Fishing Across the Heavens

Fishing Across the Heavens is an urban-life web novel by Dao Zai Bu Ke Ming, serialized mainly on Qidian (also on Migu Yuekan). It runs about 3.42 million characters and roughly 1,566 chapters, and was completed on November 9, 2018. The story starts in the workplace: the protagonist Beifeng, a probationary employee, is fired by his manager after offending a colleague. Weary of urban scheming, he retreats to his old family home in the countryside, planning to raise a few chickens and ducks and live the leisurely life of "picking chrysanthemums by the eastern hedge." Fate then plays a huge joke on him—the ancient well in his yard can fish up things from across the heavens and myriad worlds. After he pulls up a "golden-thread blood eel" in the opening, the Myriad Worlds Fishing System activates, and Beifeng embarks on a path of "one fishing rod, all equipment fished up": exotic ingredients, spirit fruits, cultivation methods, spirit beasts, and even relics of powerful figures from other realms may surface from the well—even a big rooster can chase him all over the yard. With these gains, he first opens a high-end restaurant and befriends local wealthy merchants, then uses methods such as the Little Radiant Breathing Technique to step into martial arts, gradually meeting hidden factions and spirit keepers, and becoming entangled in secret-realm expeditions, ancient ruins, and other conflicts. Ultimately he moves from a pastoral courtyard on Blue Star to the starry sky and the myriad worlds, fishing, fighting, and seeking the Way on a broader stage. The book wins readers with its mix of "urban daily life + fishing unboxing + myriad-world adventure": the early part is light pastoral farming and business management, while the middle and later parts shift to martial arts and a myriad-world scale.