Shrouding the Heavens Opening Guide: Start at Chapter 1

Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no later plot, no claim that an animation episode equals a chapter.

Search 遮天, or Shrouding the Heavens, and the useful question is smaller than the book. Where do you start, what does the door look like, and who should even knock. The answer is still chapter 1. A finished xianxia this long invites skip lists. Skip lists are how you miss the door.

Start at 星空中的青铜巨棺

Open 星空中的青铜巨棺 on Qidian and follow that book’s own order. The Chinese original, 遮天, is the book page. On 12 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 辰东, last update 2024-10-22, with a stats line of 636.14万 characters. The description said it had been updated through 1,868 chapters. The catalog’s first story entry was 第一章 星空中的青铜巨棺. The next title in that list was 第二章 素问. Those are labels on a contents page. This note did not open the text.

The same book page’s “latest chapter” was not a story chapter. It was titled 《夜无疆》已肥，可以看了. Handy if you wanted a promo for a different book. Useless as a reading start. Use the catalog from the front, not the newest button.

What the opening is, from the catalog

The public description sells the same image the first title names: a bronze coffin out in the dark of space, before any sect ranking or school exam has been introduced. That is the pitch on the book page. It is not a scene this page read, and it is not a summary of what happens after chapter 1. The description also names 叶凡 among the main characters and advertises a 遮天 animation. The animation is a poster on the same page. It is not chapter 1, and this note does not line episodes up with chapters.

1,868 chapters is a warning label, not homework. You are deciding whether a spectacle title is your kind of door. You are not signing up to finish the book tonight.

Who should start here

Try it if you want a finished Chinese original, a huge chapter count you can see before you commit, and an opening that announces itself with a coffin instead of a classroom. The scale is the joke and the promise: the catalog is long, the first door is one free chapter, and nobody on this page will tell you which volume to skip.

Leave it if you want a short book, a public ranking fight in the first scene, or a mystery about whose name you woke up wearing. Those doors are the Battle Through the Heavens opening guide, the RMJI opening guide, and the Lord of Mysteries opening guide. Those pages stay inside chapters they actually checked. This one does not pretend to. Same author, other catalog: Perfect World starts at the prologue 序章 大荒, before chapter 1. That page used the catalog too. The shelf is the Shrouding the Heavens reading series.

Sources and limits

Checked on 12 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. Book 1735921: title 遮天, author 辰东, status 完本, update time 2024-10-22 10:03:29, stats line 636.14万 characters, description “已更新1868章,” canonical https://www.qidian.com/book/1735921/. First catalog entry: 第一章 星空中的青铜巨棺, chapter 29577944. The next catalog title was 第二章 素问, chapter 29584182, which this page did not open. The newest listed title was the other-book promo named above, chapter 811473369, which this page did not open. No chapter body was copied. A reader-ranking number on the book page was not treated as a word count; the 636.14万 figure is the line labeled 总字数.