Against Heaven: The Martial God

Against Heaven: The Martial God is an Eastern fantasy web novel by Ba Qian Li Lu, serialized on Baidu Novels. It runs to 505 chapters, roughly 1.12 million characters, and was completed in November 2020. The story opens a thousand years ago, when Chen Xiao, holy son of the Purple Yang Imperial Palace on the Canglan Continent, is killed by his fiancée Lin Xi; a thousand years later, he is reborn in the body of a boy in the Chen family of Flying Eagle City who is regarded as worthless. Reborn Chen Xiao possesses a rare light-attribute constitution and gains the Void Heaven Realm, an independent space hidden in an ancient painting whose time flows ten times faster than the outside world, becoming the key to his rapid recovery and cultivation. He vows revenge on Lin Xi, who has become a Martial Emperor and founded the Divine Martial Empire. He works his way out from the family trial and the Wilderness Mountain trial, joins the Holy Martial Sect, one of the three great sects of the Western Regions, and rises from outer disciple; later he contends for a strange fire at Beast King Ridge, befriends the sisters Ling Yizhu and Ling Xue'er, travels to the Sea of Chuxiang, and is drawn into conflicts among overseas sects and the Four Great Alliances. The book is structured around nine martial realms from the Origin Martial Realm to the Emperor Realm, interwoven with constitutions, bloodlines, strange fires, and the rhythm of breakthrough, following a hot-blooded underdog path of "don't look down on a poor youth," fighting from family junior to the myriad worlds and heavens, and finally achieving the title of Ancestral God of Myriad Martial Arts.