The Sinful Immortal

She Tun JingChuangshi Chinese Network2013

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Summary

Eighteen thousand years after the Investiture of the Gods and eight hundred years after the Journey to the West, the reincarnated engineer Tie Jun is born into a constable's family in Dongling County, Southern Zhanzhou. At sixteen he takes over from his injured father as a petty constable in the county office, and through the breathing technique his father taught him he first attains a sense of qi. Soon the county's grain merchant Lu Pingcheng and then his concubine are murdered, the concubine's unborn child cut from her belly; similar killings follow, throwing the city into panic. Tie Jun's father, the veteran constable Tie Dan, judges that this is most likely the work of a heretical cultivator lost for centuries, and spreads rumors to deflect blame from the constable Lei Dong. Tie Jun is thus drawn into the heretical-cultivator murders and the struggle over secret realms, climbing step by step from a lowly cultivator to a stage where ten thousand immortals come to pay homage.

Editor's review

This is a typical primordial-era cultivation leveling novel. In an alternate immortal dynasty set after the Investiture of the Gods and the Journey to the West, the author unfurls a canvas of cultivation, artifacts, and factional strife, opening with the street-level daily life of a county constable; the characters are vivid and the pace is measured. Its appeal lies in detailed worldbuilding, with the artifact ranking, divine-power ranking, and heretical-cultivator murders escalating layer by layer. Weaknesses: a long early buildup, slow protagonist growth, and a late-blooming hegemony arc—patience is required when following it.

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Reading tips

  1. Start with Volume One, "In the Human World," to get familiar with the Dongling County constables and the world's tone
  2. Note the groundwork for the artifact and divine-power systems—later hegemony arcs echo them
  3. Skim long exposition passages; the main plot centers on the murder case and the secret realm

About the publisher

Chuangshi Chinese Network

Chuangshi Chinese Network focuses on publishing online literature, with about 3,710 titles in the collection across quality novels, alternate history, premium web fiction, male-oriented fiction, urban fiction and youth literature. Representative works include Tang Can, Otherworld Development System, The High Official, Rebirth: God-Level Top Student, White Bone Taoist Temple and Domineering Immortal Path, spanning historical, fantasy, urban and youth coming-of-age themes. Authors associated with the site include Mao Pi, Miao Yao Dawang, Sanjie Dashi, Zhiniao Cun, Ye Duzui, Qinwen Zhijian and Wuse Ding, whose works mainly target online readers and genre-fiction audiences. Public information about the site's founding background is limited; this introduction is based on the books and authors in the collection and highlights its genre-oriented web-fiction publishing profile.

FAQ

Are The Sinful Immortal and The Immortal Dynasty the same book? Yes. The book was originally titled The Sinful Immortal and later renamed The Immortal Dynasty; the content is identical.
Is this book complete? Yes, it is complete, with 536 chapters in total.
Is it suitable for newcomers who haven't read primordial novels? Yes. The background is explained, but readers need to adjust to the long buildup.

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About the author

She Tun Jing Author

She Tun Jing is an online fiction author about whom little public information is available; neither nationality nor dates of birth and death are currently known. The library holds 14 of the author's works, with representative titles including Bà Tiān Wǔ Shèng, Xiān Jiè Dú Zūn, Zuì Xiān, Xiān Cháo, Tōng Tiān Dà Shèng and Chóng Shēng Chéng Yāo, among which Bà Tiān Wǔ Shèng and Xiān Jiè Dú Zūn each appear under duplicate records. These works are generally classified under premium fiction, fantasy fiction, male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, xianxia and wuxia, and quality web fiction, indicating that the writing mainly targets male readers and centers on Eastern fantasy and xianxia cultivation, often involving martial cultivation, the structure of the immortal realm, sect powers, and common web-fiction elements such as rebirth and transformation. Because public information about the author is limited, specific biographical details cannot be confirmed, and readers can only learn about the author's creative direction from the themes and categories of the works.