The Tower to the Gods

The Tower to the Gods is a wuxia/xianxia web novel by Ye Meng, about two million characters long and over six hundred chapters, and it has been completed in serial form on an online platform. The story follows the protagonist Chu Tianyun's path of cultivation: starting from the Xuanxing Sect, he possesses the Chaos Thunder Body, tempers the power of thunder through one life-and-death trial after another, and gradually uncovers the mystery of the "Tower to the Gods" that runs through the whole book. The novel's main settings unfold in sequence: from cultivation and the Beast Valley in the Xuanxing Sect, to the perilous Valley of Life and Death, then to the Poison Kingdom wreathed in poisonous mist and ruled by sacred beasts, then deep into the Heaven Array of the Ruined Domain, north to the Northern Yin Continent, and finally into the Domain Without Gods. Along the way, Chu Tianyun deals with various factions, fights old monsters of the Nascent Soul stage and sacred beasts, contends for spiritual treasures and heavenly secret talismans, and forms bonds with Su Qingxue, Xuan Meier and others. The middle and later parts of the story revolve around the laws of heaven, the heavenly rules and ascension: the power of the Tower to the Gods is gradually activated, the protagonist grows from a young cultivator into a mighty figure, and at the end he deduces the heavenly rules, bringing a phase of his plane to a close. The book builds a cultivation world interwoven with power, intrigue and the laws of heaven; its pace is brisk and its leveling-up and battle scenes dense, in the typical style of traditional cultivation wish-fulfillment fiction.