The protagonist, Su Xuan, is a modern-day scholar gifted in both the sciences and the humanities. After being drugged while getting a massage at a bar, he transmigrated to the cultivation world for the first time and obtained a System. He fought his way through every obstacle and became the one and only Immortal Emperor in the world. But his arrogance grew too great, and he disturbed the foundations of the Great Dao, drawing its displeasure. The Great Dao then ordered the Heavenly Dao to set a trap for him, causing him to transmigrate a second time. This time, he appeared behind the dragon throne in the Hall of Canopy, in the Ming Dynasty. It was the twenty-first year of Hongwu. Chang Yuchun was already dead, and Lan Yu had just been made Duke of Liang. The System transmigrated with him. In the days that followed, he would win ten thousand miles of territory for the Ming and put its technology far ahead of the rest of the world...