Great Ming: The Cool Taoist Is Actually the Emperor's Eldest Grandson!

…I am Zhu Ying, the eldest grandson of the Ming dynasty. When I was eight, a master took me up into the mountains. I changed my name to Zhu Beixuan and spent ten years studying Zi Wei astrology and the art of rulership. Ten years later, I returned to the mortal world, carrying a body full of snow and wind. This time, I wouldn’t be the short-lived one. I would become the Ming dynasty’s strongest backing!

“Where did you spring from, you wild Taoist? Why don’t you kneel before the Son of Heaven?” “This humble Taoist kneels before Heaven and Earth, and before his master. As for Your Majesty… I’m afraid that if I kneel, I’ll shorten your life and bring the Ming dynasty to ruin!”

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Crown Prince Zhu Biao was critically ill, and the imperial physicians were helpless. Zhu Yuanzhang was frantic, and people were being executed throughout the city. Just then, a young Taoist in a worn robe, with the bearing of an immortal, swaggered into the execution grounds. He used no medicine and took no pulse. He cast a divination using Zi Wei astrology and brought the Crown Prince back from the brink of death with a single needle!

Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and was about to reward him when something clattered to the ground. A jade pendant carved with a coiling dragon had fallen from the Taoist’s robe. Zhu Yuanzhang picked it up and burst into tears, his hands trembling uncontrollably. “This… this is the keepsake Empress Ma left for Ying! Are you… my eldest grandson, who died so young?!”