The First Emperor: Rise of the Human Emperor

In ancient times, King Wu of Zhou knelt to Heaven and declared himself a vassal, reducing the Human Emperor to the Son of Heaven. Now, the First Emperor performs the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai, using the Ancestral Dragon's oath to awaken the Human Dao Golden Dragon and reclaim the throne of the Human Emperor, restoring its lost glory. From this moment onward, the First Emperor declares that humanity shall have no more Sons of Heaven—only the Human Emperor. "Received the Mandate from Heaven, may it endure forever?" Not anymore. From this day forward, those who follow shall prosper, and those who oppose shall perish. The Emperor's Calamity begins, for the Three Realms can have only one supreme sovereign. With the Human Dao Golden Dragon as his shield and the soul of China's Ancestral Dragon as his spirit, the First Emperor gathers humanity's destiny to forge his true body as the Human Emperor, marches into the Heavenly Court to depose the Jade Emperor, and ascends to the throne of the Three Realms. But this is only the beginning—the true calamity has just begun to unfold. To safeguard the final hope that the Human Dao Golden Dragon sacrificed itself to open for humanity, a million Qin troops march into the primordial wilderness, and billions of humans set foot across the stars. The First Emperor inherits the legacy of the Human Dao Golden Dragon, bearing the weight of humanity's rise and fall as the current Human Emperor. Refusing to be reduced to puppets or mere sustenance for the saints, humanity sees only one path to survival: ending slaughter with slaughter. The Emperor abolishes the saints' doctrines, annihilates their disciples, and forces the saints themselves to descend from the Purple Cloud Palace and return to the primordial world. He reunites the fractured continent and restores the splendor of Mount Buzhou. The Wu and Yao tribes resurge, the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin vie once more for supremacy, and the Three Thousand Chaos Gods emerge from the void—yet against them all, only the Emperor stands unmatched in battle.