Initially, MC thinks that martial artists are just that - more or less for show since they don't stand a chance against modern weapons anyway. He plans to climb the social ladder though, and thus the journey with martial arts begin. And then he realises he couldn't be more wrong. Martial artists are basically super humans; heroes, who sacrifice their lives to protect Earth and hide the truth from general population so that they can live in a fake peace.

The existence of martial artists has a cause. He learns the world is actually connected to another vast backward world! There are strong beasts, but also human civilizations. And the thing is: the inhabitants of the mentioned world are trying to invade the modern world. The martial arts didn't die out in the past but have been developed and promoted instead due to the threat. Every few years a new dimension portal appears and modern humans are barely managing to fend off the other world's martial artists and armies because they have to divide their manpower even further, build defense fortresses and station fighters there. The apocalypse looms as it gets worse and worse to the point that some dimension defense points are wiped out, grandmasters do what they can to destabilize the lost dimension transfers to buy time, government pushes new reforms to create more combat martial artists, drops confidentiality bit by bit while academies, military and sects recruit more and more people while lowering the bar (at the start of the novel academies were sending only Peak Rank-3s to the other world and teengaers below that rank weren't in the know; at the time MC hits Rank-3, newly ascended Rank-2s elites are already educated, trained and being sent there). The novel plays on morals, because there's no right or wrong. Both worlds fight for their safety, benefits and power. And factions, while more or less united, have different mindsets about how to tackle problems: some think merging both worlds would save humanity, others want to thoroughly separate them. Everyone comes to different answers and fight for what they think is right.

They look plain because in this novel there are other prodigies who have much bigger MC halo than the MC himself. They too have their lucky encounters and secrets. Nobody starts as a war god. They have to grow and mature to become one. It takes time to outgrow other geniuses even with cheat. He's only a human and so are other characters of his age. Even if they have theoritical knowledge or are prodigies in their environments, it doesn't mean they know how to put it to a good use or can become commanders straight off the bat. Rank-9 powerhouses have learnt the other world's language only a little and mapped only a small piece of their total lands in decades. Rank-6 and up have their own flaws, weaknesses and often sacrifice themselves for humanity. MC's cheat can't escape the eyes of grandmasters either. MC also needs to gain experience to know how to act and fight, money to speed up cultivation with his system, obtain techniques to be strong, or equipment that can save his life. He treasures his life so he learns a technique that would let him escape if he can't win. The system doesn't even teach him how to use the system and he has to figure it out himself and sometimes meets with a mishap that could cost him becoming braindead or crippled.

The author first shows us a fight of two grandmasters: Google and Chinese CEOs and the Chinese one is shown in better colours.

Then we have "fastfood" used for jokes, but the author just had to write "white-people fastfood" twice or thrice! There's mention of China too. He drops that "white-people" soon after, but the fastfood (loved by his younger sister) is still being antagonized and ends up in a situation where his parents confiscate his sister's junk food because they thought it's the reason why she has no appetite and said that she should eat rice instead!

Also, there was no English test: this subject fell under the music and art category. If we want to be subjective, we could assume that it means English is inferior to Han language.

Fret not! Later on he drops company names such as Google or whatever, doesn't mention white-people at all, China doesn't appear at all either - is called Sino Nation so that's good.

Still, the author does add occassionaly a sentence of similar stuff, e.g. he made MC rebuke his friend that "Christmas is a foreigner's festival, what's there to celebrate." When his martial artist friends are dejected during Valentine's Day, he tries to cheer them up saying the same.. Oh, there's also a parapgraph mention about Sino being a good nation because they don't coerce lower ranked martial artists or civilians to create powerhouses and give fair chances to everyone, unlike India that focuses on g*ooming selected elite powerhouses xD

But that's pretty much everything. The chapters are super long, so if he throws such sentence once every 50 chapters you might not even not notice it

I don't really know if I like this novel or not. The writing is good, characters are nice, tho MC is kinda dumb and childish for an adult. The premise itself, tho nothing new, is also good.

Seemingly everything is good about it. But reading it, I cant help but to be bored and skip text. The novel drags on and on about pointless things, going in depth about minor details while I'm waiting there for something to happen. When there is action it's great, but that is such a tiny portion of the novel that overall it left me bored. Its like watching a great anime but the story is interrupted by long series of filler content. Yes, the filler might be important for the story, filling in the world, but u cant help but to feel bored, as what ur looking for is to see MC in action and for the story to move forward.