Xia Ni

Xia Ni is a fantasy novel by the web author Chu Bai, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network starting in 2019 and completed on December 22, 2021. The book runs about 2.3 million characters across more than seven hundred chapters. The protagonist, Pan Long, was an ordinary person living in the age of technology whose greatest hobby in life was playing VR role-playing games; after transmigrating into this Eastern-style cultivation world, he lives as an ordinary person for sixteen years before finally activating the "cheat" passed down through his family for generations—an ancestral treasure shaped like a "fragment of the Classic of Mountains and Seas." Through this treasure, his consciousness can enter another world to train, level up, and obtain resources, and what appears there are precisely the game scenes and levels familiar to him from his previous life, thus forming a dual-line structure of "cultivating in the main world, grinding dungeons in the instance world." At the same time, he learns his family's greatest secret: the Pan family is the "Number One Traitor" of the Great Xia Dynasty, and his ancestors' schemes are tightly bound to the rise and fall of this dynasty. The story unfolds from there: Pan Long travels the jianghu, experiencing the many facets of human life and going through trials such as killing bandits, exorcising mountain ghosts, being hunted, the death of a brother, and revenge, while steadily advancing his cultivation with resources from the instance world, climbing step by step from the post-heaven stage and ultimately forging his own path. The book combines the jianghu flavor of wuxia with the dungeon-crawling fun of infinite-flow fiction; the protagonist has sound values and principles without being pedantic, making this one of Chu Bai's more representative works.