Xia Ni is a fantasy novel by the web author Chu Bai, serialized on Qidian Chinese Network starting in 2019 and completed on December 22, 2021. The book runs about 2.3 million characters across more than seven hundred chapters. The protagonist, Pan Long, was an ordinary person living in the age of technology whose greatest hobby in life was playing VR role-playing games; after transmigrating into this Eastern-style cultivation world, he lives as an ordinary person for sixteen years before finally activating the "cheat" passed down through his family for generations—an ancestral treasure shaped like a "fragment of the Classic of Mountains and Seas." Through this treasure, his consciousness can enter another world to train, level up, and obtain resources, and what appears there are precisely the game scenes and levels familiar to him from his previous life, thus forming a dual-line structure of "cultivating in the main world, grinding dungeons in the instance world." At the same time, he learns his family's greatest secret: the Pan family is the "Number One Traitor" of the Great Xia Dynasty, and his ancestors' schemes are tightly bound to the rise and fall of this dynasty. The story unfolds from there: Pan Long travels the jianghu, experiencing the many facets of human life and going through trials such as killing bandits, exorcising mountain ghosts, being hunted, the death of a brother, and revenge, while steadily advancing his cultivation with resources from the instance world, climbing step by step from the post-heaven stage and ultimately forging his own path. The book combines the jianghu flavor of wuxia with the dungeon-crawling fun of infinite-flow fiction; the protagonist has sound values and principles without being pedantic, making this one of Chu Bai's more representative works.
楚白是起点中文网的老牌作者，《天书奇谭》《邪神旌旗》《莽穿新世界》一路写来，擅长把“穿越”“游戏”“修行”这些看似已被写滥的零件，拼出一点自己的味道。《夏逆》最抓人的设定落在一个“逆”字上：主角穿越十六年，忽然得知自家竟是大夏王朝天字第一号逆贼，家族的金手指还与“山海经残片”有关，身份的反转从一开始就给了故事一个不小的悬念。第二个看点是双世界结构——主世界是东方江湖与朝堂，副本世界却是主角上辈子玩过的西式剑与魔法游戏，两种气质来回切换，读起来有“刷本”的痛快，也有江湖的沉郁。第三个看点是人物。楚白笔下的主角不迂腐也不冷血：该讲原则时讲原则，该动手时绝不含糊；配角也常有血肉，甚至会有让读者意外的退场。平心而论，本书连载期间曾长期断更，成绩并不算作者作品中的顶尖，节奏与结构也有起伏；但如果你喜欢“江湖+副本”的混搭、喜欢一个脑子清楚、三观端正的主角，这部两百多万字的完本长篇仍值得一读。
《夏逆》是哪个作者写的？在哪里连载？
《夏逆》由网络作家楚白（本名胡庆升）创作，连载于阅文集团旗下起点中文网，分类为奇幻·另类幻想，2021年12月22日完本，全文约230万字，共七百余章。
《夏逆》有实体书出版吗？ISBN是多少？
目前查到的公开资料只显示它在起点中文网连载完结，未检索到正式出版的实体书信息，因此没有可靠的出版社、出版年与ISBN，本页相应字段留空。
书名里的“逆”是什么意思？
指主角家族在大夏王朝被定为“天字第一号逆贼”。主角穿越十六年后拿到家族祖传的金手指，同时得知这一秘密，故事由此围绕家族旧案与王朝局势展开。
“山海经残片”和游戏副本是什么关系？
祖传宝物形似“山海经残片”，主角的意识可以进入其中历练、获取技能与物资；其中呈现的多是他上辈子玩过的游戏世界，形成主世界修行、副本世界刷本的双线结构。
《夏逆》适合网络文学新手读吗？
可以，但要有心理准备：全书两百多万字，主世界与副本世界交替推进，前期铺设定较多，且连载期间曾长期断更、后期收束偏快。喜欢混搭设定和江湖气的读者更容易读进去。
Chu Bai is a web-fiction author about whom limited public information is available; details such as real name, place of origin, and dates of birth and death have not been clearly recorded. According to current holdings, eleven of the author's works are included, with representative titles such as The Boisterous and Fierce Life, The Great Adventure, The Strange Tale of the Heavenly Book, Charging Through the New World, The Banner of the Evil God, and Xia Ni. Judging from the categories these works commonly fall into, Chu Bai writes mainly for male readers, with subjects spanning Eastern fantasy, xianxia and wuxia, and science-fiction futures. The stories tend to unfold adventures in imaginary worlds, combining passionate momentum with bizarre and inventive imagination. Because materials on the author's life and creative statements are lacking, the writing style and literary influence cannot yet be discussed in detail; readers may learn more about the author through the works mentioned above.
