Sword Knocking at Heaven's Gate

Sword Knocking at Heaven's Gate is a 1.31 million-character long xianxia novel, comprising 10 volumes and 320 chapters. It tells the story of Shen Mo, a youth with a crippled spiritual root, who accidentally inherits the legacy of an ancient sword venerable. Trapped in a Qi Refining stage body with ten-thousand-year-old cognition, he embarks on a path of defying heaven. The golden finger, the 'Ten Thousand Remnant Sword Scroll,' combines three elements: the Sword Intent Eye, the Remnant Sword Space, and the Sword Elder's Remnant Intent. The story begins with him sweeping the library, then traverses sect internal strife, the turmoil of the four domains, and the slaying of the Heavenly Dao's breeding law, before ascending to the upper realm to slay the Heavenly Dao's avatars across four continents one by one. Ultimately, he ventures into the Outer Heavens to replace the Heavenly Dao with his 'defensive' sword dao law. In the end, Shen Mo merges with the Heavenly Dao to become an eternal will, and a new generation of crippled spiritual root youth enters the Sword Hut to learn swordsmanship, bringing the story full circle. The novel integrates Taoist culture, emphasizing an emotional rhythm of 'suppression → release → pull,' with a hidden edge in a crippled body, striking open the Heavenly Gate with a single sword. — Description from novelcodex.org