I, a Frail Scholar! Walk into the Exam Hall with a Blade!

In the final years of the Wu Dynasty, the emperor was incompetent, eunuchs wielded power, foreign tribes watched hungrily from the sidelines, and countless commoners froze to death as famine left the land strewn with corpses.

At the imperial examination, Qin Huai watched as the chief eunuch made things difficult for impoverished scholars in every way, and flew into a rage!

“Ding! Choice One: Leave in silence and accept their offer. Reward: One hundred taels of gold! Perfect recall! Tortoise-Breath Breath-Holding Technique!”

Choice Two: Enter the examination hall with a blade and slay the treacherous eunuch!

Reward: Grandmaster cultivation! Mythic-grade Green Dragon Crescent Blade! Three thousand black-armored death warriors!

To hell with this imperial examination!

Today!

I, Qin Huai, will attain Grandmaster rank and cut down the traitors with my blade!

I will raise an army and overthrow the Wu Dynasty!

Establish a heart for Heaven and Earth, a life for the people, carry on the lost teachings of the sages, and bring peace for all generations!

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