Originally Posted by
Ken Cheng
In any other wuxia novel set in the pre-Qing Dynasty era, the Divine Dragon Cult (DOMD) would have fit right in and been a dime-a-dozen martial arts/religious sect. The worlds of DGSD, the CONDOR HEROES TRILOGY, and SPW are replete with wulin organizations such as the Divine Dragon Cult. In those eras, the DDC would not have even stood out. It would have just been one more in a wulin that hosted dozens if not hundreds of such cults.
In the world of DOMD, however, the Divine Dragon Cult comes across as an anachronism. It seemed to hark back to the wulin of earlier eras and did not fit into a world of anti-Qing rebel societies and soldiers who carried firearms. It was a relic of a time in wulin that had passed.