Holy Ancestor Jiajing

A modern history professor transmigrates into the body of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The good news: he retains thirty years of imperial memories and possesses a unique cheat system called "Corpse Picking Inheritance." The bad news: this body is ravaged by lead and mercury poisoning from decades of alchemical elixirs, leaving him with only six years to live. Worse still, the Ming court has been sealed tight by the civil official clique—impenetrable, unchallengeable. First things first: extend his lifespan. Then what? Promote Zhang Juzheng and push for sweeping reforms? Laughable. Nonsense. History, across five thousand years, offers precious few reformers who met a good end—or who even reaped any benefit. Since he has come all this way with a golden cheat in hand, why not start his own venture? Years later, having used the "Mandate of Heaven" to manipulate the court and cultivated martial prowess to stir chaos in the martial world, he stands before the Meridian Gate. The entire civil bureaucracy kneels in the dust, weeping and wailing: "Your Majesty, why have you chosen to rebel against your own dynasty?!"