[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms] + [Eastern xianxia] + [Historical what-if] + [Defying fate] + [Iron-blooded military] + [Court intrigue] + [Sharp-tongued but kindhearted]
A top modern special agent is caught in a plane crash. When he opens his eyes, his soul has landed in the Later Zhou of the Five Dynasties, inhabiting the body of the six-year-old child ruler Chai Zongxun. According to the history books, the Chenqiao Mutiny will take place in a few months. He will be forced to abdicate and spend the rest of his life in lonely exile. The warlords command powerful armies and have grown brazen. They openly threaten the court while the officials look on coldly. Ambitious ministers plot against one another in the roiling undercurrents, and everyone is waiting to laugh at the child emperor as they manipulate him at will. But inside this child's body dwells the soul of an agent who excels at strategy and is ruthless in his resolve. He has also awakened a unique path of cultivation fueled by national fortune: the vast realm is his foundation for the Dao, and as the nation grows stronger, his cultivation can advance without limit. The moment a rebel general threatens him, Chai Zongxun exposes the man's treasonous plot, drawing the fortune of the entire Later Zhou realm into a thunderous strike that crushes the traitor before the court. Everyone in the hall trembles in shock.
At court, he devises strategies, balances the power of noble clans and ministers, and reforms governance and public welfare. On the battlefield, he builds a disciplined, iron-blooded new army, defeats the Khitan in a northern campaign, reclaims the lost lands of Yan and Yun, and intimidates the Jurchen tribes beyond the frontier. He sets sail across the oceans, pacifies the nations of the South Seas, reaches Australia and the Americas, establishes Chinese protectorates in West Asia, and opens up trade across thousands of miles of sea.
Cultivation, court intrigue, military might, and territorial expansion go hand in hand. Through sheer force of will, he changes the course of history, erases the three centuries of weakness and humiliation under the Song dynasties, and builds a prosperous Later Zhou empire that commands the four seas and draws every nation to pay tribute.
A strange setting of cultivating immortals, a narrative that travels through the torrent of history, characters with distinctive personalities, how to transform from a puppet to a powerful emperor, how to change the history of usurped thrones, how to avoid the troubled times that poison the people, establish the prosperous age of the Great Zhou Dynasty, open up territories, different history, different cultivating immortals, and different time travel!