ok now I'm curious about that dinghai fusheng lu,,,, what's it about? gimme the deets pls๐ I don't promise to actually read it tho I'm fucking swamped w uni stuff rn lmao (can u tell im dying inside??? ๐)
i am also dying inside my friend, do not worry!!!
OKAY SO! DINGHAI FUSHENG LU!
it's a novel by fetian, xianxia setting, action-packed and full of actual history mixed with humor and fantasy elements and lots of heart-felt moments.
chen xing, the main character, is 16 at the start of the novel, and he makes his deal clear straight away: he has four years to live, and in these four years he needs to return magic/manna to the world, as it has been gone for the past 300 years. the story follows him through the last four years of his life as he travels ancient china on this mission.
the ml, xiang shu, is... well, I won't say just who he is, because the reveal is spectacular, but he's the best - if I had to describe him using other characters, he's lan wangji level devotion with jiang cheng levels of snark. i love him to bits.
chen xing is the last exorcist, and in order to complete his mission and restore magic, he needs to find his protector, who, as the protector of the great exorcist (which chen xing is by default) is given the title martial god. this is where we find chen xing in the first chapter, actually, after having broken into a city under siege to find his protector - and he does. chen xing breaks into a city at war, convinces the commander protecting the city to let him search for his protector, and then saves xiang shu-who is chosen by forces out of chen xing's control, something he bemoans constantly in the first arc-from imprisonment and execution.
https://www.chickengege.org/novels/dinghai/ this is the link to the translation i'm reading! it's up to chapter 87, now, and updates roughly every 10 days or so if irrc! if you (or anyone reading this) gets time, please check it out! I need people to talk about it with!!!!!
Immortal arts, magic weapons, magical powers, and the boundless spiritual Qi between heaven and earth vanished into obscurity overnight, and