The Northern Underworld Chronicles: Conquering a Chaotic Age

A modern soul falls into the smoke and chaos of an age of war unrecorded in history books. Xiao Mo, a biology student, is reborn as a fourteen-year-old boy in a mountain village in the Qi Kingdom. The moment he opens his eyes, his clan persecutes him and drives him from home. With his frail mother, kindhearted older brother, and young sister, he moves to Luoma Valley beneath Tiger Roar Mountain. Taking inspiration from protagonists in novels about people transported into the past, he makes soap from plant ash and builds houses using mortise-and-tenon joints, carving out a paradise from the wilderness.

But in a time of chaos, no place can remain untouched. The greed of clan leader Xiao Wanshan, the threat of the Northern Rong cavalry, and the collusion between bandits and officials all close in. When the county magistrate throws him in prison on charges of “stealing ancestral property,” when a hundred riders from Divine Tiger Stronghold charge through the dawn toward the county office, when the secret soap formula becomes the root of disaster as powerful figures covet it… Xiao Mo finally understands: in an age when human lives are worth less than grass, compassion must be sharpened with iron and blood. He saves prisoners of war, takes in refugees, and builds a fortified city. With benevolence and justice as his shield and intelligence as his sword, he weaves an invisible web through the chaos of war. But no one knows that when nine banners surge and assassins arrive from every direction, when high-ranking officials collude with foreign powers to slaughter their own people, when the Qi Kingdom’s empress is stripped of power by treacherous ministers, and when the kingdom’s endangered imperial house places its burden on Xiao Mo’s shoulders, his path through this chaotic age will only just have begun.