Ji Changge transmigrates and becomes the young head of the Ji family, one of the five great clans in Xuanzhou City. The Ji family was once the empire's foremost clan, but now it's a hollow shell. The Grand Elder is at death's door, and the whole clan can barely scrape together a few Golden Core cultivators. The Zhao family publicly forces Ji Changge to marry into their clan and take their surname, while demanding half of the Ji family's holdings.
On the wedding day, Ji Changge writes a letter of repudiation in front of everyone. Ji Changge, young head of the Ji family, repudiates his wife, Zhao Qingyi.
The Zhao family turns hostile and attacks. The Grand Elder risks shortening his life to fight back, and Ji Changge escapes unharmed. But an even greater storm follows: his breakthrough fails, leaving his cultivation crippled. The Zhao family attacks under cover of night, and more than half the Ji clan is killed or wounded. At this desperate moment, the System that hasn't spoken in three years finally speaks up in his mind:
"Family fortune: 3/100. On the brink of annihilation. Activation conditions met."
Overnight, Ji Changge returns to the Foundation Establishment realm. He leads the fallen Ji family in standing up to a branch of the Zhao clan. He opens trade routes in a border city, risks his life to break through to the Golden Core realm in the Demonic Beast Mountains, establishes a foothold in the Sixth City, returns to help save its lord, kills Zhao Tianxiong, and wipes out the Zhao clan branch.
The Zhao family's main clan is furious, and their Nascent Soul ancestor vows to act personally. But Ji Changge has already set his sights on places farther afield: the Northern Region, the Western Region, the Central Divine Region, and the legendary secret of ascension.
The Zhao family is powerful, but Ji Changge is made of sterner stuff.
