After seventeen years and six stints in and out of the Black Armor Camp of the Zhenbei Army, Liu Beidou was only seven days away from activating the sign-in System.
Then, after his sixth discharge, the general blacklisted him, and all nine armies of Great Qian refused to take him in.
So he couldn’t even be a common soldier anymore?
No problem. Great Qian’s laws had a loophole: civil officials could transfer to military posts without restrictions on age or physical condition!
So he took off his ragged sheepskin coat and went off to sit the imperial exam, coming first.
When the scholars mocked him, he crushed them all with a modern take on the eight-legged essay.
At court, his Three Strategies for Pacifying the Barbarians stunned the entire realm.
On the day he earned the top spot, the emperor wanted to appoint him to the Hanlin Academy, and the chief minister tearfully begged him to become his successor. But Liu Beidou defied the imperial decree, asking only for an order assigning him to the Zhenbei Army as a seventh-rank adviser.
When Liu Beidou, dressed in his red top-scorer’s robe and holding the imperial decree, forced open the Black Armor Camp’s gates, the general who had once blacklisted him broke down.
“You nearly killed yourself to become the top scholar, just so you could come back and serve under me as a common soldier?!”
The Northern Barbarians’ cavalry attacked the border. After seven days of battle, the System activated!
The useless old soldier with short, flat feet transformed into an all-around God of War with the physique of a conqueror. From then on, Great Qian had one fewer stuffy top scholar and one more prince of a different surname who made the barbarians tremble!
