After wastrel Tang Pingle is kicked out of his home, a gamma-ray burst sends his spirit out of his body. He becomes the agent of Haodi, an engineer of a cosmic civilization, and gains five superpowers: time travel, teleportation, X-ray vision and invisibility, rapid healing, and interstellar coordinates.
With a single step through time, he lands in the Great Song a month before the Jingkang humiliation. Instead of building palaces, he establishes academies; instead of writing poetry, he builds machine tools. Clad in red robes, hailed as a god in the flying snow, and welcomed by nations from across the world, he drags the progress of civilization forward by a thousand years.
But his opponent on the other side of the board has only just made their first move.
The beginning is interesting