The Martial Path Is Hard? I Can Raise My Cultivation Without Limit!

[Court and jianghu + crushing superiority in cultivation + no mindless power fantasy + traditional fantasy with a slow pace + expansive worldbuilding]

In his previous life, Yu Yan was an unremarkable office drone. After transmigrating to the high-martial Great Zhou, he became a ten-year-old top scholar, hailed throughout the city as a literary prodigy.

But in this world, Confucians can calm mountains and rivers with a single word, Daoists can refine qi and seek immortality, and Buddhist monks can cultivate golden bodies and attain enlightenment.

Martial artists can even divert rivers, split mountains, and soar across seas and ranges, living for hundreds of years...

When he was thirteen, his parents were brutally ambushed and killed. Their blood feud hung over him like a blade, still sheathed after five years.

Yu Yan abandoned the literary path for martial arts, joining the Pacification Bureau and taking up the Embroidered Spring Blade as he pursued the true culprit through bizarre jianghu cases, powerful clans’ schemes, and the undercurrents of the imperial court.

He thought he would have to grind his way forward on talent alone, until the night he killed his first ranked martial artist at eighteen. The broken jade pendant, dormant for years, finally awakened. By consuming “resources,” he could deduce the passage of time and raise his cultivation without limit!

Viscera Tempering, Meridian Opening, Innate... While others spent ten years in arduous cultivation, he could break through bottlenecks with a single thought.

Demons and monsters ravage the world, sects hold sway, and powerful families manipulate the court.

Yu Yan strides forward with his blade in hand. He will avenge his blood-soaked feud, and with the blade in his grasp, cleave open the heavens above this magnificent age!