Shadows of Spies Across the Heavens

Shadows of Spies Across the Heavens is a long-running infinite-flow web novel by Xing Batian, serialized and completed on Qidian, with a total length of about 4.71 million Chinese characters. Its premise is distinctive: after having their opportunities seized, their legacies stolen, and their fortunes extracted, the myriad worlds finally rise up and decide to infiltrate the "Main Temple" behind the reincarnators. The protagonist, Huang Shang, is the first spy planted inside the Main Temple; outwardly an ordinary reincarnator, he secretly uses special abilities to enter mission worlds ahead of time, takes on the identities of plot characters, and sabotages the reincarnators' operations from within. He travels through worlds such as Great Song, Northern Qi, and Fengyun, crosses paths with figures such as Huang Chang, Shi Zhixuan, and Nameless, matches wits with reincarnators, and must also deal with the Main Temple's suspicions. The work grafts "world-hopping" onto "espionage infiltration," using abundant anti-formula twists and humorous dialogue to defuse the usual power-fantasy clichés; the pace is brisk and the characters vivid. The author researches the wuxia and historical backgrounds in some detail, and the instance settings are distinctive. The book has 1,097 chapters in total.