Lord of the Old Days

Lord of the Old Days is a long-form xuanhuan novel by the web author Yuezhongyin, first published on Qidian Chinese Network, complete at roughly 1.15 million characters. The protagonist Tang Wen arrives with a visualized "cheat" panel in a world at the turning point between old and new: here guns, ancient martial arts, cyborgs, beastmen, evil spirits and sorcerers all coexist, and the order of the old era is being shattered bit by bit by the gunfire of the new. Through the panel, Tang Wen can raise hypnosis all the way to level 999, and can also fuse one hundred and eighty ancient martial arts such as Giant Bear Technique and Giant Whale Technique into the Titan Divine Art, awakening Titan strength. He first forges himself into a "devil-muscled man" through esoteric martial arts, then founds the "Old Days Society" amid the tide of the age, unearthing transcendent powers and seeking passages to other worlds. Conquering one sub-world after another, he absorbs the mind power of hypnosis and the beast-spirit empowerment system into himself, carving out a unique path of "when in doubt, just charge straight through." "I come from the old days, to rule the new era" is both the book's declaration and the core thesis of a protagonist who rewrites the new world with the power of the old. The novel is dense with combat, brisk in pacing, tinged with a faint Cthulhu-like mystique, and is a typical power-fantasy entry in the esoteric-martial-arts vein.