Please give me the name of a novel!

Many years ago, around 2006 -07, he saw a novel on a bookstall. It was very thick and was estimated to have hundreds of thousands of words. In terms of genre, it was a cultivation novel, and it was an urban cultivation novel.
The plot of the story was very vague, but it vaguely included the youth, Sichuan, something that involved killing intent and the soul of the sword, and the Thousand Soul Demon. Perhaps the content of the Sword Soul section was like this:
1. There was a story about a hanging ghost, which said that there were often young men who hanged themselves on the mountain for no reason, but the corpses had a satisfied smile on their faces. The local government came up with a way to let a death row prisoner who was originally a butcher go up the mountain with a knife. They promised to let him go after staying on the mountain for one night.
In the middle of the night, the prisoner suddenly met an old lady on the mountain. The old lady made a circle with rope on the ground and asked him to look inside the circle. The prisoner found that the circle was full of people's imagination, or women, or fame, or wealth, but the prisoner did not lose his mind. He took his head out of the rope in time and killed the old lady with a butcher knife.
2. There was a man who was looking for a peerless saber. After he found it, he had to go through a test. The test was an old man with Taoist bones and immortal wind. After passing the test, the old man turned into a strand of white hair or beard. What kind of god did the white hair or beard belong to?
There was also a segment in it that said that there was a blacksmith who had spent his entire life looking for high-quality ores to forge a peerless saber. However, he only found a place but did not find any stones. Until the 70s, he went out every day to look for stones to smelt. Suddenly, one day, he stopped opening the furnace. The gods who took him in asked him curiously why. He said that the best ores were actually the stones he used to build the furnace, and then he used those stones to make a knife with himself.
3. The story of the Thousand Soul Demon was about a woman who, in order to love her husband, did not hesitate to become a traitor in the Jin Kingdom (or the Liao Kingdom). As a result, the city was destroyed and her family was destroyed. When her husband found out, he killed her with a sword. Therefore, she killed many people with resentment and cultivated into a Thousand Soul Demon. Later, she was sealed in a coffin under a coal mine by a person. However, the Taoist could not bear to kill her, so he trapped her and died. After the coal mine was opened, the seal was broken, and this demon came out to bewitch people. It was met by the male protagonist of the city's cultivation, and so something happened…
4. There was also a segment that said that there was a divine tree on the mountain. Eating the fruit could increase one's wisdom and spiritual energy. Countless demons fought for it but failed. However, a pheasant accidentally ate it and became a spirit. After guarding the tree for many years, the pheasant spirit met another fox spirit or something. The two of them were cultivating together.
The fox fell in love with a man. That man seemed to be a general in the Qing Dynasty. After his defeat, he fought alone in the enemy camp. When he was about to die, he was saved by the fox, but he was always depressed and did not fall in love. Then, he suddenly had an epiphany and became a Martial Saint or something.
He had been looking for this book for many years. He felt that if he didn't look for it now, he might forget the scene and never find it again! Please help me, online game novel gods. Maybe there are two or three books in these plots, but I'm very grateful to find one! Thank you!

Answer 1

The name of this novel was Battle Through the Heavens.