The Great Genetic Era基因大时代

[Review made at chapter 614]

Kind of unique cultivation system following a genetic evolution theme. Nothing too special of you read any novel with the work “Gene” in its title.

The MC is the typical slightly OP MC template with a golden finger that lets him cultivate more efficiently compared to others. MC is a pretty flat character with little to no character growth throughout the 600 chapter I have read so far. Other than the cultivation realm and knowledge of the world; the MC in chapter 1 is virtually identical to the MC in chapter 614.

The sci-fi element are more pseudoscience and you can tell the author little to no research in order to make it seem grounded.

The elephant in the room is definitely the nationalism. Normal I can ignore the occasional comment or two every now and then. But this novel lays it thick after chapter 100. You can barely go a chapter without the MC or one of the supporting characters declaring how amazing and superior China and the Chinese are. Even the world itself is influenced, why would the aliens that hate humanity as a whole be speaking mandarin?

If you can get past the ridiculous amounts of nationalism the it’s a ok read if you need to kill time and turn your brain off. I would only recommend it if you’re interested in a different type of cultivation style beyond the standard Qi manipulation and foundation building system.

Well, technically it is typical evolution novel with genetic base points, but it tends towards cultivation later, main focus still humans infighting, China best, America and India scheming against them. Even aliens are "chinese", their typical slang and even language....(It doesn't make sense, they are using chinese even internally). Other parts are about a patriotic MC.

romance ???

This MC is a straight up eat ass, I don't mind the china is the best views n what not, which nation doesn't say it's own nation is the best. But this MC is not at all likeable, guys a nut job and not the fun typws

The MC is a normal kid who get an awakening serum at 16. The cultivation method in this novel is about awakening genetic points in their bodies to eventually form a chain then a combat system. For example, they are trained in stessful situations with low oxygen and most of them activate the genetic points in their heart, lungs, ect to rely on a lower oxygen level so that they can fight on mars or other planets.

The world had been in a war with alien invaders and is supposedly united. It is, in the face of alien attacks but peacetime shows how vicious national politics are with them trying to kill each others' geniuses and trying to score more resources for themselves. Mankind is fighting on Mars still, and in the outer solar system and uses some quantum gates to raid other alien planets for resources. They lack the tech the aliens have and are weaker. There are 3 major races enemies with each other, mankind is pretty much regarded as a childish afterthought.

MC goes to college and discovers his "cheat" which allows him to visualize the genetic points in his body so that he can try to activate them manually. These are genetic points he activated at the start, but needs education to understand. Others have this too, so he's not unique. Very rare, but not unique. Say, take a drug to increase reflexes then uses his cheat to see which points are affected then turn them on with some time in cultivation. Most people have to train in a system to activate theirs.

I wouldn't say the novel is "racist" which means one race is better than another. Though the novel writes that people from Huaxia (china) are more peaceful, prosperous, and such compared to other areas. Recall the author is chinese and if he doesn't want his book banned, he must be properly patriotic. That is a sad truth, so Indians and Americans are more scheming and devious in the novel, Europeans are wishy washy, Africans are followers, and Russians are reliable allies. Sort of the biases you would expect from a closed chinese indoctrinated society. Biased, not racist technically.

No harem. Likable MC who is patriotic, selfless, and heroic yet human. Very little of the genre's typical "you're so awesome, I'll follow you to death" stuff because the MC says 2 words to them, but friends after life and death battles.

The plot is basically is humanity trying to cement their foothold in the solar system and get strong enough to break out into the galaxy. MC is strong, but cannot carry the day alone and humanity relies on its armies and their sacrifices to protect itself.

A really enjoyable read, there's little sci fi on this site as good.

A somewhat neutral review

Some say there is tons of racism and nationalism here, I would say there is nothing more than an average Hollywood production would have. So it is just the pot calling kettle black.

All this people saying author has a hardon against Hindus, I find it hilarious as it is very gross exaggeration. Between the chapters 200 and 300 where the whole arc with them happened, There was only one line in one chapter that I would consider racist, It was something about generalizing Hindus and saying that that is all you can expect from them. Was not even very offensive.

Everything else is just people looking at a rock and calling it a donkey, basically just using their own understanding of the world and seeing racism everywhere. Such a sad life they must lead if everything is racist to them, I feel sorry for this.

I would say what the premise of this novel is that there is earth, very similar to ours with different cultures and they do not mix well and are left with trying to defend earth from invaders. Pretty much a cookie cutter situation where you have 6 or more major interest groups fighting for their own benefits instead of humanity. Even the faction MC belongs is the same and author does not go overboard in trying to justify these actions and paint black into white.

Now, Cultivation wise this is actually quite good but I feel like sometimes author is not good enough, there are times where you are left wondering like why is MC doing this instead of that , which he wanted to do since the beginning. Sure the story likes to make it look like MC does not have any choice and must go with the other option, but lets face it its all because author realized that he f#cked up and if everyone had same abilities as MC, the story would be over much quicker or MC would loose his charm.

What is interesting in terms of cultivation is that even tho it starts out scientific, it does incorporate a lot of the "legends & Myths" like Zeus and other gods and the immortals of China. So this gives us fairly good idea of what to expect it is fun to read on how MC would make old legends true again.

The Setting
Ill put this into spoiler as I am too lazy to talk in abstract


Thats about it. What made me mad on this site was that alot of the chapters like around 10 -20 of them when I read up to 500 on this site had content missing, probably because of bad algorithm in script copying or something. Finished reading this on another site. The last chapter around 538 or so had half the first chapter missing and that ticked me off.

So if you consider reading this I do not recommend reading on this site, go to some other site where they have whole chapters.

Any Chinese novel based on Earth should just be skipped. It's almost guaranteed to be trashy gang novel, or racist/nationalist propaganda.

#trash