Holy Light

Holy Light is a long-running web novel by Tongchidaoren.QD (also known by the pen name Tongchi). Serialized on Qidian from 2019 and completed in September 2020, it runs about 2.21 million Chinese characters across 957 chapters, with roughly 190,000 to 200,000 cumulative bookmarks and nearly a million recommendations. Holy Light is built on a two-way transmigration premise: the protagonist, Zhou Qingfeng, shuttles between the sword-and-sorcery world of Faerûn and the real world of the 1990s. The novel opens with a death—shortly after transmigrating, Zhou is tricked by companions into a cave and burned to charcoal by a dragon's searing breath, beginning his journey of dying his way to the top. In the other world, starting as an outsider squeezed between refugees, criminals and goblins, he gathers followers and builds a base, rising step by step from village chief to lord. In the real world, he uses the other world's magic, souls and items to start companies and accumulate resources amid the tides of the 1990s. The two ends supply each other: technological products and industrial thinking are brought to Faerûn to improve production, build up his territory and suppress rivals, while the other world's magic and extraordinary powers are injected back into reality, creating a kind of dimensional-strike style of development. The novel blends lord-building, adventure and exploration, and period urban entrepreneurship, with a light, brisk style that emphasizes imagination and wish fulfillment.