Flooding the Eight Wildernesses

A brand-new version featuring xuanhuan cultivation, a powerful protagonist (Meng Cang), a protagonist who grows over time (Hua Xiaozhu), a wealth of demonic beasts, magical treasures and divine artifacts, a sect system, exploration and combat, and blazing, blood-pumping battles.

Though it’s traditional xuanhuan, I don’t think the pacing is slow. Some say you need patience to read novels.

Meng Cang tumbles through a rift between planes and plunges straight into a valley ravaged by thunderstorms.

A long-lived being who has survived for over a thousand years, he had planned to withdraw from the world and watch the ages roll by

until a young woman presses a thunder-filled pearl to his brow. “Two taels of gold. Come slay demons with me!”

A rampaging thunder spirit? He suppresses it with a flick of his hand! An evil inn that preys on travelers? He burns it to the ground!

When a beast tide, black as ink, engulfs both banks of the great river, he strides across the corpse of a colossal Henggong demon and surges through the waves. “I’m in a hurry. You lot... come at me all at once.”

Awakening Thunder, Emerald Void’s mastery of water, Moon Offering’s Broken Branch, Mid-Summer’s Blaze...

In the shadows, an ancient star map quietly appears. Beneath the earth, a sealed ice palace reveals its true form. Within the remains of a Kunpeng, a lost civilization lies dormant...