Journey Without End

Journey Without End is an Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Yinian Luantianji, signed and serialized on Qidian Chinese Network. The book has 1,035 chapters and about 2.49 million characters, and was completed in April 2016 with the chapter "Grand Finale." At the opening, a modern protagonist suffering from a terminal illness refuses to wait for death and chooses to bury himself alive to gamble on a slim chance of survival; in that extreme situation, his consciousness and body are driven from death toward life, and he then crosses into an otherworld resembling the Republican era. In this world divine weapons and martial artists coexist, and martial arts are no empty talk but a power that can truly overturn heaven and earth. There the protagonist fuses the strengths of many schools, takes divine weapons into his body, breaks through martial realms layer by layer, and rises from an ordinary martial artist to touch lofty levels such as Sage, Emperor Lord, and Heavenly Worthy. Cold by nature, he lives by the creed "In this world only I kill others; no one under heaven kills me." While contending with human magnates for resources, he must also face the secret corrosion of the hidden ghost clan; as his vision expands from one corner of the world to the myriad realms of the cosmos, the truth of the universe and the source of power gradually surface. The book is structured around the traditional Eastern five paths of Heaven, Earth, Human, Ghost, and God, depicting a seeker of the Way who crosses multiple worlds in pursuit of the unity of the five paths. The author describes it as a journey without end: the protagonist may be without emotion, without love, without hate, yet he is a true seeker of the Way, sparing nothing to see all the dreamlike, magnificent, and wondrous sights.