Late Han: From the Start, I Summoned Li Jing, and Cao Cao Lost His Mind

A strange earthquake in a library tore the soul of Zhang Zhao, a history student, from his body and flung him into the hellish ruins of Luoyang in the third year of Jian'an. Starving refugees traded their children for food, and white bones littered the land. The brutal fangs of a chaotic age shattered his modern understanding in an instant. At the brink of death, a cold mechanical voice boomed in his mind: [Chinese Heroes Summoning System (Three Kingdoms period excluded) activated... First mission: survive for twelve hours].

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His first summon was Li Jing, the Tang Dynasty's God of War, who became Zhang Zhao's sole anchor amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. To survive, Zhang Zhao offered ingenious strategies and entered Cao Cao's camp, starting out as a lowly tuntian commandant. When the Yue banner of the Beibei Army first fluttered over the battlefield at Guandu, when Han Xin, the God of War, tore apart Yuan Shao's million-strong army with his stratagems, and when Bai Qi, the “God of Slaughter,” set a deadly trap in Jingxiang... Cao Cao's admiration swiftly turned into bone-chilling fear.

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Zhang Zhao commanded an army of heroic spirits summoned across time, yet found himself trapped in a deadly struggle against a suspicious warlord, feuding aristocratic clans, and the formidable forces of Sun and Liu. The flames of Chibi consumed Cao Cao's ambitions, but failed to burn away the Jingxiang game Zhang Zhao had secretly laid out. Guan Yu's Green Dragon Crescent Blade shook the land, but he ultimately fell into the death trap Bai Qi had carefully woven. Zhang Zhao established the “Dark Pavilion,” won over local heroes, and went from using Cao Cao for mutual advantage to breaking with him completely.

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Yet the truth behind the System hung over him like a sword: the price demanded for this “gift” from the future was the annihilation of everything he had built with his own hands! When the summoned heroes gained minds of their own, when the identity of the loyal Pavilion Master “Shadow” became a mystery, and when Jiang Ziya and Sun Wu arrived on the final battlefield... Zhang Zhao stood atop the “Zhao” Empire he had founded after ending the age of chaos, facing the ultimate