[No System] [Alternate Republic of China] [Unorthodox arts and mystic techniques]
The Great Jing has fallen, and the Republic is in turmoil. The foreigners arrive in haste, armed with powerful guns and ironclad ships, bringing all manner of sinister arts to grab a share of the spoils. The warlords and high officials at court scheme against one another for power, stirring up every kind of trouble. The people are no less remarkable: rickshaw pullers who can keep pace with trains, barbers who can shave away a person's soul. Every trade has its own hidden talents.
Beneath a blood moon, overworked office drone Li Yan glances up at the sky and transmigrates into the body of a half-grown boy in this world's Forty-Nine City, whose father has just died. The blood moon becomes his left eye, known as the Immortal's Eye.
The Immortal's Eye sees through all things. It can reveal a person's true nature and identify rare treasures.
[Wang Defu, patrol officer at the local station, low-ranking clerk at the branch office. Greedy and lecherous, but he'll get things done if you pay him.]
[Old cask, aged mash: a sealant from the Imperial Household Department, buried away for years. It awakens when it meets blood.]
With this ability to read people and identify objects, Li Yan begins his rise from a patrolman earning six yuan and twenty cents a month.
A petty supervisor abuses his power for revenge? Let him see the advanced techniques of "Jade-Faced Golden Buddha, Stipe-Punk."
A killer from the strangling trade comes calling in the middle of the night? The mass grave gains a new resident before dawn.
A martial world scam conjuring ghosts in a cemetery, a director-general's daughter picking mushrooms by moonlight, foreign devils throwing their weight around...
Every obstacle is hard to overcome, but he overcomes them all.
Once he's gathered the specialties and rare treasures of all three hundred and sixty trades, just watch and see what it means to be the world's most distinguished immortal!
