Immortal Master Zhang Liang

He was a noble scion of a family that served as chancellor to Han for five generations. When the state fell in a single morning, he refused to bury his younger brother and scattered his vast fortune, all to obtain an iron hammer for striking down Qin. On the sands of Bolang, a 120-jin iron hammer descended from the sky, but it struck the wrong carriage, shaking the world. That hammer failed to kill the First Emperor, yet it drove the Han youth Zhang Liang into ten years as a fugitive. At the Yishui Bridge in Xiapi, for a squatting old man, he three times went down to fetch shoes and knelt to put them on. At midnight the old man gave him books: one, the Su Shu, taught him the strategies of success; the other, the Yin Fu, imparted the way of observing Heaven and holding fast to it, of knowing the moment and keeping stillness, charging him to "hide in the Way and wait for the time." Ten years of sharpening his sword—what he awaited was never revenge against one man, but the turning point of the world. When fires rose at Daze and dragons and snakes stirred, on the road to Chenliu he met the market-born pavilion chief of Sishui. From then on he devised strategies from within the tent—securing Guanzhong, establishing laws to pacify the people, saving his lord through the intrigue at Hongmen, secretly crossing to Chencang, and winning victories a thousand li away. Some perished by relying on cunning and, having obtained the books, took their lives lightly; but he always remembered: virtue is the root of strategy; the gentleman who obtains it strengthens himself, the petty man who obtains it takes his life lightly. When the work was done—a marquis of ten thousand households, teacher of emperors—he cast it aside like a worn sandal, willing to abandon the affairs of men and roam with Master Chisong. One hammer shocked the world, one scroll settled the mountains and rivers. The Sage of Strategy established Han for four hundred years; the Heavenly Master is hidden within a single scroll. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Immortal Master Zhang Liang — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠