Library

In the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, Zhuang Yifang, a disciple of the general, avenged his master and defected to the Huangchao uprising army, where he met Sun Zhitong. Because Sun Zhitong was misunderstood by the beggar gang for murder, Zhuang Yifang broke into the Beizong village alone and captured the real murderer in three days, which won the appreciation of the Beizong elder Hua Lao. In the fourth year of Qianfu's reign, four sects of beggar gangs gathered in Junshan, Dongting. Zhuang Yifang defeated the others with his own "Dragon Subduing Palm" technique, integrated the four sects, became the first leader of the Beggar Clan, established ten gang rules, and created the "Dog Beating Stick Technique". After that, he went north to Kongtong and formed the "Qi Zheng Alliance" with the Taoist master Wu Qun, learned the iron chopsticks and Bagua formations, and integrated Kongtong martial arts into the Beggar Clan. During the Zhonghe period, Huang Chao was trapped in Chenzhou, and Zhuang Yifang led the elite beggar gang to rescue him. However, Zhu Wen rebelled and Li Ke used the Shatuo cavalry to go south, leading to repeated bloody battles. Sun Zhitong died in the battle at Yingshui, Hua Lao died in Liangtianbei, and the Beggar Clan and Kongtong Sect suffered heavy casualties. Zhuang Yifang led the remnants of his troops back south, lying on the firewood and tasting their courage, determined to take revenge. After Zhu Wen usurped the Tang Dynasty, Zhuang Yifang sneaked into Bianliang to assassinate him but failed, and watched Zhu Wen and Li Keyong fight with cold eyes. Until Zhu Wen was killed by his own son, Li Keyong died of illness, and the Later Tang Dynasty destroyed Liang Dynasty, the great revenge was finally avenged. In his later years, Zhuang Yi Fang Chuan lived in Chen Shuangcheng and offered iron chopsticks to the Juyi Hall, telling his descendants: The root of the Beggar Gang is to protect beggars in the world and not to get involved in temple disputes. The novel starts from the general Luocao to the founding of the Beggar Gang, from the rise of strange soldiers to the bloody battle in Chenzhou, from the tragedy in Liangtianpi to the quarrel between rivers, lakes and temples, showing the chivalrous life of a generation of Beggar Gang leaders in the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty.

Yun Ji, a young Taoist priest from Qingcheng Mountain, has mediocre qualifications but loves to read Taoism. While sorting through ancient books, he discovered the notes left by Yuanzhi, the Taoist king of the Tang Dynasty, which recorded a shocking secret - the four highest levels of the thirty-six days of the holy realm, which have not received a response for a thousand years. In order to find out the truth, Yunji embarked on a journey of seeking the truth. He obtained the relics of Hu Gong and entered the heaven and earth in the pot; he met Zhang Tianshi in Longhu Mountain and received three tokens; he passed through the stone wall of Damian Mountain and entered the disordered three realms. In the world of desire, he met Wang Yuanzhi, who had been trapped for seven hundred years; in the world of color, he received the guidance of eight thousand-year-old Peng Zu; in the world of colorless, he learned the truth about the disappearance of Sanqing from the mouth of the immortal Huan Kai. Finally, he entered the Four Brahma Heavens and met with the ancient immortal Guangchengzi. Only then did he realize that the root cause of all disasters lay in the thoughts, prayers, and expressions of the mortal ascetics - those thoughts with greed, anger, ignorance, pride, and doubt, accumulated over time, forming a cloud of karmic black energy in the sky. The black energy swallowed up the Four Brahma Heavenly Immortals and trapped the Three Pure Ones. Yunji protected himself with "emptiness" and purified with "wish", finally resolving karma and awakening the three pure states. But he did not stay in heaven. Instead, he returned to the human world and settled in a cottage in Qingcheng Mountain. He created the "Wish Power Furnace" method and preached the principle of "the Tao is in the human world". He established three new rules, created a new style of morality, and eventually became the "mister in the middle" who protects the world among immortals. The book is based on Eastern Taoist mythology and explores the profound themes of "karma and aspiration", "heaven and earth", "seeking outwards and looking inwards", and tells a story about faith, inheritance and return in the East.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, a nine-tailed fox concubine was ordered by Nuwa to deceive King Zhou. After the deed was accomplished, she was silenced by the heavenly court at the Conferring God Platform. She swore before her death that "the fox clan will never obey the imperial edict again." Her soul was scattered, and a trace of her soul was reincarnated as Su Huan, the weaver girl in Suzhou during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Su Huan got a bronze knight. After his fingertips touched the fox eyes on the knight, he could recognize the objects and memories. He also met Gu Sheng, a descendant of Yang Jian. He was ordered to go down to earth to kill the reincarnation of the fox demon, who was the one looking up at the deer steps three thousand years ago. Following Gu Sheng into Songshan, Su Huan met Su Mo, the black fox ancestor who had guarded the monument for three thousand years, and learned that he had guarded Daji's broken hairpin. He also summoned the three fox tribes including Tushan Yingning, Xuanyuan Fen Crow Tou, and Qingqiu Xin Shiniang. However, something unexpected happened, Xiaolu and Ji'antang were burned down, and the ancestor passed away. Su Huan gathered Daji's seven souls and brought Qingqiu Ling to visit the Emperor Wa Temple. Nuwa reveals that the list of gods is actually a purgatory of karma, and Daji has been burned for three thousand years. In the end, Nuwa entered the fire and broke the list, and Daji was able to escape. In the 21st year of Wanli, Daji returned to Qingqiu, and the Fox clan knelt down to welcome her. Ten years later, in Liuxia, Suzhou, Gu Sheng, who had been waiting for three years, welcomed Su Huan, and the debt of three thousand years was over. From then on, the Fox clan did not obey his edicts and only welcomed old friends to return.

The novel takes the nine-tailed fox Lisu's thousand-year practice as the main line, running through the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and finally extends to modern times. In the Tang Dynasty, she experienced a love crisis for the first time, and fell in love with the scholar Zheng Liu, but the love broke up due to "different paths between humans and monsters"; in the Song Dynasty, she wanted to use Taoism to control her love, and got involved in an entanglement with Zhou Xin's descendants, and was forced to stay in the mountain for a hundred years; in the Ming Dynasty, she tried to combine the seven emotions and six desires to refine the Hunyuan Pearl, but almost fell into the devil's way, and was sentenced to ten reincarnations; after awakening in the Qing Dynasty, she renewed the "Qingqiu Spiritual Contract", opened up three paths for the Fox clan to be a human, an immortal, and a demon, and transformed herself into a jade statue of Mount Tai. The story finally shows how his spirit diffused into later generations like a light, silently promoting good thoughts in various eras such as war, academia, and technology, and finally clarified that the true transcendence is not to become an immortal, but to transform oneself into thousands of possibilities and integrate into the glimmer of kindness in all living beings.

The novel uses the "White Ape's Clothes and Crown" as a token to connect the five historical periods from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and the development of Emei sect's martial arts. In the Warring States Period, after the defeat of Situ Xuankong, the general of Shu, he observed the ape and realized Taoism, created the "Tong-arm Boxing", split the white clothes as a legacy, and opened the Emei lineage. In the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Master Danran integrated Buddhism, Taoism, and martial arts and hid them in murals, and the Black Clothes Society began to take revenge; in the Southern Song Dynasty, Taoist Baimei wrote classics, and martial arts protected civilization under the iron heel of Mongolia; in the Ming Dynasty, the Eight-leaf Master formed an anti-Japanese formation, and revealed the spirit of "White Ape" as the name shared by three generations of masters and apprentices. In the early Qing Dynasty, Yunshu, a tea-picking girl, realized during the three-party siege: "Clothes and hats are not objects, firewood is in people." Thousands of years of grudges finally disappeared, martial arts dispersed into opera, health care, and disappeared in the market. White clothes, white apes, and clothes are sublimated from physical objects to spiritual symbols, echoing that "the essence of martial arts is not a killing technique, but a cultural bloodline." The modern stage reappears the ancient tricks, and the fire is endless, and the millennium inheritance is reborn in the fission of the times.

In order to prevent the erosion of their divine personality, the ancient gods sealed themselves and dispersed their power into the human bloodline. Three thousand years later, the Godhead awakened again - Yaotong Yun from Luohe Town inherited the memory of Jun, the Creator God Emperor, while Xiang Yao, his childhood sweetheart, was possessed by the power of the Drought Demon. In order to find a way to control the godhead, the two embarked on the road to escape. They met Shennong, Fuxing Suhe, and the Plum Blossom Demon Slim Waist. They also encountered Suwei who was corroded by the declining god, the ambitious Gou Mang, the emperor who longed to become a god, and the new crisis brought by the new generation of divine awakeners. From returning to the ruins to rest in peace to the awakening of the Son of God, from the fate of brothers to waiting for a thousand years, Yun Qu and others always face the same choice: should they adapt to the godhead and become a new god, or should they stick to their humanity and become mortals? When the Resurrectionists tried to awaken the gods, and when the sons of God were lost in power, they proved with their actions that true strength lies not in possessing divine power, but in having the courage to choose to "be human." Mountains and seas have no boundaries, but human hearts have boundaries. This boundary is love, care and the endless mortal heart.

Jiang Nian, an outer disciple of Maoshan, was involved in the three thousand years of cause and effect on the God List because he could see the "causal line" on the magic weapon. Entrusted by Wen Zhong, she embarked on a journey to collect thirty-six magic weapons from the Journey to the West in order to rescue the three hundred and sixty-five righteous gods and one hundred and eight vassals who were trapped in the list. On the way, she accompanied Su Daji's remnant soul and passed through Jindou Mountain, Pingding Mountain, Flame Mountain, Emei Mountain, Shitunoling, Netherworld and other places. Every time she received a magic weapon, she awakened a ray of soul of the Jie Jiao disciples and got a glimpse of the truth of the Conferred God War. Zhao Gongming, Empress Sanxiao, Huang Feihu, Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit, and others asked for help in their dreams, while Shen Gongbao set up the "Zhoutian Karma Array" in the East China Sea with the intention of restarting the list of gods and seizing the throne of the Emperor of Heaven. The Three Realms War broke out, and Western religions took advantage of the situation and tried to conquer the gods in heaven and on earth. The leader of Tongtian Cult broke out of the bottle and joined forces with Jiang Nian and others to repel the Western Cult. In the end, Jiang Nian entered the core of the list of gods and enlightened Yuanshi Tianzun, causing him to let go of his fear and the lines of cause and effect were loosened on their own. The list of gods was completely dissipated, and the gods reincarnated into the human world, each finding his own place. Su Daji was distracted and returned to Nuwa Palace and was reincarnated as a human; Shen Gongbao vowed to die to get rid of the poison; Yuanshi Tianzun had an epiphany and was relieved. Jiang Nian returned to the fishing village, fished for a living, and waited for his old friend. Thousands of years later, her story has turned into a deserted small temple, with only an old friend's promise left on a Bodhi leaf. Breaking and then standing up, indicating new life. Three thousand years of cause and effect will eventually lead to fireworks in the world.

At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the world was in chaos. A fire broke out in the Sutra Pavilion of Shaolin Temple overnight, and the treasures of the temple disappeared. The thief of the sutras turned out to be the warrior monk Ye Wujiang. Twenty years later, a young man who claimed to be "nameless" entered the temple to seek Dharma. His fists and feet contained many secrets, and his identity became a mystery. He began to practice the most basic "Three Right" boxing techniques of Luohan Hall. He studied under Cheng Guan Shizuo and received enlightenment from Zen Master Liaochen of Mengzang Sutra Pavilion, gradually realizing the principle of "the unity of Zen and martial arts". When his life experience was revealed - he was actually Ye Wujiang's orphan - the obsession for revenge and the compassion of Buddhism fiercely fought in his heart. The forces of the White Lotus Sect, Mantis Sect, and the Qing court took turns to appear, and the 300-year-old foundation of Shaolin Temple was in jeopardy. From Shaolin to Jianghu, from seeking revenge to enlightenment, Jingchen steps closer to the truth in blood and fire: his father is not a traitor, and his enemy is not purely evil. When he finally faced Xu Hongru, the enemy who killed his father, what he picked up with his fingers was not hatred, but letting go. Siping died in battle at Shanmen, he died and sat in the lantern, and Ananda inherited the mantle. Jingchen finally returned to his old residence in Houshan and practiced the most basic Luohan Quan every morning - clasping his hands together, punching from a horse stance, and pushing palms from a lunge. What he practices is not boxing, but his heart. This is a martial arts novel about foundation and realm, obsession and letting go, inheritance and innovation. Behind the brilliance of the seventy-two stunts, it is the simple truth of "the unity of Zen and martial arts".

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese pirates were rampant and life along the southeast coast was in ruins. Shaolin warrior monk Jue Yuan followed his master to fight against the Japanese, and first realized the principle of "killing evil to protect good" in the bloody battle in Hangzhou; Foshan businesswoman Liang Zhirou became a disciple of Wu Sheng in the theater troupe to protect the trade route, and inherited Wing Chun; Wudang Taoist Yun Hezi went down the mountain under the orders of his master, and traveled south together with Bai Suxin, the Emei heroine who avenged her father. The four met in Foshan, and the martial arts from different schools collided and blended, forming a life-and-death friendship. When the conspiracy between the Japanese pirate leader Yagyu Itto and the imperial traitor came to light, the descendants of the four factions reunited and sneaked into an isolated island in the East China Sea to rescue the imprisoned famous anti-Japanese general Yu Dayou. In a desperate situation, Bai Suxin puts down her hatred, Yagyu realizes the Tao on his deathbed, and the four major schools defeat the enemy with the power of "unity of heart and mind". After the war, Jue Yuan returned to Shaolin and created the "Gui Yi Guan", Zhirou opened a Wing Chun Hall in Foshan, Yun Hezi wrote "The Twelve Links of Xingyi", and was determined to teach Jade Girl's swordsmanship in Hangzhou. Sixty years later, the descendants of the four sects met again, confirming that "the martial arts has a thousand years of history, and the fire is endless" - martial arts is not about killing people, but protecting people; inheritance is more important than martial arts, people's hearts are unified, and martial arts should be unified.

The novel is set during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty and tells the story of Yun Yichen, a young disciple of the Kongtong sect. The Kongtong Town sect's treasure "Seven Injury Boxing Sutra" was mysteriously stolen, triggering a multi-party fight among Japanese pirates, imperial spies, and killer organizations. Yun Yichen, armed with a rare army of whiskers, discovers during the investigation that behind the boxing sutra lies the secret of curing the terminal illness of "Five Elements Rebellion", which also involves the hidden illness of Emperor Jiajing, the life and death of Prince Aichong, and other palace secrets. As the investigation deepened, Yun Yichen not only uncovered the mystery of his life experience as an orphan of the eighth generation leader, but also gradually understood the true meaning of Kongtong martial arts in response to the national crisis of the border Tatar invasion: Seven Injury Fist is not for hurting people, but a health-preserving and guiding technique for harmonizing Yin and Yang; Faced with the dispute between the sect's "keeping the Tao" and "using the world", he finally founded the "Kongtong Martial Arts Hall", turning the secret martial arts into medical, agricultural and border defense techniques that openly benefited the world, and truly realized the highest level of martial arts of "defending the Tao with martial arts and maintaining the power of the Western Frontier".

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court was in chaos, factory guards were rampant, and Japanese pirates were raging. In order to find the true meaning of "Haoran Zhengqi", Gu Qingxuan, a disciple of Huashan Mountain, was ordered by his master to go down the mountain and was involved in a bloody storm that swept the world. He successively met Jiang Zhilan, the successor of the Jade Girl Sword, and Shen Lian, a member of the Jinyiwei Baihu family. The fate of the three people was intertwined because of a legendary ancient book "Haoran Zhengqi Jue". From the bloody battle against the Japanese in the southeast to the plot to overthrow Yan Song in the capital; from the entanglement between father and daughter, to the tragedy of brothers sacrificing their lives - they tempered themselves between life and death, made choices between good and evil, and gradually realized the truth that "the great righteousness is not between the fists and feet, between heaven and earth, and between the hearts of the people." When the Ming Zun Sect of the Western Regions invaded in large numbers, Shaolin Wudang was robbed one after another. The three finally used the supreme swordsmanship of "three families in one" to launch the ultimate showdown with the powerful enemy. Shen Lian sacrificed his life for righteousness and attained the status of Arhat; Gu Qingxuan and Jiang Zhilan realized that "heaven and man are one" and passed down the righteousness of Haoran from generation to generation. This is a martial arts epic that combines the philosophies of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. It is a magnificent song about growth, friendship and faith. It tells the world: The true awe-inspiring righteousness is not found in martial arts secret books, but in the heart of every upright and kind-hearted person.

In the near future, technologies such as gene editing and brain-computer interface will reshape life, and mankind will enter the deep waters of technology. In order to save his daughter Ye Zhiwei, who suffers from a rare genetic disease, neurosurgeon Lin Yuan became a deep enhancer, but gradually lost his emotions in the process of efficiency; Ye Zhiwei's innate immortality became the "key to evolution" that all parties competed for. Ethicist Lu Huaisha created the "Original Fire" to set technological ethical boundaries, cyborg cockroach controller Zhou Yan discovered that insect swarms evolved independent intelligence, and ALS scientist Vera uploaded consciousness to the biological brain matrix. The story spans more than twenty years, from the disillusionment of the enhancer "Penglai" utopia, to the splitting of human beings into multiple forms due to technological paths, to the super AI "other shore" initiating a global consciousness fusion crisis. All parties understand through confrontation and dialogue that the future of mankind is a "threshold" where differences, fragility and uncertainty coexist. In the end, the "Threshold Symbiosis Charter" was concluded, recognizing the right of multiple existences, and civilization was reborn as a "bridge" that allowed all roads to coexist after being broken. This is a story about choice and responsibility, revealing that true evolution is protecting each other's freedom to be ourselves.