Gate of the Ninth Star

Ninth Star Gate is a xianxia and modern cultivation novel by Xiao Dao Fengli, a platinum author on China Literature. Serialization began on Qidian on May 20, 2020, and the book was completed in December of the same year at roughly 2.08 million Chinese characters, with about 380,000 recommendations on the platform. The story is set in a modern metropolis under the "Great Qin calendar." The teenager Ling Yi is a once-in-fifty-years genius at the Zongwu Academy. After a meteorite fall from beyond the sky, his adoptive father dies of untreatable injuries, his cultivation is sealed, his acupoints are blocked, and he is left as good as crippled. The academy's new leadership then expels him, seals his property, and pins a fabricated debt of 300 million on him. A funeral, property seizure, and kicks from those who once followed him pile up in quick succession, and former junior fellow disciples even challenge him in public. Relying on exceptional combat experience, Ling Yi holds his ground for the time being, returns to the old family home to lie low and recover, and through repeated assassinations and clashes gradually unseals his cultivation and edges closer to the secrets behind his adoptive father's death and the meteorite disaster. As his cultivation returns to its peak and old scores are settled one by one, his stage expands from a single academy and a single continent to the space between the stars, where the ancient order tied to the "Star Gates" and powerful beings of the heavenly realm emerge one after another. The origin of the Ninth Star Gate and the protagonist's own great Dao become the keys to the whole book. The author describes the novel as "a demon walks the city, sword in hand across the galaxy—a lazy young man's journey of cultivation." It follows the modern cultivation and spiritual-energy-revival power-fantasy model, with fast pacing and densely packed payoffs, and marks the author's attempt at a transition to keep up with new trends in web fiction.