Fengshen Yanyi (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: Xu Zhonglin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Fengshen Yanyi is a romanticist fantasy novel about gods and demons, using absurd imagination to shape characters, present stories, and arrange details. The author's imagination is astonishing. For example, in the 58th chapter, Lü Yue pours the plague pills into the rivers and springs of Xiqi, causing the entire Zhou army and the civilians to contract the plague and lose combat effectiveness. In the 81st chapter, Yu De spreads the smallpox all around, again putting the Zhou army in a desperate situation, making every general and soldier feverish and covered in smallpox. With the scientific knowledge at that time, the author would certainly not have been aware of the existence of bacteria, nor would he have understood the infectious ability of viruses and their deadly harm to human health.