As the Dynasty Crumbles, I Forge an Eternal Legend

One morning, Li Mu, a civil engineer, awakens as the exiled seventh prince of the Great Xia Dynasty. He has been banished to the barren far north, where the barbarians will sacrifice him to Heaven in three days!

Faced with a crumbling border town, barbarian cavalry lying in wait, and brothers in the capital who want him dead, Li Mu smiles.

You play power games. I’ll focus on infrastructure.

You tear each other apart. I’ll reclaim wasteland.

Just when everyone believes the disgraced crown prince has become utterly useless, an unprecedented fortified city rises under his hand.

Iron furnaces belch flames, irrigation canals nourish thousands of acres of farmland, and impregnable walls leave the barbarians battered and broken.

“What? The disgraced crown prince Li Mu is still alive?”

“Not only that! He’s built an unassailable city and commands three thousand armored soldiers who can take on a hundred thousand!”

“Impossible! How could that barren land support so many people?”

When winter comes, the realm descends into chaos, the Central Plains are strewn with the starving dead, and the barbarians breach the passes and march south, everyone realizes in horror that the former disgraced crown prince has long since risen to the top of the world, leading his steel-clad army.