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In 218 BC, near a village in the southeast of the Qin empire, a young man named Han Xin— brilliant, ambitious, and utterly destitute— is approached by a black-robed stranger who claims to be a divine messenger. On behalf of his god, he offers the youth his sole chance to fulfill his ambitions in return for a seemingly bizarre favor. But as Han Xin sees more of the world in his path to power, he realizes that he’s part of a far larger conspiracy, rooted in ancient myth and living history, and that his bargain could have far greater repercussions than he’d ever imagined. He and his protege may still be able to save the day, but not without enormous personal sacrifice.

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Latest Release

c.Afterword (end) by Will of Heaven Fan Translation (05-12-2014)
c.Epilogue by Will of Heaven Fan Translation (05-12-2014)
c.12 by Will of Heaven Fan Translation (05-12-2014)
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keklel
keklel rated it
August 11, 2018
Status: Completed
It's another nonsensical time-travel paradox story.

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The core of the story is about how an alien crashed on Earth and tried to alter history so that it never crashed in the first place. In order to do this it civilizes humanity to get it to the point of being able to fill in the water where it landed. Han Xin realizes that if it succeeds it would alter the past so that it never would never civilize humanity and therefore attacks the alien's island causing a volcanic eruption that destroys everything except somehow the alien survives it. Han Xin then, instead of escaping, decides to die because "otherwise the alien will chase after me". Whatever.

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Yeah, makes no sense, but that's the entire plot of this story. There are about a billion plot holes and pretty much nothing makes any sense if you have any knowledge of Einstein's theory of relativity whatsoever but there you have it. There is also a lot of predestination nonsense like this:

The King of Chu said: “No, Ji Jiang, you can’t. You can’t violate the will of heaven. The jade-pheasant changes nothing. Do you still remember what Zhang Liang told us about one’s ‘share of fortune?’ I’d dismissed it back then. Only now do I realize that he was right. The jade-pheasant has shown me the path I must walk. It’s a hard path, yes, but I still have to walk it. This is the price for opening Chencang Passage with the jade-pheasant, for flouting the will of heaven. If I use the jade-pheasant to escape, I’ll disobey heaven again, and pay an even greater price for it. The will of heaven has its own laws, more powerful than even Longxi. An outside force might temporarily warp it, block it, but it will return to equilibrium in the end. It shows itself here: if one gains what one shouldn’t have gained, one will lose what one shouldn’t have lost.”

In the passage above, "will of heaven" is basically the idea of fate. This is a recurring theme, it's the idea that "heaven" (i.e fate) wants a certain thing to happen and if you defy its will then it will punish you. Yeah, it's as ridiculous as it sounds.

Although the historical parts were okay (there were some inaccuracies, for example the portrayal of Xiang Yu as some kind of honorable gentleman who was averse to any "underhanded tricks" when historically Xiang Yu captured Liu Bang's father and threatened to boil him alive if Liu Bang did not meet his demands, as well as portrayal of Han Xin as having gotten all of his military knowledge from Wei Liao when there's no historical record of him ever having a teacher, meaning it is more likely that Han Xin was entirely self-taught), they were poorly integrated with the sci-fi plot and indeed were pretty much orthogonal. Also, the little real history that was discussed was on a shallow level and there was not any discussion of military strategy and tactics at all, even though that was pretty much the only thing Han Xin was good at.

Of course it's not that there's nothing good about it. One scene I fondly remember is the mirror reflecting one's internal organs. The novel criticized the emperor's use of the mirror to detect disloyalty by observing people's internal organs directly, since all you could see was nervousness and other emotions which do not necessarily indicate any particular attitudes or thoughts. I thought that was cool since it reminded me of the real life polygraph, which can be (rightly) criticized for the same reasons. However, this mirror was also not really used by anyone in any significant way (the only thing Han Xin did when he got his hands on it was to throw it away), which is indicative of poor writing. Reminds me of all the crappy xuanhuan stories where the author introduces a cool ability or item for one situation and then that ability/item is not ever used or mentioned again.

In conclusion, it's neither a fun read (unlike more casual novels like Way Of The Devil) nor does the novel contain any interesting science (unlike harder sci-fi like The Three Body Problem). All in all quite disappointing. <<less
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