Great Ming: This Taoist Never Wanted to Be Emperor!

One day, Zhu Yu awoke to find himself a young Taoist priest in Yingtian Prefecture during the Hongwu era of the Ming Dynasty. He gained the ability to cultivate immortality through the fortune of a dynasty, and used it to become the Ming court's State Preceptor.

From then on, the people of the Ming Dynasty had a spiritual guide to show them the way.

Zhu Yuanzhang: State Preceptor, why does your alchemy always make the ground shake?

Zhu Yu: You don't understand. That's the Way of Explosions.

Zhu Yuanzhang: State Preceptor, the imperial examinations don't use the eight-legged essay anymore. Instead, they test all these confusing, random things. Can the people they select really do the job?

Zhu Yu: You don't understand. That's the Way of Selecting Talent.

Zhu Yuanzhang: I haven't read many books, so don't try to fool me. Is this really how you cultivate the Dao?

Zhu Yu declared righteously: This is exactly how you cultivate the Dao. I'm nearly an immortal myself. Why would I lie to you?

But just as the Ming Dynasty's fortune grew ever stronger and Zhu Yu's cultivation bore one success after another,

he noticed that Old Zhu and Empress Ma were looking at him more and more strangely.

"Hey, what do you mean, a royal heir? The Yu in my name has the jade radical, not the wood radical. Don't get any ideas!"

"Become emperor of the Ming Dynasty? No. This Daoist is going to become an immortal!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.