Beast Dominance

Beastmaster of the World is a fantasy web novel by Li Jia Si Ye, serialized from 2015 on platforms such as 3G Book City and Shuyue Net, and completed on March 19, 2018, totaling 689 chapters and roughly 2.26 million Chinese characters. The story opens with Ling Zhan, the youngest major in the Federation military, unexpectedly reborn after an accident into the body of a same-named youth in another world. This youth, born into the Ling family, is regarded by those around him as trash, bullied relentlessly, and left in a dire predicament. The world he inhabits is one of countless sects where the strong reign supreme; a top martial artist can decide the life and death of tens of thousands with a single word, and the law of the jungle is the only rule of survival. After his rebirth, Ling Zhan possesses the Federation's most mysterious inheritance, the Divine Training Art, along with the ability to refine and control beast avatars. Drawing on the calm judgment and tactical thinking of his former life as a soldier, and leveraging the power of his beast avatars, he reverses the original body's plight: starting by washing away humiliation and striking back at his bullies, he passes through the Ascension Arena and the Misty Forest trials, then establishes himself in the Xuanyang Sect and strives for core disciple status, engaging in repeated clashes with forces such as the Wang and Zhou families, and is forced onto paths of escape and trial. The protagonist's essence lies not merely in personal martial advancement but in commanding beast avatars with modern military-style coordinated combat tactics, forming a fighting style of "using beasts to subdue enemies and the many to overwhelm the strong." The novel blends rebirth and counterattack, a beast-avatar system, and martial cultivation, chronicling the protagonist's step-by-step rise toward the pinnacle of martial arts amid sect strife and family feuds. An audio adaptation of the same name also exists.