Chapter Summaries

Wang Yue was abruptly transmigrated into the world of Myth and rescued Lü Zhi, Lu Su, and their party from bandits. After clashing with Yi Xiaochuan over how harshly he had dealt with the bandits, Wang Yue learned his identity in this world and met the Lü sisters, while Duke Lu prepared to make him a request.

• The Xianyu System transmigrated Wang Yue into Myth while he was with Luo Youyou, leaving him without the world's memories at first.
• Wang Yue rushed to the cries for help and defeated the bandits attacking Lu Su and the others.
• Yi Xiaochuan criticized Wang Yue for injuring the bandits, but Duke Lu and Lü Zhi explained that the men had robbed them and assaulted Lu Su, and Yi Xiaochuan apologized before riding away.
• Wang Yue absorbed his memories and learned he was Wang Yue, the grandson of Wang Jian and second son of Wang Ben, who had become separated from his servants.
• Duke Lu introduced his daughters, Lü Zhi and Lu Su, to Wang Yue, then began asking him for another favor.

Wang Yue agreed to escort Duke Lu and his daughters, Lu Zhi and Lu Su, to Pei County, where he hoped to see Liu Bang. After learning Wang Yue was the son of Marquis Tongwu Wang Ben, Duke Lu tried to match him with one of his daughters, but Wang Yue admitted he could not choose between them.

• Lu Zhi asked Wang Yue to escort her family to Pei County, and he agreed when he learned they were traveling in the same direction.
• Wang Yue rode with Duke Lu and revealed that he was Marquis Tongwu Wang Ben’s second son, proving his identity with a jade pendant.
• Duke Lu encouraged Lu Su and Lu Zhi to spend time with Wang Yue, and they thanked him over wine while Lu Zhi danced for him.
• Duke Lu asked Wang Yue about his age and marriage, and Wang Yue said he had left home to avoid an arranged match and wanted to choose someone he truly liked.
• Wang Yue admitted that both Lu Zhi and Lu Su were lovely and that he could not decide which one to choose, leaving Duke Lu unsure how to proceed.

Wang Yue helped the Lu family start a lucrative meat business in Pei County and grew closer to Lu Zhi and Lu Su, though their marriage plans rested on a misunderstanding. As the business threatened rival shops, Wang Yue warned Duke Lu and his daughters that the competition could turn against them by cutting off their meat supply.

• Wang Yue met Yi Xiaochuan at a dog-meat stall, where a local freeloader named Liu bullied Yi and ate from their table; Wang Yue left rather than tolerate the scene.
• Wang Yue gave a Lu family steward his braised-meat recipe and suggested opening a competing shop, and Lu Zhi recognized the recipe’s potential as a source of income.
• Lu Zhi and Lu Su separately spoke with Wang Yue about marrying him, while Wang Yue remained confused about their assumption that he wanted to marry both sisters.
• Duke Lu mistook Wang Yue’s words and his daughters’ conversations as confirmation that Wang Yue would marry them both, and the Lu family began selling meat cooked with Wang Yue’s recipe.
• The Lu family’s business drew customers away from Pei County’s other dog-meat shops, and Wang Yue warned them that rivals might unite to block their access to meat.

Wang Yue helped the Lu family resolve a business dispute, then left Pei County for Xianyang with Fan Kuai. After rescuing Lu Su from bandits, he traveled with her and Fan Kuai, robbing several gangs along the way and ending the chapter by leading them toward a town for a meal.

• Wang Yue proposed limiting purchases and selling meat for the local butchers to keep them from uniting against the Lu family, while warning that rivals might steal the Lu family's recipe.
• Fan Kuai arrived to apologize and ask to follow Wang Yue, revealing that Liu Bang had sent him to the Lu residence; Wang Yue deduced Liu Bang had used the labor conscription to flee.
• Wang Yue sent Fan Kuai to capture intruders who had broken into the Lu residence to steal the recipe, and Duke Lu adopted Wang Yue's plan to supply the local meat shops.
• Wang Yue left for Xianyang with Fan Kuai, then rescued Lu Su when bandits attacked the carriage taking her to meet him.
• Wang Yue, Lu Su, and Fan Kuai continued toward Xianyang, where Wang Yue repeatedly robbed bandits and sold their supplies before heading to a busy restaurant.

On the road to Xianyang, Wang Yue met Gao Yao, another time traveler, and brought him along with Lu Su and Fan Kuai. Back home, he persuaded Wang Jian to provide him with retainers and a military position so he could prepare for the Qin dynasty’s collapse, then began planning an independent household with Lu Su.

• Fan Kuai led Wang Yue and Lu Su to a crowded restaurant, where Wang Yue met the Head Chef Gao Yao by using a time-traveler’s password.
• Gao Yao told Wang Yue that he had arrived in ancient times with his sister’s boyfriend while chasing a thief, and Wang Yue persuaded him to travel to Xianyang.
• Wang Yue returned to his family’s home with Gao Yao, Fan Kuai, and Lu Su, then told Wang Jian that the Qin dynasty was in grave danger.
• Wang Yue asked Wang Jian for retainers or a military position so he could take part in the struggle after the empire collapsed, and Wang Jian agreed to arrange both.
• Wang Yue asked Wang Jian to help him marry Lu Su, then told her they would establish their own household and start planning how to build a business.

Wang Yue built his household, Youjian Inn, and Secret Guard network while avoiding military entanglements, then encountered Yi Xiaochuan and learned how Gao Yao had been sent to forced labor. Wang Yue condemned Yi Xiaochuan for trusting Liu Bang and abandoning Gao Yao, leaving Yi Xiaochuan panicked and defensive.

• Wang Yue moved into a residence arranged by Wang Jian, recruited slaves, and continued developing his intelligence network and Secret Guards.
• Wang Yue gained the post of Cavalry Commandant but chose to focus on building his own people rather than taking charge of the army.
• Fan Kuai invited Wang Yue out, and they encountered Meng Tian and Yi Xiaochuan at a restaurant in Xianyang.
• Yi Xiaochuan recognized Wang Yue as someone from the future and asked why he had avoided him.
• Wang Yue learned that Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao had been arrested after getting drunk, and that Gao Yao had been sent to work as a government slave.
• Wang Yue accused Yi Xiaochuan of trusting Liu Bang and failing to search for Gao Yao, while Yi Xiaochuan insisted he did not know where Gao Yao was.

Wang Yue accompanied the First Emperor on an inspection tour, encountered Yi Xiaochuan again, and helped suppress bandits at Lan Chi. After treating Wang Jian for a serious cold, Wang Yue was summoned to the palace to treat Consort Li, where he found Yi Xiaochuan and was asked whether he had been a doctor in the modern world.

• Wang Yue challenged Yi Xiaochuan over his complaints about Meng Tian and reminded him that he had neglected Gao Yao.
• Wang Yue learned that Meng Tian had recommended him to accompany the First Emperor on an incognito tour, and he answered the emperor's questions frankly while keeping the party vigilant.
• At a hut in Lan Chi, Wang Yue recognized Yi Xiaochuan, drank his wine to reassure the First Emperor and Li Si, and watched Yi Xiaochuan drive off bandits before the guards captured them.
• Wang Yue returned home and went with Susu to the Marquis Tongwu residence, where he examined Wang Jian and prescribed medicine that quickly improved his condition.
• The emperor summoned Wang Yue to treat Consort Li, and Wang Yue found Yi Xiaochuan there, who asked whether he had been a doctor in the modern world.

Wang Yue reunited with Gao Yao, learned of his growing resentment and ambitions, and declined to intervene when Gao Yao asked him to persuade Yi Xiaochuan to seek advancement. Later, Wang Yue took Lu Zhi into his household as a secondary wife after she arrived in Xianyang with Liu Bang and Duke Lu.

• Wang Yue met Divine Doctor Cui through Yi Xiaochuan and reunited with Gao Yao at Consort Li's palace, where Gao Yao spoke of climbing the ranks and taking revenge on those who had harmed him.
• Wang Yue defended Gao Yao against Yi Xiaochuan's advice to let go of revenge and offered to help him leave the palace and open restaurants, but Gao Yao left without accepting.
• After hearing that the Luminous Pearl had been stolen and palace officials killed, Wang Yue refused Gao Yao's request to persuade Yi Xiaochuan to seek an official position, explaining that Yi Xiaochuan could advance through Meng Tian.
• Wang Yue heard that Young Master Fusu had invited worthy men to the capital, then learned that Lu Zhi was coming to Xianyang with Liu Bang and Duke Lu.
• Wang Yue questioned Lu Zhi about Liu Bang's marriage proposal and offered to bring her into his household as a secondary wife; Lu Zhi agreed, and Lu Su accepted the arrangement.

Wang Yue maneuvered around Liu Bang and Zhao Gao while avoiding a commitment to Qin’s court, then prepared to build his own armed force as political divisions widened. He sent Secret Guards to Mount Tai, positioning them near the men he had placed among Liu Bang’s followers.

• Wang Yue sent Liu Bang away with travel money, but Liu Bang avoided Gao Yao’s men by hiding with Yi Xiaochuan and later fleeing into the mountains.
• After learning Liu Bang had escaped, Wang Yue ordered Hou Xiang to place Secret Guards among Liu Bang’s followers and use them to expand his power.
• Zhao Gao visited Wang Yue seeking help to become the powerful Zhao Gao of history and to take revenge on Yi Xiaochuan and Liu Bang.
• Wang Yue explained to Lu Zhi and Lu Su why he intended to avoid choosing sides at court, and they accepted his plans.
• Zhao Gao and Li Si opposed Prince Fusu through Zhongyi Hall, while Fusu removed Yi Xiaochuan from Juxian Hall after a clash involving Xiang Yu.
• Wang Yue sent Hou Rui and several hundred guards to unite and train bandits near Mount Tai, near the men he had planted among Liu Bang’s followers.

Wang Yue investigated Divine Doctor Cui’s search for ingredients to make the Elixir of Immortality, then helped Meng Jiangnu find her husband, Fan Xiliang. After Fan Xiliang survived the collapse of the Great Wall, Zhao Gao used the disaster to accuse Meng Tian and urged Qin Shi Huang to replace him with Wang Jian.

• Wang Yue suspected Divine Doctor Cui was seeking the Elixir of Immortality, kept searching for him, and continued cultivating while Lu Su became pregnant.
• Wang Yue learned that Meng Jiangnu had come to Xianyang looking for Fan Xiliang, traced Fan to the Zhao Great Wall, and arranged for guards to escort her there.
• Meng Jiangnu reached Fan Xiliang in time to save his life, but a section of the Great Wall collapsed soon afterward.
• Wang Yue suspected Zhao Gao had caused the collapse to target Meng Tian, while Zhao Gao accused Meng Tian of shoddy construction before Qin Shi Huang.
• Qin Shi Huang agreed to investigate the collapse, and Zhao Gao urged him to replace Meng Tian with the retired Wang Jian.

Wang Yue negotiated with Yi Xiaochuan over the Great Wall crisis, while Meng Jiangnu’s story spread through Xianyang and disrupted the court’s plan to punish Meng Tian. Qin Shi Huang publicly honored the story but remained determined to divide Meng Tian’s military authority.

• Qin Shi Huang considered Zhao Gao’s proposal to give part of Meng Tian’s command to a Wang descendant and began thinking about splitting Meng Tian’s military authority.
• Yi Xiaochuan asked Wang Yue to help portray the Great Wall’s collapse as a natural disaster, and Wang Yue demanded that the Meng family recommend him to command troops in the former lands of Qi.
• Wang Yue sent medicine to the gravely ill Fan Xiliang and arranged for Yi Xiaochuan to carry instructions to Meng Jiangnu at the frontier.
• Lu Zhi heard that Meng Jiangnu’s tears had brought down part of the Great Wall and proposed that she promote their soap.
• Li Si impeached Meng Tian at court, but officials and Fusu cited the popular story and a petition bearing a thousand signatures to challenge the accusation.
• Qin Shi Huang ordered Fusu to arrange a monument honoring Meng Jiangnu while privately deciding to divide Meng Tian’s military authority.

Wang Yue expected to receive command of troops after Qin Shi Huang tested his patience, but Zhao Gao and Li Si’s attack on Prince Fusu’s Juxian Hall diverted the court. Fusu was sent north to assist Meng Tian, while Qin Shi Huang ordered a wider crackdown on former Six States loyalists.

• Wang Yue suspected that immortals and the Elixir of Immortality were real, and he resolved to gain enough power to search for them and prevent Liu Bang from taking the throne.
• Wang Yue met Wang Jian at the palace, where Wang Jian inferred that Qin Shi Huang was considering giving Wang Yue part of the army defending the eastern Great Wall.
• Qin Shi Huang tested Wang Yue’s patience by making him stand silently through a two-hour conversation with Wang Jian, then sent him away without announcing an appointment.
• Zhao Gao and Li Si used confessions from arrested Juxian Hall scholars to accuse Prince Fusu of sheltering rebellious remnants of the Six States.
• Prince Fusu defended the scholars at court, angering Qin Shi Huang, who ordered him to leave Xianyang and assist Meng Tian in guarding the north.
• Qin Shi Huang ordered the arrest of former Six States loyalists at the Juxian Hall and their associates across the empire.

Yi Xiaochuan surrendered with the people at Juxian Hall and fell into Zhao Gao’s hands, while Wang Yue proposed using condemned prisoners for forced labor at court. Meng Tian arrived and challenged the charges against Juxian Hall, turning the court’s attention to Zhao Gao’s illegal interference and the ministers’ silence.

• Yi Xiaochuan persuaded the Six States people at Juxian Hall to surrender, then was arrested with them by Zhao Gao.
• Wang Yue learned that Meng Tian had been ambushed and injured, leaked the news, and was summoned to court by Qin Shi Huang.
• Wang Yue suggested that condemned criminals be used for forced labor instead of being executed, and Qin Shi Huang told him to wait for Meng Tian’s arrival.
• Zhao Gao accused Juxian Hall of treason, and Li Si supported executing its members, but Meng Tian arrived and argued that their surrender and possibly tortured confessions undermined the charge.
• Zhao Gao admitted personally conducting interrogations, allowing Meng Tian to accuse him of violating Qin law and demand his death.
• Meng Tian accused Li Si and the other ministers of protecting Zhao Gao and forming a faction, prompting Qin Shi Huang to rebuke their silence.

Wang Yue built his reputation by expanding Qin control beyond the Great Wall, then volunteered to confront the Rong Di after they invaded the north. With Meng Tian leading a separate army, Wang Yue crossed the frontier with thirty thousand cavalry and prepared a carefully timed assault on the Rong Di main force.

• Wang Yue took command of the Yan Land defenses, pushed the Donghu north, and won the loyalty of his troops through successful raids.
• Wang Yue returned to Xianyang for Lu Su’s childbirth, named their newborn son Tuan Tuan, and was summoned to court when the Rong Di invaded.
• Meng Tian accepted command of the northern campaign and requested Yi Xiaochuan as his deputy, while Wang Yue sought permission to strike from Yan Land.
• Wang Yue recruited thirty thousand cavalry, exchanged them for his trained Yan Land troops at Shanggu Commandery, and crossed Yanmen Pass with Sea-Eastern Green scouting ahead.
• After Zhao Gao and Li Si sabotaged the Meng Family Army’s water sources, Wang Yue located the Rong Di main force and waited until the midday sun and blowing sand would hinder them before ordering his attack.

Wang Yue defeated Pajia Kuo’s Rong Di army and met Meng Tian and Yi Xiaochuan in the desert, where he secured Meng Tian’s support for expanding Qin’s border defenses. Back in Xianyang, Meng Tian revealed to Qin Shi Huang that Yi Xiaochuan was his long-lost younger brother, Meng Yi.

• Wang Yue killed Pajia Kuo, routed the Rong Di forces, and captured their surrendered troops after a day-long battle.
• Wang Yue met Meng Tian and Yi Xiaochuan, learned how their army had been trapped without water, and challenged Yi Xiaochuan’s assumptions about history and the treatment of prisoners.
• Wang Yue proposed building outposts beyond the Great Wall and expanding into neighboring states, and Meng Tian agreed to support his plan before the Emperor.
• Wang Yue, Meng Tian, and Yi Xiaochuan returned to Xianyang, where Qin Shi Huang invited them to name their rewards.
• Meng Tian told Qin Shi Huang that Yi Xiaochuan was his long-lost younger brother, Meng Yi.

Wang Yue took control of Yan Land, conquered Tu An, and secretly seized Joseon while concealing his expansion behind staged battles. The chapter ended with Meng Tian dying after learning Yi Xiaochuan had left to visit Wang Yue, leaving more than ten thousand Meng Family Army troops under Yi Xiaochuan’s command.

• Qin Shi Huang appointed Meng Yi to assist Meng Tian and oversee military affairs, then made Wang Yue Grand General in charge of Yan Land’s military affairs.
• Wang Yue put Rong Di prisoners to work building cities in Yan Land and prepared to attack Joseon, but Qin Shi Huang ordered him to destroy Tu An after Gao Yao exposed the Queen of Tu An’s assassination plot.
• Yi Xiaochuan visited Wang Yue to plead for Tu An, but Wang Yue refused to spare it and accelerated his attack.
• Wang Yue’s private troops secretly breached Tu An’s palace during the night, while he kept his main army out of the fighting until the city fell by dawn.
• Wang Yue left fifty thousand troops in Tu An and returned to Yan Land, where he consolidated control and secretly captured Joseon while staging battles against it.
• Meng Tian discovered that Yi Xiaochuan had visited Wang Yue and died from his illness, leaving more than ten thousand Meng Family Army troops under Yi Xiaochuan’s command.

Wang Yue cornered Cui Wenzi and obtained the formula for the Elixir of Immortality, while using his sword technique to convince Cui Wenzi that he was a Sword Immortal's heir. After learning that Consort Li would be entombed with Qin Shi Huang, Yi Xiaochuan gave Wang Yue the Meng Family Army's Tiger Tally in exchange for help saving her.

• Gao Jianli failed to kill Qin Shi Huang in a renewed assassination attempt, and the emperor's health deteriorated afterward.
• Zhao Gao exposed Yi Xiaochuan's secret messages with Consort Li, but Xiao Yue took the blame, deepening Zhao Gao and Yi Xiaochuan's hostility.
• Qin Shi Huang stripped Yi Xiaochuan of his military post and sent him to oversee the mausoleum, where Zhao Gao's poisoned well sickened the workers before Cui Wenzi arrived with medicine.
• Wang Yue followed Yi Xiaochuan and Cui Wenzi to a cave, seized Cui Wenzi, and bluffed his way into learning the Elixir of Immortality formula.
• Wang Yue demonstrated the Shushan Sword-Controlling Technique, persuaded Cui Wenzi to let him observe the elixir's creation, and made him promise to keep their meeting secret.
• After Wang Yue warned that Consort Li would be buried in the mausoleum, Yi Xiaochuan handed him the Meng Family Army's Tiger Tally and asked how he would save her.

Wang Yue prepared to rescue Princess Yushu and sought out Cui Wenzi, who taught him alchemy and refined the Elixir of Immortality. Cui Wenzi explained that Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao had to receive the elixir because they were people of destiny, then began describing a threat to the world’s stability.

• Wang Yue planned to use Qin Shi Huang’s search for the Elixir of Immortality to rescue Princess Yushu, but Cui Wenzi made Yi Xiaochuan forget Wang Yue’s appearance and the rescue plan.
• Wang Yue strengthened his control of Yan Land and later set out when Qin Shi Huang decided to seek the elixir in the Eastern Sea.
• Wang Yue found Cui Wenzi, exchanged sword techniques for his teachings, and learned that Cui Wenzi’s magical power was useful mainly for refining pills.
• Cui Wenzi refined nine pills without a heavenly tribulation and gave Wang Yue seven, instructing him to send three to Yi Xiaochuan.
• Cui Wenzi told Wang Yue that Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao were people of destiny and that the world could collapse unless they received the elixir, then began explaining the celestial pattern behind the danger.

Wang Yue gave Yi Xiaochuan the elixir of immortality, then shared more pills with his family while promising to find the ingredients to make the elixir himself. Qin Shi Huang died after Zhao Gao seized the remaining pills, leaving his final edicts unresolved.

• Cui Wenzi explained that Yi Xiaochuan and Gao Yao had to return to the future to prevent time and space from collapsing, and Wang Yue accepted that he must give Yi Xiaochuan the elixir.
• Wang Yue gave Yi Xiaochuan three elixirs, and Yi Xiaochuan set out to deliver them to Qin Shi Huang.
• General Jin and Zhao Gao's men ambushed Yi Xiaochuan; General Jin shot him, then later carried him away after the attackers withdrew.
• Wang Yue gave elixirs to Lu Su, Lu Zhi, Tuan Tuan, and Yuan Yuan, and reassured his wives that he would make more once he found the ingredients.
• Consort Li swallowed one of the elixirs brought to Qin Shi Huang, but Zhao Gao seized the rest and left Qin Shi Huang to die as his poison took effect.

Wang Yue founded Great Han, expanded it across the south, and brought the remaining lords under his rule. As Yi Xiaochuan reunited with Yushu in Qin Shi Huang’s tomb, Zhao Gao sealed them inside.

• Zhao Gao and Li Si altered the imperial edict, leading Fusu to die and Hu Hai to become emperor; Zhao Gao later eliminated Li Si and Hu Hai and installed Ziying as King of Qin.
• Xiang Yu rebelled against Qin, while Yi Xiaochuan recovered with Xiao Yue’s help and joined the struggle against the dynasty.
• Wang Yue and Wang Li consolidated their forces north of the Yellow River, then Wang Yue took Xianyang after Liu Bang was killed and proclaimed himself emperor of Han.
• Xiang Yu surrendered to Wang Yue, who later unified Chu and brought the southern kingdoms under Great Han’s control.
• Yi Xiaochuan opened a passage into Qin Shi Huang’s tomb to find Yushu, and Zhao Gao activated the mechanisms to trap them inside.