Desolate Era novel: where to start reading

Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no free-preview paste, no claim that a recommendation, a paper-book note, a later volume’s 第一章, or the newest sequel ad equals the first door.

Search Desolate Era or 莽荒纪, and the useful question is still smaller than 1478 catalog slots. Where do you start. The Qidian page does not print an English title. English searchers already use Desolate Era for this book, so that is the name on this shelf. The story shelf’s first title is 第一章 地府, in 第一卷 燕山纪氏. The rows above that volume are not the door. They sit in 作品相关: a cheer, then 推荐一本书，它叫《红盟风云录》, 番茄的微博, 《莽荒纪》的纸质书~~~, 推荐番茄老婆大人的小说《魔塔》, and 新书《飞剑问道》发布！. A title that names 《红盟风云录》, 《魔塔》, or 《飞剑问道》 is a shop sign for another book. A Weibo line and a paper-book line are notices. The newest row the page offers is 《吞噬星空2起源大陆》，已经在起点正式上传！, stamped 3 April 2024, the same clock as the book’s last update.

Start at 第一章 地府

Open 第一章 地府 on Qidian and follow that catalog from 第一卷 燕山纪氏, not from 作品相关 and not from the newest button. The Chinese original, 莽荒纪, is the book page. On 14 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 我吃西红柿, category 仙侠·修真文明, last update 2024-04-03 10:37:04, with a stats line of 418.15万 characters. The catalog page listed 1478 chapters and marked the book finished. The public pitch was not copied here.

The next catalog title was 第二章 投胎, listed 2012-12-16 16:37:37. That is a label on a contents page. This note did not open it. Five catalog titles begin with the characters 第一章. Only the one under 第一卷 燕山纪氏 is 地府. 第二卷 东山大泽 restarts at 第一章 入城. Later volumes keep opening on a row that says 第一章 after the volume name. If you want the numbered start of this book, it is the first story row, not volume 2 and not the newest button. The same writer’s finished science-fiction door, 第一章 罗峰, is a different book id. That one is the Swallowed Star opening guide.

The newest button is a sequel ad

The same book page’s newest chapter was 《吞噬星空2起源大陆》，已经在起点正式上传！, chapter 788055586, timestamped 2024-04-03 10:37:04. The title names another book. It is not chapter 1. The row before it is 番茄新书《宇宙职业选手》已经正式发布！, chapter 685193034. The story shelf’s closing label, before those notices, was 第四十五卷 第十七章 梅花香（大结局下）, chapter 82320305, in 第四十五卷 梅花香（结局卷）. A row that says 大结局 is a last label. It is not the first page. 作品相关 keeps the six notices above the story, including 《红盟风云录》 44210080, 番茄的微博 44430660, the paper-book line 49311487, 《魔塔》 52324438, and 《飞剑问道》 385681751. Those titles were not opened.

418.15万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first story title that is 第一章 地府, on a finished book the page files under 仙侠·修真文明, is your kind of door. You are not signing up to finish a book this page did not read. Finished is a status. It is not a review.

Who should start here

Try it if a search for Desolate Era, 莽荒纪, or 从哪开始看 sent you and you want this Chinese original by 我吃西红柿, you can ignore 作品相关, and you can tell 第一卷 第一章 地府 from 第二卷 第一章 入城. The same author, a later catalog, and the same newest sequel ad, with the door at 第一章 雪鹰领, is the Lord Xue Ying opening guide. A finished catalog whose first story is 第一章 罗峰 and whose newest button announces 吞噬星空2 is the Swallowed Star opening guide. Those pages used the contents list and did not read the chapters. An earlier door at 第一章 小镇的早晨 is the Coiling Dragon opening guide.

Leave it if you want a newcomer’s first chance at training, checked scene by scene. That door is the RMJI opening guide. That page stays inside what it actually checked. This one does not pretend to have read a chapter. The shelf is the Desolate Era reading series.

Sources and limits

Checked on 14 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. The desktop book URL returned an anti-bot stub (HTTP 202); the mobile book page and catalog loaded. Book 2502372: title 莽荒纪, author 我吃西红柿, status 完本, category 仙侠, subcategory 修真文明, update time 2024-04-03 10:37:04, stats line 418.15万 characters, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/2502372/. The public description was not copied here as chapter text. The catalog’s first volume is 作品相关, volume 6605134, six slots. Its titles were 兄弟姐妹，你们太威武了！, chapter 42730733, listed 2012-12-17 00:08:55; 推荐一本书，它叫《红盟风云录》, chapter 44210080, listed 2013-03-15 22:35:04; 番茄的微博, chapter 44430660, listed 2013-03-27 18:30:55; 《莽荒纪》的纸质书~~~, chapter 49311487, listed 2013-11-12 18:06:17; 推荐番茄老婆大人的小说《魔塔》, chapter 52324438, listed 2014-04-04 13:41:48; and 新书《飞剑问道》发布！, chapter 385681751, listed 2017-09-14 09:30:10. The next volume is 第一卷 燕山纪氏, volume 6761443. Its first title was 第一章 地府, chapter 42712100, listed 2012-12-16 00:24:44. The next catalog title was 第二章 投胎, chapter 42721626, which this page did not open. Five titles begin with 第一章. 第二卷 东山大泽 restarts at 第一章 入城, chapter 42865476. The ending volume is 第四十五卷 梅花香（结局卷）. Its closing story label was 第四十五卷 第十七章 梅花香（大结局下）, chapter 82320305. The newest listed title was 《吞噬星空2起源大陆》，已经在起点正式上传！, chapter 788055586. The catalog header said 已经完本 and counted 1478 chapters. No chapter body was copied. A reader-count line was not treated as a word count; the 418.15万 figure is the line shown as 总字数.