Live Long Enough, and You'll Rule the Ages

He is both the hero who stands before everyone, charging fearlessly into the fray,

and the hand behind the scenes, lurking in the shadows and silently calculating everything.

He is both a peerless genius, the strongest king of the human race in a hundred thousand years,

and the most worthless of the worthless, a nobody struggling to survive on the brink of death.

He is both hope and despair.

When you possess two worlds at once, genius and mediocrity, hero and mastermind, even dominating the ages is something you have to experience twice.

What should you do?

If you ask Xu Kang, the answer is to suffer and enjoy it at the same time.

Classic xianxia struggle, plus a genius's unpretentious showboating.