Undying God of the Underworld

Undying God of the Underworld is a Western fantasy web novel by Xiafei Shuangjia, a writer from Yangjiang, Guangdong. Serialization began on September 11, 2008, on Qidian and other platforms; the book runs to 340 chapters, about 1.5493 million characters, and the final chapter was posted on January 20, 2020, completing the work. The protagonist, Roddy, is an illegitimate son. At his birth a meteor streaked across the sky, and he was born with black hair and black eyes; the priest who baptized him marveled at his extraordinary spiritual power. As a child he was cherished by all and hailed as the "Child of the Sky" and "Star of Tomorrow," and his family prophesied he would be a genius mage rarely seen in a century. Yet when it was discovered that his body could practice no elemental magic, everything reversed overnight: from "genius" he fell to "genius of failure, one in a hundred years." His father gave up and would not look at him; his mother wept until she had no tears left; the Temple of Light even judged his blood unclean and blasphemous. Crushed by fate, Roddy unexpectedly gains an undying body and sets out on a path of his own. The story revolves around his conflicts with necromancers, struggles over divine artifacts, and the betrayal of companions, gradually revealing the link between his special bloodline and the power of the underworld god; his footsteps carry him from the mortal realm to the divine realm, drawing him into the quarrels of the gods. On his journey in pursuit of power and truth, he finds companions who fight at his side, faces tests of friendship and choices of love, and ultimately confronts supreme beings such as the Light Divine King, uncovering the secret of his undying body and the underworld god's inheritance, and reaching a destination called "Dream Home." The work blends Western fantasy conventions (magic, temples, gods) with the growth narrative of Eastern cultivation, spreading the protagonist's rise from "failure" to "underworld god" over more than three hundred chapters, and uses the themes of undying and death to explore the nature of life and the true meaning of death.