The Martial Ming: Reborn as the Court's Hound

With the top-tier character he had just created, Cao Jinxing transmigrates into the full-immersion online game The Grand Jianghu, becoming a low-ranking member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard in a Ming Dynasty where martial power reigns supreme.

Thanks to his sky-high innate attributes, he discovers that he is light on his feet and brimming with vitality, possesses exceptionally keen hearing and sight, remembers everything he reads, and can even split his attention between multiple tasks...

He can master any martial art as soon as he learns it, and just a little practice lets him unleash its full power.

Meanwhile, the imperial court is rife with intrigue, foreign tribes invade the northwestern frontier, Japanese pirates wreak havoc in the southeast, the martial sects of the Central Plains feud openly and scheme in secret, and the demonic factions await their chance to rise...

Divine martial arts manuals, heavenly treasures, rare birds and exotic beasts, and the hidden riches of past dynasties emerge one after another...

Cao Jinxing declares, "With peerless talent like mine, it'd be a damn waste not to make something of it!"

And so, clad in flying-fish robes and wielding an embroidered-spring saber, he rises to prominence as "the Court's Hound"-and turns the entire martial world upside down.

(PS: In this story, the Northern Pacification Office is a martial faction fostered by the authorities within the game world. Some aspects of its lore have been reimagined; if that isn't your thing, please don't flame.)