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I Shall Seal the Heavens 我欲封天 #4
Five Color Paragon
I Shall Seal the Heavens is currently one of the most popular xianxia stories in China. It is about a failed young scholar named Meng Hao who gets forcibly recruited into a Sect of Immortal Cultivators. In the Cultivation world, the strong prey on the weak, and the law of the jungle prevails. Meng Hao must adapt to survive. And yet, he never forgets the Confucian and Daoist ideals that he grew up studying. This, coupled with his stubborn nature, set him on the path of a true hero. What does it mean to “Seal the Heavens?” This is a secret that you will have to uncover along with Meng Hao!
Chapters
314 - 628
Chapters
314 - 628
2100 pages, ebook
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154 people want to read
About the author
Er Gen
125 books269 followersName: Liu Yong (刘勇)
Pen name: Er Gen (耳根)
Born in Heilongjiang Province, Mudanjiang prefecture city.
Er Gen is a platinum author on Qidian who used his love for classical chinese myths as a foundation on which to build his webnovels. He has become a pillar of the xianxia genre, and his flagship novel, Renegade Immortal, placed within the top ranks of Qidian’s monthly recommendation charts for many months.
Associated Names:
* Er Gen (English)
* 耳根 (Chinese)
* เอ่อร์เกิน (Thai)
Pen name: Er Gen (耳根)
Born in Heilongjiang Province, Mudanjiang prefecture city.
Er Gen is a platinum author on Qidian who used his love for classical chinese myths as a foundation on which to build his webnovels. He has become a pillar of the xianxia genre, and his flagship novel, Renegade Immortal, placed within the top ranks of Qidian’s monthly recommendation charts for many months.
Associated Names:
* Er Gen (English)
* 耳根 (Chinese)
* เอ่อร์เกิน (Thai)
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August 29, 2016
This is by far the longest book I've read so far. It has around whooping 2200 pages. But it was really fun reading this book. You don't have tp worry about it being over soon. I loved it.
August 18, 2024
Every time I started to wonder if reading this series wasn't a good use of my time, it found a new way to be hilariously bad. It's basically a sequence of the author making up with some new way of Meng Hao being the most amazing, coldest, most powerful cultivator, except he's not really capable of coming up with clever ideas, so Meng Hao always just gets handed some random cheat with "unbelievable power" or whatever. This book, it was everything turning into Pokemon for a while, except it's just increasing the number of hundreds of thousand of Pokemon Meng Hao can control.
But I'm honestly not here to be purely negative, and to my surprise this book had some actually decent things:
+ Han Shan and his wife had a real story and for a while the setting felt like an actual universe instead of a playmobile around the protagonist.
+ The climactic battle at the end of the tribal segment was actually built from plot elements and powers that had been introduced prior. Maybe my standards have been beaten down, but I actually enjoyed this.
+ After 600 chapters being love interests for no real reason, Xu Qing and Meng Hao had a real conversation. They mostly sit in caves together, but this actually puts her above almost everyone in terms of interactions with the protagonist.
+ After so many objects with silly sizes or just "indescribably vast" things, the introduction of Night had some real weight and gravitas. This is the sort of fantastically massive thing I wanted when I tried reading xianxia.
Unfortunately, these were brief silver linings to a huge cloud of stupid stuff. The confrontation with the Tribulation Lightning was disappointing and painfully long, but it made clear to me how much the magic in this book is basically nonsense. The level of threat of the lighting, the connections between different elements, how much Meng Hao can regenerate... none of it has any texture or substance. It's just "And then ANOTHER color of lightning appeared, and another five guys EXPLODED, and Meng Hao was VERY COOL."
Huge increase in rape jokes this book too. I don't think it's in good taste, but what really bugs me is how repetitive it is. Every time the parrot appears, you know he's going to do basically the same thing and it'll be treated as comedy.
Switching to unintentional comedy: I actually laughed when the generic opponents used a blood-based attack and handed meng Hao exactly what he needed to make a blood clone and become more powerful. The author just can't resist contorting the plot into the dumbest shapes in order to throw in new power ups, and makes no effort to establish plausibility or anything.
I said above I liked the climax of the tribal march part, but everything up to that point was incredibly repetitive. Meng Hao doesn't really do any leadership stuff, it's just a constant stream of "Bloodlust! Forged in the fires of war! Kill them! Everyone was shocked! Booms filled the air!"
So much of the system is so deeply silly: Tribulation Lightning doesn't punish people trying to do something against the heavens, it attacks AFTER they gain the power to fight back. The Resurrection Lily doesn't do anything during Meng Hao's 150 years of being almost dead or year of amnesia, it waits until the one time that he's capable of fighting back.
The planning/foreshadowing is just so half-assed... the blood mask has always been a cheap powerup, but now it just says "By the way it had another ability all along and I just haven't mentioned it" literally paragraphs before Meng Hao needs new plot armor to save him.
Most of this book struck me as hilarious, but the ending sequence actually left a bad taste in my mouth. The whole concept of going to the dream of a past era (one of the author's few interesting ideas) is just an excuse to make Meng Hao the most special boy again, but what got me is how lacking in self-awareness it is. He's cheating through the tower so flagrantly that even the characters in-story acknowledge it as cheating, but there are no realistic reactions of "Wow, this guy is a worthless piece of garbage" and instead everyone is just gnashing their teeth or in awe. Combined with the idea that his (dream) father is so admirable for raising a terrible son, it really feels like an insight into the mind of a bully who lacks the emotional or social intelligence to understand human interactions.
But I'm honestly not here to be purely negative, and to my surprise this book had some actually decent things:
+ Han Shan and his wife had a real story and for a while the setting felt like an actual universe instead of a playmobile around the protagonist.
+ The climactic battle at the end of the tribal segment was actually built from plot elements and powers that had been introduced prior. Maybe my standards have been beaten down, but I actually enjoyed this.
+ After 600 chapters being love interests for no real reason, Xu Qing and Meng Hao had a real conversation. They mostly sit in caves together, but this actually puts her above almost everyone in terms of interactions with the protagonist.
+ After so many objects with silly sizes or just "indescribably vast" things, the introduction of Night had some real weight and gravitas. This is the sort of fantastically massive thing I wanted when I tried reading xianxia.
Unfortunately, these were brief silver linings to a huge cloud of stupid stuff. The confrontation with the Tribulation Lightning was disappointing and painfully long, but it made clear to me how much the magic in this book is basically nonsense. The level of threat of the lighting, the connections between different elements, how much Meng Hao can regenerate... none of it has any texture or substance. It's just "And then ANOTHER color of lightning appeared, and another five guys EXPLODED, and Meng Hao was VERY COOL."
Huge increase in rape jokes this book too. I don't think it's in good taste, but what really bugs me is how repetitive it is. Every time the parrot appears, you know he's going to do basically the same thing and it'll be treated as comedy.
Switching to unintentional comedy: I actually laughed when the generic opponents used a blood-based attack and handed meng Hao exactly what he needed to make a blood clone and become more powerful. The author just can't resist contorting the plot into the dumbest shapes in order to throw in new power ups, and makes no effort to establish plausibility or anything.
I said above I liked the climax of the tribal march part, but everything up to that point was incredibly repetitive. Meng Hao doesn't really do any leadership stuff, it's just a constant stream of "Bloodlust! Forged in the fires of war! Kill them! Everyone was shocked! Booms filled the air!"
So much of the system is so deeply silly: Tribulation Lightning doesn't punish people trying to do something against the heavens, it attacks AFTER they gain the power to fight back. The Resurrection Lily doesn't do anything during Meng Hao's 150 years of being almost dead or year of amnesia, it waits until the one time that he's capable of fighting back.
The planning/foreshadowing is just so half-assed... the blood mask has always been a cheap powerup, but now it just says "By the way it had another ability all along and I just haven't mentioned it" literally paragraphs before Meng Hao needs new plot armor to save him.
Most of this book struck me as hilarious, but the ending sequence actually left a bad taste in my mouth. The whole concept of going to the dream of a past era (one of the author's few interesting ideas) is just an excuse to make Meng Hao the most special boy again, but what got me is how lacking in self-awareness it is. He's cheating through the tower so flagrantly that even the characters in-story acknowledge it as cheating, but there are no realistic reactions of "Wow, this guy is a worthless piece of garbage" and instead everyone is just gnashing their teeth or in awe. Combined with the idea that his (dream) father is so admirable for raising a terrible son, it really feels like an insight into the mind of a bully who lacks the emotional or social intelligence to understand human interactions.
May 14, 2017
Meng Hao is immoral, he is simple too much immoral!
This book have some of the better stuff so far in this amazing series.
This one is also the big one, with the size of 3 of the previous ones!
Our favorite chinese cheater is pretty busy in this book, don't leave anything of value near the book, there is a 80% chance you won't find your possessions anymore.
There are a lot of battles too, Meng Hao usually cheats in these too, but he still don't have a kamehameha attack... or does he?
Maybe that meat jelly must try harder to convert Meng Hao...
Now seriously, this series are really great, each scenario is very unique and totally different than I'm used to read about in fantasy books, some are bizarre, some are strange, most are totally unexpected.
I highly recommend it, specially for people that are looking for something different to read.
This book have some of the better stuff so far in this amazing series.
This one is also the big one, with the size of 3 of the previous ones!
Our favorite chinese cheater is pretty busy in this book, don't leave anything of value near the book, there is a 80% chance you won't find your possessions anymore.
There are a lot of battles too, Meng Hao usually cheats in these too, but he still don't have a kamehameha attack... or does he?
Maybe that meat jelly must try harder to convert Meng Hao...
Now seriously, this series are really great, each scenario is very unique and totally different than I'm used to read about in fantasy books, some are bizarre, some are strange, most are totally unexpected.
I highly recommend it, specially for people that are looking for something different to read.
January 31, 2021
Good
The last 2, books 2 and 3 were better, missing the humor and other side characters that were present in earlier books that made everything more interesting, still this is a pretty awesome series
The last 2, books 2 and 3 were better, missing the humor and other side characters that were present in earlier books that made everything more interesting, still this is a pretty awesome series
October 21, 2024
3.5
Alright, this one was .... a lot. We had Black lands, then Western Desert, then Violet sea, then Immortal Demon Sect. Oh, and I forgot the Realm of the Bridge of Ruins. It was a lot to pack in one book.
Thoughts. Firstly, the whole Demon Immortal Sect section was pretty brilliant, especially with Night waking up. Meng's relationship with Ke Yunhai is beautiful.
The parrot is.... still kind of disturbing, although I did find his 'romancing' the Mastiff quite funny. His raping of various feathery and furry creatures... not so much.
I do love the fact that Meng sort of created a Sect and remained loyal to them, even protective. And the short story of the Crow and Greenwood Tree is really beautiful. There was a whole killing series that I found rather unnecessary and out of character a bit tho. But there are some pretty good fighting scenes in this one. With some funny elements to them even.
And for the love of everything what is up with the parrot's 'spell formation' of hundreds of people just running around in a circle?
I'm taking a break before the next one
Alright, this one was .... a lot. We had Black lands, then Western Desert, then Violet sea, then Immortal Demon Sect. Oh, and I forgot the Realm of the Bridge of Ruins. It was a lot to pack in one book.
Thoughts. Firstly, the whole Demon Immortal Sect section was pretty brilliant, especially with Night waking up. Meng's relationship with Ke Yunhai is beautiful.
The parrot is.... still kind of disturbing, although I did find his 'romancing' the Mastiff quite funny. His raping of various feathery and furry creatures... not so much.
I do love the fact that Meng sort of created a Sect and remained loyal to them, even protective. And the short story of the Crow and Greenwood Tree is really beautiful. There was a whole killing series that I found rather unnecessary and out of character a bit tho. But there are some pretty good fighting scenes in this one. With some funny elements to them even.
And for the love of everything what is up with the parrot's 'spell formation' of hundreds of people just running around in a circle?
I'm taking a break before the next one
May 17, 2022
Made me cry and laugh out loud. A very emo volume. Reread is going well!
Disclaimer
To anyone seeing this, no I do not recommend ISSTH to nice people because it is very problematic and not in a good way. I'm running on nostalgia, some funny moments, some emo moments and alot of creativity but also pretty repetitive. Don't mind me
Disclaimer
To anyone seeing this, no I do not recommend ISSTH to nice people because it is very problematic and not in a good way. I'm running on nostalgia, some funny moments, some emo moments and alot of creativity but also pretty repetitive. Don't mind me
May 27, 2023
Review of entire series
Starts off a bit slow, but still decent..and then books 3-9 are absolutely phenomenal. I wasn' a fan of Book 10 as it suffers from the tepid melancholic finish typical of Er Gen books, but still one of the best in the genre.
Deathblade does a stellar job with the English tranlation too!
Starts off a bit slow, but still decent..and then books 3-9 are absolutely phenomenal. I wasn' a fan of Book 10 as it suffers from the tepid melancholic finish typical of Er Gen books, but still one of the best in the genre.
Deathblade does a stellar job with the English tranlation too!
June 27, 2018
After that the story develops in an outstanding manner, I can’t get into detail without using spoilers. It’s worth a try and I only regret that I finished the novel because I can’t read anymore of it.
July 27, 2019
i found this book incredibly boring. maybe because of the absence of lord fifth and the meat jelly... but it was just more of the same crap but without the entertainment and humor. it was like reading a manual -_-
February 6, 2023
5/5 stars
"This powerful vigor radiated thickly off of him, as if there were no orifice in the world that he couldn’t conquer!" That parrot is something else... Horrifying yet amusing. No creature is safe from his lecherousness or his finger, but I repeat myself.
"This powerful vigor radiated thickly off of him, as if there were no orifice in the world that he couldn’t conquer!" That parrot is something else... Horrifying yet amusing. No creature is safe from his lecherousness or his finger, but I repeat myself.
July 23, 2017
Intense and full of interesting moments.
May 13, 2019
Loved the entire series! Anyone who is looking for a good story with plenty of character development and really good plot, I'd say this series is really good!
June 11, 2020
Here comes the Parrot the Lord fifth, too awesome!!!!
January 13, 2021
It's pretty amazing that these super long and good books are free to download. I feel like a found a roll of cash on the side of the road.
June 25, 2024
I really enjoyed this arc.
April 4, 2021
A good long cultivation read with a few bumpy spots.
The series takes a bit of a downturn in this book. It's still good and entertaining and a very long read. However there are a few spots in which knocked me out or I didn't quite like what I was reading because the humor was lost on me been thinking about the situations that were occurring. There's also the fact that the main character is not quite relatable and that's partly due because any of the close relationships that he has had have sort of been cut off to the point where he's constantly a cold Superior warrior. This third person omniscient story does keep itself from being too distracting when it comes to head hopping. So in this the author pulled that off.
Authors tend to like certain words and given that this has been translated into English I'm not sure if this was the case or not here but the word "unprecedented" was used a ridiculous amount of times. Once or twice per chapter if you split them all apart at least and there's over 140 plus chapters. This was one of the little speed bumps as well as a section that will either designed to break the fourth wall or was an author's note that didn't get deleted in the final product. It was just a paragraph and literally just said as a recap and explained four different characters. It definitely broke the narrative and knocked me out of the story for a bit.
The one thing I guess the stronger has is that it's constantly seen as chances from prove and push yourself there's plenty of action in this and some humor that did make me laugh. In terms of in-depth relationships or emotion you're only a few parts in which I was really moved. I'm guessing part of it is the culture of fantasy this genre leads to. We're certain tropes when it pertains to the heroes perhaps are popular. Our main protagonist is the cold and flinching hero who keeps his emotions check then.
Seriously repetitive but also entertaining enough to keep pulling me along. It is a very long read and I love long reads. However I also think that this story sort of meandered more than previous three. The last 15% or so of the book was not set up really by the previous 85% of the story. It was very much a sudden side plot that became the climax of The story. Also a lot of the elements of the story or more reactionary with not a predictable beginning middle and end. This depending upon what you like can be good and bad. It's enjoyable because of the unpredictability of the story. It can be a little discerning though because things sort of come out of nowhere at times.
I do think that the language in the book changed in a bit becoming more coarser. It is still appropriate for young adults and above. Annoyingly though it has the same translator a character with the name of Pill Ghost was changed to Pull Demon sort of distracting when in the first free books he was called one thing and in this book he was called another and if you didn't pick up on it you'd be utterly lost. A little bit nerdy but also perhaps something lost in translation.
The series takes a bit of a downturn in this book. It's still good and entertaining and a very long read. However there are a few spots in which knocked me out or I didn't quite like what I was reading because the humor was lost on me been thinking about the situations that were occurring. There's also the fact that the main character is not quite relatable and that's partly due because any of the close relationships that he has had have sort of been cut off to the point where he's constantly a cold Superior warrior. This third person omniscient story does keep itself from being too distracting when it comes to head hopping. So in this the author pulled that off.
Authors tend to like certain words and given that this has been translated into English I'm not sure if this was the case or not here but the word "unprecedented" was used a ridiculous amount of times. Once or twice per chapter if you split them all apart at least and there's over 140 plus chapters. This was one of the little speed bumps as well as a section that will either designed to break the fourth wall or was an author's note that didn't get deleted in the final product. It was just a paragraph and literally just said as a recap and explained four different characters. It definitely broke the narrative and knocked me out of the story for a bit.
The one thing I guess the stronger has is that it's constantly seen as chances from prove and push yourself there's plenty of action in this and some humor that did make me laugh. In terms of in-depth relationships or emotion you're only a few parts in which I was really moved. I'm guessing part of it is the culture of fantasy this genre leads to. We're certain tropes when it pertains to the heroes perhaps are popular. Our main protagonist is the cold and flinching hero who keeps his emotions check then.
Seriously repetitive but also entertaining enough to keep pulling me along. It is a very long read and I love long reads. However I also think that this story sort of meandered more than previous three. The last 15% or so of the book was not set up really by the previous 85% of the story. It was very much a sudden side plot that became the climax of The story. Also a lot of the elements of the story or more reactionary with not a predictable beginning middle and end. This depending upon what you like can be good and bad. It's enjoyable because of the unpredictability of the story. It can be a little discerning though because things sort of come out of nowhere at times.
I do think that the language in the book changed in a bit becoming more coarser. It is still appropriate for young adults and above. Annoyingly though it has the same translator a character with the name of Pill Ghost was changed to Pull Demon sort of distracting when in the first free books he was called one thing and in this book he was called another and if you didn't pick up on it you'd be utterly lost. A little bit nerdy but also perhaps something lost in translation.
April 23, 2021
This is a copypasted review that regards the entire series. Be warned, because I Shall Seal the heavens is millions of words long, approximately 4 times the length of the Bible. The story of I Shall Seal the Heavens is crazy to those unfamiliar with the magic systems this genre uses.
It's pretty good. I give it a pass. Some parts toward the end involving The Big Bad Guy of the series are really weird, but everything else is great and I read through it just fine. Not much I can say about a 3-million-word-long story that I read several years ago.
It's pretty good. I give it a pass. Some parts toward the end involving The Big Bad Guy of the series are really weird, but everything else is great and I read through it just fine. Not much I can say about a 3-million-word-long story that I read several years ago.
June 5, 2021
I think this was the best book in the series so far. Our MC makes some good strides along his path of cultivation. I feel like he actually encountered some challenges in this book which has been lacking in the last couple of books. He is still overpowered which I enjoy but it was nice that things weren’t too easy for him in this book (just mostly easy for him).
April 26, 2021
Great read for cultivation novel
I really like these books each one focuses on different aspects of cultivation not just the traditional style but also other variations. Overall great book. I also like how long each book is. I wish more authors wrote this much.
I really like these books each one focuses on different aspects of cultivation not just the traditional style but also other variations. Overall great book. I also like how long each book is. I wish more authors wrote this much.
June 5, 2016
loved it!
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January 11, 2019Probably the most invested group of side characters I felt yet from all of Er Gen's novels.
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