Demon Eye Asura

Demon Eye Asura is a long Eastern fantasy novel by web author Ku Xuan, first serialized on Qidian. It runs about 1.43 million Chinese characters across 594 chapters and was completed in September 2015. The story opens as the mysterious ancient Gate of Blood Prison opens above Chihua City, bathing the whole city in bloodlight, and countless people wake the same night from the same nightmare: behind the gate stands a thousand-zhang-tall demon god, whispering the name Chihua City: Ten thousand years is too long... come quickly, my dearest heir. The protagonist, Zhuo Yifan, is a direct-line youth of the Zhuo family; his father, Zhuo Lie, disappeared through the Gate of Blood Prison sixteen years earlier. Because his soul quality is only mid-grade advanced, he is regarded by his clan as worthless and is despised and bullied by his cousin Zhuo Fei and others; only his grandfather, Zhuo Wentian, supports his arduous practice of the Great Derivation Diagram. The turning point comes in the other space brought by the Gate of Blood Prison: he witnesses a death struggle between the Iron-Arm Spirit Ape and the Nine Hells Heaven-Swallowing Python, and by cunning obtains the remains of both beasts, completing the Demon Eye Iron Arm transplant. The Demon Eye can refine souls and break through talent barriers, while the Iron Arm grants strength and defense far beyond his level. Afterward he enters the Blood Prison for training, fighting his way through the human-level and earth-level zones, meets the first-generation great Asura Xuan Meng, learns the Six Paths Soul Arts, and rises from perfect Body Refining straight to ten revolutions of the Golden Core; he then undergoes Dao validation at Demon Mountain, gains enlightenment at the Divine Palace and Ancient Temple, explores the Huaxia Treasure Land, and gradually fuses the powers of the Asura, Human, Animal, Demon-Ghost, and Hell paths to condense the Asura Field. In the Heavenly Realm arc, he faces the final showdown with Wu Ningzi, the ancestor of the Holy Clan, who has revived through inner demons and intends to overturn the heavenly realm, and at last claims the title of Undying Asura. The book focuses on passionate combat and level breakthroughs, and has an official theme song, Undying Asura, with lyrics by the author and performed by Xiao Hun.