Slaying Heaven and Sealing Divinity

Chronicles of the Godslayer is a martial arts and cultivation fantasy novel serialized on Qidian Chinese Network by the author "Lingering Confusion." The story begins when a prodigious young man is betrayed by those closest to him—poisoned, his spiritual roots destroyed, and his cultivation stripped away. Cast down from the heights to the muck, reduced to a mortal body trampled by all, he is set upon mid-journey and, in a desperate struggle between life and death, plunges into a hidden valley. There, by chance, he obtains the heaven-defying manual Godslayer Art, rekindling the flame of his life. Meanwhile, the demonic cult sweeps across the world, the righteous path crumbles, and the protagonist's kin are slain in the chaos as the order of the mortal realm collapses. Driven first by vengeance, the youth steadily amasses power—from the Xuanwu Barracks to the trials of the Tiandang Mountains—condensing his qi, surviving the tribulation of foundation establishment, contending with peers on the ranking lists, and navigating alliances amid the war between humans and demons. As his cultivation rises, the story expands from battles over the survival of a people to the vast stage of the Tianyuan Realm, the starry skies, and the immortal world, culminating in a war to slay demons and challenge the authority of heaven itself: the battle of the Godslayer. Centered on the "trash-to-legend" arc, the book also explores brotherhood, guardianship, and growth—a quintessential male-oriented cultivation power fantasy.