Beyond Zero

In the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, sixteen emperors took the throne. Countless tycoons all met the same fate: their wealth was wiped out, their families vanished, and their names were erased from the history books.

Shen Wansan was rich enough to rival a nation, yet was exiled thousands of miles away and died in a foreign land. Yan Song embezzled two million taels of silver, then was stripped of his wealth and forced to beg on the streets. Liu Jin, known as the "Emperor in Charge," amassed a fortune worth twelve million taels of gold, equivalent to six years of Ming Dynasty revenue. In the end, he was executed, leaving not a single coin behind.

Shen Mo, a history scholar who transmigrated into the body of Shen Wansan's grandson, witnessed his family being confiscated and finally understood: this was no coincidence, but a curse that had endured for countless eras, the "Calamity of the Great Reset." Every 276 years, the power laws of the cultivation world unleashed a purge, wiping out the wealth and cultivation of every top faction.

Everyone believed that power came from cultivation and wealth belonged to its owner. But Shen Mo saw the truth: money never really belongs to you. Resources always belong to whoever can mobilize them. And the ability to mobilize them comes not from cultivation or wealth, but from power.

He decided to break the cycle.

He would enter the Dao through commerce and wield the abacus as his weapon, laying a century-spanning plan amid the cracks in the world of power. When the Calamity of the Great Reset struck again, he would prove one thing: a true strongman isn't someone who accumulates the most, but someone who makes it so no one needs to accumulate anything anymore.

This time, the 276-year curse would end here.