★ Animation, comic, and VR adaptations are already licensed. It is the first Chinese web novel IP to land at Universal Studios Singapore, featuring a limited-time Halloween-themed haunted house attraction!

★ A phenomenal web novel with exceptional data: Over 1.67 million recommendations, 1.5 million favorites, and maintains an ultra-high rating of 9.4/10. Its core fanbase exceeds 3.18 million, and it consistently ranks at the top of multiple charts. Honored as the "Annual Influential Work of 2024" and topped the annual list by the Chinese Fiction Institute, with total online topic engagement exceeding 1 billion.

★ The core premise hits a global nerve of existential anxiety, presenting an extreme interrogation of "What is real?"
In an era of information overload where the lines between virtual and real increasingly blur, the question "Is the world I perceive real?" lies at the heart and starting point of this extreme allegory. Readers follow the protagonist's perspective, constantly questioning, reasoning, and breaking down. This "fighting poison with poison" reading experience provides a safe yet thrilling emotional outlet for modern individuals plagued by "existential anxiety."

★ The work pioneers the refreshing genre of "Sino-Lovecraftian Horror": It masterfully blends the Eastern cultivation system, folk tales of the strange, with the Lovecraftian horror of fear towards the unknown and madness. It employs non-linear narration and stream-of-consciousness techniques to build suspense. The eerily familiar yet utterly alien aesthetic and storytelling feel fresh, thrilling, and utterly addictive.

Young Li Huowang is trapped in a cognitive hell. His consciousness violently shuttles between a modern, normal world and an ancient world of cultivation.

In the modern world, he is diagnosed with severe schizophrenia. His goal is to cooperate with treatment, return to a normal life, and attend university with his childhood sweetheart, Yang Na. In the "ancient" world, he is a "medicine guide" kidnapped by the evil cultivator Dan Yangzi, destined to be thrown into a pill furnace, existing in a cultivation realm with twisted laws and indescribable horrors.

Initially, Li Huowang is convinced everything in the ancient world is a hallucination from his sick mind, acting with reckless abandon. His conviction shatters when he makes the horrifying discovery that his actions in the "delusional" world manifest in bizarre and bloody ways in the "real" world. Is he slaying demons and monsters, or is he just a blood-stained madman?

To protect Bai Lingmiao, an albino girl who is also a "medicine guide" and silently offers him warmth in their desperate plight, Li Huowang unleashes his latent potential and kills his terrifying master, Dan Yangzi. However, escape is merely the beginning of a deeper nightmare. Leading the survivors, he ventures into this vast and bizarre world, encountering a series of reality-shattering events: the price of immortality is transformation into a fleshy tumor, a "compassionate" Bodhisattva feeds on suffering, and the physical laws of the world are slowly crumbling. The more he seeks the truth, the more lost he becomes in the eternal labyrinth of "which side is real?"

Amidst extreme agony and madness, Li Huowang finds a perilous path to survival: he ceases trying to distinguish reality from illusion. Instead, he cultivates the very "illness" that causes him to shuttle between worlds into a unique supernatural ability, transforming chaos into power. Yet, Dan Yangzi, who has "ascended," is not truly dead and haunts Li Huowang in even more grotesque forms. In their final confrontation, Li Huowang glimpses the terrifying truth of this world's "inverted heavenly order"...

Now, the boundaries between the two worlds are merging, and time is becoming disordered. Li Huowang realizes that to protect everything he holds dear in both worlds, he must transform from a madman struggling to survive into the savior of this collapsing, bizarre world. His battle is both against external, indescribable evil gods and an eternal war against the boundless madness within.

Huwei (Penname: Fox Tail's Pen)
One of the "Twelve Paragon Authors of Web Literature".
Notable works include Dao of the Bizarre Immortal and Mysterious Underground Sea. Renowned for a unique Lovecraftian style and the ability to construct Eastern fantasy worlds, skilled in depicting character psychology and suspenseful atmospheres. His works balance literary merit with entertainment, earning deep reader affection.

Dao of the Bizarre Immortal merges Eastern cultivation with Western Lovecraftian elements, pioneering the new subgenre of "Eastern Lovecraftian Xianxia." It has become one of the most discussed and groundbreaking web novels in recent years, solidifying the author's status as a pioneer of the "Sino-Lovecraftian" genre. Dao of the Bizarre Immortal is the first Chinese web novel IP to be featured at Universal Studios Singapore.