About the author
Zhai Zhu is one of the representative authors in Chinese web literature who writes Eastern fantasy and xianxia fiction. The library currently holds 23 of his works, including such representative titles as Mu Shen Ji (Tales of Herding Gods), Di Zun, Rebirth in Journey to the West, The Savage Throne, Choosing a Day to Ascend, and Miaobi Project: Yunluo Xu. Publicly available information about his nationality, birth and death dates, and personal life is limited, and no existing profile is available, so this introduction focuses mainly on the character of his works. Zhai Zhu's writing is generally classified under male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, and xianxia and wuxia. His works are known for expansive worldbuilding, layered cultivation systems, and tightly paced plotting, with characters who often grow through adversity; the stories combine passion with imagination. These representative works show that he is skilled at blending new settings and narrative appeal into traditional mythological and fantasy frameworks, giving his writing a recognizable identity among web literature readers and earning him a steady readership.
Written (23)
Ascension on a Chosen Day Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2022 In the dying years of the late Tang dynasty, in Lingling, Yongzhou, a youth named Xu Ying makes his living the way his family has for generations: cat… Rating 4.5★ Tales of the Herding God Zhai Zhu Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Mu Shen Ji is a long-form Eastern fantasy novel by Zhai Zhu, a platinum author at China Literature. Serialized on Qidian.com since June 2017, the nove… Rating 3.5★ Records of the Shepherd God Zhai Zhu Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Records of the Shepherd God is a long-form Eastern fantasy novel by Zhai Zhu, a platinum author of China Literature. It was serialized on Qidian from … Brushstroke Project: Yunluo Ruins Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2021 Xuance receives terrible news: his brother, Baili Shouyue, has died in the great cloud desert, leaving only bloodstained clothes, a strange broken jad… Record of Herding Gods Zhai Zhu Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 Record of Herding Gods is a long Eastern fantasy novel by the web author Zhai Zhu, serialized on Qidian from June 2017 and completed in August 2019, t… Lin Yuan Xing: Clouds Emerge from the Heavenly Gate Zhai Zhu Jiuzhou Press · 2020 Lin Yuan Xing: Clouds Emerge from the Heavenly Gate is the first volume of Zhai Zhu's long Eastern fantasy series Lin Yuan Xing, planned by Yuewen Gro… Journey to the Abyss Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2019 In the Yuan Shuo Kingdom, rural schools have fallen into decay and education has collapsed. The blind youth Su Yun studies the old sages' classics und… Supreme of the Human Way Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2015 Supreme of the Human Way is an Eastern fantasy novel by Zhaizhu, a platinum author under China Literature. It was serialized on Qidian from April 9, 2… Supreme of the Human Dao Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2015 In the final years of the Three Sovereigns, before the Five Emperors had risen, humanity in the primitive wilderness was reduced to offerings and food… Sovereign of the Human Way Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2015 At the end of the Three Sovereigns' era, before the Five Emperors were established, the primeval age saw countless races vying for dominance. Humanity… Sovereign of Gods Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2013 Jiangnan was born into a scholarly family, but when the gods went to war, his family was wiped out and he ended up a wandering refugee in the kingdom … Rating 3.7★ The Savage Throne Zhai Zhu Mingxian Culture · 2010 This was the crucial leap on Zhai Zhu's road to fame: before writing it he had just suffered the setback of Water Margin Immortal Path; after it, he e… The Savage Throne Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2010 Debiao Manhammer, a barbarian youth of the Sunset Forest in the southern borderlands, has been extraordinarily strong since childhood; his father, Roc… Rating 4.0★ Rebirth in Journey to the West Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2008 Rebirth in Journey to the West is Zhai Zhu's debut novel, serialized on Qidian from August 2008 to January 2009 and completed at about 1.07 million Ch… Rebirth in Journey to the West Zhai Zhu Qidian · 2008 An early Journey to the West fan fiction by Zhaizhu. The premise: a modern man takes the pig body before Zhu Bajie, using his knowledge of the plot to… Rating 4.5★ Emperor Sovereign Zhai Zhu Emperor Sovereign is a xianxia fantasy cultivation novel by Qidian author Zhaizhu. It began serialization on Qidian on February 20, 2013, and conclude… Rating 3.1★ Sovereign of the Gods Zhai Zhu Sovereign of the Gods is a long xianxia novel by Zhai Zhu, a platinum author on Qidian, serialized from February 20, 2013 to March 13, 2015, totaling … Records of the Herding God Zhai Zhu Qidian The ancestral rule of the ruined old village in the Great Waste is 'when it gets dark, don't go out.' Granny Si and a group of the old, weak, sick, an… Standing Alone Under Heaven Zhai Zhu Qidian The story is set in Liuzhou in the Miao region. Ye Xu, a branch-family member of the Ye clan, lost his parents at an early age but possesses extraordi… Water Margin Immortal Path Zhai Zhu Qidian An early classical xianxia work by Zhaizhu that ingeniously grafts the Liangshan heroes of Water Margin onto a world of cultivation where the Hundred …Publishers
Jiuzhou PressAnhui Literature and Art Publishing HouseQidianMingxian Culture