Novels like I Am an Immortal
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- 51 Lord of the Desolate Sands 荒沙主宰 Many readers have said that compared with the actual story, this book’s blurb is complete garbage. The author can’t think of how to introduce it either. Anyway, the story’s quality is absolutely guaranteed. That’s it. (Original blurb) A mechanical engineer transmigrates to a world where martial arts reign supreme, gaining control over the powers of fire and sand. Water cutters, hang gliders, firearms, aircraft engines, powered armor, floating cannons... Using the knowledge he has 109Votes124.4kRecs180.4kFans
- 52 The Abyssal Park Doesn't Keep Idlers 深渊乐园不养闲人 One day, Su Qi suddenly discovered that he could see Easter eggs. Not only could he obtain information, he could also earn hidden rewards by performing special actions. While everyone else was dodging a vengeful ghost, Su Qi had already set up a candlelit dinner and was chatting with her like an old friend. [Obtained her husband's hat. When thrown, it automatically targets enemies and deals psychic damage] When zombies flooded the streets and everyone else was still holding axes and kitchen kniv 0Votes66.7kRecs516kFans
- 53 EN I Really Didn't Want to Play Go! 我真没想下围棋啊！ Go champion Yu Shao transmigrated to a parallel world and became a first-year high school student. Given a second life, all he wanted was to enjoy this wild, carefree youth and keep it from slipping through his fingers again. But… why have I picked up a Go stone again?! Sure, playing Go in a world where AI hasn't put the pros through the wringer yet, and casually dominating an entire era, is just a tiny bit satisfying. A group of professional Go players: “You can play Go like this?” Yu Sha 0Votes274.2kRecs690.1kFans
- 54 EN Starting as a Corpse Liberation Immortal 从尸解仙开始 In the age when the Way has fallen into decline, I achieved ascension by shedding my mortal body. An unexpected turn of events brought me to a world of wizards, where I became a wizard in pursuit of truth. 0Votes20.9kRecs158.2kFans
- 55 The Tang Crown Prince's Leisurely Life 大唐太子的悠闲生活 New book out: "The Ming Dynasty Crown Prince’s Entrepreneurial Journey" (Farming + Family + Reform) This is the age when the Tang Empire is rising, just about to stride forward. Everything is only beginning. It is like a child who has just learned to walk, knowing nothing of storms and feeling no fear. If the Tang Empire takes a wrong turn on the road ahead, so what? Then let it take a few more steps in the wrong direction. Li Chengqian told everyone, “It’s all right. Things will work out e 0Votes91.8kRecs602.9kFans
- 56 EN Feasting on Mortal Incense: Turns Out I'm in the Underworld 飨食人间香火，我这竟是阴间 A Taoist furnace, three sticks of incense. I accept the offerings of all living beings and endure the tribulations of the mortal world, from hell to the immortal realm, weathering calamity among mortals. … Could it be that we’re poor because no one up there is burning paper offerings for us? They say hell is empty, and the devils are all here in the mortal world. Could it be that this place of ours is… the underworld, an endless realm of darkness? That day, I heard murmurs of incense and paper o 0Votes42.2kRecs221.5kFans
- 57 EN Sister, Do I Have to Be a Maid Too? 姐姐，我也要一起当女仆吗？ [Romantic Daily Life] [All Characters Are Adults] The premium version costs 60,000, with 27,000 average subscriptions. Enjoy with peace of mind! On his first day collecting rent, Jiang Yubai ran into twin sisters pleading desperately with their landlord because they couldn't afford to pay. Lin Jianxia: Let's make this clear beforehand. Once we've paid off the back rent, we're even! Lin Jianxia: I'm only cleaning and cooking. There's no way I'm putting on a maid outfit! After graduation. Lin Jian 9.9kVotes261.9kRecs1MFans
- 58 Pillow Blade 枕刀 Resting my head on a blade outside the woodcutter’s gate, listening to cicadas in the evening breeze... It was nothing but a dream of the martial world! (A Gu Long fanfic, set after The Sentimental Swordsman.) 0Votes42.9kRecs240.6kFans
- 59 EN My Universe in a Bottle 我的瓶中宇宙 Li Qing, a psychiatrist, received a patient who claimed to be the “Creator God.” The patient told him about his transmigration: “Dr. Li, I've discovered that I have a superpower. I can create a microscopic civilization in this room. I've unleashed a great flood to destroy the world more than once, wiping out all its people. But I'm about to die, and I'll die as Pangu.” Li Qing reassured him: “I believe you. I believe you.” The man said, “My death is fated. It will usher in a new era of civilizat 3Votes84.4kRecs337.3kFans
- 60 EN The More They Oppose, The More I Know I'm Right 他们越反对，越是说明我做对了 “The more the Church supports me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” “Even when the heretics praise me, it proves I’m right. If they say nothing, that proves my work is beyond reproach!” “If the Church opposes me, that proves they’ve all fallen into heresy. The more the heretics oppose me, the more it proves I’m doing the right thing.” In 681, Ansu, the youngest pope in the history of the Church, was crown 42Votes135.6kRecs1.1MFans
- 61 EN My Management Game is Me?! 经营游戏竟是我自己 “Why do I have to rely on this farming and management game to trade blows with a bunch of martial artists and immortals?” Faced with the old masters emerging from seclusion after the world’s energies revived, and gods and immortals returning, Lü Xingshi deftly pressed the tilde key to open the game console and edited himself a Boss template. … The good news: I transmigrated with a game. The bad news: The game is unfinished. The better news: The unfinished game can be edited. The worse news: I am 4Votes109.6kRecs386.4kFans
- 62 Becoming a God by Planting the Bodhi Tree 从栽下菩提树开始成神 All beings possess the wisdom and virtues of the Tathagata, yet they remain sunk in the sea of suffering, unable to transcend it or see the Tathagata... “Because the people of this world have never seen me.” That year, Ji Jingqiu was sixteen. To stay alive, he envisioned the Buddha's Infernal Prison of the Burning House, planted a Bodhi treasure tree, kindled 0Votes213.8kRecs754.2kFans
- 63 The Transformation of a Wet Egg 湿卵胎化 Born from eggs, wombs, moisture, or transformation, each follows its own course. Egg-born beings arise from desire, womb-born beings from passion, moisture-born beings from contact, and transformed beings from separation. Reincarnation has always been a specialized skill, but Ji Ming has mastered all four kinds: moisture, egg, womb, and transformation. From then on... he could be a bird or a flower, a fish or an insect, a fox of the wilds or a rat of the shrine, a poo 43Votes249.6kRecs576.4kFans
- 64 Born with Immortal Talent 天生仙种 Born with a natural aptitude for cultivation, he rises from a humble, impoverished clan and steps onto the path to immortality, advancing one step at a time until he reaches the far shore of eternal life. Hard work brings rewards. For a cultivator, what better golden finger could there be? 0Votes273.2kRecs676.9kFans
- 65 Transmigrate into the Guardian AI of a Lost Civilization 穿越成为失落文明的监护AI What’s it like to transmigrate into an AI? Li Wenyuan, struck by a meteorite, got to experience it firsthand. Luckily, he discovered that the planet he controlled... seemed to be a tiny bit special. “Precious living metal? Every wall here is made of living metal!” “Zro? You say machines don’t need it? Sorry, we’re already producing psionic machinery.” “An interstellar colony? Why build one when you can make a ringworld?” This is a story about building up a world. It’s also the story of a h 0Votes51.6kRecs254.9kFans
- 66 Literary Genius: This Kid Was Born Smart 文豪：这孩子打小就聪明 [Campus novel about literary copying plus a lighthearted daily life] "You fail math, physics, and chemistry, so getting into college will be difficult. Look at the kid next door, Xiao Lu. He was smart from childhood. His math, physics, and chemistry were poor too, yet he still got into Peking University after taking some Beipei Cup recommendation exam. Why don't you give it a try?" "Mom, Gu Lu is a famous author. He wrote all those bestselling books, like Flatland, The Miracles of the Namiya Gen 3Votes156.4kRecs562kFans
- 67 Cultivating a Male Star: I Took Advice and Became a Top-Tier Star 养成系男神：听劝后，我成了顶流 “With my looks and circumstances, how can I find a girlfriend?” After coming from a parallel world and giving up on his new appearance, Li Youzhi posted this question online. “Try getting a different head.” “Best to be reborn.” “Lose weight. Run ten kilometers a day, do a hundred push-ups, a hundred squats, and a hundred sit-ups.” Reading the comments, some sincere and some mocking, Li Youzhi took the first step toward changing himself. Years later, when a reporter asked Li Youzhi's fans how the 0Votes222.6kRecs824.1kFans
- 68 EN I Am a Puddle of Demonic Cultivation 我是一摊魔修 Tan Shuchang had always considered himself a scion of a scholarly family. Having passed the imperial examinations at a young age, he was a bona fide member of the bloodsucking elite class, someone who should have held immense local power, received more gifts than he could accept, spent more money than he could use, celebrated more New Years than he could count, and taken more concubines than he could accommodate. How had he somehow ended up becoming a demonic cultivator? After thinking about it 0Votes42.3kRecs411.4kFans
- 69 The Tribulation of Ten Thousand Dynasties 万朝之劫 [A 87,000 Premium Subscription, 34,000 Average Subscribers, and Over 10,000 Monthly Subscribers! Quality Guaranteed, Read with Confidence!] (Original title: The Plot of Real Historical Games Is Known Only to Me) “That Ma Su guy has a clear head. The key to victory at the Battle of Jieting is holding the high ground! Anyone who wouldn't even occupy the mountain is an incompetent fool, nothing to worry about!” “Don't bother grinding in Stalingrad. I just came out of the Western Front instance, and 9.4kVotes172.6kRecs1MFans
- 70 We Agreed to Develop Match-Three, So What's With the Earth War? 说好开发消消乐，地球战争什么鬼 P.S. Set on a parallel Blue Star, with no history of world wars. Anti-war themes. Fictional setting for plausible deniability. Scene One Inside a game livestream somewhere in the Great Xia Federation. “All right, that’s it for this anti-war game. I’d give it a four out of ten. Let’s check out the next anti-war game... Huh?” “An immersive story from the start? It’s called... D-Day.” “Looks like a landing operation. The streamer’s on a landing craft, but he’s too far back to see what’s going on up 13Votes307.7kRecs1.7MFans
- 71 EN The System is Abstract, Luckily, So Am I 系统很抽象，还好我也是 [Mission One: You've just entered the world of cultivation and obtained a Foundation Establishment technique. Try killing the “Undying Divine Dragon”!] “System bro, never mind the fact that the beginner mission is to kill a dragon. I've got a little problem: I haven't transmigrated.” [Mission Two: The apocalypse has arrived. After awakening an E-rank ability, it's time to show what you can do. Try challenging the “Zombie King” to a duel!] “Bro, never mind that I'm still in the modern world. By y 73Votes260.7kRecs981.9kFans
- 72 Literary Giant, 1978 文豪1978 After transmigrating to 1978, Lin Chaoyang had planned to lie flat and live as a carefree slacker, making up for all the hard work of his previous life. But before he could put his plan into action, the educated youth who had married him, gotten into university, then disappeared for half a year without a word, suddenly showed up at the production team. “Chaoyang, come to Yanjing with me!” the young woman said. His business venture hadn’t even gotten off the ground, and he was already living off 23Votes562.4kRecs1.7MFans
- 73 EN Surviving In A Martial Arts World To Become A Saint 苟在武道世界成圣 With a destiny in hand, survive by keeping a low profile! Chen Qing transmigrates into a chaotic age where martial arts reign supreme and human lives are as worthless as grass. From the start, he is a poor fisherman's son in Yazi Bay. His father was conscripted for forced labor and never returned, leaving a widowed mother and her orphaned child to be squeezed by government taxes and the gang’s “Dragon King incense offerings,” struggling on the brink of starvation. But there’s always a way forwar 1.6kVotes606kRecs2MFans
- 74 EN I Can't Repay My Student Loans, So I Hunt Demons on the Side 还不起学贷的我只好兼职猎魔 [Averaging 20,000 paid subscriptions, so read with confidence!] [The most lighthearted and delightful fantasy light novel!] Gordon transmigrates to Londinium, in an age of steam and the supernatural, and becomes a poor student at the Royal Academy of Natural Sciences. No noble birth, no family fortune, just a hundred pounds of student debt. And a pair of eyes that can see the truth of Source Matter! To everyone else: waste, pollutants, trash. But Gordon sees: [The radiant Source Matter "Unbroken 10.5kVotes117.4kRecs792.2kFans
- 75 Picking the Day to Become Famous 择日走红 From 375 first-month sales to over 10,000 average monthly subscriptions! - He transmigrates into the body of a washed-up idol who debuted at just fifteen, and is still a high school senior. His unscrupulous agent forces him to quit the entertainment industry. No work means no income. His most pressing task after transmigrating is, unexpectedly, to figure out how to feed himself. But without a System or a golden finger, how can he recreate a miracle with nothing but his own limited memories? No b 0Votes297.2kRecs669.7kFans
- 76 EN These Players Are More Sinister Than Ghosts 这群玩家比诡更诡 Monsters run rampant, and evil spirits are everywhere. Ning Zheng, who controls the Sword-Forging Manor, summons a band of lunatic blacksmiths from another world. “This Sword-Forging Manor reminds me of Palworld.” “Mine ore, forge metal, haul bricks, build houses.” “Be a blacksmith in life, become raw materials after death, then die again and become a weapon spirit.” “We didn’t die two or three times. We’re players who advanced to level two and turned into swords, spears, sabers, and halberds.” 4Votes114.7kRecs385.7kFans
- 77 EN Building an Eternal Clan as a Live-In Son-in-Law 从赘婿开始建立长生家族 Lu Changsheng transmigrated to a world of immortals and martial heroes, becoming a farm boy who had failed to qualify for an immortal sect. Fortunately, he had the more children, more blessings System. As long as he expanded his family and raised his children, he would receive rewards. So from the start, Lu Changsheng married into a cultivation clan and embarked on the path of cultivation, avoiding rivalry and conflict, making friends far and wide, raising a large family, and building up the cla 188Votes54.2MRecs1MFans
- 78 Psychics Don't Die by Gunfire 灵能者不死于枪火 Song Shi, a free bounty hunter and Fourth-Ring psionic, opened his eyes after dying and discovered that he had been reborn twenty years in the past. The megacorporations of the [Corporate Alliance] look down on all living beings, taking even air and sunlight into their hands and quietly putting a price on them. They are turning the idea of a cybernetic nation into reality, greedily eyeing the free markets they have yet to enter. The [Vanpusta Empire] follows a system in which church and state ar 31Votes103.7kRecs407.9kFans
- 79 EN Hell Game: Starting in Metropolis 地狱游戏：从大都会开始 Welcome to the Hell Game. [Entering instance: Bloody Restaurant] [Your position: Delivery Driver] [Your customers include: a fat shut-in reeking of corpses, a maid who explodes at the slightest provocation...] [Your coworkers include: a beautiful boss who doesn’t look human, a literal ox working like a horse, a man-eating tree who swears like a Frenchman...] Faced with this motley crew of oddballs, Liu Zheng wanted to live like a decent person. So he had no choice but to stop being one. 279Votes165.5kRecs648.6kFans
- 80 The Netherworld Skin-Painting Scroll 幽冥画皮卷 The print edition has been published. It is titled Formless and available from platforms such as Qidian and JD.com. Generally speaking, Li Wuxiang gives himself a little maintenance every six months or every five thousand li. The main jobs are tending to his outer layer and renovating his internal organs, with a little fatty fluid added if necessary. When applying a new skin, he has to be careful with the materials. Otherwise, in extreme weather, it might peel or de 171Votes229.8kRecs401.3kFans
- 81 Rising to Power, Starting in Chinatown 飞扬跋扈，从唐人街开始 At the end of the nineteenth century, Chinese laborers in America had fallen to the status of third-class people. Discrimination against and conflicts with Chinese laborers grew increasingly fierce, and attacks became more frequent. In San Francisco's Chinatown, opium dens and gambling houses stood everywhere, while gangs and associations made the area a chaotic mix of all kinds of people. Until one day, Chen Zhengwei stepped off a ship, his face radiant with a brilliant smile. “I like the smell 9Votes357.9kRecs643.4kFans
- 82 I'm Not a Literary Giant 我不是文豪 (This is not a copycat novel. No transmigration, no rebirth, no System, and no golden finger.) Many years later, when Wang Zixu stood at the Nobel Prize in Literature ceremony, he would remember that distant afternoon when his wife cut her hand. Back then, he was a clerk at a public institution in a small city. He had little money, and the literary world was a door he could find no way into. Now, he was the literary world's undisputed leading figure across the lands of three rivers, four lakes, 271Votes149.6kRecs183.3kFans
- 83 EN The Mage: Grinding Experience from the Knight's Breathing Technique 巫师：从骑士呼吸法开始肝经验 After transmigrating to another world, he becomes the lord of a fallen noble house. With the help of a proficiency panel, he starts grinding experience with his family's ancestral knight breathing technique, following in the footsteps of wizards as he embarks on a mysterious, fantastical journey. 29Votes397kRecs952.8kFans
- 84 When Another Dimension Descends 异度降临时 The stars fall, and all things perish. At this moment, another dimension descends. 0Votes126.1kRecs143.7kFans
- 85 EN I Who Cultivate Immortality Have Arrived in the Wizard World 修仙的我却来到了巫师世界 Jieming discovered that he had transmigrated. His golden finger was the Immortal Cultivation Encyclopedia, the Great Dao Library, but why had he transmigrated into a world of wizards?! The Star Ring Federation, the Deep Crimson Court, the Void Architecture Institute, the Entropy Reversal Alliance... In this age of expansion, wizard civilization waged war on every plane it discovered, ravenous as wolves and tigers. These were the best of times, and the worst of times. Faced with the prospect of b 527Votes134.5kRecs799.6kFans
- 86 Mythic Card Master 神话制卡师 Standing before you is Mythic Card Maker, president of the [Heavenly Palace] club, founder of the [Netherworld] project, pioneer of the Immortal-and-God Faith card school, and grandmaster of the Folk Customs series… … Ji Nian transmigrated into a world of cards and became a rookie apprentice card maker. By chance, he discovered that the world’s knowledge of mythology had long since vanished. From the start, he was caught in the path of ghost soldiers crossing over. To protect himself, he wasted 0Votes78.7kRecs683.6kFans
- 87 Speedrunning Immortal Cultivation! 速通修仙！ “Changsheng, you’ve offended the sect leader’s son. You have to put up with it... You’ve already killed him?” “Changsheng, your target this time is the lover of the greatest fiend under heaven. We should take our time and plan... You’ve already killed them all?” “Changsheng, this man has spent ten thousand years laying plans and has countless contingencies. He’s only one step away from becoming invincible. You must be careful... Why did you kill him again?” “Changsheng, after you ascend, you can 12Votes143.4kRecs1.1MFans
- 88 The Origin of Mythology 神话起源 A thousand years from now, we will be history. Ten thousand years from now, we will be myth. 5Votes106kRecs141.3kFans
- 89 An Elegy for the Prosperous Tang 盛唐挽歌 A capable young man from the modern era transmigrated into the body of a young man named Fang Zhongyong during the prosperous Kaiyuan era of the Tang Dynasty. Apart from his unreliable father, who had disappeared and left behind a pile of unsolved problems, Fang Zhongyong's life was fairly comfortable. There were simply more troubles, a harder life, a more dangerous situation, and a bleaker future, that was all. Besides, it was still the Kaiyuan era, with more than ten years to go before the Tia 3Votes183.7kRecs181.1kFans
- 90 EN I Was Told to Make Bad Games, So What's This Titanfall Nonsense? 说好制作烂游戏，泰坦陨落什么鬼 New book: You Were Told to Cultivate Immortality, So How Did You Become the Ancestor of Gaming? Now available! [I’m Shen Miaomiao, and from the start, I’m forced to take over a game company.] Luckily, the Rebate System awakens just in time. Whenever the company loses money, the System reimburses me tenfold! So this young chairwoman’s goal is to run the company into the ground and achieve financial freedom! [I’m Gu Sheng, and from the start, I transmigrate into the body of a game designer.] Lucki 8Votes190kRecs1.4MFans
- 91 Reborn in 2008: Diagnosed as a Medical Authority 重生08，我被确诊为医学泰斗 [A career-focused novel with one heroine, averaging 30,000 paid subscriptions] Reborn in 2008, Jiang He holds medical technology twenty years ahead of its time. That year, the medical community was still helpless against the King of Cancer. Minimally invasive surgery was still considered off-limits in oncology, while genetic screening remained a barren wasteland... From revolutionizing the Whipple procedure and stunning the medical world to developing broad-spectrum anticancer drugs ahead of sch 630Votes144kRecs772.2kFans
- 92 EN Immortality Starts With Alchemy Dao Grandmaster 长生从炼丹宗师开始 A hermit becomes an immortal, coming and going among the azure peaks. Yin and yang are forged in the furnace; the Great Dao lies within the heart. Luo Chen transmigrates to the cultivation world. With a proficiency panel, he practices alchemy and breathing techniques, studies spells and arts, and advances step by step along the path to immortality. (Skips the Mortal World and begins directly in the cultivation world.) 51Votes97.5MRecs1.4MFans
- 93 EN Are We Destroying the World Today? 今天毁灭世界了吗？ “So you're saying the world is about to end, and that's why you want to steal a rocket?” “This is a first. I've arrested people for robbing jewelry stores and banks. I've even arrested someone for hijacking a train, but never anyone trying to steal a rocket.” “What were you thinking? Even if you actually managed to steal it, could you fly it?” Lin Xu slowly nodded from across the table. “I can.” “Really. I've flown it countless times already.” “Also, you really need to hurry. I'm out of time.” “ 64Votes261.1kRecs951.9kFans
- 94 EN The Book of Strange Tales 志怪书 The new book, Where There Are Immortals, There Is a Name, is now out. The pine wind scatters the tea smoke. Amidst piles of white clouds, immortals sleep. A dream of the past rises without warning: beneath the village entrance tree, an old man tells tales. The stories of immortals, ghosts, fox spirits, and mountain monsters that once left children wide-eyed are neither wholly true nor wholly unreal, both eerie and romantic, and still as marvelous as ever. How many have dreamed of traveli 86Votes1MRecs1.3MFans
- 95 When Pride Still Mattered 当骄傲仍然重要时 Some people exist proudly, and some struggle proudly. Some compete proudly, and some fail proudly. But few can walk away with pride. By the time you finish reading this, congratulations: you’ve already seen the lives of many players. This passage took shape in Stephen Curry’s words after his 2021 defeat: “Nobody wants to face us next season.” It was Tim Duncan, certain before the 2014 Finals began that they wouldn’t mess it up. It was Kobe Bryant promising at Old Man Buss’s memorial to get the L 5Votes234.7kRecs386.1kFans
- 96 EN 10,000 Ways to Eliminate Players 一万种清除玩家的方法 The world I transmigrated to was crawling with players, making survival difficult enough as it was. But the System had latched onto me, turning me into the most conspicuous NPC of them all... The natives couldn’t stand me, and the players saw me as a thorn in their side. To enjoy a good life in this other world and avoid being bullied by players, I had no choice but to do everything I could to turn my own hardships into everyone else’s, keep every gain for myself, and grow stronger until I becam 2Votes190.9kRecs372.9kFans
- 97 EN Ask the Heavens for Eternal Life 阵问长生 Illusion arrays, killing arrays, sword arrays, replication arrays, absolute arrays, grand arrays, immortal arrays: together, they form the myriad paths of arraycraft. Yin and yang, the Three Powers, the Four Symbols, the Five Elements, the Six Lines, the Seven Stars, the Eight Trigrams: from them flow the arrays of the heavens. Prove the Dao through divine sense, comprehend arrays, and ascend to immortality. With a single thought, save all under heaven; seek the Dao and ask for eternal life. 1.4kVotes874.9kRecs1.1MFans
- 98 The All-Around Painter 全能大画家 “He is the highest-paid illustrator of all time, and the reason children fall in love with art!”, The New York Times. “East and West in perfect harmony, drawing on the strengths of many traditions. He is the most brilliant graduate in the two-century history of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.”, President Martin Köttering. “We have seen countless artists become overnight sensations here... Tonight, another newcomer will join the ranks of these great names.”, Venice International Art Biennale 12Votes213kRecs278.3kFans
- 99 EN Homo Sapiens 智人 The spiral that runs through the evolution of life. The base pairs that hold the secrets of evolution. A mutation at a single moment, millions of years ago, bestowed the prefix “wise” upon an ape beneath the order of primates. But the true power of evolution seems to remain hidden within those pairs of bases. 2Votes185.5kRecs254.4kFans
- 100 Wanli Emperor 万历明君 In the year 1572, seventy-two years remained before the fall of the Ming dynasty and the loss of its lands. At this time, Japanese pirates ran rampant in the southeast, the Tatars battered the northwest passes, local land annexation was growing worse by the day, the military and government were exhausted, the people were suffering, and the Longqing Emperor had just died. Yet at this moment, Shi Yue transmigrated into Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor who would later go thirty years without attending 6kVotes735.4kRecs1.6MFans
