The World's Classics and Statecraft

Yiguan SixueQidian2011

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Featured Fiction Premium Web Fiction Family RevengeCourt IntrigueSong of IntegrityTime-Travel RebirthNoble RighteousnessWeb NovelModern Soul

Summary

Modern soul Pei Donglai transmigrates and is reborn as a sickly scholar in Liushi Town. His mother is driven to suicide by the evil gentry Squire Li; enduring humiliation, he plots and slips into the Li residence at night to kill his enemy with his own hands. Afterward, carrying the family heirloom koi jade pendant and the ever-present Ode to Righteous Spirit, he unexpectedly opens the door to martial cultivation. To avoid legal trouble and investigate his origins, he leaves home for the Eastern Capital; with his vast learning and noble righteousness, he is drawn into court intrigue, the Yan Province rebellion, and a demon-realm invasion, rising from struggles in a marquis's household all the way to the path of a national sacrificial deity who enters martial arts through Confucianism and subdues evil with righteous spirit.

Editor's review

This book takes Confucian principles as its bones and martial cultivation as its pulse, turning the Ode to Righteous Spirit and the classics of poetry, history, and rites into a cultivation system—quite distinctive among the fantasy works of its time. The opening revenge is decisive, the middle alternates between court and battlefield, and it suits old-school readers who like a blend of classical and vernacular style and a family-and-nation narrative. The weaknesses are that parts of the pacing are slow, the romance line is thin, and the late-stage worldbuilding opens wide but resolves somewhat hastily.

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Reading tips

  1. Start from Chapter 1's murder and legal-trouble line to get a feel for the revenge tone
  2. The mid-book court and Yan Province battlefield sections are worth focusing on; note how the Confucian cultivation system is grounded
  3. For the final battle of the national sacrificial deity, look back at the foreshadowing of the jade pendant and the Ode to Righteous Spirit

About the publisher

Qidian

Qidian is a platform whose catalogue brings together online literature, with about 45,000 titles in the library spanning categories such as male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, xianxia and wuxia, science fiction, selected fiction and quality web novels. Representative titles include Reincarnation Paradise, War Soldier Leon, The Fairy Is Fierce (also known as Tai Mang), The Expert Is Right Beside Me, Dragon Herder, You Should Cross the Mountains Like a Hero, The Adventures of a Clever Girl and Summoning Heroes of All Ages in Another World, with themes extending from fantasy and xianxia to science fiction and adventure. Representative authors available in the library include Na Yi Zhi Wen Zi, Chi Gua Zi Qun Zhong, Guan Guan Gong Zi, Chenxing LL, Luan, Chen Mo De Ai, Piao Yi Dao Zhang and Dong Tian Bu Leng. Their works mostly appear as serialized web fiction aimed at readers who prefer long genre fiction. Public information on its founding background and scale is limited, so no inferences are made here; the description is based solely on the library's titles and categories.

FAQ

Does this book have one heroine or many? The romance line is light; the main text focuses on revenge and the family-and-nation main line.
What type of cultivation system is it? Entering martial arts through Confucianism, cultivating via noble righteousness and classical texts.
Is the book completed? Completed, serialized on Qidian through to the grand finale.

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About the author

Yiguan Sixue Author

Yiguan Sixue is an author of online literature about whom little public information is available; no reliable record of real name, nationality, or dates of birth and death has been found. Four works are currently known, with representative titles including Yao Zu (The Demon Clan), Tianxia Jinglun, and Wangpai Daoyan (Top Director). Judging from the common categories under which the works appear—male-oriented fiction, Eastern fantasy, premium fiction, and quality web novels—the writing is mainly imaginative in subject matter and combines plot-driven storytelling with readability, drawing attention within the relevant reading categories. Beyond the works themselves, there is no reliable information about the author's personal background or creative ideas, and readers' understanding of the author still depends mainly on the thematic orientation and narrative style shown in these works.