After the Huang Chao Rebellion, the Great Tang collapsed, and the realm splintered into chaos.
Warlords slaughtered one another. Whoever had the strongest troops became emperor. The turmoil of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms was drawing near, the Central Plains were falling, and the people were plunged into misery.
A modern soul transmigrates into the body of an insignificant foot soldier in a border army at the end of the Tang dynasty.
With no golden finger and no magic or supernatural powers, he relies only on his courage and military and political insight far ahead of his time to carve out a path to survival through mountains of corpses and seas of blood.
He rallies scattered troops, reclaims farmland to feed the people, trains the army, and reforms corrupt policies.
He builds his forces on iron discipline, strengthens the nation through farming and warfare, and uses strategy to bend the realm to his will.
He defeats Zhu Wen, subdues the Shatuo, purges the eunuchs, curbs the warlords, and crushes the separatists.
From a lowly soldier to a regional military governor, then to the ruler of all under heaven.
With thunderous force, he ends a century of warfare and rebuilds the realm with new policies and laws, wrenching the dark chaos of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms back onto the path of a unified, prosperous age.
Where his iron hooves tread, all is royal land;
Where the dragon banner points, all strife ends.
