Earth in Exile

We're actually gods! Of course, we were banished to the mortal world after losing a battle. Like Zhu Bajie, we were sent through a wormhole into an underground Antarctic transit station, then into Earth, a pigpen without spiritual energy where our souls are constantly harvested! They tore the Moon away from Earth and fixed it so that it always shows us its far side. This maintains the spirit-locking formation inside, sealing away spiritual energy, the desire to cultivate, and our memories. Oxygen and food corrode the human cultivation genes, while the Age of the End of Dharma traps humanity and lets them harvest the pure souls of mortals. Ling Chen, a psychiatrist, cares for a woman who keeps trying to suffocate herself and insists that “oxygen is poisonous.” Recalling how, after falling from a building as a child and slipping into a coma, he saw an image of an “artificial moon” in his mind, he finds a man who says “food is poisonous,” and a tycoon who can't face the Moon and spends every day circling Earth in a plane. At last, Ling Chen decides to give it a try, even if it means dying! At last, he “sees” the truth: humans are prisoners and livestock, exiled to Earth! To fight back, he takes part in one genetic experiment after another: a six-limbed salamander that can heal itself, a blue-blooded human with hemocyanin, a long-lived person enhanced with telomerase, an immortal with controllable cancer cells, a photosynthetic human with chlorophyll, a superhuman powered by flagellar mitochondria... But it's still not enough! Beyond Antarctica lies humanity's homeland, where there is spiritual energy, primal energy, the power of origin, demonic energy... All of it can nourish our bodies and souls. So to rebel and return, we have to be even more radical! PS: The blurb may not do the book justice. This is a sci-fi novel that's soft with a hard edge, and hard with a soft edge, striving to perfectly blend scientific knowledge with bold imagination. Everyone is welcome to read it.