Record of Bloodline

Record of Bloodline is a long xianxia cultivation novel by the web author Yue Zhongyin, serialized on Qidian from May 2011 and completed in October 2013, totaling about 4.07 million characters. The work is set in a vast cultivation world: in ancient times, the dragon, phoenix, and qilin clans created humans from their own essence blood, so human blood secretly carries the bloodlines of ancient gods and demons, holding nearly limitless potential for growth. Cultivators wash their bloodlines with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, gradually developing and drawing out the power deep within their blood, condensing essence blood and manifesting dharma forms, ultimately becoming immortals and ancestors. Accordingly, the book divides cultivation into five realms—Blood Condensation, Form Transformation, Heaven Connection, Immortal, and God-Demon—each subdivided into several minor stages, forming a clearly layered path of growth. The story centers on the youth Yang Yi, who enters the world of cultivators from the rank of grandmaster in secular martial arts and rises rapidly through his bloodline potential and various fortunate encounters; he then passes through arcs such as the Dragon Transformation Tournament, the Wanxiang Merchant Guild auction, and sect conflicts, fighting his way forward amid treasures, arcane arts, factional strife, and surrounding enemies, ultimately breaking through to the Immortal realm. The book moves at a brisk pace with a clear leveling line and builds its cultivation system around the core concept of "bloodline," making it a fairly representative work of the passionate pursuit-of-immortality genre in Qidian's xianxia section.