Webnovel Author: Thunderstrike2024 - Fanfic Collection

No, I got it, but was this really the best chapter for it? It just feels wasted to do it here.

How did you even get 69? 69 is 3 x 23. Neither number is present here.

They have no choice. If they have no talent worth cultivating, they basically end up as slaves by another name.

My sister once travelled nearly 70k blocks just to find Mangrove wood. I chose to settle at spawn, while she built a large warehouse there, only to functionally abandon it in favor of practically being a nomad. Minecraft players truly are nutjobs.

Capital city pun? Was not expecting that. (While not currently the capital, Shanghai was once the capital of China under the Yuan dynasty. Dubai, as most people know is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.)

Confidentiality usually doesn't apply to those outside of an organization's influence, so it stands to reason that Zhang Mei is excluded.

Sound familiar?

There are many ways to make yellow snow, from the super harmless crushed frozen lemonade and just yellow dye on snow, to the super dangerous sulfur on snow, to the gross urinated snow. Clearly he is referring to a certain lustful variety of the last category.

Great-grandmother? When the gap is 10,000 years, you may as well call them "ancestor" or "progenitor". She is older than Stonehenge and maybe even Karahan Tepe, which existed before the close of the Mesolithic Period!

In theory, the Jedi-Sith dichotomy. Think Ten Commandments versus Eight major Sins. Or just Humility versus Pride, as pride is literally the root of all evil, since sin is defined as any act that places your desires above that of God (and by extension other humans).

Twenty years in Afghanistan and we created a government that collapsed in days. His wars had an end that would have lasted. This is more like the Copperheads during the Civil War who would rather see the US cut in half by a tenuous peace than a united states without slavery. Making peace meant allowing evil to continue, so it was better to fight to the end than let the evil survive.

Fine. TLDR: it was normal in the past, but first cousin marriages were not as common in larger groups.

Underhanded? Says the woman more than willing to sell her own daughter for power. To a man who was willing to use gaslighting and slavery to fulfill his twisted desires, no less. If this world had a registry, he would top it no doubt. (Among the righteous sects at least.)

It was. It is generally not very risky for cousins to breed, but the risk increases if successive generations do it. That risk can't be mitigated in bottlenecked groups like a brother and sister ending up with a mutation that is preventing them from breeding with other members of their population, or things like crews getting shipwrecked on uninhabited islands, but in large populations with lots of genetic diversity, the effect of successive generations of inbreeding becomes much more obvious, like with the "Hapsburg Jaw", or Anaemia, or the many diseases that afflicted the Pharaohs. In ancient times, it was mostly third cousin pairings (share one set of great-grandparents) or second cousin pairings (parent's sibling's grandkids) where possible, which are much less dangerous than repeated first cousin marriages or sibling marriages.

Agreed. He was said to be capable of slaying Nascent Soul cultivators, and we've only seen them take down a weaker core formation expert in an ambush, so it wouldn't make much sense to take him down this early. He's definitely a villain for the endgame of the early chapters, like Arlong in the East Blue Saga of One Piece. Not very dangerous to most of the major players in the world, but certainly powerful in the eyes of mortals and weaker fighters.

So that would be the Age of Discovery, between about 1500 and 1780, when the Industrial Revolution began. The rough timeframe between the discovery of the New World and the Revolutionary War in the US that began the decolonization of the New World and the advent of Steam Power.

I'm not faulting you in any way. I agree with you. I'm just pointing out how that wouldn't be very indicative of their actual competence.

The Chinese military... which is famously inactive and inexperienced. Not exactly a beacon of competence.

The US didn't force the Japanese to sign their current Constitution. They chose to limit their military voluntarily because of how much they had suffered due to their militaristic government's wars. They were completely destroyed by WW2, to a level where you could barely find two bricks on top of each other. That said, the JSDF has started to expand after Russia invaded Ukraine, and the arms limitations may end up abolished.

Most powerful weapons ever devised by man for man. This one in particular is capable of knocking out lightly armored vehicles with ease. If he can react to an enemy, this will be able to remove them.