Supreme Emperor

Supreme Emperor is a long eastern fantasy novel by the web author Xitong Fengkuangge, serialized on Zongheng Chinese and completed in August 2024 at about 1.569 million characters and 366 chapters. The title comes from the tagline "Contend across the myriad heavens, plunder the myriad realms, achieve the supreme emperor," and the main line follows a ruler of the central lands who is reborn after death and, with the memories and perspective of his previous life, sets out once more on the path of cultivation and supremacy. The story begins with power struggles around the capital: the protagonist, Huang Wuji, as a youth moves among the yamen, the powerful, and the martial sects, and through foreknowledge of the future and decisive methods accumulates fortune, resources, and connections in one conflict after another; his sphere of activity then expands from the capital to the world beyond, drawing him into the conflicts of the myriad realms and ancient ruins and repeated clashes with princes, heirs of sacred lands, and various factions. The setting includes a nine-stage body cultivation sequence—"nourishing life, lightening the body, training strength, hard and soft, divine martial, Tianxuan, Lingxi, spirit communication, and transformation"—as well as the Eight Gates realm for higher levels; the protagonist's growth is accompanied by the plundering of fortune and the annexation of factions, ultimately leading to the path of the "supreme emperor." The book moves at a brisk pace with dense conflict; it is a typical gratification-oriented fantasy of contending across the myriad realms, suited to readers who like a protagonist who crushes opponents with overwhelming force and gradually expands his domain.