With My Long Blade, I Suppress the Heavens

Zhao Chengyang, an orphan from Yunyang Town in the western frontier of the Great Ming Kingdom, grew up eating from a hundred families' pots. At eight, he was taken into the military camp by the Zhan family. After twenty years of bloody battles, he rose to become the deputy commander of the Zhenxi Army. In the twenty-third year of Tianqi, a million-strong army marched out from the western frontier against the Devouring Spirit Clan, but due to betrayal by traitors in the imperial court, the entire army fell into a death trap. Zhao Chengyang, given command in the crisis, led the Longxiang Cavalry to carve out a bloody path, but for disobeying military orders, he was stripped of his command and entered the Fanzhou Academy as a convicted criminal. There, Zhao Chengyang gradually uncovered the truth: Fanzhou is not a borderland, but a massive "prison"—a Heaven-Sealing, Earth-Severing, Yin-Yang Grand Array set up by the Human Emperor Qin using the imperial weapon, the Nine Cauldrons. It is a buffer cage between the Spirit Realm and the Devouring Spirit Clan. Beyond Fanzhou lies the true Spirit Realm. From then on, he rises step by step— Shattering the three shackles of cultivation to become the foremost of the eternal first blade path; fighting his way out of the Myriad Clans battlefield, shouldering the banner of the human race, and restoring the Human Emperor's orthodoxy; crossing the boundary river to counterattack the extraterritorial holy clans, revealing the entire truth of the Era of the Fallen Emperor; and finally embarking on the conquest of the heavens, ascending to the realm of the Cosmos Lord, establishing the order of all realms, and letting the human race stand at the pinnacle of the heavens. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: With My Long Blade, I Suppress the Heavens — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠