Heavenly Silkworm Potato Novels in Order, Plus His New Book

Heavenly Silkworm Potato novels in order go Battle Through the Heavens, Martial Universe, The Great Ruler, Yuan Zun, Absolute Resonance and Shentongzhe, with a 2008 debut before all of them. All five before Shentongzhe have a licensed English edition, and NovelUpdates lists Wuxiaworld as the English publisher for each. The first three are also complete on Webnovel; Yuan Zun and Absolute Resonance aren't on Webnovel at all. Below are the full list, the link between the first three, and what's going on with the new Fanqie book.

Image: official covers from Qidian (斗破苍穹, 武动乾坤, 大主宰, 元尊, 万相之王) and Fanqie (神通者)

Heavenly Silkworm Potato Novels in Order, Debut to Fanqie

Heavenly Silkworm Potato (Tiancan Tudou, 天蚕土豆) is the pen name of Li Hu, born in Sichuan in 1989. His first novel, 魔兽剑圣异界纵横, started on Qidian in April 2008. Baidu Baike says it gave its hero the Blademaster's skills from Warcraft (the 魔兽 in the title), Wind Walk (疾风步) and Bladestorm (剑刃风暴) among them. We couldn't find an English edition of it: it isn't on his NovelUpdates author page, and it isn't among the five works his Qidian author page lists today. The order below starts after it.

Qidian's own blurb for 万相之王 confirms the middle of that list in one line: it calls the book his next fantasy novel "after 斗破苍穹, 武动乾坤, 大主宰 and 元尊". Qidian's cover for it also prints "Absolute Resonance" in English under the Chinese title, which is the name fans use. The run dates come from Chinese Wikipedia and match the years on his Qidian page, with one exception: Qidian dates Battle Through the Heavens 2009 to 2018, because its last post there is a character biography for the 斗破苍穹：斗帝之路 mobile game, dated September 19, 2018, long after the main story ended in July 2011.

Screenshot: Qidian, 天蚕土豆 author page, November 5, 2026

Why Battle Through the Heavens Comes Before The Great Ruler

The first three books share a world. Chinese Wikipedia says The Great Ruler's content is tied to the two before it, and it shows in The Great Ruler's own synopsis on Webnovel: "In the Endless Fire Territory that the Flame Emperor controls," and "Inside the Martial Realm, the power of the Martial Ancestor frightens the heaven and the earth." Chinese Wikipedia's character list names the Flame Emperor as Xiao Yan, the hero of Battle Through the Heavens, and the Martial Ancestor as Lin Dong, the hero of Martial Universe.

The Great Ruler doesn't open with either of them. Mu Chen's story starts in the Northern Spirit Realm (北灵境), and its chapter 1, 北灵院, is "Northern Spiritual Academy" on Webnovel. The two cameos only land if you've watched both men climb, which is why release order matters for these three. The later books are murkier. NovelUpdates files Yuan Zun, Absolute Resonance and Shentongzhe in the same shared universe as the first three, but Qidian's blurb for Absolute Resonance names the older books only as his earlier work, and Chinese Wikipedia has no article on Yuan Zun or Absolute Resonance, so there's no character list to check the link against.

Martial Universe is the middle book and the least-viewed of the three on Webnovel, at 22.4 million views against 37.5 million for Battle Through the Heavens. We read its chapter 1, "Lin Dong", on Webnovel on November 5. Lin Dong wakes up after a beating from Lin Shan, a boy from the same clan two layers ahead of him in Tempered Body. The chapter is plain about why: Lin Shan's father runs the family's finances, so Lin Shan gets the elixirs. Lin Dong's injured father hands over the Red Ginseng meant for his own wounds and says, "I am already a useless person, no matter what kind of remedies are used, it would all be for naught." By the end Lin Dong is aiming at a healing fruit for the top three of a family competition six months away. It's the fallen-genius opening again, told from the son of the one who fell.

Our full verdict on the book the other two lean on, and who should skip its opening.

Battle Through the Heavens Review →

The Two Licensed Books Missing From Webnovel

Yuan Zun (元尊) launched on September 14, 2017 with Zongheng as its home site, came to Qidian on April 2, 2019 and ended on January 30, 2021 at chapter 1,497. Its hero is Zhou Yuan, crown prince of the Great Zhou, whose dragon fortune was stolen when he was a child, per Baidu Baike's summary.

Absolute Resonance (万相之王) ran from April 2021 to November 14, 2025, when Qidian posted chapter 1,837, titled 大结局 (the grand finale). Qidian's page still tags it 连载 (ongoing), so don't let that label fool you.

NovelUpdates lists both as licensed and completely translated, with Wuxiaworld as the English publisher, the same publisher it lists for the first three; Yuan Zun goes by Dragon Prince Yuan there. Baidu Baike's entry on the author also says Yuan Zun has editions in English, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Spanish. We didn't open Wuxiaworld for this guide, so we have no English chapter counts, prices or ratings for either book.

The trap is on Webnovel. Search "Yuan Zun" or "Absolute Resonance" there on November 5, 2026 and the top hits are one-chapter reader uploads tagged ORIGINAL, posted by accounts like FallenImmortal and Elizar_Villez, not the author or a licensed translator. A longer "Dragon Prince Yuan" upload exists as well, also labelled ORIGINAL. None of these is the licensed edition, so we're not linking them. NovelUpdates' series pages for Dragon Prince Yuan and Absolute Resonance show the licence and the publisher.

Shentongzhe, the Fanqie Book

The new one is 神通者 (Shentongzhe, roughly "one with a shentong bone"), and it's on Fanqie, not Qidian. Fanqie dates chapter 0, his author note, July 22, and chapter 1, "雷火馆" (Thunder Fire Hall), August 8, 2026, the release date Baidu Baike also gives. As of November 4, 2026 at 17:00 it had reached chapter 189, "四尊宗师", at 514,000 characters, tagged traditional and Eastern fantasy. Fanqie's synopsis sets the premise: some living things grow a strange bone that can carry inscribed techniques, the shentong bone, and anyone who has one is a shentongzhe. The hero, from the chapter titles, is Lu Ming.

One detail Battle Through the Heavens readers will notice: chapter 4 is titled 佛怒火莲, and so is chapter 125 ("此为，佛怒火莲"). Baidu Baike's entry for 佛怒火莲 calls it a fighting technique from Battle Through the Heavens, and a Tencent Video clip from the Battle Through the Heavens donghua is titled "萧炎佛怒火莲层层叠加" (Xiao Yan stacks the fire lotus layer on layer). We couldn't read past the titles, though, because Fanqie's web reader renders chapter text in a scrambled font. So we can't tell you whether it's a nod or a link to the old world.

Screenshot: Fanqie, 神通者 book page, November 5, 2026

The move to Fanqie is what put him back in English-language feeds in early November 2026. A post on r/noveltranslations from November 2 says Fanqie named him a "Hall of Fame Author" at its November 1 authors' night, and that the poster counts him as holding the top author title on Qidian, Zongheng and Fanqie. We couldn't find that announcement on Fanqie's own web pages, so treat it as reported. Replying in the same thread, the poster, u/goodmore233, adds that Absolute Resonance went out on several platforms while the new book is Fanqie-only. Another reader, u/drollawake, found the book by accident: "I was shocked when I checked out the Fanqie rankings and found a new novel with so many readers." Then came the author's name, and "a second shock."

Where to Read the First Three Officially

The first three are complete on Webnovel, and NovelUpdates lists Wuxiaworld as their English publisher as well. As of November 5, 2026, on Webnovel:

Martial Universe has the fewest views and the best rating of the three. The Great Ruler has the most ratings and the lowest score, which fits what our review found: a strong Spiritual Road mystery in a stiff translation. If you'd rather watch first, our Great Ruler donghua vs novel guide maps where the show sits in the book.

Where the Spiritual Road mystery pulls, and where the translation gets in the way.

The Great Ruler Review →

Our Take on Reading Heavenly Silkworm Potato Novels in Order

Read the Heavenly Silkworm Potato novels in order of release, and start with the first three: Battle Through the Heavens, then Martial Universe, then The Great Ruler. As of November 5, 2026 that's roughly 4,500 chapters on Webnovel, and it's where the Flame Emperor and Martial Ancestor cameos pay off. If you've read enough fallen-genius openings to dread another, skip straight to Martial Universe: its chapter 1 sets up the whole family grudge in one scene, and it has the best Webnovel rating of the three. Yuan Zun and Absolute Resonance are the next stop if you want more. Both are licensed, with Wuxiaworld as publisher, but neither is on Webnovel, so ignore the one-chapter uploads that come up first in Webnovel search. Don't count on Shentongzhe in English soon: NovelUpdates lists no licence and no English publisher for it, and a Fanqie-only book with no English platform behind it is the longest wait on this list.

How We Checked This

On November 5, 2026 we opened his Qidian author page and the Qidian pages for 大主宰 and 万相之王 for dates, lengths and blurbs, the Fanqie page for 神通者 and its chapter 0 and chapter 1 pages for upload dates, and the Webnovel pages for Battle Through the Heavens, Martial Universe and The Great Ruler. We searched Webnovel for Yuan Zun and Absolute Resonance and opened the top results, and checked the licence and English publisher for Dragon Prince Yuan, Absolute Resonance and Shentongzhe on NovelUpdates. We didn't open Wuxiaworld. We read Martial Universe chapter 1 in full on Webnovel. We checked Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike for his bibliography and read the r/noveltranslations thread on the Fanqie title. We haven't read Battle Through the Heavens or The Great Ruler for this guide; our reviews of them are linked here.

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References

• Qidian: 天蚕土豆 author page
• Qidian: 大主宰
• Qidian: 万相之王
• Fanqie: 神通者
• Fanqie: 神通者 chapter 0, 新书感言
• Fanqie: 神通者 chapter 1, 雷火馆
• Fanqie: home page and writer zone (no Hall of Fame announcement found)
• Wikipedia (Chinese): 天蠶土豆
• Wikipedia (Chinese): 大主宰
• Wikipedia (Chinese): API lookup for 元尊 and 萬相之王 (no articles)
• Baidu Baike: 天蚕土豆
• Baidu Baike: 万相之王
• Baidu Baike: 元尊
• Baidu Baike: 佛怒火莲
• Webnovel: Battle Through the Heavens
• Webnovel: Martial Universe
• Webnovel: Martial Universe chapter 1, Lin Dong
• Webnovel: The Great Ruler
• Webnovel: The Great Ruler table of contents
• Webnovel: search results for Absolute Resonance
• Webnovel: reader upload "Yuan Zun" by FallenImmortal, webnovel.com/book/yuan-zun_18848342606437505 (not linked: not a licensed edition)
• Webnovel: reader upload "Absolute resonance" by Elizar_Villez, webnovel.com/book/absolute-resonance_29596440400115405 (not linked: not a licensed edition)
• Webnovel: reader upload "Dragon Prince Yuan" by douloreuz, webnovel.com/book/dragon-prince-yuan_14928066106231905 (not linked: not a licensed edition)
• NovelUpdates: Battle Through the Heavens
• NovelUpdates: Wu Dong Qian Kun (Martial Universe)
• NovelUpdates: The Great Ruler
• NovelUpdates: Dragon Prince Yuan
• NovelUpdates: Absolute Resonance
• NovelUpdates: The Divine Ability Practitioner (神通者)
• NovelUpdates: Heavenly Silkworm Potato author page
• Tencent Video: Battle Through the Heavens donghua clip search
• Reddit r/noveltranslations: Heavenly Silkworm Potato has become Fanqie's fifth Hall of Fame Author