Late Qing Dynasty: Beginning My Cultivation with Paper Effigies

The late Qing dynasty. The First Opium War breaks out! The Qing dynasty signs the Treaty of Nanjing! Zhuang Ran unexpectedly transmigrates into this era of a fallen nation and ruined homes! Gazing at the shattered land and thinking of the century of humiliation ahead, of the tragic toll of blood shed for every inch of territory, Zhuang Ran feels he ought to do something. But the words he hears next leave him utterly dumbfounded. “Did you hear? The imperial army lost because the red-haired barbarians summoned a bird-man with four wings, who killed the Jurchen High Shaman.” “Of course I heard. They say it was an angel of the red-haired barbarians. The golden light illuminated the whole sea.” A High Shaman? An angel? Zhuang Ran is completely baffled. Who is he? Where is he? Fortunately, he discovers that his family has an ancestral craft: paper effigies. Paper people, paper horses, paper bridges... Cut paper into shape, breathe life into it, and anything can be made from paper! You foreign devils, just wait till your daddy makes you a paper God. Then we’ll see who the real ancestors are!