Li Heng, an overworked e-commerce employee, stayed up all night collecting Water Margin cards until it became an obsession. He spent tens of thousands of yuan and was only one card short of the final one, the Star of Heavenly Chief.
Just as he was cursing and tearing open a packet of instant noodles, a System display slammed into his face: the Heavenly and Earthly Spirits Star Chart had activated, allowing him to transmigrate to the Northern Song and recruit heroes in person.
Driven to the brink by overtime, Li Heng slapped his thigh. “I’m going!”
But the System malfunctioned during his transmigration. The Water Margin world had already been swept clean by other transmigrators, its fate scattered. His destination shifted to the fourteenth year of Xiantong under Emperor Yizong of Tang, on the eve of Huang Chao’s rebellion: the chaotic late Tang, even more turbulent than the Water Margin world.
From the start, barbarian cavalry pursued him. He fled blindly into the mountains, only to run into a white-fronted tiger with glaring eyes.
At the brink of life and death, the boy An Jing Si smashed stones with his bare hands and fought the tiger, killing it with a single staff strike to the head.
Li Heng was stunned. “Isn’t that Li Cunxiao, the one said to be second only to Xiang Yu among kings and second only to Li among generals?!”
The System updated his mission at the same time: recruit those whose destinies align in the late Tang and reunite the 108 heroes of the Heavenly and Earthly Spirits.
