To fulfill his grandfather’s dying wish, Chen Yan drives alone to a mysterious tunnel in the mountains of Qingxia.
While everyone else transmigrates forward in time, he ends up in a world more than thirteen hundred years in the future.
Everything he once knew has long since become ruins buried beneath the soil, remnants of the Ashes War fought a thousand years ago.
Most of the world has descended into even greater division and chaos. The revival of human civilization has become a slogan used by those in power to deceive the people.
After successfully binding with the Civilization Legacy System, Chen Yan sees that he now holds the largest archive of knowledge from the old civilization. He resolves to restore the lands of China and lead civilization toward progress!
Many years later…
A passerby asks: Your Majesty, why did you keep expanding the empire’s borders until they encompassed the entire world?
Chen Yan replies: I was only fulfilling the dream of unifying the world, something no one before me ever achieved. Besides, a unified world will better help human civilization advance once it reaches the stars.
The passerby asks: But Your Majesty, what’s with the imperial yellow robe you’re wearing?
Chen Yan replies: Sigh… That winter, I clearly said I wasn’t cold, but they insisted on draping this yellow robe over me. Sigh, what a hardship for me.
The passerby asks: Then why don’t you take it off?
Chen Yan replies: Because I wanted progress too much!
