[The mortal-world arc is complete]
Five hundred years ago, the five celestial gods of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth were swept up in love, hate, greed, anger, and obsession. Their sudden conflict threw the Five Elements into chaos, upset the balance of yin and yang, and brought catastrophe upon the heavens.
To quell the disaster, the Heavenly Maiden of the Ninth Heaven subdued the gods who had caused the chaos one by one, severely punished them, and banished them to the mortal world.
Before they were reincarnated, the Heavenly Maiden of the Ninth Heaven, mindful of their merits, granted each one a final wish. Once reborn as mortals, they would get what they wished for.
When the fallen gods reunite in the mortal world, will each of them get their heart's desire?
That catastrophe in the heavens was the most dangerous and terrifying upheaval since the celestial court was established.
The high gods who had once vowed to "love and save all living beings" fell one after another. The immortal lovers who had sworn to "love only one person" turned against one another.
At dusk, the gods became pawns in the demons' assault on the heavens.
The war between good and evil ended in a tragedy of immeasurable devastation.
The Five Elements had always generated and overcome one another, balancing each other in turn. No one had ever imagined things could come to this.
Why? Why did it have to turn out this way?
Metal: If I have another life, I will never show off my sharpness again.
Wood: If I have another life, I will never betray my true nature.
Water: If I have another life, I will never cling to desire again.
Fire: If I have another life, I will never leave or forsake you.
Earth: If I have another life, I will never speak reckless falsehoods.
If it were up to you, would you choose the childhood sweetheart or love at first sight?
I choose you.
(June 23, 2023. The story is unchanged; the blurb has been updated.)
Reader's guide:
1. Updates every other day. I'll post a notice if the schedule changes unexpectedly.
2. This is a long novel. Everyone is normal in the first half; everyone goes crazy in the second half. The couples may get mixed up, and there may be plenty of melodrama.
3. I love stories with a sense of fate. I believe that "everything is destined," and I also believe that "I make my own fate, not Heaven." This is the theme of all my works.
4. There are power struggles, romance, divinity, and humanity.
5. This story leans toward traditional tales of mysticism and involves the Daoist principles of the Five Elements generating and overcoming one another. These principles may be useful to know while reading:
The cycle of generation among the Five Elements is: Wood generates Fire, Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water, and Water generates Wood.
The cycle of overcoming among the Five Elements is: Wood overcomes Earth, Earth overcomes Water, Water overcomes Fire, Fire overcomes Metal, and Metal overcomes Wood.
This novel was inspired by Ouyang Xiu's "Butterflies Love Flowers: The Yue Maiden Picks Lotus Blossoms by the Autumn Waterside." The original poem is transcribed below:
The Yue maiden picks lotus by the autumn waterside. Her narrow sleeves are of light gauze, and two golden bracelets peek beneath them. She gazes at her reflection and plucks a flower, whose face resembles hers. Her heart is in as much disarray as the tangled lotus silk.
By the mandarin duck shoal, the wind rises in the evening waves. The mist is thick and the haze light; her companions from the way here are nowhere to be seen. A faint song drifts away with the returning boat. Heartache follows the riverbank of Jiangnan.
Theme: We can make it through the darkness and reach the light.
Because my skin is fragile, I kept having colds and coughs from March to June, and couldn't get better over and over again. Since the beginning of the series of chapters of Entering a Different Land in early May, my energy has been exhausted, and typing errors often occur and cannot be checked. In view of this situation, after the situation improved slightly, the chapters after Strange Land were rewritten. The overall plot remains the same, which is mainly about catching insects. There are also some added dialogues or psychological descriptions in individual chapters to make the storyline develop more smoothly. (PS: When you see me starting my first post at 12 noon on time and not revising, it means my health is better) After Chapter 98, the story enters the final stage of [Mortal Dog Blood Chapter]. In the closing stage, you need to recover all the clues that should be recovered. To prevent omissions, you will write slower. In addition to various reasons such as poor physical condition (as well as other chronic diseases such as lower limb varicose veins) and busy three-dimensional work, irregular updates will be carried out before the end of July as mentioned in the previous post. The update frequency in August is not yet certain. It depends on where I have written and how my physical condition is at the end of July. I write slowly, and I don't want to force myself to write randomly, because I don't want to waste this story, and I hope it will be worthy of every penny spent by readers. I would like to thank the little angels again for their patience, support and love!
Check back every day to see if there are any updates... I hope your health will recover soon! After I recover, I can update with inspiration hhh
Little angels, I'm very sorry. Due to both physical and work reasons, the update of this article has been temporarily suspended and is expected to be resumed on June 21st. An announcement was made in December last year that the mortal chapter would be completed around the end of the Lunar New Year. This was indeed the plan at the time, but as you can see now, this article could not be completed as scheduled. The reason is that I had a minor surgery in February. Yes, that's right, it's what I said I would do when I stopped updating last summer, and I finally did it in the winter. Because every time after taking anesthesia, there will always be a period of time when the brain's reaction is very slow and the memory is particularly poor. In addition, the body needs to recuperate, so I can't work hard to write the article and complete the mortal chapter on schedule. The reason why it took so long than expected and I didn't change the announcement or give an explanation is because I didn't want to make my health condition public. I hope everyone can forgive me and thank you for your understanding. When I came to Jinjiang to write articles, I just wanted to write articles. I didn't want to bring anything related to reality into the world of online writing. I want this place to be pure, simple, and clean. Recently, there have been minor changes in my work, and I need to travel once or twice a week for short distances. The schedule is very tight, and I enjoy the scenery along the way, but it also consumes a lot of energy and time. The double pressure made me very hard and tired, and it was difficult to balance and take care of everything. Therefore, I chose to suspend the update when there were only 8 chapters left. Yes, there are only 8 chapters left in the mortal chapter, 5 chapters of memories + 3 extra chapters. If there had been no surgery, it should have been completed by the end of the year. If it had not been for the current poor condition, it should have been completed in one breath within a week. But I really can't do it now. If I continue to write it reluctantly, not only will I not be able to wrap up the ending well, but it will also affect many aspects of my real life. Therefore, after thinking twice, I decided to stop updating. Here, first of all, I would like to thank the little angels for their continued support and waiting. Secondly, I made a promise with the little angels that on June 21st, when the summer solstice comes and the lotus flowers bloom, I will return with the remaining 8 chapters. Love you!
This, this, is simply too high-energy! The top dog-blooded Shura field!
Suddenly I felt that Miaomiao was quite cute~
Check for updates before going to bed! I discovered that Qian Jun's character may not be bad but must be "dislikeable"! Looking forward to the Heavenly Chapter!
It was only when I went to Jinjiang that I discovered that Dada had solved v. Are you okay, Dada?
God, how do you solve v? How is your wife lately?
I'm back~ There will be a few days left, Da Feizhang will feel happy again
After hoarding for a long time, I finally caught up with the demon lantern and it appeared. I remembered that I didn't understand the short article about the demon lantern that I read before. Now I just feel that the foreshadowing is really deep. Now I am wondering whether Hongqu's reincarnation will appear again.