Master of Maritime Shipping

Master of Maritime Shipping is a long web novel by Shi Jian Tianya, serialized on Qidian from 2012 to 2013. It belongs to the "supernatural powers" category, runs to more than 1.6 million characters, is complete, and has not been formally published. The protagonist, Wang Hai, is an accounting student in Binhai City, on the verge of graduation and internship, with a hazy future. A long dream lasting nearly two thousand years lets him become the cultivator Wang Yan in the dream, undergoing a long cultivation journey through wandering cultivator, Nascent Soul, and a failed tribulation; upon waking, he obtains the storage ring and the remnant inheritance in a jade slip, and from then on embarks on the path of cultivation. With this inheritance, Wang Hai starts by refitting old oil tankers and running shipping, accumulates capital through smuggling and transnational trade, founds Haidong Industrial Company, and gradually extends his reach across the global shipping map. The novel's core premise is the combination of cultivation and technology: eighty percent of the world's goods depend on maritime shipping, so whoever masters shipping masters the economy. Around the planning of the Kra Canal, maneuvering at auctions, negotiations with international forces, military confrontation at the level of supernatural powers, and contests over undersea resources and minerals, the story unfolds a series of business wars and struggles. The protagonist's identity as a cultivator is his greatest trump card; flying swords, Nascent Soul-stage pressure, and other supernatural means repeatedly change the situation at critical moments, and he gradually rises from an individual cultivator to a key figure shaping the global shipping order. The book is divided into volumes including "Setting Sail," "Waves of Haidong," and "Winds over the Ocean," and its tone follows the typical male-oriented power-fantasy formula.