The First Chapter of Tianwei Gate: Jingwei Fills the Sea

Author: Zi Yu Fei
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: In the divine realm, the gods are separate from the demons in the underworld, and the mortal world has no connection with either. During the primordial era, the earth suddenly lost its balance, and an endless flood broke through the "Heavenly Barrier Gate" that separated the three realms of gods, humans, and demons. Once the realms were interconnected, the flood devastated the mortal world. The demons drew upon powerful dark spirits from the foul waters and quickly became rulers of the land. The gods could not tolerate the demons' oppression of humanity, so the Sun God, Yan Di, and the other deities descended to the mortal world, building the Sun God Temple on Mount Buzhou. The gods worked to manage the floodwaters and initiated a thousand-year war against the demons, driving them away and repairing the "Heavenly Barrier Gate." In the process of controlling the flood and eliminating the demons, the gods forged an alliance with humans and received their worship. The novel pursues aesthetics, with perfectly crafted relationships between characters. The author aims to re-explain ancient Chinese mythology through a rigorously structured fantasy narrative, adopting a dual stance of both reverence and transcendence toward the original mythological resources. Using classic legends such as "Jingwei Filling the Sea," "Kua Fu Chasing the Sun," "Hou Yi Shooting the Sun," "Xingtian Dancing with His Weapon," and "Gonggong Hitting Mount Buzhou," the author weaves together numerous scattered and unrelated Chinese mythological stories into a cohesive and seamless fantasy world system of a "unified god-human-demon realm" during the primordial era, recreating an epic that embodies the romantic essence of Eastern mythology.