Blazing the Wilderness: I Reincarnated in the Stone Age

Cao Yan, a special forces soldier on the Middle Eastern counterterrorism battlefield, transmigrates to the Stone Age in an explosion and becomes a dying youth named “A Yan” in a primitive tribe. The world before him is even crueler than the battlefield: a tiny tribe of 23 struggles on the brink of starvation, eating raw rotten meat and surrounded by wild beasts. Even keeping a basic fire burning is a challenge.

Armed with modern military knowledge and survival skills, Cao Yan begins changing the tribe's fate one step at a time, starting with the first trap he builds and the first piece of meat he cooks. He teaches his people to identify wild vegetables, shape stone tools, and fire pottery. The gleam of bronze and iron drives back ignorance, while the wisdom of farming and herding lays a solid foundation. From caves to city-states, from tribes to an empire, he establishes laws, unifies writing, and opens trade routes, forging one scattered primitive tribe after another into the continent-spanning Flame Empire.

This is an epic of civilization: survival struggles around the campfire, bloody clashes beneath city walls, and the grand leap from slash-and-burn farming to the roar of iron tools. When the former special forces soldier stands atop his empire and looks back on the road from 23 people to tens of millions of subjects, he knows that the flame of civilization has always spread across the wilderness in the direst of circumstances.