The Sacred Ruins: where to start reading

Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no free-preview paste, no claim that an on-shelf note, a later row wearing 【第一章】, or the newest extra preview equals the first door.

Search The Sacred Ruins or 圣墟, and the useful question is still smaller than 1696 catalog slots. Where do you start. The Qidian page does not print an English title. English searchers already use The Sacred Ruins for this book, so that is the name on this shelf. The story shelf’s first title is 第一章 沙漠中的彼岸花, in the first volume named 正文卷. There is no 作品相关 shelf above it. The newest row the page offers is 番外预告【荒叶楚与病者】, stamped 26 November 2022. A preview of an extra is not the door.

Start at 第一章 沙漠中的彼岸花

Open 第一章 沙漠中的彼岸花 on Qidian and follow that catalog from the first 正文卷, not from the newest button. The Chinese original, 圣墟, is the book page. On 14 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 辰东, category 玄幻·东方玄幻, last update 2022-11-26, with a stats line of 613.23万 characters. The catalog page listed 1696 chapters and marked the book finished. The public pitch was not copied here.

The next catalog title was 第二章 后文明时代, listed 2016-11-01 10:41:40. That is a label on a contents page. This note did not open it. One catalog title begins with the characters 第一章. The second volume is also named 正文卷. Its first row is 第一百二十四章 封禅之地【第一章】. The bracket says chapter 1. The number in front says 124. That row is the paid-shelf restart, not a second novel and not the door. The first volume’s last row is 上架了，两章已更新. A note that says the paid shelf is up is a status. It is not a chapter.

The newest button is an extra preview

The same book page’s newest chapter was 番外预告【荒叶楚与病者】, chapter 737132803, timestamped 2022-11-26 20:42:24. The title says 预告. It is not chapter 1. The row before it is 我的新书《深空彼岸》上传了, chapter 649986438. The story shelf’s closing label, before those notices, was 终章 第二次大结局！新书5月1日见, chapter 646980933. A row that says 大结局 is a last label. It is not the first page. Those later titles were not opened.

613.23万 characters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a first story title that is 第一章 沙漠中的彼岸花, on a finished book the page files under 玄幻·东方玄幻, 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 The Sacred Ruins, 圣墟, or 从哪开始看 sent you and you want this Chinese original by 辰东, you can ignore 上架了，两章已更新, and you can tell 第一章 沙漠中的彼岸花 from 第一百二十四章 封禅之地【第一章】. Same author, different doors: the Perfect World opening guide starts at 序章 大荒, the Shrouding the Heavens opening guide starts at 第一章 星空中的青铜巨棺, and the Night Without Border opening guide starts at 第1章 永夜. 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 Sacred Ruins 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 1004608738: title 圣墟, author 辰东, status 完本, category 玄幻, subcategory 东方玄幻, update time 2022-11-26, stats line 613.23万 characters, canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/1004608738/. The public description was not copied here as chapter text. The catalog’s first volume is 正文卷, volume 60172322, 124 slots. Its first title was 第一章 沙漠中的彼岸花, chapter 339991957, listed 2016-11-01 10:24:45. The next catalog title was 第二章 后文明时代, chapter 340041926, which this page did not open. One title begins with 第一章. The first volume’s last title was 上架了，两章已更新, chapter 346954451. The second 正文卷, volume 60691616, opens on 第一百二十四章 封禅之地【第一章】, chapter 346953260. The closing story label was 终章 第二次大结局！新书5月1日见, chapter 646980933. The newest listed title was 番外预告【荒叶楚与病者】, chapter 737132803. The catalog header said 已经完本 and counted 1696 chapters. No chapter body was copied. A reader-count line was not treated as a word count; the 613.23万 figure is the line shown as 总字数.