Aarick (uhr-rik) never expected to be sucked into another world. Excepting his parent's poor naming sense, he was nothing special. He had read a few isekai novels, but now that he's in a new world, he has a few questions.

How has the Empire existed for so long, but progressed so little? It can't all be because everyone is hoarding knowledge, right? What the hell are impurities anyway? Where do all these ancient artifacts and hidden realms come from, and what happened to the people that made them? How does cultivation download knowledge into your head? What even are demons and demonic energy, and why has it rendered most of the world uninhabitable? And all the numbers for how large the world is have to be wrong, right?

And, most importantly, how does he get a message home so his parents don't go crazy with grief?

A cultivation novel with a logical protagonist. This eventually brings him strength, but he has a lot of catching up to do. In many ways, a loving deconstruction of the Xianxia genre. That, of course, is inevitable when you start asking most important question of all.

Why?

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