From Tricking the Golden Cudgel at the Start to Immortality in Republican-Era China Without a System

Bound to the "One-Day Journey to the West" System, Zhang Lingyu has only 24 hours to go wild!

He talks Sun Wukong, trapped beneath Five-Finger Mountain, into it: "Great Sage, let me borrow your staff for a day. I'll return it tomorrow!" And just like that, he gets the Ruyi Jingu Bang!

He sweet-talks Zhenyuanzi at Wuzhuang Temple: "Brother, those ginseng fruits look delicious!" And just like that, he slips a ginseng fruit into his pocket!

He plans to take his treasures back to the modern world and lie flat, but the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World sees through him and sends a bolt of chaos lightning crashing down!

The System takes the hit for him and, running out of energy, hurls him into the Republic of China era, on February 12, 1912, the first day after the Qing emperor abdicates and the country plunges into chaos.

Armed with divine weapons and carrying wondrous treasures, Zhang Lingyu intends to defy fate, only to discover that the wheel of history cannot be stopped.

As warlords battle, he keeps a low profile and quietly builds his strength. Amid the flames of the War of Resistance, he secretly protects his country and its people.

From the Republic of China era to the modern day, Zhang Lingyu looks upon the vast empire he built with his own hands.

So it wasn't impossible to change things after all. It just required the Heavenly Dao to die...

But with the discovery of the Warp, the title of Emperor, and the start of the Great Crusade,

why does everything suddenly feel so off? So the ginseng fruit's real purpose was in the Warp.

He is an Emperor, but not the Emperor sitting on the Golden Throne.

He is the Emperor who wields the Ruyi Jingu Bang.