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A mature level-headed Chinese man Yan Liqiang gets hit by a meteor (Chinese truck-kun) and is transmigrated into an alternate history/dimension of Earth during ancient Chinese (Han?) dynasty period.
In this new cultivation-based world, our hero gains powers of a magical/sci-fi? trans-dimensional/simulation system. He must strengthen himself all while racing against time to avert an apocalyptic future. COMMENTS
(1) Illogical, retconned plot development
This is my first triple retcon CN novel. You can tell because the plot development was nonsensical, carried on for dozens of chapters, abandoned and author tried to shoehorn various explanations for why those plot developments got cancelled.
Retcon (1) MC progressing along typical cultivation path as per most CN wuxia/xianxia novels. We're told MC's insight into gunpowder and industry can't progress like modern Earth since physics are entirely different.
MC suddenly dies in a random span of 5 chapters (Chapter 50-60?). His spirit randomly travels for a couple of years before being born again. Then it's revealed he somehow accessed a virtual 1-life future (Heavenly Realm). No idea how he transited from real cultivation world to Heavenly Realm initially. Seems like author just wanted to gift MC powers of foresight in a ridiculously contrived way.
Retcon (2) MC gains to ability to travel back and forth between real world and Heavenly Realm, just to gain extra cheat powers along with foresight. He discovers there's an apocalyptic future (Chapter 100+?).
Then author gets tired of writing MC traveling back and forth between dimensions, so he randomly kills off the MC in Heavenly Realm, and MC loses access to Heavenly Realm and foresight.
Retcon (3) Author clearly got jelly of "Release that Witch" (2016) and decided to copy kingdom/sci-fi building elements. MC starts using his modern knowledge and physics (that we were initially told wasn't similar) to build new industries in preparation to avert the apocalyptic future.
Much like "The Human Emperor", Han dynasty China is THE BEST! Most other bigger kingdoms/empires around it are marauders, preying on weak, innocent Chinese people. The Chinese are the only ones who really deserve to hold weapons of mass destruction since they are better able to manage it (Chapter 57).
Thankfully author only has a few random rants like these, which automatically makes it better than "The Human Emperor". Unlike "The Human Emperor", at least the author doesn't deliberately identify too many real-world civilizations as aggressors (Korea, Arabs, Tibetans, etc). Some original aggressors are left in place (Xiongnu).
No idea what the the Chaman empire to the north is supposed to be, there are lots of random pseudo names used in place of real world civilizations. The Han IRL was 200BC-200AD. The Tang dynasty was 600AD-900AD. The whole dispute with the Uighurs happened around 800+AD. So author's mish-mash of dynasties and timelines is confusing. Unfortunately it seems apparent that author is deadset on making an example out of the Uighurs and other NW ethnic minorities (Shatu Seven Tribes) . It's pretty clear who this allegory refers to. The tribes are labeled as ungrateful b*tches whom the Chinese empire protected after the tribes were defeated by other kingdoms, and then turned around to prey on the Chinese.
History spoiler alert, the NW regions were always contested by different civilizations.
The Xiongnu dominated the region first, then got displaced by the Han dynasty, then lost to various Turkic civs, then retaken by the Chinese, then lost to the Uighurs, then lost to more Turkic civs, then converted back to Chinese rule, then lost to the Manchurians, then lost to the Mongolians and then retaken by the Chinese (Qing dynasty). It's ALWAYS one conqueror replacing another, any real claims of historical ownership/sovereignty would be disingenuous. It's even more hypocritical when the Han Empire (in novel) claims they "saved" the Shatu Seven Tribes, when author even wrote that they gave them a piece of land in exchange for using them as a military buffer to other aggressors. How did Quid Pro Quo (using them as mercenaries) become Saving (refugee status) someone?
Not sure why CN authors just can't be honest about Chinese history of conquest. I'd be totally fine with that. The additional rights given to the tribal peoples as refugees/protectorate apparently allows the tribes to abuse REAL chinese people. They forgot their roots and who protected them! Wow! I didn't know you could close the gap of 1200 years and make allegories of real world civilizations. I'm not an expert in Chinese history, but you get the sense author is commingling Xiongnu historical acts of betrayal during the Han dynasty with modern political events. The only good point is that author doesn't deliberately dehumanize other races, unlike "The Human Emperor" (where other civilizations are dirty, ugly, smelly, etc). (3) Same useless side characters and damsels-in-distress
Side characters are all useless. They are puffed up for being impressive, and then MC proceeds to be so OP that they are just completely useless. MC is constantly saving their a*s. The only reason they exist is because MC can't trust anyone else to execute his plans. (4) Confusion over cultivation vs kingdom building
Author really doesn't know whether he wants to write a cultivation novel, or a kingdom-building novel. The primary focus of both types of genres are entirely different. The former emphasizes the power of ONE. The latter emphasizes the power of MANY. So you end up with an MC so focused on cultivation that his foreknowledge and technical prowess was completely ignored for the first 300 chapters. Yup, that's how long it took before MC even had an opportunity to take a step towards kingdom building (developing new industries, armies, etc). Author initially wrote that gunpowder and other physics/chemistry related functions don't work the same way as modern Earth does, therefore pushing MC to develop his fighting prowess. Then, after author kept writing that even super-powered cultivators could be screwed over by strategy and tactics (i.e. kingdom-building related skills), author realized he wrote himself into a hole, and pivoted back to kingdom-building...
As expected from CCP and Mao's biggest fanboy. A novel with an unhealthy dose of ultra nationalism sprinkled with racism on top. This novel is written for the Han Chinese, and both the author and the MC won't make you forget that. This is such a shame since the author can actually write, and aside from the vomit inducing, flag waving blind nationalism, the story is kinda great.
It's laughable how the author describe how the villainous tribe is so evil, they would rip the baby out of pregnant Chinese women's wombs and eat them. It's so comical. Another laughable example was the author fondness of Chairman Mao's quotes and poetries, one of which recognized as a masterpiece by others during a trial.
Also, I find it kind of ironic how the MC can't shut his mouth about how the Han Chinese is the greatest while the other tribes/races are either useless or straight out evil, yet the MC couldn't stop copying and claiming other people's work (from his previous modern world), such as business schemes, technologies, social engineering, psychological theories, even culture (art, poetries) as his own. There's a joke in there somewhere about ripping off other people's intellectual properties while feeling morally, intellectually superior.
If you have no problem with all that, then this novel is is a solid 3 (four if not for all the damn retcons and the MC's s*upid cheats). Me, I would give this a 2, and that's me being generous.
I really enjoyed the fact that the MC actually tried making gunpowder, unlike other MC's who don't even use any of the knowledge from their previous world at all.