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I Shall Seal the Heavens 我欲封天 #8
My Mountain and Sea Realm
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
1212 - 1409
Chapters
1212 - 1409
1450 pages, ebook
137 people are currently reading
127 people want to read
About the author
Er Gen
130 books275 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 17, 2019
the whole grand war of the worlds which is suppose to be the climax of the book dragged on and on and on... er gen does not know how to edit himself. it's like he just puked a bunch of words on paper for the sake of meeting chapter word counts. what was suppose to be exciting and intense just felt boring and bland. i forwarded several times out of boredom.
July 20, 2021
Brilliant!
This story continues to amaze me with the depth of insight and creativity. Obviously the cultivation/power ups get repetitive but each one has its own twist and with the stakes gradually increasing at each interval I am still left entertained! Reading the next book immediately.
This story continues to amaze me with the depth of insight and creativity. Obviously the cultivation/power ups get repetitive but each one has its own twist and with the stakes gradually increasing at each interval I am still left entertained! Reading the next book immediately.
July 29, 2017
This is pretty much fantastic.
Can't think of any other words to describe this book.
To me this was the best book of the series thus far, plus it ended in a way that I could accept as the end of the series, so I have great hopes for the next book.
If you like animes, manga and oriental culture, then give this chinese xianxia a shot, it is one of the best things I ever read
Can't think of any other words to describe this book.
To me this was the best book of the series thus far, plus it ended in a way that I could accept as the end of the series, so I have great hopes for the next book.
If you like animes, manga and oriental culture, then give this chinese xianxia a shot, it is one of the best things I ever read
February 20, 2021
This book has two major flaws that previous ones did not:
Long, boring, clinical battles, and a lack of justification and threshold for getting stronger.
Boring fights:
This book follows through on the concept of war. There is a lot of fighting. In previous books, each battle would be under a chapter, and conclude relatively quickly (book 5 is the exception, to it's detriment). Here, the book will introduce a new enemy general that you don't care about and then spend 5 chapters detailing a boring battle. I'm talking 'laundry list of move names' boring. Even young adult stuff like ranger's apprentice is better at describing battles. The battles are "A did this. B was in a bad spot. B did this. The tables have turned!" rinse and repeat. I don't even care about these new characters, so why do I need to read 5 chapters about them? (The author was exceeding their quota for chapters by 5x on some days in an attempt to get more tickets, which I'm pretty sure equate to reputation or profit or some such benefit.)
Lack of reader investment:
In order to have satisfying progression you need purpose and scale. You need a good purpose for getting stronger so that the reader will care and feel good in interested while they read about the mc powering up. You need a scale+goal for the powering up so that the reader can measure how much progress the mc has made toward achieving their purpose, that way the reader can tell that the mc is getting closer to fulfilling their purpose. Here the purpose is decent. There is a big war. However, the scale is nonexistent. We don't know how strong the main character needs to get to win, and random stronger enemies keep popping up a-la-dbz. That means that we can't tell whether the main character is making significant progress toward achieving anything, so we feel like the story is aimless. I don't read about a dude pushing a boulder up a hill for all eternity because although there is motion, there is no progress. Similarly, we are unable to measure progress here.
Long, boring, clinical battles, and a lack of justification and threshold for getting stronger.
Boring fights:
This book follows through on the concept of war. There is a lot of fighting. In previous books, each battle would be under a chapter, and conclude relatively quickly (book 5 is the exception, to it's detriment). Here, the book will introduce a new enemy general that you don't care about and then spend 5 chapters detailing a boring battle. I'm talking 'laundry list of move names' boring. Even young adult stuff like ranger's apprentice is better at describing battles. The battles are "A did this. B was in a bad spot. B did this. The tables have turned!" rinse and repeat. I don't even care about these new characters, so why do I need to read 5 chapters about them? (The author was exceeding their quota for chapters by 5x on some days in an attempt to get more tickets, which I'm pretty sure equate to reputation or profit or some such benefit.)
Lack of reader investment:
In order to have satisfying progression you need purpose and scale. You need a good purpose for getting stronger so that the reader will care and feel good in interested while they read about the mc powering up. You need a scale+goal for the powering up so that the reader can measure how much progress the mc has made toward achieving their purpose, that way the reader can tell that the mc is getting closer to fulfilling their purpose. Here the purpose is decent. There is a big war. However, the scale is nonexistent. We don't know how strong the main character needs to get to win, and random stronger enemies keep popping up a-la-dbz. That means that we can't tell whether the main character is making significant progress toward achieving anything, so we feel like the story is aimless. I don't read about a dude pushing a boulder up a hill for all eternity because although there is motion, there is no progress. Similarly, we are unable to measure progress here.
January 25, 2026
This is chapters 1212-1409
*Spoilers ahead*
I need a break from this whole series, this has broken something in me. I am SO UPSET. I haven't been this upset over a book in a while. We had 7 books of Mang Hao walking around Ninth Mountain and Ninth Sea and powering up, living the life and aiming towards some great power and riches. And then this book happens. We went from 0 to a 1000 in ONE BOOK. First we have a war between several Mountains and Seas. But no, that is just a prelude to a war between Nine Mountains and Seas Realm with the 33 Heavens. But noooo, THAT is just a prelude to a much greater war between this Immortal, God and Devil Realm. What? In a matter of few chapters we have Paragons popping up everywhere, each more powerful than the last, with Meng Hao still somehow being able to if not kill them, at least wound them quite well. The balance of power tips so quickly that it creates an insane confusion.
And then Mountain and Sea Realm is destroyed. But not really because that was all an illusion. But then yeah, destroyed few chapters later anyway. Mang Hao is no longer an Immortal, he's a Demon, whatever that means. And to top it all off, both parrot and meat jelly die protecting Mang Hao.
I will say that Mang Hao's personal development is quite nice, all the magic aside. Grandpa Mang was quite obvious, but Grandpa Fang did take me by surprise. Mang Hao matures quite a bit as a character and I like that. He goes all out to protect his home and his people. I found the death of Paragon Sea Dream kind of sad, she died thinking she was not worth much, and I beg to differ.
Anyway, I need a break before continuing this madness. Let's see what happens with the Echelon cultivators that went on to other realms. And I am still holding out hope for the parrot, meat jelly and mastiff. Anything seems possible in this insanity of a world so why not them coming back as well?
*Spoilers ahead*
I need a break from this whole series, this has broken something in me. I am SO UPSET. I haven't been this upset over a book in a while. We had 7 books of Mang Hao walking around Ninth Mountain and Ninth Sea and powering up, living the life and aiming towards some great power and riches. And then this book happens. We went from 0 to a 1000 in ONE BOOK. First we have a war between several Mountains and Seas. But no, that is just a prelude to a war between Nine Mountains and Seas Realm with the 33 Heavens. But noooo, THAT is just a prelude to a much greater war between this Immortal, God and Devil Realm. What? In a matter of few chapters we have Paragons popping up everywhere, each more powerful than the last, with Meng Hao still somehow being able to if not kill them, at least wound them quite well. The balance of power tips so quickly that it creates an insane confusion.
And then Mountain and Sea Realm is destroyed. But not really because that was all an illusion. But then yeah, destroyed few chapters later anyway. Mang Hao is no longer an Immortal, he's a Demon, whatever that means. And to top it all off, both parrot and meat jelly die protecting Mang Hao.
I will say that Mang Hao's personal development is quite nice, all the magic aside. Grandpa Mang was quite obvious, but Grandpa Fang did take me by surprise. Mang Hao matures quite a bit as a character and I like that. He goes all out to protect his home and his people. I found the death of Paragon Sea Dream kind of sad, she died thinking she was not worth much, and I beg to differ.
Anyway, I need a break before continuing this madness. Let's see what happens with the Echelon cultivators that went on to other realms. And I am still holding out hope for the parrot, meat jelly and mastiff. Anything seems possible in this insanity of a world so why not them coming back as well?
March 2, 2021
I was disappointed by this one. It seemed like there were literally hundreds of abilities and powers that appeared without any foreshadowing or antecedents. Sue, that's creative, but it's not very satisfying. What should have been a gradual swelling into a crescendo of violence in the war of the heavens... was instead the chaotic noise of a drum-kit falling down the stairs.
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
Words can't describe this masterpiece. This story is truly splendind in every single sense whatsoever. This story will make you laugh your ass off, will make you emotional, will make you pumped up and will make you cry. You're in a for one hell of an emotional trip.
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!
Love Er Gen for the great time I had reading the series and for Death Blade for translating this series to English.
Love Er Gen for the great time I had reading the series and for Death Blade for translating this series to English.
August 6, 2017
Heart-pounding actions intersecting with mind-numbing revelations!
January 17, 2018
I should stop reading this at work and do my job. Meh.
June 18, 2020
What a tragedy. I hope the revenge will be ultimate
July 12, 2020
I think its mild and more easier to follow in similarly large wuxia genre
December 23, 2025
reading for the fourth time
I enjoy this entire series tremendously. The humor; the pace, and the emotional tugs build a great story that pulls you in as you enjoy it.
I enjoy this entire series tremendously. The humor; the pace, and the emotional tugs build a great story that pulls you in as you enjoy it.
March 5, 2026
this jawn made me emotional
April 17, 2021
A captivating read in a vast series.
This book series has probably won the highest word counts that I've ever read in a series. I haven't got to read The wheel of Time yet but I have to wonder which is larger. This cultivation fantasy series does tend to go on for a bit at times but will pull you through chapter by chapter. This series is full of repetitiveness in terms of plot arcs action scenes cultivation development reactions themes and so on. However it is still interesting and will provide you if you enjoy the genre at least hours of entertainment.
As the 8th book in the series the author has done a fairly good job at juggling a vast amount of information. There are a few times in which it feels he drops the ball. Many of these things will not quite be noticeable unless you're binging through the entire series. This series has been known to have a time jump within a a paragraph that could be decades or even a hundred years. It's only happened a few times and for the most part the author has kept track of this. However in this last book as well as the previous one there were no massive time jumps. The character left his home after visiting his friends and spent about a decade or so through the next two books only to return home as if generations had passed. In a sense that was how the author was portraying it it didn't quite make sense. I think this is part of where the author is trying to give significance to something by increasing the value of its age when it really wasn't there. It's minor but it's sort of nagging me simply because it's a puzzle piece that doesn't fit the story.
Truthfully though the author is juggling a massive amount of information and has been keeping it going. As for us readers it is difficult to keep up with the names at times when they're thrown at us in massive amounts but the author makes characters unique and recognizable to the point that even with the unique names the signatures that they have when they show up tend to immediately connect back to the past stories.
There's a lot of action and this is not quite a series or stories that have consistent beginning middles and ends. Most of the time the story is so large that you can have a few different climaxes to plot arts throughout the entire story. And while there is sometimes a slight overarching plot it is mostly the overarching part of a series rather than an overarching plot for a book. Nonetheless it is very entertaining if you enjoy the style.
The language in the book sometimes gets fairly crass to the point where I would say it definitely is a series that is for young adults and above. While there is nothing explicit within the series I still think it's inappropriate for children. The action is fun if a bit repetitive at times.
This book series has probably won the highest word counts that I've ever read in a series. I haven't got to read The wheel of Time yet but I have to wonder which is larger. This cultivation fantasy series does tend to go on for a bit at times but will pull you through chapter by chapter. This series is full of repetitiveness in terms of plot arcs action scenes cultivation development reactions themes and so on. However it is still interesting and will provide you if you enjoy the genre at least hours of entertainment.
As the 8th book in the series the author has done a fairly good job at juggling a vast amount of information. There are a few times in which it feels he drops the ball. Many of these things will not quite be noticeable unless you're binging through the entire series. This series has been known to have a time jump within a a paragraph that could be decades or even a hundred years. It's only happened a few times and for the most part the author has kept track of this. However in this last book as well as the previous one there were no massive time jumps. The character left his home after visiting his friends and spent about a decade or so through the next two books only to return home as if generations had passed. In a sense that was how the author was portraying it it didn't quite make sense. I think this is part of where the author is trying to give significance to something by increasing the value of its age when it really wasn't there. It's minor but it's sort of nagging me simply because it's a puzzle piece that doesn't fit the story.
Truthfully though the author is juggling a massive amount of information and has been keeping it going. As for us readers it is difficult to keep up with the names at times when they're thrown at us in massive amounts but the author makes characters unique and recognizable to the point that even with the unique names the signatures that they have when they show up tend to immediately connect back to the past stories.
There's a lot of action and this is not quite a series or stories that have consistent beginning middles and ends. Most of the time the story is so large that you can have a few different climaxes to plot arts throughout the entire story. And while there is sometimes a slight overarching plot it is mostly the overarching part of a series rather than an overarching plot for a book. Nonetheless it is very entertaining if you enjoy the style.
The language in the book sometimes gets fairly crass to the point where I would say it definitely is a series that is for young adults and above. While there is nothing explicit within the series I still think it's inappropriate for children. The action is fun if a bit repetitive at times.
July 12, 2021
Great installment
These continue to be consistent with what was before. Still enjoying the series and looking forward to the next book
These continue to be consistent with what was before. Still enjoying the series and looking forward to the next book
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.
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January 11, 2019I think those who think the twist is weird, remember all the twists and turns of Beseech the Devil (now named Pursuit of the Truth)?
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