Beyond the Ordinary

Beyond the Ordinary is a science fiction web novel by Shou Xian Wu, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network since April 2014 (tagged science fiction and time travel), with a total length of more than 3.7 million Chinese characters. The story takes place in a world after the White Night descends: in early April 2014, the global sky is shrouded in an anomaly, the old order begins to collapse, soul caves open, and the world is changed forever. The protagonist, Yang Qi, is an ordinary man who has been "a pure man and true bro" for twenty-six years, until one morning he discovers he possesses a second body—a woman's body. The two bodies share the same origin and coexist, one yin and one yang, twin blossoms on a single stem; he can switch between them and enter, through dreams, one otherworldly instance after another formed from wuxia films and TV dramas, classic novels, and adventure stories, where he learns martial arts, cultivates, and adventures. The novel centers on the "twin bodies" premise; the early sections enter instances such as the world of The Legend of the Condor Heroes, Fist of Fury, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, gradually unfolding the main storyline of the mystery of his origins, the cultivation system, and the growth toward "pointing the sword at the extraordinary," combining the instance adventures of the infinite flow genre with the fun of the transformation premise. The book was serialized over a long period with intermittent updates and stopped updating after early 2019; it is an unfinished work.