From commoner to marshal, he forges a new China. Reborn into an age of chaos, with the land in ruins, foreign powers closing in, and warlords locked in bloody conflict, a bookish scholar who once stumbled into the water becomes an iron-blooded warlord. Gentle noblewomen and valiant female generals alike fall for him and stand at his side. Amid the smoke and flames of war, he wipes out the remnants of feudalism, quells separatist warlords and bandits, drives out the invaders, and claims dominion over the land.
