The Imperial Throne: A Game of Empires, I Conquer the Myriad Worlds and Claim the Crown

Xiao Jue was dragged from a modern city into an ancient stone coffin carved with inscriptions. When he awoke, a bizarre star map swirled overhead.

A cold voice announced: “The Game of Ten Thousand Dynasties has begun. The losers’ souls will be destroyed.”

He had become a powerless pawn in a rigged game.

But as death claimed him again and again, Xiao Jue discovered that each time he died, his consciousness returned to the darkness, where he unlocked a segment of a “historical database” containing the truth about the world.

During a ten-day siege, he went through four cycles, saw through every human heart, and made a false emperor die at the hands of his own confidant. When a desolate village went up in flames at night, he was reborn five times and used his own life as the price to set a trap that would burn the bandits to ash.

He stopped struggling to survive and began choosing death, turning every end into his most precise move on the board.

When, atop the high platform, the stargazer who had watched over the stars and moon finally cast his gaze upon him, Xiao Jue stood with a game piece in hand and looked out at the endless sea of stars.

“Now it’s my turn to define the rules.”