Liaozhai: From West Lake Azure Carp to a True Dragon of the Nine Heavens

In the misty depths of the West Lake, a common green carp named Li Qing was born.

She was born in this Liaozhai world, with no transmigration, no system, and no heaven-defying cheat, only steady, down-to-earth cultivation step by step.

This world is vast and complete. Heaven stands high above, the underworld turns in its cycle, immortals and buddhas coexist, the Dragon Palaces of the Four Seas are entrenched, and demons, monsters, and strange beings run rampant through the world. The Heavenly Way is fair: merit can form the foundation of the Dao, karmic sin can destroy cultivation, and all beings cultivate according to rules and constraints.

Only by passing the four tribulations of the Dragon Gate—going to the gate, leaping the waterfall, enduring the tempering of heavenly fire and rain, and shedding the old to be reborn—can one cast off a demonic body. This road is one of nine deaths and one life, and throughout the ages only a handful have succeeded. Li Qing will carry a thousand years of accumulation and a body of righteous merit to walk out, in the vast Liaozhai world, the supreme path of a green carp transforming into a dragon.