Zhu Yuanzhang: Our Prince of Xiang Has Lived Three Hundred Years?

Reborn as Prince Zhu Bai of Xiang, the young prince awakens a cultivation system at birth. By age three, he has entered Qi Refinement; by ten, he has built his Foundation and gained a lifespan of two hundred years. The legendary Three Flowers Gathering at the crown is no illusion, and the clouds beneath his feet are real. To Zhu Bai, fame and fortune are but passing smoke; he watches the remarkable figures of each era rise and fall, calmly tallying their stories. But in the fifteenth year of the Hongwu reign, everything changes when Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang has a dream. Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty, is consumed by rage—his beloved younger sister is gravely ill, and the imperial physicians can do nothing. One day, as he dozes by her bedside, he dreams of the Ming capital two hundred years later, engulfed in flames as rebel forces breach the city walls. His descendant, the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian, face etched with despair, leaves a final edict, covers his face with his hair, and prepares to hang himself from the crooked locust tree on Coal Hill. But just before death takes him, a man pulls him down from the noose. The man's face is hauntingly familiar, yet Zhu Yuanzhang cannot place it—until the stranger speaks his name: Zhu Bai. Twelfth son of the Hongwu Emperor—alive from the early Ming all the way to the Chongzhen era, a full two hundred years?