Beast God

Beast God is an Eastern fantasy epic about bonded beasts by the web novelist Yumo (real name Zhang Kai), written after his Beast King. It was first serialized on Qidian and published in print by Hubei Juvenile & Children's Publishing House. The story is set on the otherworldly continent of Lunda, where beastfolk, humans, gods, elves, dragons, and numerous other races—including half-orcs and half-elves—coexist. When Hu'erte, the god of oversight and judgment among the beastfolk deities, falls, his divinity scatters across the mortal world, and Douglas, a boy born into the Dogfolk tribe, receives a trace of its favor. Prematurely born and frail, pudgy, and the weakest of his Dogfolk peers, Douglas is often slighted by his tribe and his elder brother. To grow strong, he follows a mysterious inner call and leaves the tribe; intending to join the beastfolk army, he instead stumbles into a human merchant caravan. On the Half-Orc Wasteland the caravan clashes with half-orcs, and at the brink of death Douglas accidentally awakens an ancient bloodline and his divinity, barely surviving—only to encounter a powerful and dangerous dark mage. The work centers on how a despised "fat cook" grows step by step amid racial strife, tribal warfare, and the awakening of divinity, blending an Eastern mythological framework with fantasy racial feuds, magic, and gods; it is widely regarded as a coming-of-age fantasy novel for young readers.