In 2026, historian Wang Zhen died unexpectedly. His soul traveled to Ili, Xinjiang in 1856, and possessed the body of the only son of a Qing Dynasty guerrilla general.
He was supposed to be bound to the "Emperor's Hegemony System", but due to system errors, he only received three compensations: a cave world of 100,000 square meters, eyes that can distinguish between loyalty and good and evil, and a pill that can increase his life span by 500 years.
At that time, the power of the Qing Dynasty was declining, Tsarist Russia was moving south, and the khanates in Central Asia were fighting endlessly. Wang Zhen started by persuading his father to seek a military position, and worked step by step, using the cave world as his support, to quietly accumulate strength.
He gathered the refugees, absorbed the people of the Central Plains, exchanged people with silver for the Qing Dynasty, and established his own country-Xiting in the Nur-Sultan area.
From a military training ground in a small border town to a trading hub across Europe and Asia, he spent five hundred years pushing a nomadic tribe alliance to the pinnacle of a modern power.
This is a long journey about survival, ambition and civilization - from the Ili grassland one morning to the Xiting that stands on top of the world five hundred years later.
