Abstract: Xianxia and fantasy-themed online novels, significant component of Chinese online literature, possess considerable literary and artistic value. The novels blend elements of ancient Chinese culture with xianxia (immortal cultivation) and fantasy themes, featuring a strong ancient-style aesthetic. The extensive use of mythological, xianxia, and legendary vocabulary, along with the incorporation of classical language and sentence structures, endows these novels with a rich ancient-style discourse style. By embedding a certain quantity of classical terms, idioms, ancient poetry, and specialized nouns from myths and xianxia lore into modern Chinese sentences in various forms and proportions, these novels not only create an ancient-style effect but also enhance readability for contemporary online readers. This achieves a balance between ancient-style aesthetics and readability, resulting in the interpenetration and fusion of classical and modern styles, thereby constructing a novel form of ancient-style discourse. Through an analysis of the infusion of ancient-style discourse elements, the new ancient-style discourse structural forms, structural types, pragmatic effects, and formation causes, a new ancient-style discourse system for xianxia and fantasy-themed online novels is constructed.

Key words: web literature, immortal fantasy online novels, new ancient style, discourse construction