The Dragon Emperor's Path to Immortality in the Age of Dharma's End

In the 14th year of Guangxu, 14-year-old Zaitian awaited his grand ceremony to assume power, only to be met with Cixi's decree: 'The emperor is still young, the empress dowager will continue to govern.' The dragon throne before him, the phoenix curtain behind—he was the Son of Heaven, yet a puppet. That night, an assassin's blade pierced his chest. On the brink of death, the soul of Chen Jue, a 21st-century high school student, merged with Guangxu. With two lifetimes of memories overlapping, he found himself in a cultivation world—an age of Dharma's end where spiritual energy was depleted, and only the eight great families sustained their legacy through national destiny's dragon qi. Cixi, the clan leader of the Yehe Nara clan at the Foundation Establishment stage, had stolen Guangxu's imperial star fate, extracting dragon qi for cultivation, using the 'curtain behind' as a guise for eternal life. The 'Taixu Ancient Scripture' left by his birth mother was his only hope. To cultivate meant being killed by Manchu cultivators; not to cultivate meant being drained of dragon qi to death. The dual-soul Guangxu had no choice, but also possessed the sharp insight of a historical prophet—he knew the failure of the Hundred Days' Reform, the humiliation of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and who would betray and who would sacrifice. Cultivating under Cixi's watchful eye, maneuvering step by step within secular rules, every historical event was a bloody struggle among cultivation forces for the distribution of dragon qi. From puppet to true dragon, from prisoner to ascension. The emperor of the age of Dharma's end would re-establish the eternal foundation for Chinese cultivation civilization. Dragon qi never dies; the true dragon never dies.