The Raven That Passes By

"The situation has turned dire," he said.
"Hasn't it always been?" she replied.
...
The world is undergoing rapid changes, and various species can participate in value games to gain supernatural intelligence. 
Li Changzhou, along with his sister and girlfriend, try hard to survive in this dangerous world.

The King of Black Fog

Under pressing time constraints, the Jiajing Emperor issued an immediate decree ordering the Ministry of Works to build a thirty-zhang-high Five-Colored Turtle Mountain Lantern Pavilion in the Capital within three days and commanded the eunuchs and palace maids to move out the Daoist books stored in the palace.


Daoist books that could be collected by the power of an entire nation had already been amassed by the Emperor in his palace.


Beyond the Daoist texts, he issued another order demanding disciples of Wang Shouren from Yangming Academy to present all manuscripts of Wang Shouren—whom the Emperor had previously scorned.


He ordered Li Shizhen to select medical books.


He ordered all officials of the Ming Dynasty, civil and military alike, to bring twenty books each from outside the secular classics to the Capital on fast horses; those who failed to arrive before the Lantern Festival would be beheaded.


Chapter 295: Who's the Biggest?