The Shattered Moon Shocks the Heavens (JX3 + The Outcast)

During the An Lushan Rebellion, a thirteen-year-old young killer from the Mingjiao is ordered by his cult leader to travel into the Central Plains and help the Li Tang imperial family fight the Langya Army. But before he can even leave the desert, a strange wind sweeps him into the modern era. He emerges from the desert, marveling at all the "new" things around him and thinking how prosperous the Central Plains have become. Then he catches a thief and gets noticed by a shady state-owned corporation, which tricks him into joining as a temp under the pretense of a job with the "modern Central Plains government."

1. The protagonist is a killer and feels no guilt about killing. Given an order, he shows no mercy to men, women, children, babies, or pregnant women. But he is absolutely not a killing-obsessed psychopath like Xiao Ge. He has a fairly upright sense of right and wrong and is a little cold, but not aloof.

2. The protagonist's abilities are based on the Mingjiao techniques from Jian Wang 3, but the story's setting and content have nothing to do with Jian Wang 3. Feel free to read even if you're not interested in the game.

3. The plot mainly follows the Luotian Grand Ceremony and Chen Duo arcs, skipping the first season of The Outcast entirely.

4. The protagonist may not have a romantic pairing, and I won't arbitrarily pair him with characters from the original work. If you think a certain pair of sorcerer buddies has intense chemistry, then there's definitely something wrong with your interpretation of the original work (well, maybe).