Nine Cauldrons novel: where to start reading

Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no free-preview paste, no claim that a limited-free notice, a later 篇’s 第一章, or a new-book ad equals the first door.

Search Nine Cauldrons, Chronicles of Nine Cauldrons, or 九鼎记, and the useful question is still smaller than 632 catalog slots. Where do you start. The Qidian page does not print an English title. English searchers already use Nine Cauldrons for this book, so that is the name on this shelf. The mobile search for 九鼎记 put this book first: book 1321320, author 我吃西红柿. A later hit titled 九鼎 is a different book and a different writer. The story shelf’s first title is 第一章 滕青山, in 第一篇 狼. The rows above that volume are not the door. They sit in 作品相关: 限免公告, then 新书《飞剑问道》发布！. A title that names another book is a shop sign. The newest row the page offers is 番茄新书《沧元图》已经二十多万字，可以看啦！, stamped 3 October 2019.

Start at 第一章 滕青山

Open 第一章 滕青山 on Qidian and follow that catalog from 第一篇 狼, not from 作品相关 and not from the newest button. The Chinese original, 九鼎记, is the book page. On 14 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 我吃西红柿, category 武侠·武侠幻想, last update 2019-10-03, with a stats line of 202.67万 characters. The catalog page listed 632 chapters and marked the book finished. The public pitch was not copied here.

The next catalog title was 第二章 他叫‘狼’, listed 2009-07-28 17:57:57. That is a label on a contents page. This note did not open it. Twelve story titles put 第一章 at the front of a 篇. Only the one under 第一篇 狼 is 滕青山. 第二篇 restarts at 第一章 滕家庄. Later 篇 keep a 第一章 after the 篇 name, through 第十二篇（最终篇）九鼎轮回 第一章 约定. One extra row says 番茄新书《飞剑问道》第一章已经上传！. That row names another book. It is not this book’s door. The same writer’s door at 第一章 孟川和云青萍 is the book that newest ad is pointing at. That one is the Cang Yuan Tu opening guide.

The newest button is a new-book ad

The same book page’s newest chapter was 番茄新书《沧元图》已经二十多万字，可以看啦！, chapter 496594626, timestamped 2019-10-03 18:06:49. The title names another book. It is not chapter 1. The story shelf’s closing labels were 第十二篇 第二十三章 把酒夜谈（大结局上）, 第十二篇 第二十四章 白马湖上（大结局中）, and 第十二篇 第二十五章 九鼎轮回（大结局 下）, chapter 27504406. A row that says 大结局 is a last label. It is not the first page. After that ending, the catalog keeps new-book notes, including 番茄新书《吞噬星空》已经上传。, chapter 28520698, and 新书《飞剑问道》发布！ in 作品相关, chapter 385681856. Those titles were not opened.

202.67万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first story title that is 第一章 滕青山, on a finished book the page files under 武侠·武侠幻想, 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 Nine Cauldrons, 九鼎记, 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 第一篇 第一章 滕青山 from 第二篇 第一章 滕家庄. A door at 第一章 孟川和云青萍 is the Cang Yuan Tu opening guide. A door at 第一章 小镇的早晨 is the Coiling Dragon opening guide. A door at 第一章 地府 is the Desolate Era opening guide. Those pages used the contents list and did not read the chapters.

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 Nine Cauldrons 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. Search on the mobile site for 九鼎记 returned book 1321320 first, title 九鼎记, author 我吃西红柿. Book page: status 完本, category 武侠, subcategory 武侠幻想, update time 2019-10-03, stats line 202.67万 characters, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/1321320/. The public description was not copied here as chapter text. The catalog’s first volume is 作品相关, volume 3004511, two slots: 限免公告, chapter 63027631, and 新书《飞剑问道》发布！, chapter 385681856. The next volume is 第一篇 狼, volume 3005705. Its first title was 第一章 滕青山, chapter 24443222, listed 2009-07-28 00:01:24. The next catalog title was 第二章 他叫‘狼’, chapter 24450946, which this page did not open. Twelve story titles put 第一章 at the front of a 篇. 第二篇 restarts at 第一章 滕家庄, chapter 24566463. The closing story label was 第十二篇 第二十五章 九鼎轮回（大结局 下）, chapter 27504406. The newest listed title was 番茄新书《沧元图》已经二十多万字，可以看啦！, chapter 496594626. The catalog counted 632 chapters. No chapter body was copied. A reader-count line was not treated as a word count; the 202.67万 figure is the line shown as 总字数.