The Song of Guizhou

The median age in everyone's life is eighteen.

[This book features inner energy, martial arts, lightness skills, secret manuals, talismans, poison, gu insects, sorcery, divine weapons, spirit birds, miraculous pills, secret realms, and mecha puppets. There are no teleportation arrays or formations. It leans toward wuxia but is not traditional wuxia. It does not use Buddhist, Daoist, or Confucian traditions. It is not set in an alternate history, but in a wholly original otherworld. No System, no treasures. The strongest fighters surpass nuclear weapons. A tendency toward torturing the protagonist. For readers who like tight logic and don't mind long-winded prose.]