I, the Emperor, Have Cultivated into an Immortal

The good news: Li Chengyuan transmigrated into the body of a young emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty. The bad news: The Great Qian Dynasty has stood for more than three hundred years, but its national strength is waning. Within its borders, cultists and demons run rampant, while natural and man-made disasters follow one after another. Beyond them, gun-wielding, cannon-firing wolfish nations invade, seize land, carve out territory, build cities, and gather armies to assert their independence. The Empress Dowager rules from behind the curtain, controlling everything at court. The young Son of Heaven has become a puppet. The dynasty teeters on the brink of collapse! The good news: Li Chengyuan has activated a panel that lets him cultivate immortality simply by meditating. Every day he spends in meditation counts as cultivation. And so, in an obscure corner, on the eve of the empire’s collapse, the young emperor discovers a mysterious path to rising on his own, and manages to save the crumbling Great Qian along the way…