I Write Science Fiction in Ancient Times

Xie Jinxiu transmigrated to ancient times, where vernacular fiction was all the rage. To make a living, she picked up her pen and started making things up!

In her novel, "A Chronicle of Cultivation at the Seeking Immortals Sect," she described several bizarre cultivation tales:

1. A disciple dreamed of entering the immortal realm, where people sent messages without drawing talismans, traveled without flying swords, and weren't allowed to drink talisman water when sick. Every household had something called an electric lamp, bright as the sun and moon...

2. An elder ascended to immortality, but felt a force tugging him down the entire way. Halfway up, he saw the ground was curved. His belief that "the sky is round and the earth is square" crumbled in an instant, his Daoist heart shattered, and he could hardly breathe. In the end, he suffocated to death, disintegrated and burst into flames in the sky. From the ground, he looked just like a shooting star.

3. A sect leader emerged from several centuries of secluded cultivation. While flying on his sword, he was pursued by a flaming object. It took only a moment from the time he spotted it until it hit him, leaving no time to dodge. His soul was separated from his body, and all his cultivation was destroyed. Terrifying indeed!

Song Xiuyuan studied hard, hoping to pass the imperial examinations and work for the Ministry of Works. But because he enjoyed studying mechanical ingenuity, people criticized him for indulging in frivolous tricks instead of doing proper work. The examiners disapproved, and he failed time and again.

At a low point, he read a remarkable book called "Around the World in Eight Hundred Days." At first it seemed absurd, but the more he thought about it, the more plausible it seemed.

He tried making the cement described in the book, and it worked!

Song Xiuyuan: ?

Then he tried soap, smallpox vaccination, the steam engine... They all worked!!!

Could there really be an island beyond the Eastern Sea growing such strange things as sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes, and the cinchona tree?

An ancient science fiction writer x an ancient scientist

Theme: Science fiction inspires technological progress