幻想國度
A free multiplayer text adventure — no ads, and nothing in the game for sale. Cross four nations and a northern front, study under a master, join a guild, sail the open sea, and write your own legend. The world comes from my novel Rising Wind and Thunder. The game itself is played in Chinese.
Figures as of September 2026 — the game is still updated almost daily.
For six months the game has changed nearly every day. Here are some of the most recent updates.
The Tiandao Alliance job room opens seven jobs matched to your specialty; eighteen locked chests appear in shops across Shuntian and Qingzhou; over four hundred NPCs who could only stand and take hits learn to fight back; three new basic skills — fan, instrument, and music.
"Rob" splits into two paths, and your take depends on the victim's wealth; "Swindle" is no longer just robbery by another name — each mark gets a different con.
Three kinds of injury — wounds, grave wounds, and internal injury — treated with bandages, torn cloth, medicine, and physicians. Packs now have weight. Sparring stops short, but a blow you can't take can still kill.
Every guild leader and master re-equipped; the Demon-Locking Dungeon posts a bestiary; equipment drop rates lowered; places you can sleep are now clearly marked.
The Demon-Subduing Sword Manual, Demon-Quelling Finger Manual, and Demon-Slaying Saber Manual — each born from a battle on the northern frontier.
One command shows the whole table, and bets accept units; the long pai gow table in the courtyard finally has a banker.
From a bare skeleton in April to nearly 1,800 rooms today.
From scratch: the skeleton of the skill and martial-arts systems and a quest engine; the starter village of Yindu and the first Demon Suppression outpost.
Combat formulas, cultivation, and weapon types; Kagemoon and its mountain castle open; the Wealth Sect and all of Golden Tripod Island go live with ferry routes; the underworld, reincarnation, and player corpses; the Fist Gang, Spring Rain City, and drunkenness; the website fully localized, with a new-player guide.
A twelve-watch day–night cycle; the Kaga Clan's Shadow Valley, Thunderbolt Hall, the Shushan Sect, and the Heavenly Craft Pavilion's underground machine city open one after another; Jingbei Port on the northern front; Kagemoon's Blade Tomb and the legacy quest "Blade of Truth."
The Moonrise Empire's imperial capital opens along with the Reform Blade Alliance; the Gessho Sect's three snow-ridge castles; Shuntian City, capital of the Shuntian Dynasty, with the Demon Suppression headquarters; sailing arrives — buy a ship, trade across nine ports, and find the Black Tide Harbor hidden inside a reef ring.
The Pirate Alliance's black market and underground channels; Tongshen Isle — buy a house, with storage shared across your whole account; the Tiandao Alliance opens in part.
The Tiandao Alliance's Qingzhou branch and job room; crimes in town now mean jail time; the Three Arts Against Demons; training dummies in every guild; injuries and pack weight; fans and zithers become weapons — and counting.
Nothing to install — open your browser and step in. Longtime players can use their favorite MUD client.
The easiest way in — play right in your browser, nothing to install. Create an account first, then choose "Play in your browser."
A hand-painted ink-wash layer on top of the text game: scene art, character portraits, and dialogue and equipment panels. Same account, same character, same progress. It currently covers the starter village of Yindu, with more areas coming; best on a large desktop screen.
Try the ink-wash version →For the classic MUD experience, connect with zMUD, MUSHclient, Mudlet, PuTTY, or plain Telnet.
Mudlet is a free, professional MUD client for Windows, macOS, and Linux. With our auto-mapper package, every room you walk through draws itself onto the map, and a double-click walks you there. Aliases and triggers too.
Mudlet setup guide →look or 看).help to see every command and help <command> for details, or read the new-player guide first.Four nations, a frontline against the demons of the north, and the open sea that no nation rules. You can walk to every one of these places in the game.
順天王朝
A Ming-inspired empire of the central plains, not yet a century old. Demons to the north, the Canglang tribes to the east, and sects at home that rival the throne itself.
Playable: Yindu (starter village) · Qingzhou · Shushan · Wuxiang Temple · Shuntian City · Xiao'an · Mount Fu
Read the lore →月出帝國
Two crescent-shaped islands modeled on Sengoku Japan. The emperor is worshipped as a living god yet holds no power; the shogunate, daimyo, samurai, and ninja clans divide the land.
Playable: Kagemoon Castle · the Blade Tomb · Kaga Shadow Valley · Washio Castle · the imperial capital · Gessho's snow-ridge castles
Read the lore →長峰民國
A republic founded by exiles and rebels from Shuntian. Elections on the surface, syndicates and gangs underneath — anyone can find a place here, for a price.
Playable: Spring Rain City · Fist Gang headquarters · Thunderbolt Hall · the northern outskirts · Fengbei
Read the lore →商業共和
An island shaped like an old coin — a round shore around a square inner sea. No emperor here, only the merchants' council, contracts, and money: the richest trade hub of the four nations.
Playable: Golden Tripod Island · Fortune God Tower · Heavenly Craft Pavilion · Shadow Coin Isle · Black Tide Harbor · Tongshen Isle
Read the lore →靖北港
A frontline harbor at the southern tip of the frozen north. For once, all four nations sent money, soldiers, and people; the Jingbei Accord stands carved in stone, and beyond the North Gate lies the demons' snowfield. Trade demon cores for rewards at the Merit Office.
Playable: Jingbei Port (113 rooms) · the snowfield beyond the North Gate
Read the lore →萬洋
Ride the Pinghai ferry between nine ports, or buy your own ship: prices shift daily, brokers buy and sell cargo, and the sea holds naval patrols, whirlpool reefs, and black-flag raiders — and, at the heart of one reef ring, a harbor with no law at all.
Playable: Nine-port ferry · sailing and sea trade · five shipyards · Black Tide Harbor (own ship only)
Sea chart →Twenty guilds across four nations. The open ones take students today; the rest are on the way. Click any guild to read its full lore.
蜀山派
The foremost sword-immortal sect — flying swords and Five Thunders, sworn to slay demons and guard the righteous path.
Open鎮妖司
The throne's demon hunters — talismans, firearms, and summoned allies.
Open無相寺
The Buddhist mother temple on Mount Shaoshi — Chan and combat as one, plus eight Sanskrit mantra-spells.
Partly open天道盟
An underworld empire beneath a ruined temple in Shuntian City, living by four arts: steal, burgle, rob, and swindle.
Coming文聖書院
A school that serves no throne — the sword held by rites, the heart set by music, formations laid out by numbers.
Coming燎原槍堡
"We bow to no emperor; we guard only this land" — frontier cavalry who broke with the throne to hold the line.
Coming血神宗
A cult that feeds the Blood Demon — blood-drinking body refinement, the Blood Fiend Palm, and curses.
影月派
The empire's foremost sword school — iaijutsu and the two-sword style.
Open火賀派
A breakaway ninja clan — short blades, stealth assassination, and flame-shadow arts.
Open月照宗
A vow-breaking Buddhist order atop the snowy ridges, fielding an army of warrior monks.
Open維新刀盟
Revolutionaries hidden in a teahouse in the imperial capital — sword and gun in hand, fighting to remake the empire.
Coming幽玄之裡
Guardians of the seals between the living and the dead — spirit curses, word-magic, and guardian-spirit pacts.
拳幫
"Fists are power" — fight your way up a nine-level underground arena beneath the Domination Fist Tower.
Open霹靂堂
The first chivalrous sect — hunting villains and rescuing hostages, and taking nothing for it.
Coming山海會
"Everything can be medicine; life and death can both be poison" — a gu-sorcery syndicate that runs the herb trade.
Coming風雷派
Ride the wind, strike like thunder — axe, saber, and hard internal force.
錢能通神派
Money as a martial art — wealth-qi techniques and coin darts, headquartered in the seven-story Fortune God Tower.
Open天工閣
An underground city of self-moving machines — mechanical puppets, workshops, mines, and firearms.
Open海盜王盟
Hidden inside a reef ring at Black Tide Harbor — saber, pistol, and black-tide seamanship.
Coming無面劇團
"All the world's a stage" — a secret troupe of disguise masters and information brokers.
Many of the game's characters, cities, and quests first appeared in my short stories.
The origin of Gu Xingzhi, the Holy Academy swordsman the jianghu calls the Warden of the Blade, who held the mountain gate alone for a night.
A young daimyo's road to the imperial capital — the same city and teahouse you can walk in the game.
The backstory of Kagemoon's Blade Tomb and the legacy quest "Blade of Truth."
The founding of the Shuntian Dynasty, and one night with the Eighteen Arhats of Wuxiang Temple.
Zhuge Yanwen and the birth of Thunderbolt Hall, the game's first chivalrous sect.
How the Fist Gang's master climbed from the gutter to the throne of the Domination Fist Tower.