Great Tang: Peerless Sword Saint, Top Scholar in Both Civil and Military Exams from the Start

[Tang Dynasty + Peerless Sword Saint + No System + Ruthless and Decisive + Top Scholar in Both Civil and Military Exams + Historical Farming]

After his soul transmigrates to the Tang dynasty at the height of the Kaiyuan era, he becomes Pei Min, a sickly youth from a collateral branch of the Hedong Pei clan, with the courtesy name Zijian.

Too weak to even wring a chicken’s neck? The aristocratic clans look down on him because his mother was lowborn?

In this life, he has no mechanical System interface, only three god-tier talents awakened within his body.

First talent, Instant Insight into Sword Principles: One glance at a technique reveals its essence. By combining the force of cursive calligraphy with the motions of threshing grain, he creates a deadly sword art that unites the nine schools into one.

Second talent, One Reading Equals Ten Years: A single read of a military treatise teaches him more than ten years of commanding troops, and the strategies of history’s greatest generals instantly come together in his mind.

Third talent, Born with Divine Strength: His qi and blood reorganize on their own. He can shatter hardened iron with his fingertips and split divine weapons with strength enough to move mountains and rivers.

On the frontier in Youzhou, he awakens on his sickbed and beheads a foreign prince on the spot with a single man and a single sword.

At the Yanyun Academy, he challenges the power of the great clans, slaps a spoiled scion from a direct line flying, pins a foot to his chest, and declares, “You look down on me today, but one day you’ll be beneath my notice!”

He reads military treatises late into the night and foils an assassin’s attack, then takes command at the frontier and crushes the Tibetan enemy ranks.

In Chang’an, his essay on controlling the Yellow River floods with a system of diversion and sediment-clearing solves the crisis. In the military examinations, he hurls a thousand-jin giant one-handed into the spectators’ pavilion, smashing it to pieces. He becomes the Tang dynasty’s first civil-and-military dual top scholar in a hundred years.

As head of the Censorate’s Taiyuan Office, by day he is a cold-faced censor who slays a wicked monk with one sword; by night he is an unmatched gentleman surrounded by beauties in Pingkang Ward.

He takes the poet Li Bai as his disciple, creates an elite heavy-armored Mo Dao guard, carves out a realm in the northwest, and rules the High Tang without rival.