The moment Lu Chenzhou opens his eyes, he finds himself in a romance novel as the Northern Garrison General, destined to be executed by the empress.
A white silk noose, poisoned wine, and a short sword are delivered to his command tent. The entire court is waiting for him to kneel and take his own life. But when he looks down, he still has three hundred thousand Northern Garrison troops at his command, the people of the borderlands behind him, and a Choice System floating before his eyes.
Commit suicide, and die with dignity.
Surrender your authority, and let others do as they please.
Defy the edict, and defend the city.
Lu Chenzhou chooses the third path and obtains the Primordial Qi Refining Art. From then on, the court believes his trump card is military power, while the empress believes his trump cards are firearms, workshops, sturdy roads, and new policies. Only when the Altar of Heaven cracks apart and the city’s buried cases come to light does the empress finally see the last piece of information she had been missing.
It turns out the man she wanted to kill wasn’t a rebel.
He was the only person in the world to achieve immortality.
It has nothing to do with cultivating immortals. The first ray of aura in Chapter 9 does not write about cultivating immortals, but assassination. In chapter 100, the protagonist cannot practice Qi level 1. It is all palace fighting and investigating the case. Please watch with caution.
Gong Douwen, I guess cultivating immortality means not showing out the trump cards until the end, and he is a very low Gong Douwen.