Qin Lie transmigrates into the Qin Dynasty as a Fangshi, and from the start, he faces the threat of being torn apart by chariots. Under Ying Zheng's cold, scrutinizing gaze, he points at the charred coal and scraps of iron scattered across the ground and stakes his life on a bold claim: "Your Majesty, this was no furnace explosion. The 'corpse poison' transformed the calamity, and the medicine was so potent it burst through the furnace walls!"
At the brink of life and death, his System awakens.
In an age ruled by Fangshi and emperors seeking immortality, Qin Lie decides to pursue "cultivation" by another means.
He refines coal into high-energy fuel, turns saltpeter into weapons for a powerful army, and dresses crude chemical reactions up as miracles that only the blood of the Ancestral Dragon can command. After Ying Zheng takes the first "No. 1 serum," he smashes a thousand-jin bronze cauldron with one punch, and the fervor in his eyes blazes to life.
From then on, the Qin Empire changes beyond recognition.
Wherever the Black Dragon Banner points, it is no longer traditional spears, swords, and halberds, but "divine weapons of science" spitting tongues of flame. In Xianyang Palace, there are no longer shamans praying to the gods and seeking omens, but the ever-bustling "Great Qin Imperial Academy of Science."
Li Si is horrified to realize that this madman, who never stops talking about the "periodic table of elements," is using knowledge beyond his understanding to reshape the backbone of the empire.
"Your Majesty, I do not cultivate immortality. I cultivate the study of things." Standing atop a blast furnace, Qin Lie looks down upon an old era about to be swallowed by industrial steam and a flood of iron and blood. "I will make the sun and moon of Great Qin shine across the universe, eternal for all ages!"
This is a fevered fantasy that rewrites history with chemical equations, and the path to godhood of a master of science in the iron-blooded Qin Empire.
I don't know if anyone else likes this novel, but I think it's pretty good, and I'm sure the later plot will be even more exciting. The Qin Dynasty, with its standardized weights and measures, unified writing system, and standardized cart tracks. Peak from the start