The Heavenly Pit Divine Beast

The first Chinese novel to bring together suspense, absurdism, science fiction, military fiction, transmigration, history, romance, and other techniques and themes in a single epic. It is a revolutionary exploration of online fiction.

In 214 BC, Emperor Qin Shi Huang ordered books burned and scholars buried alive. The following year, the alchemists Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng were wanted for slandering the emperor. Hou Sheng was captured, but his words brought Emperor Qin Shi Huang to his senses, and he was released. No one knew where Lu Sheng had fled, and all trace of him was lost.

During the book burning and burial of scholars, Fusheng, a court scholar of the Qin dynasty, risked the extermination of his entire clan to save Chinese culture. With a retainer, he secretly transported a thousand books out of the capital, Xianyang, and hid them in the Youyi Mountains of western Hunan. After the fall of Qin, Fusheng retrieved the books and presented them to the Han court, but only 900 of the thousand volumes remained. The other hundred had vanished.

In June 2002, 36,000 Qin bamboo slips were unearthed in Liye Town, Longshan County, Hunan. In the years that followed, huge sinkholes suddenly appeared across southern China, swallowing houses, cars, and people.

As it turned out, when Lu Sheng fled, he took only one maid with him. They kept going until they reached what is now Leye, Guangxi, when the ground suddenly collapsed, cutting them off from the human world. In the enormous sinkhole, they accidentally discovered a form of dark matter that gave them the power to become invisible, fly at incredible speed, and unleash devastating force...