Rebirth in the Age of Lords

Rebirth in the Age of Lords is a game-world fantasy web novel by Bai Ri Hui Zuo Meng, serialized on Qidian.com from 2019, totaling about 2.49 million characters in over 1,100 chapters and now complete. The story is set on the technologically advanced "Water Blue Star": when the Seven Luminaries wonder appears, the will of the universe connects Water Blue Star to a projected "Lord Plane," and all residents are forced through their "smart halos" into the plane world. From then on residents become players, the planet becomes a continent, countless nations rise, and countless histories replay; famous ministers, brave generals, war, construction, management, and adventure become the themes of the age. After fifteen years of struggling in the Lord Plane, the protagonist Mo Xiaobai returns to the day before the plane opened because he picked up a "Chronospatial Astrolabe," waking with only twenty-four hours left before the forced teleportation. Carrying the memories and experience of his previous fifteen years, he goes through the talent trial again, establishes a territory, recruits historical ministers and brave generals, and, relying on foreknowledge, seizes the initiative amid the surging tide of players, gradually building a small territory into a power, contending with the strong and the various factions, and leading the players of Water Blue Star to grow stronger together. The book takes territory construction and management as its main line, interwoven with competition in historical dungeons, factional maneuvering, and the unfolding of an interstellar landscape; it blends farming, strategy, and the rhythm of wish-fulfillment fiction and is a fairly representative work in the lord-contention genre.