Warring States: The Iron-Blooded Lord of Zhao

The moment he opens his eyes, overworked office drone Zhao Yong finds himself in the body of a fifteen-year-old puppet king of Zhao during the Warring States period!

In the mourning hall, a powerful minister hides a bloody edict in his sleeve, while his uncle points a sword at the throne.

Outside the palace, flames of war rage. Xiongnu wolf riders batter the passes, and the borderlands are littered with corpses.

Worse still, the very assassin who forced poison down his throat last night is now pretending to help him ascend the throne!

In this desperate moment, he grips the jade scepter beside the coffin, used to pin down the dead, and issues his first royal decree:

“Seal the city! Impose martial law!”

From then on, the Warring States era takes a sharp turn:

He recruits Li Mu while he is still an obscure nobody, builds monumental heaps of enemy skulls along the northern frontier, and makes the northern horsemen afraid to look south.

He draws Lian Po out of obscurity, sends his iron cavalry thundering through Hangu Pass, and strikes terror into the Qin troops.

He wrests Lin Xiangru away from an enemy state, trades a jade disk for nine cities, and leaves the other kingdoms' diplomats speechless!

When black banners of nomadic dress and mounted archery rise above Handan's walls,

when the crossbows' edge tears through the Wei martial troops' battle formation,

when Zhao warships loaded with grain sail down the Yellow River toward Jiangnan...

Only then do the rulers of the Six Kingdoms realize:

The boy who trembled in the rain back then

has become an iron-fisted tyrant who devours the world!

“This chaotic age will be shaped by my rules!”

The New Annals record: In the first year of Emperor Huashi, Zhao Yong raises the Nine Tripods, and all under heaven is united.