I Shall Seal the Heavens

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“What I want, the Heavens shall not lack!”

“What I don’t want, had better not exist under the Heavens!”

This is a story that originates between the Eighth and Ninth Mountains, the world in which the strong prey upon the weak.

“My Name is Meng Hao! The Ninth Generation Demon Sealer, I shall seal the Heavens!”

Associated Names
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Cennetleri Mühürlemeliyim
Demon Sealer
ISSTH
Ngã Dục Phong Thiên
Wo Yu Feng Tian
ผนึกสวรรค์ สยบมาร สะท้านเทพ
我欲封天
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Adwise101
Adwise101
August 15, 2022
Status: c600
It's more like a 2/5 but giving it a one to counterbalance all the BS 5* reviews there is.

I dropped the story around Ch.600 but could have easily dropped it 400 chapters earlier and have not missed anything. In fact, I would have save me a ton of time from reading this drivel. The story is sooooo bland. 80% of the story are descriptions or reactions. The none of the action scenes are memorable nor are the 100's of characters that MC has already encountered in the 600 chapters read... more>> so far. <<less
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lucwind
lucwind rated it
May 23, 2022
Status: Completed
storyline : 3, 5/5

world building : 4/5

characters : 3, 5/5

i give this novel 3, 5 rating for overall story, it is well written and I love every arcs there is except final arc fight againts allheaven as I do hate all final arcs from the author. But the biggest problem is in romance between MC and yuyan, so disappointing as yuyan way deserve to be MC wife rather than actual first wife. I prefer an MC with only one woman mindset very much as I hate story where MC picking... more>> up women everywhere like plucking weeds and cabbages, that is just tr*sh qualities romance, big no. But the way the author made MC and yuyan interraction throughout the story is really makes you mad, his first wife literally just waiting to be rescued since the start while yuyan have the strong girl mindset, following the step of MC with her own power. Even first wife approved of sharing with yuyan but author decided a good romance is tragedy romance, whatever. At least for me this decision destroy the story and making me put issth below awe and other similar novels where MC have a devoted mindset for one woman but they can be flexible when necessary. The author here portrayed yuyan to be so miserable just for being exist in the story. Some romance should have a good ending it deserve, being devoted is good but forced devoted makes it ugly.

good novel but one big mistake, at least for me, I give 3 rating. <<less
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TurdFerguson777
TurdFerguson777 rated it
December 27, 2021
Status: --
This novel is very disappointing. I read AWE and its was quite good so I had high expectations for this novel, but ultimately this novel was a masterclass in lazy writing, contrived plots, nonsensical scenarios, completely uninteresting MC. Also, this seems to the be the case in the Er Gen novels I've read but the cultivation systems are so convoluted, but still this is better than RI
(good example of power system would be LOM - which is better than this novel by times infinity)

The worst thing about... more>> this novel, same with RI, is just how things just randomly happen... when good things randomly happen IDC that much, because at-least it pushes the story forward, but when bad things randomly happen, and these things are used to create tension or conflict, everything feels completely contrived. I probably just skipped every 5 chapters of this novel on average because of this.

TDLR: Lazy writing, contrived plot and conflict, uninteresting and at-times idiotic MC.

I probably wouldn't dislike this so much if this was just a random novel and not one that I had such high expectations for. <<less
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Yamete Onii-chan
Yamete Onii-chan rated it
August 24, 2021
Status: c865
For Indonesians who want to read this novel:

Ini review saya tentang novel ini.

Ini Bagian Buruk

    1. Emosi MC gak stabil sama sekali kadang dia tenang tapi secara tiba-tiba dia jadi semangat dan dia jadi kejam. Diawal-awal MC gak seperti itu cuma setelah dia ninggalin sekte dia mulai gak stabil dan saya sering bingung karena pergantian suasana hatinya yang secara tiba-tiba padahal dijelasin kalau dia ini orang yang tenang dan gak ada yang bisa mengguncang dia tapi...
    2. MC ini benar-benar mata duitan yang membuat saya sering jengkel. Entah dari Penulis sengaja dia jadi mata duitan supaya si Penulis bisa nyari ide disaat dia kehabisan ide (karena banyak penulis yg kehabisan ide disaat mereka menulis cerita karena itu mereka butuh pengalihan untuk pembaca contohnya, seperti yg bergenre harem, penulis bisa ngebuat cerita pengalihan dengan genre harem ini seperti dimana si MC direbutin sama tokoh a dan tokoh b atau dimana MC ngebuat pasukan haremnya itu kesal jadi MC dihukum dan sejenisnya). Kalau benar agak bodoh menurut saya. Contohnya disaat MC lagi mengikuti sebuah ujian/kompetisi yg berada di luar planetnya salah satu ujiannya itu dia harus membuat sebuah skill dari pencerahan 99 reruntuhan yg ada. Tapi walaupun MC berhasil kenapa gak dia melakukan perenungan lebih lanjut tentang 99 reruntuhan itu. Justru dia malah jual obat buat nyari duit padahal dia bisa nyari duit dikesempatan lain.
    3. Pergantian peristiwa yg secara tiba-tiba yg sering ngebuat saya bingung karena diawal baik-baik aja secara tiba-tiba jadi buruk.
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Contohnya disaat MC keluar dari sebuah sekte kuno dan seharusnya perjalanan kembali itu aman tapi dia ketemu musuh yg mau mencuri fondasi dia dan berakhir dengan MC yg terluka parah. Dan hal itu membuat saya benar-benar bingung (bayangin aja kalian abis pulang liburan secara tiba-tiba kalian melihat sebuah kecelakaan terjadi di depan mata kalian)

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Ini Bagian Bagus.

    1. Hampir gak ada plot hole, dan penjelasannya menurut saya salah satu dari yg terbaik. Dan kalau ada yg nolongin dia atau ada musuh baru penulis udah membuat penjelasan jauh-jauh hari jadi kita gak akan bingung ini orang nongol dari mana (saya sering ketemu novel yg secara tiba-tiba si MC dapat pertolongan atau musuh baru tanpa penjelasan asal usul mengapa mereka melakukan hal itu, kalau saya ketemu novel seperti reaksi saya ke karakter penolong atau penjahat baru cuma satu "lu kemana aja otong, kenapa baru nongol").
    2. Novel ini beberapa kali ngajarin saya tentang kehidupan.
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Contohnya dimana dia masuk ke sebuah sekte kuno yg sudah hancur dan di sana dia masuk ke alam mimpi/ilusi dan dia di kasih identitas murid elit yg bermasalah. Murid elit ini punya ayah yg luar bisa manjain anaknya karena dia satu-satunya anak yg dia punya (anak-anak lain meninggal). Di mimpi/ilusi ini MC ngerasain yg namanya kasih sayang ayah yg udah lama gk dia rasakan (MC ditinggal orang tuanya karena beberapa alasan) dan disaat si ayahnya ini mau meninggal MC ini merasa kesedihan yg mendalam. Yg akhirnya si ayah ini tau kalau MC bukan anaknya yg selama ini dia kira tapi si ayah ini tetap nganggap MC anaknya.

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Kisah cinta MC juga cukup bagus.

Saya kasih nilai tiga karena saya cukup terganggu dengan MC yg terlalu mata duitan ini :p

Semua review tentang novel ini murni pendapat saya sendiri.
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Holy Shura
July 26, 2021
Status: --
Dropped it around 300 chaps before end. That was a year ago or so.

Would recommend it until the end of the violet fate arc (that one sect where he does alchemy). Afterwards is only crap.

My main problem with the novel was that whenever he got something new that was the go to tool to solve a situation. Perfect example is the following:

MC became expert in poison and now he has to block an army from going though a barrier arry. What's his weapon of choice to kill the thousands... more>> and thousands of relatively low level enemies? His fists and shit. Not airborne poison, no, not swords that make time go fast either.

To top it all the legendary "immortal mu*dering swords" were never actually used even though he had 8 or so.

And the blood spirit hound pet was also a joke, for a few hundred chapters it is repeatedly said "soon it will awaken" only for it to happen literally hundreds of years later when the MC is already stronger than it and it is now useless. Which leads to a repeat of exactly that situation.

Not to forget that be-all-end-all war where the officially strongest person asks so thing like "should we start the war with the enemies that are stronger than us right now or should we prepare for a hundred years?" and they start the war right away, even though in 100 years the MC would have grown to a level where he would have been able to take care of the war alone.

All in all disappointing and caused my earlier idea to read the other er gen novels as well to vanish. <<less
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Panpan66
Panpan66 rated it
May 12, 2021
Status: Completed
I read this when it was updating little by little in English translations and I absolutely loved it. The English translation, the author, and the translator are awesome. By the time I picked it up I have read over 10 Xianxia novels and this was the best out of all. That time I was still in the great hype of getting to know Xianxia novels so you must know how awesome it feels to have found this perfection. True thoughts: this novel should be sitting at a 4.7 if you... more>> get rid of the comedy tag (I don't even know why it's there). <<less
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D0nutz
D0nutz rated it
May 9, 2021
Status: c150
The first 3 books of AWE are some of the best books on this site. They're filled with comedy, exciting plot twists & creative writing. With the hype for this novel the last thing I'd expect is to not like it, but alas, I'm not even sure how people can be so boring and depraved to actually read this! There's no comedy, the characters have no personalities, & from the last chapter I read the MC is a cuck. Really disappointing considering how this is considered one of the best... more>> Chinese webnovels. <<less
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simianpower
simianpower rated it
March 28, 2021
Status: v10c1
After hearing about this for a long time, I finally read it. And... I really liked it. I read the first nine books, and I liked maybe 6-7 of them quite a bit. After Meng Hao went interplanetary it got a bit silly, and once the 33 Heavens got involved I really started to lose interest because nothing seemed to have much of a cause-and-effect relationship any more. It was the author telling us what happened rather than showing, and Meng Hao lost most of the agency that he had... more>> on Planet South Heaven.

That said, I think the best arc was probably the Violet Fate arc. I really liked that one. The time-travel arc was damned good, too.

To be honest, the story is very tropy, and there was never much suspense or sense of actual danger, and any time something awful COULD have happened I just expected some "random" windfall for Meng Hao. And that happened every single time. Yet it was written in an engaging fashion, and it kept me entertained for weeks. This is a popcorn story. It's not deep. It's not philosophical. But for what it is, it's pretty good. I did NOT finish it, and I don't think anyone should feel obligated to do so even if they read very far into it. This is one of those stories that you read as long as you find them entertaining, and drop when you lose that feeling. I waited a few books too long, but it's not all that bad. <<less
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oatesi
oatesi rated it
March 23, 2021
Status: Completed
I love this novel it was one of my first, I was there reading this from way back when the blood legacy arc was underway and I took with it for years until it eventually finished.

I remember some days I could barley contain myself waiting for the chapters to update, I have sung its praises for years as 5 stars without a doubt, but rereading it had changed my perception somewhat, maybe it was the segmented nature of how I digested it originally, maybe it was my lack of experience... more>> with the genre, maybe even nostalgia that made me like it so much.

This novel as much as it pains mr to say is a low 4star maybe even a decent 3 looking at it now.

The first issue I found with it was the descriptive writing, dont get me wrong it's great when it's there but it is very inconsistent, in the earliest chapters it was beautiful and expressive but as time progressed it was just repetitive story beats synonymous with the genre.

Point 2 its repetitive, there are some plot points that switched it up a bit but generally it was meant hoa, pisses someone off, runs away comes back when hes stronger or dominates with overwhelming strength.

The MCs whole shtick gets invalidated.
Spoiler

his entire underdog archetype/ way of being gets invalidated when you learn that hes not some regular mortal the locked and beguiled his way to the top, when you learn hes actually the chosen of the fang clan with the highest purity bloodline

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Plot armoured mary sue.

I'm tired but there were other things that annoyed rereading. <<less
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codu83
codu83 rated it
September 2, 2020
Status: Completed
Not bad. Classic xianxia. As usual, shitty romance. The making of the character is also bad. The guy is a confucianiste, but one mu*der is enough to make him kill whenever he wants. And sometimes he seems "forced" to be the hero when in fact it is just some random excuses being used by the author to make him seems that way. The hero that did not want to be one. And at the end the MC seems like a real lunatic which seems totally unfit with his personnality. Anyway,... more>> it's not like it's different than any other xianxia that I read so far so no surprise there.

I would advise to read RI and Pursuit of the Truth before this one even if it's not necessary for the comprehension of the novel. I found it really frustrating when I fell on characters of the previous webnovel that I didn't read.

Good translation but god I hate the sentence "it seems that it took a long time but in fact it happened during a few seconds" repeated again and again with little variations. <<less
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Master10K
Master10K rated it
July 5, 2020
Status: Completed
"All of this takes some time to describe, but happened in an instant." - says The Author, as he spat out 3 mouthfuls of blood.

A well-meaning scholar, becoming a mu*derous con-artist, is an interesting way to kick off a surprisingly entertaining Xianxia novel. Many such novels have tidbits of Daoism in it, but this particular one is steeped in Daoist theology and principles. So it does take some getting used to, especially regarding the depth of cultivation it is willing to go.

Making fools of arrogant young masters, provides a cathartic... more>> experience, though it does end up getting slightly repetitive. Along with all the Trial by Fires, overblown divine abilities and burnt incense sticks. In the end what really brings this fantastic story down for me is the long and grueling war with the 33 Heavens and its glum aftermath. Nevertheless of the Er Gen novels I've read (3 as of Mid 2020), this may be my favourite and the Deathblade translations helped a lot in that. <<less
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blank1134
blank1134 rated it
May 12, 2020
Status: Completed
Just finished reading this novel. This is the first time I've read one of Er Gen's work and I really liked it. Lord 3rd and 5th are one of supporting characters that help's in intense relief in this novel. I'll probably try and read other Er Gen's work. Kudos for Deathblade for his hard work in translating ISSTH. He even includes past novel chapter reference so that you wouldn't get confused while reading the novel which helped me keep up in reading the novel.

Wuxia novels really are long and a... more>> bit repetitive but what I liked about reading this kinds of novels are the in depth details that authors do to paint the canvas in every story board that you are in.

Characters in the story are quite synchronize and I liked the MC and SC in this novel. I really like how the author kept his monogamy ideal for the MC but I felt really torn between other heroines of the story but all in all its still was good how the author wrote his characters.

Story arcs are quite well done but there are some of the stories that I was intent on keeping an eye of where as the author throw it in the tr*sh can all together. There are some loose end that got nowhere which probably has been forgotten but all in all the main story is still good not much loose ends anyways so the flow of the story is still great.

One of the things that held me up while reading the novel are the names of the characters in the story but thankfully I was able to recognize the core characters of the novel so its all good.

All in all its really a good novel. I recommend it. <<less
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Mr.Jello
Mr.Jello rated it
April 23, 2020
Status: c1404
There are some good chapters early on where MC will reflect on the dao and his life, but overall this novel consists of fast food content, full of "one in a million prodigy", face slapping and "give me your spirit stones and treasures".
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Metocles
Metocles rated it
April 20, 2020
Status: Completed
This was my first Er Gen novel that I read, and I was quite pleasantly surprised how much the quality differed compared to most of the novels that are currently out there. A lot of people in the comments mention a "picking up" somewhere in the story, but, honestly, if you're not interested in the first 10-20 Chapters, I really wouldn't suggest going further.

I like how the story has a unique charm to it, especially our main character Meng Hao who gets into so many antics and funny situations that... more>> the author will get you to laugh at points in the absurdity that's happening. Something you'll get from Er Gen moreso than most other authors is a real feel for who the protagonist is and his motivations for doing things. He really has a way of breathing life into them and can typically do the same for other characters as well, though not all the time.

Er Gen is actually very similar in style to IEatTomatoes where he'll have 3 big arcs to his stories - each arc taking place in a specific place for a long period of time until the MC moves to a different realm or place in the world which breaks your conception of the previous knowledge the author provides you. I would say that's one of the magical storytelling techniques that Chinese authors seem to bring to the table. ISSTH is roughly the same - the stakes only get higher and higher as the story goes along and its enjoyable to learn how the MC will deal with it in his own unique way.

There's a few spots that make my rating a 4 instead of a 5. I don't think this is Er Gen's best work at all. The one section that I really had to force myself to read through was the
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taming animals and learning about totems from the tribes section.

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It had it's fun comedic moments... but overall it was just much too plodding and uninteresting. The powers he gained from it, in my recollection, were very soon abandoned and nothing of consequence really came from that section of the book. The author was capable of tying it all up into a neat bow in the end, but, even still, it did nothing for me. Maybe I'll get flak for the next gripe, but the romantic interest was forced in a way that I really did not expect. You have to read really deep into the novel to get any sort of love interest for the protag, so ISSTH isn't really that sort of novel, however; the romance that does sublimate for us will probably leave many readers unsatisfied:

Spoiler

He eventually ends up with Xu Qing, his senior sister from the Reliance Sect. Many readers really didn't see too far into that relationship at all until it was continually pushed by the author as if it were something he intended all along. To me, it felt like a really weird retcon and out of place, especially considering both of their personalities and all of their interactions early in the novel. Maybe it's some kind of cultural clash here, but the most I got out of their relationship was sibling-like in nature. This was especially strange considering a lot more chemistry was happening between our MC and Chu Yuyan. I wouldn't mention all this other than the fact that late into the story, a lot of the plot starts surrounding a sort of tragic storyline that occurs with Meng Hao and Xu Qing at the center. There would have been more investment in that storyline if the actors involved actually felt like lovers. Additionally, I really wonder if the author got flak from his readers because after everything he gives Chu Yuyan an afterthought romance

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Let's just say, there's some suspension of belief or care you need to do to get through some chapters.

Having said that, it's not actually a bad novel at all. The translation is about as good as one could hope for, the content in the novel is addictive to read and you get invested in the characters and story. In the ocean of mediocrity that you can certainly find in webnovels, this stands out as a fantastic work. <<less
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fangyuan
fangyuan rated it
February 20, 2020
Status: c726
I actually enjoyed this novel a lot. There were a lot of scenes that are very touching like ... more>>
Spoiler

the Blood mastiff & Meng Hao and Ke Yunhai & Meng Hao

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that would make you tear a bit. World building was not bad and the jokes were nice too. However, halfway through, I just felt that the novel was getting quite dry and reading became a bit chore-ish which is why I decided to drop it (and maybe continue later on). Also, I think that the romance part needed some work because it was a bit of a letdown to the characters in the novel and to readers. <<less
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Greedman
Greedman
December 19, 2019
Status: c1236
If you like consistency in any way don't bother with this. It has some good points but the author just splashes seeds around and most of the time doesn't bother completing open story lines. Characters get dumped and forgotten, powers are left unused after hundreds of chapters trying to acquire them, romance is laid out in a way that I'm sure the author never had a woman...

I could write ten pages about how bad issth is but there are a lot of good negative reviews that cover me.

P.s. don't bother... more>> reading <<less
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BookWorm65
BookWorm65 rated it
December 19, 2019
Status: Completed
A very good novel. Overall, for being a xianxia and so damn long, it stays fairly entertaining throughout and there are many heartfelt and actual thought-provoking chapters which is genuinely rare in this category.

It has its flaws (hence the 4/5), mainly being the romance. Not sure how MC and the main girl became such deep lovers when they barely f*cking interacted with each other before then. There are other things such as hypocritical arrogant young masters and so on but I can ignore them due to the novel having much... more>> more good parts than bad. <<less
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llxamllz
llxamllz rated it
September 4, 2019
Status: Completed
Actually the rating is 4.5.

ISSTH almost perfect, it just some missing some complexity of the story. There are many introductions of other characters like they might have a relationship that will be exposed in the future story but no, they just disappear from the story.

The action scenes are not clear, the description when they fight is not enough and too simply. It is hard to imagine to follow the scenes especially cp.1-100, the fight scenes are very bad.

The overall to the end of the story is 4.5. The action scenes... more>> description has been improved after the late of early of the story. <<less
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NovReds
NovReds rated it
July 9, 2019
Status: Completed
Fantastic Story! Great Plot creation by the Author!

This is a must read novel, which you will enjoy it without missing out any details. The story is full of everything you want.

>> Action
>> Adventure
>> Romance
>> Tragedy
>> Happiness
>> Comedy

You will find all sorts of craftiness, schemes, fighting, revenge, bad teacher, greedy patriarch, good friends and.... comedic side characters.

All Hail Lord Fifth!
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apsisodia
apsisodia rated it
June 28, 2019
Status: Completed
One of the few novels having well written ending. I love the MC and side characters. Lord fifth and meat jelly are probably the best side characters in this novel. I loved it.
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