Fleeing to the Ends of the Earth with My Mortal Enemy

[Also titled Domain Chronicle: The Land Domain. An ancient adventure, map, travel, and road-trip story. The upcoming novel is at the end: I Prove the Dao Through Technology. Please add it to your collection, thank you!]

Before she transmigrated, Mo Xun was just a conscientious little office clerk. She never imagined that after her soul crossed over, she would find herself in a dynasty called Qing Sheng, charged with regicide.

Her pursuers kept close on her heels, even chasing her beyond Qing Sheng's borders. After much thought, Mo Xun decided to cross the Land Domain and head for the refuge on the East Sea, a paradise where she could escape disaster.

But after finally escaping the southern reaches of Qing Sheng, she was stopped by Duan Lin, the Bloody-Handed Scholar. He insisted she had swallowed his spirit essence and demanded that they go to the paradise together.

Mo Xun naturally refused, since Duan Lin was the one who had framed her for regicide. But she couldn't beat him, so she could only nod and accept her fate.

She soon realized that before meeting Duan Lin, all she could eat was wild fruit and all she could drink was snowmelt. She couldn't even get a bowl of hot soup. But as soon as Duan Lin showed up, she was eating roast chicken and grilled meat.

That made Mo Xun feel that her impending life on the run, with good food and drink, might have its perks after all.

The Land Domain was full of danger. Before reaching a city, Qing Sheng's pursuers were always hot on their heels, but even within a city, there was no guarantee of safety.

Only after crossing deserts and wastelands, traversing abysses and bamboo forests, did Mo Xun think that settling down with Duan Lin in the paradise for the rest of her life might not be so bad. That was when she learned that swallowing the spirit essence had never been an accident. It had all been part of Duan Lin's scheme.

He had recognized her bloodless method of killing and used it to keep her by his side, so she could serve as his blade on the journey east.

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The Domain Chronicle: The Land Domain:

A hundred li south of the Qing Sheng Realm lies Wuyou City in Yuming Valley.

Leaving the valley, one enters the Gobi, known as Yingxu. There, gravel lies piled across a vast and barren expanse, where Firetree City stands.

Four hundred li to the east lies Fuwei Desert, dotted here and there with five-colored bald mountains. It ends at a sheer cliff wall, beneath which lie a thousand caves.

From there, heading southeast from the northwest, one crosses a narrow valley two hundred li long to Chuiyi Cliff. An abyss lies at its foot.

South of the cliff, hills stretch across the land. The terrain slopes gently, and lush greenery abounds. A forest is named Moshen, with Bamboo Sea City nestled within it.

East of the forest lies a vast lake, once called Guoshe. A city hangs above it, named Shuiyue.

Farther east lies the sea. Three hundred li offshore is Xiufou Island, the paradise.

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Reader's Guide:

1. The story advances through episodic tales. It's a mix of fantasy, adventure, and mystery, with a lighthearted, goofy, comedic tone.

2. This is a story about a trio of protagonists. Their prominence varies from volume to volume, but overall they get roughly equal focus. The heroine is healing her closed-off, cold heart; the male lead is searching for an answer to "Who am I?" on the level of self-awareness; and the second male lead, a short-tempered big white rabbit, is seeking revenge.

3. The story may contain irreverent, melodramatic, exaggerated, nonsensical, and absurd scenes. I wrote every one of them painstakingly with my feet. If you find them hard to stomach, please leave a kind comment or quietly move on. I will pray day and night for you to become rich.

4. Both leads are sexually inexperienced; one-on-one romance; happy ending.

[Upcoming: I Prove the Dao Through Technology. Prehistoric cyberpunk, fantasy and science fiction. Also titled The Yuan Mu Dynasty.]

At the dawn of the primordial age, the Yuan Mu Dynasty arose.

The Yuan Mu Dynasty ruled over the great clans, the four cultivation sects that practiced magic in pursuit of immortality, and the Refining Sect, devoted to developing technology.

Shi Yu transmigrated as the last member of the Gonggong clan. He held the geomagnetic power that controlled the energy lifelines of the entire planet, making him unquestionably the richest man in the world.

But when he woke up, he discovered that this richest man was already dead and buried underground, and his coffin was sealed tight.

Fortunately, he had been buried with a manual of cultivation techniques and spells, which could help him split open his coffin and come back to life.

When the court called on the people to mine energy on Suixing (Jupiter), he simply waved his hand and had someone assemble a top-of-the-line spacecraft. On the return trip, he even brought along three exceptionally capable robots who had been stationed in space.

But he knew that his predecessor had been murdered. He wouldn't want to live with his life hanging by a thread, no matter how much money he had.

So he invested everything he had in developing technology, all for the sake of returning to his original world.

But before he could fulfill his wish, he had already grasped the ultimate truth on Yuanxing, attained the Dao and become a god, and helped humanity, driven to the brink of extinction, cycle into eternal life and rebuild civilization.

Reader's Guide:

1. Prehistoric cyberpunk meets post-apocalyptic punk: high technology and a low standard of living in a primordial setting, with a spirit of resistance. It's a made-up term, so take the idea as you will. The beginning of human civilization may once have been the end of another civilization.

2. The story includes some science-fiction concepts, including but not limited to quantum technology, nanotechnology, strong AI, digitized consciousness, geomagnetic control, and time folding. Each will be explained in plain language, along with how it shares common ground with cultivation magic. Fantasy and science fiction have many elements that are essentially the same but expressed differently.

3. All the science-fiction ideas come from the neighboring works Science Fiction Written with My Feet and Tan Qi Ru Mian, which I haven't written yet, but will.

4. This is the first part, set in the primordial age. The second part will cover the period from the 1980s to the future and will be a separate book. The whole story will make you laugh and cry, and it will have a happy ending.

Theme: Survive, and infinite possibilities await.