![]() ![]() The cultivators use a dizzying array of magical items with different abilities from a rain of swords to flying fans that turn into rays of light to almost anything imaginable. It seems quite complex to me, but perhaps this is because I'm a newcomer to it. Traditional Chinese medicine was a subject I'd never studied until I found myself looking up the topic to understand how the magic works in this book. ![]() Patriarch Reliance is an adventure fantasy that uses many components of traditional Chinese medicine in its magic system or spiritual cultivation. What is wuxia? The definition from Google is: "a genre of Chinese fiction or cinema featuring itinerant warriors of ancient China, often depicted as capable of superhuman feats of martial arts." I Shall Seal the Heavens was one of the highest rated wuxia series available that has been translated into English. I say 'written' because I this past summer I watched a show of the same genre on Netflix and thought it might be interesting to read a book. ![]() Patriarch Reliance was my first foray into the written world of the fascinating genre known as "wuxia". It is a dangerous world and Meng decides that the only way to stay alive is to become as powerful as he possibly can, as quickly as he can. ![]() Meng Hao, an ambitious yet ultimately unsuccessful scholar, is kidnapped by a magically powerful woman and catapulted into a world of "cultivators", mortals who grow their spiritual power in a never ending quest to become immortal. ![]()
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