Gilded Path

On Earth, Peter is a financial wizard, the accountant that could make your monetary missteps disappear in a sea of numbers, but he's trapped in a thankless job...until the day he's shot dead in his apartment... Only to wake up in a body that isn't his and a world he doesn't know. Part of the hated Gold clan, Peter is now a servant in a land of cultivating martial artists, strange fantastical races, and warring clans. And while he might start at the bottom, the Gold clan gains their power through the accumulation of wealth...and making money is what Peter does best. All he has to do is manipulate the clan he serves to gain fiscal power, uncover the truth behind the stigma against his new family, cultivate the power to fight those who want him dead, and do it all without revealing his true goals to the rest of the world, every step taking him down the Gilded Path.

Through financial smarts, the internal power gained from cultivating wealth, and a heaping of raw cunning, Peter has found his way from lowly Gold clan slave to master of the Bo clan's fiscal empire and a beautiful collection of lovers and wives. But his true purpose in this strange realm of magic and martial arts remains unknown. Until now... As the tendrils of darkness begin to strangle the country, Peter will find out the truth. And to survive the dangers ahead, he will need to spread his golden touch and breakthrough to the next level of cultivation, all the while weaving through the deadly minefield of Imperial politics and the constant threat of death from all sides. No pressure.

After Peter's explosive battle against the head of the Bo clan, he, his cadre of lovers, and his loyal allies are on the move as the dark forces from the ancient past rise up throughout the Empire. While things seem bleak, Peter has one thing that no one else in this strange land has... He knows the truth. The truth of the Empire's hidden past, a thread of knowledge that leads him on the trail of the ancient evil that threatens his new family and his new home. But to defeat it, Peter will have to not only rally new friends and allies to his side, he will have to truly master the Gilded Path, amass the internal power from wealth untold, and breakthrough to such a level of power to stand undefeated against the deadliest of masters of the martial arts. From lowly accountant to downtrodden slave to the master of Gold, it seems an impossible path to follow, but Peter must, or all he loves is doomed.