Ask the Way Again

Reasking the Heavenly Dao is an Eastern fantasy cultivation novel by Canghai Yiyu, serialized and completed on Qidian, totaling about 1.04 million Chinese characters. The story opens in the turmoil of the late Sui Dynasty: Elders Fanchen and Fantu of the Tianxiao Sect pass through a village slaughtered in a massacre and rescue the sole surviving infant from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. They entrust him to Ding Family Manor to be raised and name him Ding Yi. From childhood Ding Yi receives an education beyond the ordinary: a worldly sage introduces him to learning, the sect's supreme elder personally teaches him cultivation methods, and his grandmother devotes herself to nurturing him. Ding Yi displays extraordinary soul power and the rare aptitude of "unblocked meridians through the mysterious," and at a young age he can already wield a flying sword and control magical treasures with his soul. Built on the foundation of cultivation civilization, the novel spreads its narrative across three levels: mortal dynasties, cultivation sects, and the immortal realm. Ding Yi's growth unfolds along three main threads: in the mortal world, he heals the people with medicine and stabilizes the state with military strategy, applying cultivation means to secular governance; in the sect, he uses its resources to explore the seas and find islands, refine immortal pills, rebuild the Tianxiao Sect's foundation, and counter the suppression of the Taiyi Sect; on the path of seeking the Dao, he leads armies to pacify powerful enemies, faces the continent's top combat powers atop Banyuan Mountain, triggers heavenly tribulation, defeats the hall master of the Divine Hall, and finally ascends to the immortal realm. The book's core attractions are its "original methods of refining pills and artifacts with soul power" and its "mortal youth rising step by step to the heavens," tracing a composite cultivation path that blends alchemy, formations, military strategy, and the questioning of the heavenly Dao.