Heaven Official’s Blessing Lights Up the Night with Short Film 5

Season 3 of Heaven Official’s Blessing is still up in the air, but at least the danmei continues to give fans content.

The donghua revealed preview images for the fifth short film, titled “月宴の魁首・三千の長明灯” in Japanese. The film will adapt the third arc of Heaven Official’s Blessing where Hua Cheng releases thousands and thousands of lanterns at the Mid-Autumn Banquet for Xie Lian. Even if nobody worships him anymore, Hua Cheng will always forever be Xie Lian’s believer. The film will premiere in Japan at an exhibition event and available to watch from September 25 to 29 there. Preview images show Xie Lian watching the lanterns with a slightly awed gaze while Hua Cheng smiles. It is unclear whether the fifth film will release online.

A donghua adaptation was released in October 2020 with Haoliners Animation League helming the animation and production with Season 2’s animation team replaced by Red Dog Culture House. The second season released a few years later in October 2023. From then on, Heaven Official’s Blessing has only been releasing five to ten minute short films with no announcement of a third season in sight.

The first was released in February 2025 and depicts Xie Lian as a young Crown Prince of Xianle rescuing a young San Lang when he falls from a tall building. The second film was released in the same year and depicts one of the extras, when Xie Lian and Hua Cheng stroll around Ghost City and answer riddles. The third film was released in February 2026 and depicts another famous scene when Xie Lian and Hua Cheng kiss for the first time (underwater, no less!). The fourth film, “The Cave of Ten Thousand Gods” which depicts an iconic confession, showed at Anime NYC this year but has not popped up on online platforms yet.

Based on Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s popular danmei series, Heaven Official’s Blessing follows an unlucky god named Xie Lian who was once a beloved prince among the mortals and god among the heavens. After being banished twice, Xie Lian has become the laughingstock of all three realms. When he ascends for an unprecedented third time, it turns the heavens upside down. With multiple palaces destroyed, Xie Lian now has to find some way to pay the damages but with no followers and therefore no power, he can’t do much except descend to the mortal realm to hunt down ghosts. There, he meets a mysterious red-robed young man who seems to know a lot about Xie Lian.

Crunchyroll streams the donghua on its platform. The novel can be read via Seven Seas Entertainment. The manhua of the donghua was released by Aloha Comics. The manhua, illustrated by STARember, only has 100 episodes and has since been seemingly discontinued.

The three short films are available on Bilibili’s YouTube channel.

Source: Heaven Official’s Blessing