Dao Men Ru Qin

Dao Men Ru Qin is a long Eastern fantasy novel by the author Deathstate, serialized on Qidian from March 2017 and completed with its final chapter on February 28, 2019, totaling roughly 4.55 million Chinese characters. The story is set in the world of "Shen Zhou," where cultivation and technology advance side by side and the nine great Dao Palaces lead a ceaseless conquest of the myriad heavens: Daoist cultivators are graded into nine ranks and nine tiers, and the Dao Palaces, seasoned in cross-plane expansion with tools such as the "Star Shuttle," have little trouble passing off Daoist arts as magic. The protagonist, Xia He, is the last heir of the Taiyin Immortal Estate; to take revenge on his enemy the Kunlun Dao Palace, he destroys his own cultivation, hides his identity, and enters the Longhu Dao Palace as a true disciple and war Daoist. When the Dao Palace discovers a vast magical world, he is sent among the first wave of explorers; en route the Star Shuttle crosses the atmosphere and meets the "Golden Wind Tribulation," all nine of his fellow disciples die, and he is left gravely wounded in chest and abdomen, his tier fallen from the fourth. He can only save himself in the shuttle's wreckage with talisman boxes, Heaven-Earth Ghost-Spirit Pills and jade ointment from a holding talisman, re-forms the Six-Fate Prime Talisman, and uses a ghost-driving talisman to clear the wreckage and burn his companions' bodies to erase traces of the incursion. Seizing the chance that a space storm leaves him the sole survivor, he cuts ties with the Dao Palace, betrays his sect, and monopolizes this world's resources, posing as a mage while maneuvering among the gods and local powers, propagating his doctrine and founding a church, cultivating henchmen, and contending with the gods, scheming to seize full control of this realm before the Dao Palace arrives, become an immortal, and rebuild the Taiyin Immortal Estate. The book unfolds in the absurd tone of "war Daoists invading another world, bringing civilization and warmth to it," stitching together talismans, incense offerings, divine authority, magic scrolls, magical devices, and true-name blessings; its grand battles and planar wars, along with its self-consistent worldbuilding, are its greatest strengths.