Framed for Stealing the National Treasure, I Counter by Becoming the Human Emperor

Zhou Xuan, the Sixth Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was reduced to a laughingstock when the Celestial Revelation Ceremony revealed his Yellow-rank lower-grade spiritual root—a talent so meager it marked him as a lifelong cripple. Humiliated by the entire court, his fate took an even deadlier turn when his own royal brother framed him for stealing the national treasure, publicly "destroying" his cultivation before throwing him into the deepest dungeons. At the very brink of death, the Supreme Human Emperor System activated. In an instant, he was bestowed an Emperor-rank Heavenly Dao spiritual root and a Celestial Dao Nascent Soul—revealing him as the most deeply hidden prodigy of the royal bloodline. Faking his own death to slip free from his shackles, he eliminates the Second Prince, uncovers the truth behind his mother's death, and unravels the mystery of the Dragon Soul Jade. While the empire believes he is nothing more than a ruined waste, they remain blind to the truth: the chessboard of Great Zhou has only now begun to move under his hand. "By the day I return, not a single one of you will claim that throne."