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 and in the demon realm, the demons were not connected with the mortal world. During the primordial era, the earth suddenly lost balance, and the boundless flood broke through the "Heavenly Veil Gate" that separated the three realms of gods, humans, and demons. After the realms were connected, the flood devastated the mortal world. The demons drew powerful dark spirits from the foul waters and quickly became rulers of the land. The gods could not tolerate the demons' oppression of humans, so the Sun God, Yan Di, and the other gods descended to the mortal world, building the Sun God Temple on Mount Buzhou. The gods governed the flood and began a thousand-year war against the demons, driving them away and repairing the "Heavenly Veil Gate." In the process of governing the flood and eliminating the demons, the gods forged an alliance with humans and received their worship. The novel pursues aesthetics, with perfectly fulfilled character relationships. The author aims to re-explain ancient Chinese mythology in a structurally rigorous fantasy novel style, adopting a dual stance of 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 these numerous scattered and unrelated Chinese mythological stories into a cohesive and seamless tapestry, reconstructing a fantastical world system of a "unified god-human-demon realm" in the primordial era, thereby recreating an epic that embodies the romantic essence of Eastern mythology.