Celestial Bane was a long Wuxia (classical Xianxia) novel written by Xiao Ding, a contemporary writer who graduated from Fujian Institute of Engineering. It was first published on the website of the Fantasy Sword Bookstore and later on the Chinese website of Qidian. There were a total of eight volumes in the book, and it was hailed as the "Wuxia Bible of the Later Jin Yong" by Sina.com. On June 1, 2003, Celestial Bane was officially published. The book was based on the theme of "Heaven and Earth are heartless, and all living things are treated as straw dogs." It narrated the growth experience of Zhang Xiaofan, an ordinary teenager at the foot of Qingyun Mountain, as well as his emotional entanglements with Biyao and Lu Xueqi. The whole novel was ingenious and magnificent, opening a unique charm of the legendary world of Oriental Xianxia. At the same time, Celestial Bane, as one of the representative works of contemporary Chinese novels, was selected as a collection of 70 novels in the 70 years of New China.