Republican-Era Martial Arts: I Can Bring Techniques to Life

In the third year of the Great Shun Republic, warlords clash, foreign warships blockade the ports, opium runs rampant, and remnants of the former dynasty still linger.

This is not only a chaotic age where firearms contend with martial artists, but one where demons and evil spirits wreak havoc on the mortal world.

Transmigrated into the body of a sickly young man, Lu Ming originally only wanted to live comfortably off his family fortune and keep his head down.

Alas, the world devours the weak, and the strong prey on the weak.

Fortunately, he obtained the Divine Shrine of Ten Thousand Arts...

[Whatever you see, it is recorded at a glance. Once a cultivation art is recorded, it develops a mind of its own!]

[Flying Crane Stance (Mortal)]

[Innate Talent: Low Grade]

[Mark: Diligence Rewarded]

[Inscription: Clouds reach the Ninth Heaven; keep yourself pure]

[Seeing you turn faint and nearly pass out after standing in a stance for less than half an incense stick, the Flying Crane Stance is furious at your lack of ambition, and spends the night circulating your qi and blood for you!]

[Seeing you spend a fortune to swallow precious medicine whole, the Flying Crane Stance feasts with delight, proactively devouring the medicine's poisons of greed, anger, and delusion, then spends the night shrinking your bones and transforming you into a flood dragon...]

Years later, facing martial prodigies from every school and man-eating evil spirits, Lu Ming rests a hand on his saber and sneers:

"You cultivate your arts for decades before breaking through, but my cultivation arts... are even more eager to improve than I am!"