The Tomb of the Wicked Gods

The Tomb of the Wicked Gods is a long suspense-adventure novel by the web novelist Fen Tian Kong Que, serialized on Qidian since March 2016 and now completed, totaling about 4.26 million Chinese characters. The story begins with Chen Zhi, an unemployed young man at the low point of his life: alone and down on his luck, he is led by a slip of paper left fifteen years earlier to the uncanny gate of the "tomb of the gods." To solve the mystery, Chen Zhi follows the clues into the warehouse of a youth forging plant, where he comes into contact with the truth behind the death of a teacher fifteen years before and gradually discovers that he carries a special bloodline connected to the clan of Jiang Ziya. The book revolves around three core questions: whether gods truly exist, who the legendary Jiang Ziya really was, and what happened on this land five thousand years ago. The story's premise—"spirit blood locates the tomb, the divine child is buried with the dead"—reveals that the ancient gods were not as sacred as legend claims. Chen Zhi forms an expedition team with the speed-focused Ghost Blade and Pang Wei, a descendant of tomb raiders, and they venture into eerie settings such as the tomb of the nine-tailed celestial fox Daji, the royal city of Xiqi and the underworld of the Yellow Springs, piecing together clues handed down in the Investiture Chronicle at one divine-tomb site after another, until they close in on the truth of a mysterious organization and the secrets of the ancient divine race. Blending Investiture of the Gods legend, archaeological adventure and team exploration, the book is one of the more representative works in the web-novel tomb-raiding adventure genre.