"The Legend of the Gods" does not explore the traditional "change one's destiny against heaven" or "become a god and become an ancestor", but a more grim proposition: when truth is woven into lies, and lies are regarded as the way of heaven, how can individuals tear a crack without being assimilated or destroyed? The "Fengshen Bang" is not only a list of gods, but also a talisman of the old order to suppress chaos and rebirth. The gods are not guardians, but prisoners; destiny is not a gift, but shackles. The tone of this book is one of sadness mixed with chilling, and suspense mixed with passion. The chill stems from the strict and irreversible order between heaven and earth; the sadness stems from the protagonist's fall as an outer disciple of the Jiejiao in his previous life and the struggle as a mortal in this life; and the passion stems from the persistence of free will in desperate situations. This tone determines that the narrative will not be light and cheerful, but will be like a rusty but sharp knife, advancing with difficulty in the thick dust of history. Readers will experience a kind of "sober pain" - the clearer the protagonist sees, the more dangerous the situation becomes, but it is this sobriety that constitutes the legitimacy of his resistance.
