Chen Ji was a dirt-poor boy at the foot of Mount Li in the Qin empire, struggling to avoid starving to death. In the dead of winter, his entire family was on the verge of dying when he risked going out to find food and was abducted by a strange beam of light.
When he awoke, he had become a laborer in a prison from the “Immortal Realm”! Towering buildings rose like divine mountains, iron beasts raced everywhere, and he was nothing but an NPC trapped in a fake old-fashioned neighborhood. His boss, Lin Feng, made him an offer he couldn't refuse: work for thirty days and get paid! Back home in the Qin empire, only one day would pass!
For the sake of his dying parents and his starving, freezing siblings, Chen Ji threw himself into the job! He hefted stone mortars, wove straw sandals, and forced himself to endure his fear of the “demon realm.” Then, at last, he got his wages and stepped into the treasure vault of the Immortal Realm known as the “supermarket”...
Mountains of pure white salt? Buy it! The bitter salt that cost its weight in gold back in the Qin empire was just two yuan a bag here!
A sturdy iron pot that would never break? Buy it! The cracked pottery at home belonged in the trash!
Miracle pills and medicines that worked at once? Buy them! His father's cough could finally be cured!
With life-saving supplies bought using “paper tokens from the Immortal Realm” in hand, Chen Ji rushed back to the Qin empire on the thirtieth day. Only one day had passed at home, yet it had become a living hell.
Saving his family couldn't wait!
A single “miracle pill” kept his father alive for one last breath. A bag of white salt let the whole family taste what it meant to be alive. An iron pot boiled up a hopeful pot of hot porridge.
And this was only the beginning!
When his wages could also buy potato seeds that yielded a thousand jin per mu, prototypes of “thunderbolts” that could split mountains and shatter rocks, and even... a map of the world, one thought began to grow wildly in his mind:
With an immortal opportunity in hand, why not... raise an emperor?
From a commoner on the brink of death to an honored guest at the First Emperor's side, witness how the greatest worker of all uses his Immortal Realm wages to support his family first, then raise a very different Qin empire to endure for all ages!
