What is Illumine Lingao?
Illumine Lingao (临高启明) is a groundbreaking Chinese alternate history web novel that asks: what if 500 modern people with diverse skills traveled back to 1628, just before the fall of the Ming Dynasty?
Written by Blowing Past the Ear (吹牛者), this epic spans 2,883 chapters and follows the transmigrators as they attempt to build an industrial civilization in late Ming Dynasty China, starting from Lingao County on Hainan Island.