Synopsis:
Chen Mo transmigrates to the Republican era and becomes a lowly dockworker at Shiliupu Wharf. Western steamships rule the river, while Japanese ronin swagger around with demonic blades. In this world, human life is as cheap as grass.
Then a Japanese ronin slashes him into the Huangpu River. On the brink of death, he awakens the Martial Dao Heavenly Stele and gains a daily settlement System.
“Completed Turtle-Breathing exercises today. Reward: Qi and blood +1, injuries healed!”
“Destroyed a human-trafficking hideout and rescued seventeen people. Reward: Ten Forms of Long Fist!”
“Killed a Japanese ronin and refined the baleful energy in his demonic blade. Bones and sinews strengthened!”
He rises from dockworker to a merchant guild’s guard, and then to the famed “Master Chen” of Shanghai.
Japanese onmyoji send shikigami to attack under cover of night? One punch from him, and his qi and blood blaze like the sun, reducing a hundred ghosts to ashes!
Western engineers drive iron giants to block his way? His hidden force pierces their bodies, shatters their cores, and brings the steel behemoths crashing to their knees!
When the extraordinary beings of the great powers assume that the martial arts of the Dragon Kingdom are dead, Chen Mo slowly clenches his fist on the banks of the Huangpu River.
That day, the river reversed its flow for thirty miles, and a century-old sunken warship rose from the riverbed.
The shattered Rising Sun flag aboard it, like this defeated age, drifted away as ash.
“You’ve got two things wrong.”
“First, Chinese martial arts were never lost.”
“Second, I don’t train to get stronger, ”
“I train to send you all on your way.”
