My Double Pupils Shake the Nine Heavens

Double Pupils Suppress the Nine Heavens is a passionate underdog novel blending the tough-guy spirit of Northeast China with the secret mysteries of the immortal world. Lin Han, a menial worker in a medicinal herb garden, unexpectedly awakens double pupils and glimpses ancient secrets behind the collapse of the immortal realm. But because he possesses a fragment of the Xuantian Token, an enforcing elder covets it; his barbarian-brother Zhao Tiezhu is hunted after his bloodline is exposed; and the icy beauty Leng Qingqiu is made a puppet after being afflicted with a soul-devouring curse. With the hard-edged motto “If you can solve it with your fists, don’t waste breath arguing,” he uses a crock of pickled vegetables to withstand the ninefold tribulation, cooks a demon king in an iron pot to lure a beast tide, and awakens the ten thousand swords in the Sword Mound with the Northeast China slang, “What are you looking at? Come with me, and I’ll make sure you’re fed!” While exploring the Myriad Demon Mountains, he exposes the sinister practice of the Beiming Palace, which uses living people to forge artifacts. In the Tianxu Secret Realm, he breaks through an illusionary domain of extraterrestrial demons with a yangko dance. In the end, he destroys his own double pupils to cleave open the Sword Mound’s seal, yet refuses the throne of immortality. Instead, he opens an “Immortal Realm Food Stall” in the mortal world and laughs, “What’s the point of cultivating immortality? A goose stewed in an iron pot is way better,” as he follows a path of cultivation steeped in everyday life. When his double pupils dispel the illusions of the nine heavens, a common-born youth uses his chaotic sword intent to shatter the shackles of heaven and earth, uncover the truth behind the Heavenly Dao’s disintegration, and forge a cultivation legend for the working folk amid the bustle of mortal life.