After Bankruptcy: Writing Novels Awakens the Emperor's Art

Shen Yan has suffered two major setbacks in his life. The first came when he went into mid-to-high-end cultural and creative products. He was crushed by cheap knockoffs, then his supplier suddenly cut off shipments, and he ended up bankrupt. To escape more than 1.6 million yuan in online loans and other debts, he fled to Haicheng, where he squeezed into a 15-square-meter attic and scraped by on daily-wage odd jobs. Then he wrote a xianxia novel, but his obsessive research into the Classic of Mountains and Seas got him rejected by an editor five times, who said he was writing a “history textbook.” After three years of intense study, he wrote the Qi Gathering realm mantra from the Human Sovereign Scripture in his notebook. When he casually tried the hand motions, he really drew qi into his body. The ancient books he had pored over and the notes he had filled weren’t just material for a novel. They were the key to awakening the Human Sovereign Arts! From then on, he writes novels to refine his realm system while cultivating to break through: in the Qi Gathering realm, he can lift a refrigerator and beat up martial artists. Someday, he’ll even trample cultivators in the Tribulation Transcendence realm on his way to the top, fighting his way from an attic fueled by instant noodles all the way back to the Ninth Heaven! After Jiang Ziya conferred the gods and King Wu of Zhou became the Son of Heaven, why was the destiny of the human race suppressed so completely? “Once, I wielded my brush to depict the Human Sovereign protecting the mortal world. Today, it’s my turn to become the Human Sovereign and command the world. I’ll uncover the secret behind the suppression of humanity’s destiny!”