The Human Path to Empire: From the Three Kingdoms to the Primordial World

Upon waking, Liu Heng finds himself the abandoned son of a poor family in the Eastern Han dynasty.

The Yellow Turban fires still rage, and famine victims litter the land. All he has is half a damaged copy of the Essential Techniques for the Common People.

While the ambitious warlords are still fighting over every city and patch of land,

he builds a curved-beam plow in the barren mountains, putting millet in the bowls of displaced people.

While the strategists are still scheming against one another,

he erects waterwheels along the river, turning parched fields into fertile farmland.

Cao Cao laughs at him for being foolish. “In troubled times, you need harsh laws!”

But Liu Heng provides work in exchange for relief, and beneath the monument to the people, a spark begins to catch.

Liu Bei sighs at his naivete. “How can benevolence and virtue secure the throne?”

Before the east wind rises at Red Cliffs, new warships have already shattered the iron chains across the Yangtze.

Only when a banner bearing the word “Benevolence” flies above Luoyang do the warlords realize:

This scholar has used furrows as his battle formation and the people’s hearts as his blade, quietly gathering the dragon aura of humanity!

When war flares across the globe once more, transformed generals stand behind him:

Lyu Bu shakes the walls of Rome with his fists, while Zhuge Liang’s formation board calculates the paths of the stars.

Even Hua Tuo’s silver needles have been refined with the power to bring life into being...

And when the ruins of Mount Buzhou come into view, the sages of the primordial world cast their gaze upon him.

Liu Heng shatters the gates of heaven, holding in his palm the blazing kindling of all living beings.

“You prove your Dao through the mandate of heaven. I prove the Primordial Unity...”

“Through the glorious way of humanity, through the people of Huaxia, whose backbone carries the flame from one generation to the next!”