Divine Emperor who governs the cosmos, interwoven with an emotional thread of protecting family and close friends, and the mystery of his father Jiang Li's curse mark. It all culminates in a final battle where the Heaven-Opening Divine Axe cleaves through chaos. The work features brisk pacing, densely planted foreshadowing, and frequent battle scenes, making it a typical representative of the "impoverished youth rise + sect warfare + inter-realm conquest" model.