Reborn as the first crown prince of the Jing Dynasty, William Carter was swapped at birth by traitors and sent to a Daoist temple, becoming an ordinary young Daoist priest.

From crown prince to a nobody, his life plummeted, but fortunately, William Carter activated a survival system, granting him unlimited lifespan. As long as he survived life's tribulations, he would receive survival rewards.

He was nearly killed by his senior brother during martial arts practice, but survived by luck and obtained the Divine Shadow Kick.

He encountered an earthquake and was almost crushed by a beam, but survived and obtained the Nine-Seeking Heavenly Dragon Step.

When demons and monsters rampaged through the capital, he survived safely and obtained the demon-subduing treasure staff.

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Dynasties rose and fell, demons and monsters ran rampant, martial arts ruled the world. This was a world without immortals or gods, where Daoist arts hid among the court and the wilds.

Three hundred years later.

The Jing Dynasty, at the height of its power, fell into decline. Warlords rose, the emperor became a puppet in the hands of ambitious men, the dynasty split, wars raged for decades, national strength hit rock bottom, and foreign tribes invaded, plunging the people into misery and turning the world into hell.

The puppet emperor Edward Carter came before the Daoist temple, knelt, and wept: "Your unfilial descendant is powerless to save the nation. Ancestor, please ascend the throne and continue the glory of our Jing for another three hundred years!"