Record of Swallowing the Heavens

Record of Swallowing the Heavens is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Feng Qingyang. It was serialized on 17K Literature from October 19, 2015 to March 23, 2018, and in 2019 was selected for the "2018 Outstanding Original Online Literature" list jointly promoted by the National Press and Publication Administration and the China Writers Association. The story is set in the vast and boundless Ancient Yanhuang Realm: over endless ages many ancient immortal demons were born, tearing heaven and earth apart and transcending the Three Realms and Five Elements; and there are beings of divine spirit born with divine bodies, who traverse the void and reverse yin and yang. In the present age the immortal path flourishes, all arts reach heaven, all beings cultivate the Way, and monsters run rampant; beneath the Heavenly Palace Immortal Realm lie eight thousand immortal palaces and ten thousand layers of hell, while the mysterious Demon Realm unfolds layer upon layer with three thousand great worlds and ninety thousand lesser worlds. Wu Yu, Crown Prince of Eastern Wu, receives in his darkest hour the mantle of a peerless battle immortal of the East, and from then on bursts forth and rises against heaven itself. In the hearts of billions he is the supreme emperor immortal who delivers all beings; in the eyes of the countless immortals and Buddhas he is a world-devouring demon. With "cultivation is plunder, and only the strong can be chivalrous" at its core, the work uses a leveling-style cultivation realm system and Eastern elements such as dragons and myth to unfold a passionate story of a youth rising from the mortal world and step by step rewriting the order of heaven and earth. The book is massive in scale with brisk pacing, and is one of Feng Qingyang's major works after Dragon Blood War God.