Sparks of the Gear Revolution: I Lead Mortals in Building a Heavenly Dynasty

As the immortal bloodline wanes after three generations, the empire's foundations have long since rotted. Ordinary people spark two industrial revolutions with gears and electricity. Spirit-tempering pills tear society apart at the cost of infertility, while the Common Karma Scripture ignites an ideal more fervent than steam. This is the ultimate clash between spiritual root talent and relations of production, the twilight of Golden Cores and Nascent Souls before the electromagnetic cannon arrays. In prison, the protagonist writes a book in blood. After surviving the execution ground, he leads his comrades to build a blueprint for a new world without oppression, caught between immortal arts and elixirs. But when the empire falls, the idealists who fill the power vacuum discover that destroying the old order is far easier than establishing a new one. The revolution is not yet won, and the lights still flicker.