Building an Empire in the Eternal Night: Starting by Summoning College Students

Demons run rampant and eternal night approaches. Jiang Zhao transmigrates into a forsaken, frozen wasteland where survival depends entirely on the fading warmth of sacred torches. With monstrous beasts besieging her settlement and the last flames dying out, she awakens a summoning system in a desperate bid for salvation. Expecting to call forth powerful warriors or mythical demons, she is utterly horrified when her summoned reinforcements turn out to be modern-day college students—a demographic she knows all too well, having been one herself before transmigration. To these oblivious youths, this apocalyptic ice realm is merely a hyper-realistic virtual reality game. Treating Jiang Zhao as a rare golden NPC, they eagerly accept her first quest to hunt a snow rabbit for experience points. What follows is an unstoppable wave of fearless, infinitely growing players who treat death as a minor inconvenience. Driven by their boundless enthusiasm and chaotic loyalty, Jiang Zhao leads them from a humble village to a sprawling town, eventually forging a mortal nation and ascending to establish an eternal immortal dynasty. As the demons are eradicated and the endless night finally breaks, she sits upon her supreme throne as the Immortal Emperor, gazing at her countless cultivators—who are still frantically asking each other to cover their attendance roll calls and borrowing court robes because theirs haven't dried yet.