The First Emperor united the land of China. The sun and moon shone bright, and the divine realm gleamed!
The founding ancestor of the dynasty defeated foreign invaders five times. Wherever his gaze fell, the majestic mortal realm, from the highest heavens to the deepest lands, bowed in submission!
The Great Qian Dynasty was founded, and from then on, China fell into ruin…
In the thirty-second year of the Chenghua era, the times fell apart and the great edifice began to collapse. Western ironclad ships pounded at the gates, draining the people dry. Demons and monsters multiplied among the common folk, strange beasts ran rampant, and amid the flames of war, heroes rose from every corner as the land became scorched earth.
The three teachings and nine schools, the hundred schools of thought: a Celestial Master who trains to the ninth level can summon thunder with a single thought; a coachman who reaches the ninth level can cover ten thousand li in a single stride; a paper effigy maker can bring a paper figure to life with a touch and send it to die in place of a living person…
In China, a thousand people wear a thousand faces, and life takes ten thousand forms.
Gu Qimin is blessed with a fated destiny. As long as he cultivates, he will reap rewards. To stay alive, he enters a Taoist temple, studies the arts of the Celestial Masters, masters martial cultivation, slays evil spirits with his sword, and crushes Western and Japanese invaders with his fists.
Years later, he stands atop the remains of a god who had ascended through machinery. He crushes a five-meter-tall monster with his bare hands, blood dripping from his fingertips, mingling with the rain.
“I, Gu Qimin, hereby invite this entire world to die!”
