Wielding the Imperial Seal: Starting with In the Name of the People

Long Xuan, an overworked office drone still at work at three in the morning, was sent to a parallel world by the Imperial Seal of China, which fell from the sky.

“By the mandate of Heaven, may it endure forever?” Long Xuan wiped the blood from his face and laughed again and again. “No. From today on, the Mandate of Heaven is mine.”

Year One, late autumn, 1990. Long Xuan walked into Handong University. A damaged Imperial Seal, missing one corner, flickered in his mind. Ten death warriors were instantly created, and the missing corner reflected a perfect future.

Year Two. One hundred death warriors knelt throughout the space within the seal. The leader had a scar like a dragon's severed claw at the corner of his eye. “My lord.”

Long Xuan tapped the missing corner of the seal, now made real. Neon lights outside the window reddened half the sky.

Year Three. One thousand death warriors...

“Fists are power!” Long Xuan declared.

Along the road of his life,

Zhong Xia'ai, dressed in uniform, spoke seductively: “Want to ring the bell?!”

Gao Qilan took off her white clothes, revealing her fair skin. Her face flushed with embarrassment as she said, “Let's get some rest, Brother Xuan!”

Many years later, at a class reunion, his former classmates were still struggling to reach the county-level ranks. As he raised his hand to pour a drink, the dragon patterns on his imperial robe showed faintly beneath his suit.

Long Xuan shed his disguise and gazed at his eternally youthful face in the mirror. Projections of the Myriad Worlds appeared in his hand, and his deep voice rang out: “This Imperial Seal is missing a corner. It can keep me from aging, but not grant me eternal life. My ministers, what should I do?”

In the space, the death warriors, as dense as a forest of ink, roared in unison: “Restore it! Restore it!”

“Then I'll restore that missing corner. I'll watch the sun set for three thousand years, thirty thousand years, three hundred million years, and only then talk about immortality.”