Proud Immortal Demon Way

* Main

## Debut

**Donghua**
Episode 1
**Manhua**
Chapter 1
**Web novel**
Chapter 1

**Novel**
Chapter 1

"**Proud Immortal Demon Way**" was a cultivation novel written by Airplane Shooting towards the Sky, becoming by far the most popular stallion novel of the year and would influence many YY novels following its release. It is inside this fictional world that the plot of the *Scum Villain's Self-Saving System* takes place.

Shen Yuan describes the novel as "an incomparably long, golden finger against the heavens, [with a] harem greater than three digits, and characters and scenes and a protagonist that even girls would like (…)" "This book’s male protagonist, Luo Binghe, doesn’t walk the path of the lofty or the path of the waste but still manages [to garner popularity among readers]. He walks a pitch-black path. But before he was painted black, he walked a bitter path." Allegedly the book is also said to "[document] infinite slaughter".

> "*Under such unhealthy growing conditions since childhood, Luo Binghe’s character after being blackened only grows more twisted, full of grievances, with thousands of knives set to kill in his heart. What a good root buried here for a twisted character, Shen Yuan thought with a small laugh at his mouth.*"
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This is the perfect novel looking for copious amounts of action and those heated scenes bound to happen between him and the hundreds of women who throw themselves at his feet. As long as you can look past the open-endedness and ridiculous amount of clichés.[?] Yet, by the end of the stallion novel, Shen Yuan critizises it for its countless plot holes, plot devices, unfinished back stories, unnecessary subplots, questionable *"papapa"* scenes, etc... He also makes numerous comments about the absurdity and excessiveness of various tragedies that Binghe is consistently victim of.[?]

## Plot

The protagonist is abandoned at birth, wrapped in white cloth and placed in a wood basin in the river. Nine days later, some fishermen picks him up and names him Luo Binghe after the ice floes he was found floating among. In his youth, he wandered the streets starving and shivering, never wearing enough to keep him warm. A childless washerwoman working for a rich/large family takes pity him, so she adopts him and treats him as her real son. They live together in bitter poverty, suffering bullying from the wealthy. For a mere lukewarm bowl of congee, he endures beatings from the noble son; Unable to rush home, his mother dies before being able to eat even a mouthful.

By coincidence, he is selected by the number one cultivation sect in the world at the time, and so he accepts the opportunity to apprentice under 'Xiu Ya Sword' Shen Qingqiu. Hopeful that he's finally on the right track, Shen Qingqiu unexpectedly turns out to be "fair on the outside, foul on the inside; the absolute worst sort of character." Jealous of Binghe's unparalleled talent, Qingqiu seeks to outperform his own disciple in cultivation, always taunting and bringing others along in ridiculing him. He suffers in silence, as his cultivation period turns out to be a heart-aching endeavor full of blood and tears; His shizun humiliates and mistreats him for the years to come.

Upon turning sixteen, he finally enters the cultivation world's grand, triennial ceremonial Immortal Assembly Conference. But once Qingqiu discovers his demon heritage, he is discarded and pushed into the cracks between the demon realm and the human realm — an endless abyss. This is the start of our protagonists shift to the "dark side". Not only does he survive, but he finds his unique sword skill, 'Xin Mo', and learns the truth behind his origins: Turns out he was born from a loving union between the demon realm's Tianlang-Jun and the human Su Xiyan. "His father [an ancient demon] was suppressed under great mountains, never to emerge again; his mother was a disciple of a righteous sect who was, after they found out about her affair, expelled, her cultivation dispersed, humiliated, displaced, and marked for killing. But she died only after giving birth to Luo Binghe from postpartum hemorrhage, hunger, and cold. She died after giving birth due to postpartum hemorrhage, hunger and cold, using her last burst of strength" to send him downstream, eager to give him at least a slim chance of survival. Using the Xin Mo sword, Binghe unseals his demon blood and begins cultivating painstakingly for the next five years. Having achieved amazing unworldly things, he returns to the Cang Qiong Mountain sect.

From there begins Binghe's unhesitant walk on the blackened road. Now extremely overpowered, he begins exacting revenge on those who wronged him, striking down those who oppose him, and bedding those who interest him.[?] "Luo Binghe uses his increasingly good camouflage and mental acuity to play a double game, step by step betraying trusts, seizing power, rising to the top. He set off a monstrous, bloody storm and waves in the world; a reign of terror. As the plot develops, Luo Binghe blackens more and more." He returns to the Demon Realm and takes the position of Sacred Ruler from his father. But still not satisfied, he begins annihilating immortals in the Human Realm; "Anyone who voices an opposition is exterminated to the root!" In the end, the generation ushered by the legendary, Immortal Demon Luo Binghe results in the unification of the Three Realms (Demon, Human and Immortal), "a harem with numbers beyond counting and numerous descendants!"

## Footnotes

1. ↑ *golden finger against the heavens*: a metaphorical “fuck you” that protags in cultivation novels give towards all the obstacles in their way no matter how impossible the odds. The so-called ‘golden finger’ is therefore the middle finger. LOL
2. ↑ path of the lofty, path of the waste: Common cultivation novel backgrounds for protagonists are those who begin strong (i.e. young noble master) or begin weak (i.e. cultivation trash who overcomes their difficulties).
3. ↑ "papapa" is an onomatopoeia for the sounds made during intercourse
4. ↑ I don't believe there is much information on the Endless Abyss. If you've read TGCF, I imagine it is similar to the 'kiln' of Mount Tong'lu.

* **Stallion novel** is a novel genre featuring a protagonist who charms everyone around them. Most of these are harem-oriented,[?] and harem protagonists are described stallions or stud horses getting it on with many brood mares (i.e. girls). Many stallion novels tend to also be YY.
* **YY** is an abbreviation of 意淫 (*Yi Yin*), a play on words in Chinese, and can literally be translated to "mental masturbation". It basically refers to power fantasies, where the reader takes pleasure in a standard main character becoming overpowered and doesn't allow disrespect.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1: Scum (Light Novel)
2. ↑ Episode 1 (Donghua)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Episode 1: *The protagonist actually traveled to the novel he complained about* (Donghua)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Novel/1
5. ↑ Wuxia World: Eseshen's comment, March 2017
6. ↑ The Pulp Archivist: *YY, Wuxia, Xianxia, and Xuanhaun*, 18. may 2017
7. ↑ Reddit: *What does the tag YY mean in chinese Novels?* by Radier22