25 minSeason 1 • Episode 25
LatestXu Qing lives in a world where the weak are the prey of the strong, and every day is a fight to survive. The aura of a god has polluted the entire world, including the resources necessary to practice cultivation. As a result, cultivators risk mutation and death when they try to become more powerful. Xu Qing’s goals are simple: he wants to survive, and he wants to find his lost family. He lives in brutal, ruthless, and chaotic circumstances, but he encounters good people that become his close friends. He is not crafty and cowardly like Bai Xiaochun. He is not clever and greedy like Meng Hao. He is his own person.
Writing
Ergen's worldbuilding hits different when the system eats you alive.
Acting
Chen Zhangtaikang's Xu Qing: all trauma, zero quips.
Creator
Ergen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ergen wrote this after A Will Eternal, deliberately crafting Xu Qing as the anti-Bai Xiaochun — no comedy relief, just survival arithmetic.
The 'polluted cultivation' premise critiques xianxia's power fantasy: what if ascension itself was the villain? Chinese web novel readers immediately recognized the subversion.
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