Beyond the Timescape [Wuxiaworld]Outside of Time

光阴之外

Did it still work for you?

Really? Is the art good or sub par?

Maybe not give a review with just 50 chaps

men of fine taste = reading webnovel on illegal site. Right

Are we reading the same novel?
1.) The human race used dawning suns (nuclear weapons) to maintain the status quo
2.) The MC treats a snake girl as a little sister (what tammytrades said), is friends with a phoenix, Captain doesn't even know what species/race he is at this point, Master 7th picked up a random student that seemed promising (pretty sure this was a grue? or a species that wasn't human)
3.) Sure, Xu Qing is described as beautiful, but he started as a murderhobo in a slum that eventually found kindship and family with Captain and his master (he goes around stirring shit/plotting with captain, idk how this is a perfect human being)

Addressing the personality shift: His personality at the start was molded by the circumstances he was in (you read up to chapter 839) you should know that he reminisces his parents and thinks about Master Bai quite early in the novel. Hell, you could tell that he was more than a psycho with a knife from his interactions with Sergeant thunder
Xu Qing's personality didn't turn around 180degrees, idk you haven't realized this even though you read so much, but the "personality switch" Xu Qing has is much better described as him finding his humanity again (The current Xu Qing that found brotherhood with Captain is basically what he was before the novel + tainted by the circumstances of Reverend Ancient)

You must be in the early chapters; you’ll understand my perspective once you reach the later parts of the story.

The human race is not a minor race, in fact, it’s a powerful one, just not the strongest. You mentioned yourself that there exists a force capable of deterring Gods. Weakness is relative when compared to the top races. There are countless races weaker than humans, and some even serve them. Continue reading to understand this better.

When I said the MC is “perfect,” I was referring to the fact that he never loses in fights. Even when facing an enemy who is a once-in-a-thousand-years genius, 2-3 major levels above him, he always emerges victorious in every unbelievable situation. He always seems to gain some mysterious power-up just before fighting an otherwise insurmountable enemy often introduced within 10 chapters or less.

As for calling the MC “racist,” I admit that might be too strong a term. Perhaps “biased” is more accurate. For instance, if I recall correctly, the MC was willing to massacre an entire race because they captured humans. While they did so out of survival, his reaction was to annihilate them. Don’t get me wrong , I’m not saying the MC should be righteous. In fact, I enjoy unfettered protagonists. However, it’s the mentality after his actions that bothers me. He killed them because they were nonhumans, while helping humans simply because they were human.

You could argue he was avenging a little girl, but think about it: the soldiers he killed, did they not also have families? If memory serves, he later sacrificed the surviving members of the race, including innocent ones who were simply following orders. The issue here is his mentality: humans are right, nonhumans are wrong.

This bias is fine in itself, but what bothers me is that the MC considers himself “fair.” He genuinely believes the nonhumans were wrong for trying to survive. If he had openly admitted, “I don’t care, I killed them because I can” or “I hate nonhumans for daring to capture humans,” I would have accepted that. But it’s the self-justification of fairness behind his actions that doesn’t sit well with me. It was a matter of survival of the fittest. The nonhumans captured or killed humans because they were weak. He, in turn, killed them because he had the power to do so. That’s “might makes right,” not fairness. Neither the nonhumans nor the humans were inherently wrong it was just a clash of survival. We see another situation where he considered sparing someone but ultimately killed them after finding out it was a nonhuman.
I might get some details wrong because i read this chapters a long time ago, but all this events did happen

Sorry for the long note, but I hope this clarifies my point. The MC’s bias toward humanity isn’t inherently wrong, but his refusal to acknowledge it is. This becomes more evident in the chapters that follow.

I’d love to hear any other thoughts or conflicting theories. Thank you!