After throwing his beloved students into the Civilization Evolution Arena, Wenren Sheng was finally gratified to see civilization advancing at an accelerated pace.
Honestly, if he had not been trying to minimize traces of his own existence, he would not have needed to go to such lengths.
Time accelerated seventy years into the future.
On this Nameless Planet, the Second East-West War stood on the brink of eruption.
There were all sorts of reasons for the war, and countless conflicts lay behind it, but at its root, the upper classes were still fighting over the true secret of the Fountain of Youth Water.
The Great Millet People had fought a war before, but the technological gap had not been large enough at the time, and they had been driven back by the Great Cheng Dynasty, which possessed home-field advantage.
That was not implausible.
After all, in Wenren Sheng's timeline, the Qing Dynasty had still been able to defeat the land forces of France, one of the great powers.
The Great Cheng Dynasty was in far better shape than the Qing Dynasty. At the very least, it had no fierce internal conflicts and could unite fairly well against foreign enemies.
Coupled with the Fountain of Youth's boost to officers' morale, the chances of victory had been quite high.
But this time, the West was preparing to organize an unprecedented coalition force.
They believed that both their military mobilization capacity and military technology surpassed the Great Cheng Dynasty by an entire generation.
The Great Cheng Dynasty's battleships were still in the pre-dreadnought era, while they had already entered the post-dreadnought era.
They had already put aircraft on warships and begun using them for reconnaissance, while the Great Cheng Dynasty was still tinkering with hot-air balloons and airships.
They had even begun trying