Banner of the Evil God

Banner of the Evil God is a Western-style fantasy novel by web author Chu Bai, complete at about 2.7 million Chinese characters. The story begins with a kind-hearted man in modern society—warehouse keeper and amateur illustrator Sui Xiong: after a night of heavy drinking, he finds himself above a vast sea, having left his body and become a soul. To protect himself, he must find a new vessel, and ultimately anchors himself in the form of a giant jellyfish, unexpectedly gaining nearly infinite divine power and being regarded as an "evil god" in the other world's order of gods and mortals. Yet inside, this evil god is still the same modern man with sound values and a reasonable disposition. He does not choose to look down on all beings from on high; instead, he walks through human society using clone techniques, befriends all kinds of mortals, mages, and gods, measures good and evil by his own "Brother Xiong's principles," intervenes in worldly affairs, and pushes agriculture, technology, and social order forward step by step, trying to remake a still benighted world into a more reasonable place. The book blends Cthulhu-style alien divinity, sword-and-sorcery Western fantasy settings, and a light-novel humorous tone; the protagonist is nearly invincible from the start, and the story's focus is not on leveling up and fighting monsters but on "how an invincible being remakes the world and gets along with people." The writing is light and humorous, full of memes and snark, and threaded throughout with the author's consistent expression of ideals; readers regard it as a distinctive "Western fantasy farming novel."