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I Shall Seal the Heavens 我欲封天 #6
Fame That Rocks the Ninth Mountain. The Path to True Immortality
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!
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801 - 1004
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801 - 1004
1400 pages, ebook
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About the author
Er Gen
130 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 19, 2021
An exciting emotional story with reader speedbumps.
I've enjoyed the series overall as it is told in third person omniscient point of view without confusing head hopping. There is some language but the story over all remains appropriate for young adults and above. I will say that the entire series has been very entertaining but as I've gotten into the sixth book and have completed it it feels fairly redundant. The story has grown and is heading in a particular direction with unique things happening but it is filled with a lot of similar moments. There are countless uses of cold snorts cold looks unprecedented moments and extreme deathly crisis moments.
Emotionally speaking this story hit me several times and it is a five-star story in that but there are too many plotholes that are starting to appear where the author has been juggling a lot of story and seems to have dropped the ball a few times. I think part of it is the fact that story is so large that the author decided to go a different direction if two side characters for example but did not completely go throughout the story to fix that. This meant that for some reason they go from being trapped or in a dormant state to have at some point ran away. Still the author does not drop many balls in his juggling of storyline and characters.
I do feel that story could be tighter as they are several chapters and instances where a bit of fluff where maid and Butler dialogue is thrown in order to make something seem more significant. Where an action can take place forward by several point of views and spoken monologues before the action is completed. There is some point in which something unprecedented or epic has occurred so many times that the reader becomes numb to it
This story and series is a good read for anyone who loves cultivation novels. I think it was posted to a website but I'm not sure but this is one of the smoother stories in terms of editing and flow. It is not a traditional story so to speak where you have a lot of side characters consistently surrounding the main character. He doesn't have a lot of friends and only visits them from time time it seems. There are some more emotional moments here and relationships growing but it has taken six books and hints among hundreds of pages to get there.
I do think this is one of those awesome hero of awesomeness type series that readers will either love or hate. The awesome hero in this case may not be completely morally upstanding but he still is that sort of character. He has his own code and sticks to it.
I've enjoyed the series overall as it is told in third person omniscient point of view without confusing head hopping. There is some language but the story over all remains appropriate for young adults and above. I will say that the entire series has been very entertaining but as I've gotten into the sixth book and have completed it it feels fairly redundant. The story has grown and is heading in a particular direction with unique things happening but it is filled with a lot of similar moments. There are countless uses of cold snorts cold looks unprecedented moments and extreme deathly crisis moments.
Emotionally speaking this story hit me several times and it is a five-star story in that but there are too many plotholes that are starting to appear where the author has been juggling a lot of story and seems to have dropped the ball a few times. I think part of it is the fact that story is so large that the author decided to go a different direction if two side characters for example but did not completely go throughout the story to fix that. This meant that for some reason they go from being trapped or in a dormant state to have at some point ran away. Still the author does not drop many balls in his juggling of storyline and characters.
I do feel that story could be tighter as they are several chapters and instances where a bit of fluff where maid and Butler dialogue is thrown in order to make something seem more significant. Where an action can take place forward by several point of views and spoken monologues before the action is completed. There is some point in which something unprecedented or epic has occurred so many times that the reader becomes numb to it
This story and series is a good read for anyone who loves cultivation novels. I think it was posted to a website but I'm not sure but this is one of the smoother stories in terms of editing and flow. It is not a traditional story so to speak where you have a lot of side characters consistently surrounding the main character. He doesn't have a lot of friends and only visits them from time time it seems. There are some more emotional moments here and relationships growing but it has taken six books and hints among hundreds of pages to get there.
I do think this is one of those awesome hero of awesomeness type series that readers will either love or hate. The awesome hero in this case may not be completely morally upstanding but he still is that sort of character. He has his own code and sticks to it.
November 29, 2025
Still absurd, but I had less fun with this book.
A lot of things still make me laugh: it describes nine suns dragging an even larger statue, then when butterflies appear they're described as being the size of (gasp) continents! After using suns as a unit of measurement. It's a child's understanding of scope.
Li Ling'er almost seems like a "jade beauty" being treated seriously, then... so much sexual assault. Some people said this series distinguishes itself because Meng Hao is faithful to his love interest, but the way sexuality comes up is just juvenile misogyny instead of edgelord misogyny and it's almost worse.
I continue to feel that setup and payoff are absolutely awful. The story previously spent so long building up the 101st meridian as special, then the dragon just jumps to 108. Then it goes all the way to 123 in a laughably long and repetitive sequence.
I thought I knew what people meant about xianxia being repetitive, but it turns out I hadn't seen anything yet. The immortal tribulation takes up a full six chapters and it's absurdly full of sentences that say exactly the same thing the previous one did, much less all those repeating information we already knew.
Funnily enough, the author actually includes a note responding to complaints, saying that the length is necessary - I'm surprised there's a level of stupidity that apparently upsets even xianxia readers. Then again, they were probably just whining that the instant gratification wasn't instant enough.
This continues to be a deeply stupid book. My favorite was when a commenter says "If he can outdo everyone else, then he'll take first place!" which is "People die when they are killed" level useless commentary. No matter how shallow Meng Hao's actions are, people respond with things like "Dammit, he's making such a big scene! You can tell he's a profound schemer!" And the best punchline was when Meng Hao does another big punch attack and the narrative responds "Everyone was completely mystified by Meng Hao's unfathomable secrets."
As before, the book calls things "schemes" when it's just extortion. The two comic relief characters try to run something that could actually be called a scam, and the narrative mocks them for it, but all of Meng Hao's schemes have been much dumber.
Unfortunately, a huge part of this book wasn't so funny, just another competition. It's striking to compare all the competitions in this series to something like Hunter x Hunter or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which use the competition format to tell interesting stories. Even something like Naruto used it to flesh out an interesting world. But everything here is just so half-hearted: "The man attacked with a giant monkey or whatever and it's power was completely shocking, but Meng Hao flicked his sleeve and the monkey BLEW UP OMG!" It's just the same thing every time, a substanceless world declaring the protagonist the best over and over.
At the end, with the civil war in the sect, for a brief moment there was a bit of politics going on and I actually felt a flicker of non-ironic interest. But unfortunately, just like the competition, brushing up against something decent only made clear just how shallow the narrative is here. A thousand chapters in and basically nothing meaningful has been built up.
A lot of things still make me laugh: it describes nine suns dragging an even larger statue, then when butterflies appear they're described as being the size of (gasp) continents! After using suns as a unit of measurement. It's a child's understanding of scope.
Li Ling'er almost seems like a "jade beauty" being treated seriously, then... so much sexual assault. Some people said this series distinguishes itself because Meng Hao is faithful to his love interest, but the way sexuality comes up is just juvenile misogyny instead of edgelord misogyny and it's almost worse.
I continue to feel that setup and payoff are absolutely awful. The story previously spent so long building up the 101st meridian as special, then the dragon just jumps to 108. Then it goes all the way to 123 in a laughably long and repetitive sequence.
I thought I knew what people meant about xianxia being repetitive, but it turns out I hadn't seen anything yet. The immortal tribulation takes up a full six chapters and it's absurdly full of sentences that say exactly the same thing the previous one did, much less all those repeating information we already knew.
Funnily enough, the author actually includes a note responding to complaints, saying that the length is necessary - I'm surprised there's a level of stupidity that apparently upsets even xianxia readers. Then again, they were probably just whining that the instant gratification wasn't instant enough.
This continues to be a deeply stupid book. My favorite was when a commenter says "If he can outdo everyone else, then he'll take first place!" which is "People die when they are killed" level useless commentary. No matter how shallow Meng Hao's actions are, people respond with things like "Dammit, he's making such a big scene! You can tell he's a profound schemer!" And the best punchline was when Meng Hao does another big punch attack and the narrative responds "Everyone was completely mystified by Meng Hao's unfathomable secrets."
As before, the book calls things "schemes" when it's just extortion. The two comic relief characters try to run something that could actually be called a scam, and the narrative mocks them for it, but all of Meng Hao's schemes have been much dumber.
Unfortunately, a huge part of this book wasn't so funny, just another competition. It's striking to compare all the competitions in this series to something like Hunter x Hunter or JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which use the competition format to tell interesting stories. Even something like Naruto used it to flesh out an interesting world. But everything here is just so half-hearted: "The man attacked with a giant monkey or whatever and it's power was completely shocking, but Meng Hao flicked his sleeve and the monkey BLEW UP OMG!" It's just the same thing every time, a substanceless world declaring the protagonist the best over and over.
At the end, with the civil war in the sect, for a brief moment there was a bit of politics going on and I actually felt a flicker of non-ironic interest. But unfortunately, just like the competition, brushing up against something decent only made clear just how shallow the narrative is here. A thousand chapters in and basically nothing meaningful has been built up.
May 22, 2022
Nostalgia and comedic relief keeps me going
July 6, 2021
Another great addition to the story!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I admit I have a soft spot for well written and correctly translated cultivation novels. I’ve had this sitting in my bookshelf for a long time now, and I’m glad I finally decided to read it. Can’t wait for the next instalment!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I admit I have a soft spot for well written and correctly translated cultivation novels. I’ve had this sitting in my bookshelf for a long time now, and I’m glad I finally decided to read it. Can’t wait for the next instalment!
October 26, 2021
tear jerker and I didn’t expect it
I love this story and I’m greatful for a good translation of the book. I have been loving the footnotes that come with each book. Patriarch reliance is still my favourite as well as Lord 5th and meat jelly … I think we are going to another planet soon next book will be epic
I love this story and I’m greatful for a good translation of the book. I have been loving the footnotes that come with each book. Patriarch reliance is still my favourite as well as Lord 5th and meat jelly … I think we are going to another planet soon next book will be epic
April 6, 2025
Some spoilers ahead.
Full of surprises this one, but then again I am getting kind of used to plot twist at this time. I like the family aspect of this book, I always prefer the stories where we see Meng Hao develop as a person as opposed to just fight, fight, fight. There is plenty of fighting in this one as well, but it was kind of heartwarming to see the Fang family back together. As much as I love to see it, his father did, once again, thrust him into a situation several layers deeper than he told Meng Hao, and while we may see the reasoning for that in the next book, it's still a bad thing to do to your own son.
As for the Fang clan, I do wonder if Elder was in on it the whole time? Even in those times where he seems to prefer Fang Wei over Hao. As that is the way this story is written I assumed that Meng Hao would come out on top of pretty much every situation, but I did not expect the First Patriarch to show up. And as a soul of the entire planet no less. I love the fact that Hao found himself in alchemy again, as I loved his Violet Sect, and this Pill Elder seems as nice of a mentor as Pill Demon was.
Now, for the funny section of this book. As always Meng Hao is realistically an a**hole who loves to con people out of spirit stones and I honestly find it hilarious. No matter how powerful he becomes he still can not shake the feeling he is poor and keeps grabbing for more stones, and in the process keeps screwing with half the people he meets. And I can not forget the fact he kind of, by accident, agreed to mediate between his sister and a Chosen that is in love with her. I look forward to those scenes unfolding.
Full of surprises this one, but then again I am getting kind of used to plot twist at this time. I like the family aspect of this book, I always prefer the stories where we see Meng Hao develop as a person as opposed to just fight, fight, fight. There is plenty of fighting in this one as well, but it was kind of heartwarming to see the Fang family back together. As much as I love to see it, his father did, once again, thrust him into a situation several layers deeper than he told Meng Hao, and while we may see the reasoning for that in the next book, it's still a bad thing to do to your own son.
As for the Fang clan, I do wonder if Elder was in on it the whole time? Even in those times where he seems to prefer Fang Wei over Hao. As that is the way this story is written I assumed that Meng Hao would come out on top of pretty much every situation, but I did not expect the First Patriarch to show up. And as a soul of the entire planet no less. I love the fact that Hao found himself in alchemy again, as I loved his Violet Sect, and this Pill Elder seems as nice of a mentor as Pill Demon was.
Now, for the funny section of this book. As always Meng Hao is realistically an a**hole who loves to con people out of spirit stones and I honestly find it hilarious. No matter how powerful he becomes he still can not shake the feeling he is poor and keeps grabbing for more stones, and in the process keeps screwing with half the people he meets. And I can not forget the fact he kind of, by accident, agreed to mediate between his sister and a Chosen that is in love with her. I look forward to those scenes unfolding.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 20, 2021
This book was better than the last, and went back to the roots of the series.
There was not a focus on battle and trials. Instead, the story focused on the progression of the main character through unique and varied interactions (not mindless grinding/tournaments/trials), which is more in line with what I look for in xianxia. I don't like to read fight chronicles, I like to read personal stories about interesting improvement.
There was not a focus on battle and trials. Instead, the story focused on the progression of the main character through unique and varied interactions (not mindless grinding/tournaments/trials), which is more in line with what I look for in xianxia. I don't like to read fight chronicles, I like to read personal stories about interesting improvement.
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!
January 11, 2018
Meh, ridiculous series and I got to say, a huge disappointment considering it is hailed as one of the best xuanxia out there. The only upside is that it makes quite a good and relaxing reading material while at work.
June 27, 2018
This is one of the best cultivation novels in similar genres.. personally I wont recommend you reading this as your first as after you read this most of similar novel are like frogs trying to eat swan meat.
December 13, 2025
Not the best one
Not a fan of these arcs. it ended well, but i was skimming through a lot of it as I can only take so much endless battle before I need some sort of story to happen. There are other reasons, but I dont want to give out any spoilers.
Not a fan of these arcs. it ended well, but i was skimming through a lot of it as I can only take so much endless battle before I need some sort of story to happen. There are other reasons, but I dont want to give out any spoilers.
July 30, 2017
Magnificent storylines, finely wrought and fully realised.
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!
January 27, 2021
Another massive and excellent addition to the series. I liked how it finished with Fang Wei.
August 14, 2024
nepo baby meng hao
August 5, 2019
meng hao's meridian opening went on forever, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz! listen er gen, when readers are complaining about it, then there's something wrong. when you stretch things out that much it gets boring and the impact actually decreases. very amateur.
December 4, 2021
amazing book
March 10, 2021
A descent into darkness with a good ending.
A lot of things happening, and many things explained. This series is very enjoyable.
Also this is a good translation into english (as much as I can tell being unable to read the original), and I do not recall any spelling or grammar errors.
Another thing I liked was the editor/translator put footnotes on both cultural/language idiosyncrasies & recurring characters at the end of chapters. This allowed you to remember what they referenced much better than at the very end.
A lot of things happening, and many things explained. This series is very enjoyable.
Also this is a good translation into english (as much as I can tell being unable to read the original), and I do not recall any spelling or grammar errors.
Another thing I liked was the editor/translator put footnotes on both cultural/language idiosyncrasies & recurring characters at the end of chapters. This allowed you to remember what they referenced much better than at the very end.
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.
October 26, 2021
Another consistently good entry to this series. I’m struggling with the repetitive nature of the books though. The same things just happen over and over again (Meng Hao is OP for his cultivation level, someone way stronger comes in and Meng Hao runs away as he slowly bridges the cultivation gap and the. He is OP again). There were some big plot developments that were unexpected. The character development felt a little unnatural to me. Our MC is just a heartless killing machine so it was weird to see more than that in this book.
June 18, 2017
Fantastic.
Er Ger is simple brilliant when it comes to create the scenarios for Meng Hao's cons and treasure hoarding, the fights also are well made, the diversity of magical powers and techniques are astonishing, the mystery on the storyline's lore is really epic in scope.
Deathblade's translations also are very well made, and in my opinion are now distinctly improved compared with volume 1
Er Ger is simple brilliant when it comes to create the scenarios for Meng Hao's cons and treasure hoarding, the fights also are well made, the diversity of magical powers and techniques are astonishing, the mystery on the storyline's lore is really epic in scope.
Deathblade's translations also are very well made, and in my opinion are now distinctly improved compared with volume 1
February 17, 2021
So happy to have a little break from Xu Qing
Am I the only one who could care less about Xu Qing as Meng Hao “beloved”? She seems so bland as a character. I would have preferred literally any of the other female characters in the book. Ahhh such angst! Well, the author is doing something right to have me so invested in his story that I have such strong feeling a about one of his fictional characters. Great book as always
Am I the only one who could care less about Xu Qing as Meng Hao “beloved”? She seems so bland as a character. I would have preferred literally any of the other female characters in the book. Ahhh such angst! Well, the author is doing something right to have me so invested in his story that I have such strong feeling a about one of his fictional characters. Great book as always
May 13, 2021
Can say enough good things
I like the series so far 6 books in and I still look forward to the next book. I love the length of each book. Only wish some of the details were slimed down. Some chapters remind me of watching DBZ (Dragon Ball Z anime, Freeza arc)it takes 20 chapters to kill or destroy something. Overall great book.
I like the series so far 6 books in and I still look forward to the next book. I love the length of each book. Only wish some of the details were slimed down. Some chapters remind me of watching DBZ (Dragon Ball Z anime, Freeza arc)it takes 20 chapters to kill or destroy something. Overall great book.
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January 11, 2019This part is where I start to feel a bit of disbelief with how many enemies Meng Hao faces. Like where are all these experts coming from?
March 31, 2019
A million words describing various punches and kicks with some plot sprinkled in is not what I was looking for.
-Dropped ch 806
-Dropped ch 806
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