Can boundaries, enmity stop love? This is the story of a beautiful damsel who is to choose between duty and love. At a very young age separated from her real parents for the fulfillment of the prophesy and adopted by the queen of the Xiao sect. Grew up with loving parents and surrounded with people who care very much for her. At a point: that fateful day, everything changed marking the beginning of the prophesy: Her sect was in chaos and as the next queen of the sect, she was chosen to embark on a journey to the enemy's clan and get back what was stolen from their sect to bring back their most treasured possession to remove their sect from a state of chaos. Embarking on this journey with a totally different personality.
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Lilan, the fourth master of the minglan sect a total introvert who loves to keep to himself and has a aloof personality. Handsome and an excellent swordsman falls in love with his personal disciple who happens to be the princess of the Xiao sect. When it's time to fulfill her mission who will she choose....her clan or her love?
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No matter what happens you will always be the one in my heart said xuren.
This is a story of love, revenge and trust. Stay tuned to Enchantia: eternal love dynasties.
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Chapter 1322 – Smoke Rises, Flames Burning toward the Heavens

 After the exciting Chinese New Year holiday, the land started to defrost and all living things started to awaken.

 For the normal civilians, the Chinese New Year might only mean the start of a busy year. However, it was a matter of life and death for the dynasties.

 In the past year, the Egypt, Brasilia, and Maple dynasties were destroyed. No one knew which other dynasties would be wiped out this year.

 As the huge wave swept across, only the strongest would survive.

 Gaia 9th year, 3rd month, 1st day, not long after the Chinese New Year, the Great Xia Imperial Guards legion corps formed an exploration team to head toward the newly unveiled Gendaya Continent for an adventure.

 The leader of this team was the deputy marshal of the 1st legion - Moon Shines over the River.

 As they were in the 9th year of Gaia, Planet Hope was already imminent, so no dynasty with ambition would give up on such a chance to collect intel.

 The Dawson Dynasty, the Indian Empire, the Darkness empire, and the European dynasties all sent exploration teams to explore Gendaya. 

 In the next year, the Gendaya Continent would be the stage for the top adventure gamemode players to compete.
 ...
 3rd month, 5th day, India Region.

 Right after winter ended, the one that fired the first gun in the world was not the expected European battlefield but the India Region that did not have much presence.

 Ashoka King, who had endured a lot of humiliation, suddenly revealed his icy fangs.

 A winter had passed, and the million war prisoners had gone through three months of recovery training. Ashoka King had invested a lot and provided them with an unlimited supply of food to increase their ability.

 After the winter period, the million war prisoners had returned to their peak forms.

 With these troops to rely on, Ashoka King was naturally eager. He took the opportunity that the enemy had not found out to launch a counterattack.

 It was a case of, 'Killing a thousand, losing 800.'

 Although the Peacock and Gupta dynasties had forced the Ashoka Dynasty into a terrible situation during the war last year, they had also consumed a lot themselves, and the victories that they had achieved were not easy.

 Under such circumstances, the sudden addition of a million new troops was enough to change the tides of the battle.

 In the next month, the army split into two under the personal leadership of Ashoka, going from defense to attack to regain their lost land.

 The Alliance Army was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.

 The cities that the two dynasties had expended so much to take down were being lost at a visible rate, making the hearts of the Gupta and Peacock kings feel pained; they were both filled with discontent.

 Only when the middle of the 3rd month arrived did they manage to find out why the Ashoka Dynasty army had abruptly become so strong.

 "Shameless, shameless!"
The two dynasties were furious and filled with hate toward Great Xia for their backstabbing. However, there was nothing they could do, and they could not fault Great Xia for it either.

 In front of absolute power, one would only get their teeth broken.

 Depression was depression, but neither the Peacock King or the Gupta King were people who admitted defeat easily. Seeing that it was already the 9th year of Gaia, they did not have the face to continue allowing the Ashoka Dynasty to survive.

 It was the only NPC dynasty left in the world.

 Failing to get rid of it would make the India Region unable to raise their heads.

 This was something the prideful Indians did not wish to see.

 After barely holding off the Ashoka Dynasty's assault and losing 10 odd cities, the two dynasties finally had some breathing room to stabilize themselves and launch a counterattack.

 The two dynasties had a tacit understanding to throw in more troops to the frontlines.

 As they say, 'The fighting spirit aroused by the first roll of drums is depleted by the second and exhausted by the third.'

 In their eyes, the current Ashoka Dynasty was going all out; if it won, it could continue the three way split, but if it lost, it would totally collapse.

 Hence, to the Alliance Army, this was both a crisis and an opportunity.

 As long as they went all in and threw in a large number of troops to fend off this wave of attacks, when the enemy force wavers, they would be able to launch a counterattack and achieve victory in one battle.

 The two dynasties were pumped.

 It was with such a mentality that the India Region battlefield entered its most intense phase. If nothing went wrong, the outcome would be decided during the first half of the year.
 ...
 After spring began, apart from India, the other battlefields also started to heat up.

 For example, the Africa Continent.

 The recent system update was a massive blessing to the Bantu Dynasty, which had a shocking amount of gold stored. This unassuming Africa dynasty became the focus of attention.

 Everyone was staring at their gold.

 The first to make moves were not the dynasties but the merchants. They were like sharks who had smelt blood, bringing boat after boat of resources and sailing toward the Cape of Good Hope.

 All of a sudden, Cape Town's port was filled up.

 Large amounts of resources flooded the Bantu Dynasty in exchange for crates and crates of gold.

 After the system update, the dynasties all announced that they would start their own currencies. During this transition period, gold would obviously still be the only trading currency.

 However, once the currency was released, gold would be prohibited from flowing in the market.

 The dynasties were copying Great Xia, buying back gold and making them into gold bricks to form the dynasty's strategic gold storage. From now on, large amounts of gold would be gathered up in a small number of banks.

 Lords of the modern day obviously understood the importance of gold storage.

 As for the Bantu Dynasty, they were very happy about the visit from the world's merchants. Although the Bantu Dynasty was so rich, it had a low resource production rate and was a dynasty that relied on imports.

 Both sides clicked instantly.

 As they say, 'War is a fight of money, of resources.'

 The flooding in of merchants helped to push forward the Bantu Dynasty's crusade in the north.

 The Bantu Dynasty made orders with the merchants while preparing heavily for battle to start the Central Africa war with the Dawson Dynasty once more.

 The flames of war in Africa were ignited again.

 Facing the aggressiveness from the Bantu Dynasty, Jack was really calm, not adding fire to the oil. He chose to focus on defense instead.

 It was not that he was weak but that the Dawson Dynasty was focusing on the Mayan battlefield.

 The Mayan war had developed to such a state, and it was not something the Dawson Dynasty could just stop. Once their frontlines show a hint of weakness, Mayan Dynasty would push in and capitalize on it.

 The Mayan Dynasty had Great Xia's support and was not easy pickings. They wanted to borrow the strength of Great Xia to have a good battle with the Dawson Dynasty.

 The Mayan Dynasty did not want to simply defend their land.

 They were really clear that in terms of geography, they were pincered between Great Xia and the Dawson Dynasty. Their only way out was to breakthrough from one side.

 The Mayan Dynasty and Great Xia both had their own needs and were just using one another.

 Under such circumstances, the Dawson Dynasty naturally needed to tread carefully; they not allow the Mayan Dynasty to cross the border. If not, all their prestige and authority would be lost.




Earth Online – a virtual MMORPG that takes place in the future year of 2190 – a game that everyone will bet their futures on. Set in a map that is ten times the size of real-world Earth, players battle for supremacy in the first game to feature personal adventure, territory construction, and grand warfare. For every death you experience in the game, your level would drop back to zero. Ouyang Shuo, an above average player, suffered the ultimate betrayal. For merely a piece of equipment, his sworn brother betrayed and backstabbed him. This time, after he reincarnated in the game, Ouyang Shuo swore to exact vengeance.

However, in an unexpected turn of events, Ouyang Shuo found himself back five years before the betrayal – right before the launch of Earth Online. This time, armed with the knowledge from his past life, Ouyang Shuo would venture upon a new path.

How to perfectly complete quests? What historical battle maps would appear? How should one build up their territory? Utilizing the experience from the predecessors of his last life, Ouyang Shuo makes his bid for the top against all odds. Follow his journey as he seeks to lord over the world!

A different kind of tale that blends historical characters and virtual reality gaming, with heavy emphasis on kingdom building and warfare.

Chapter 13: Millennium Evolution

In order to get that ancient book, half of Li Mingshan’s body was inside the vault. At this time, Li Mingshan clenched his teeth and rapidly dove into the vault, which was as tall as half the height of a normal person. The steel door then immediately closed. It took less than half a second to leap into the vault as well as the closing of the steel door. Obviously, Li Mingshan had practiced this move many times.
“Whew, whew.”
After hiding in a secret room that was only two or three square meters big, Li Mingshan breathed a sigh of relief.
“Fortunately, I had made preparations earlier. Huh, he wanted me to believe that he wouldn’t kill me?” Li Mingshan sneered.
Li Mingshan had calculated a counter if someone ever wanted to kill him. In this secret room, there was a credit card and many items that could attract the hitman, while he himself could escape into the vault.
No matter when, Li Mingshan only believed in himself.
Due to such perfect preparation, Li Mingshan had never lost his power for twenty years.
“Weng…..” All of a sudden, the five-centimeter thick steel door actually flew towards Li Mingshan .
That thick door could not be penetrated by anything, even a gun. If Teng Qingshan wanted to use brute force to hit through the door, he would have had to hit it with the fiercest “Tiger Fist”. However, he did not do that, because shattering the latch was too easy for him.
A figure dashed into the secret room.
“Brother, you….” Li Mingshan was about to speak.
“Poof.” A very soft sound rang out and a bloody hole appeared in Li Mingshan’s temple.
Li Mingshan stood motionlessly as he stared forward with round eyes, which were filled with bitterness.
Without even casting a glance at him, Teng Qingshan turned around and left silently.
***
In the living room of the house which Teng Qingshan had rented.
“I don’t know what this ‘Millennium Chronicle’ book talks about, but Liu Yan is indeed a great Grandmaster from the period of the Republic of China, this is something I know.” Teng Qingshan was very curious. As a practitioner of Internal Martial Arts, he surely had knowledge of some of the famous people in history.
Liu Yan, nicknamed ‘Willow Monkey God’, was a rare great Grandmaster of the ‘Monkey Sect’. At that period of time, Liu Yan had the same position as “Tiger-headed Guardian“ Sun Lutang…
Since this book was written by Liu Yan, Teng Qingshan naturally had the motivation to peruse it.
Teng Qingshan opened ‘Millennium Chronicle’ and found that all the words were written in traditional Chinese characters, which wasn’t surprising because many ancient books were written in the traditional Chinese lexicon. As Teng Qingshan was Teng Bolei’s disciple, and since Teng Bolei had lived abroad and knew the traditional Chinese lexicon, he naturally taught Teng Qingshan how to read and write traditional Chinese characters as well. Therefore, Teng Qingshan could now read this book with great ease.
“I really didn’t know that Willow Monkey God was actually a part of the Thief God Sect.”
Teng Qingshan hurriedly skipped through the pages, because the beginning of this book was mostly talking about the history of the Thief God Sect. After reading around one-third of the book, Teng Qingshan stopped when he saw a chapter titled “The Millennium Evolution of Martial Arts.”
The beginning of the chapter read, “Scrutinizing the historical records of our Thief God Sect and the historical accounts of Martial Arts, I realized that from the past till now, there has been an increasingly smaller number of people reaching the Grandmaster Realm while it has also become more and more difficult.”
When Teng Qingshan saw at this sentence, he could not help but nod. “Also, even though all sects claim that the history of Internal Martial Arts has existed for more than a thousand years. The fact is that, the most long-standing Internal Martial Art, ‘Tai Chi’, which was created by 'Zhang Sanfeng’ of the Wudang sect during the Ming dynasty, has not existed for a thousand years. In the five-thousand-year history of China, Internal Martial Arts only appeared a thousand years ago. Thus, what about the few thousand years before that?”
Teng Qingshan read these words and felt sympathetic.
Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Warring States Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties, Three Kingdoms Dynasty, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties…
In all these dynasties, did people only rely on brute force in battles?
Teng Qingshan did not believe it.
For example, revolutionary generals in the Sui and Tang dynasties were able to use their hands to wave heavy lion-shaped stone statues that were about a thousand Jin. Waving the lion-shaped stone statues and lifting them were two different concepts. It was just like how a normal person could lift a one hundred Jin pack of package, but if he had to hold a ten Jin dumbbell and swing it randomly, he would feel difficulties in doing so.
(TL:1 Jin = 0.5kg)
To swing a lion stone statue whose weight was one thousand Jin, you must at least have the strength to lift ten thousand Jin.
Even Teng Qingshan needed to use all of his energy to wave that kind of lion-shaped stone statute, moreover, it would be impossible for him to maintain this physical strength for a long time in battle.
In the Three Kingdoms Dynasty, some of the fierce warriors would depend on their own strength, charging into the midst of millions of enemy soldiers and killing the enemy’s leader. That was so incredible! The strength of a person was limited, so how would it be possible to ignore a powerful army of millions of soldiers?
“That’s right. The history of Internal Martial Arts started about a thousand years ago, but what about the few thousand years before Internal Martial Arts began?” Teng Qingshan also felt puzzled by this so he continued to read.
“It took me more than ten years to collect this information. Finally, I have a clear conclusion in my mind.”
“My conclusion is, from the Sui and Tang dynasty, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth began decreasing dramatically!”
Reading until this point, thousands of questions popped into Teng Qingshan’s mind.
“Based on the massive amount of information that I have discovered, at the time of the Spring and Autumn War Dynasty, as well as the Qin and Han Dynasty, there was nothing called Internal Martial Arts. The experts during that time were absorbing the Essence of Heaven and Earth, which is Spiritual Qi. They were ‘Training Vitality into Qi’, which caused their bodies to produce inner strength. By practicing, their inner strength would grow stronger and stronger, opening up every meridian until post culmination was achieved.
“The experts that had achieved postnatal culmination possessed boundless inner strength and were extremely powerful.
“When the mysterious channels in their brain opened, they would begin ‘Training Qi into Spirit.’ They would amalgamate the ‘Spirit’ with the inner strength and refine them in the Dantian. After that, it would gradually be transformed into the Innate True Origin, allowing the expert to become an innate expert.”
“An innate expert continually refines his or her True Origin. After the True Origin goes through ceaseless refinement in the Dantian until the first phase, ‘Hollow Dan’ realm would be attained. When the True Origin condensed into solidity, the second phase of ‘True Dan’ realm would be achieved. This True Dan would have to go through countless refinements, before reaching the third phase, ‘Golden Dan’ realm. The Golden Dan Innate Expert would be the expert of the experts! They possessed incredible power. In legends passed down from ancient times, the one who charged into the midst of the millions of soldiers alone, and the one who fought against an army of millions of soldiers by himself were all experts who had reached the Innate Realm.”
As Teng Qingshan read these words, he felt incredible!
How would it be possible?
Innate, acquired?
The combination of the 'Spirit’ of human and inner strength’ could actually transform into the ‘Innate True Origin.’
The Innate Realm was actually classified into three different phases, ‘Hollow Dan‘, ‘True Dan’ and ‘Golden Dan.’
“During the ancient times, the ‘The Way of the Golden Dan’ must be referring to that. When stepping into the ‘Way of the Golden Dan,’ then that must truly be reaching the pinnacle.”
Teng Qingshan nodded slightly.
This could be the only explanation. Otherwise it would be impossible to explain why some of the famous figures in history, such as ‘Maiden Yue,’ ‘Xi Yang’, and other Grandmasters were so powerful. Also, there were a lot of records which referred to the ancient practitioners during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors Period as ‘Qi Refiners’.
Perhaps they were called that because they refined the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.
Teng Qingshan continued reading.
“But starting from the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth suddenly dropped sharply.’’
“Therefore, the many warriors and heroes of the Sui and Tang Dynasty should be considered the last batch of Grandmasters. The likes of Li Yuan Ba, Qin Qiong and the others must have reached the Innate Realm to be able to wave thousand Jin huge objects without feeling tired.” What was written in the book struck a responsive chord in Teng Qingshan’s heart.
Teng Qingshan himself had already reached the pinnacle of the human world, yet holding a tiger-shaped stone statue in each of his hands, and then waving these thousands Jin objects while fighting a prolonged battle would be impossible for Teng Qingshan.
“Also, based on the records of many sects from the Sui and Tang Dynasties and later, the numbers of experts became increasingly lessened. In the end, not even a single innate expert appeared again. After the beginning of the Song Dynasty, even absorbing the Spiritual Qi and refining it into inner strength became almost impossible.’’
As Teng Qingshan read, his heart sighed.
At first, no one was able to attain the Innate Realm again, and later, no one was able to practice it anymore.
“The smaller the number of experts, the weaker the Song Dynasty became. Since the pathway of absorbing the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth to train one’s inner strength was obstructed, the people of Song dynasty would obviously think of another way.
Teng Qingshan nodded slightly.
“In ancient times, only uncultured people trained their physical strength, because to depend on training the physical strength to generate inner strength was almost impossible. ‘Practicing from the outward to the inward’ was too difficult.
“However, when purely absorbing the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was unable to generate the inner strength, generations of talented people committed themselves into researching a solution. Over time, gradually there were people who depended on standing on stumps and other techniques to generate inner strength. For example, in history, ‘Yue Fei,’ the warrior of the Song Dynasty during ancient times, was a warrior that practiced and generated inner strength.
“But in the Song Dynasty, the Internal Martial Arts was barely in embryonic form. Only a very few lucky men managed to generate inner strength while opening up the meridians all over their bodies, reaching the Grandmaster Realm was absolutely impossible.
“After passing through the short period of the Yuan dynasty, during the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Sanfeng of the Wudang Sect should be the first person to practice Internal Martial Arts, and reach its pinnacle. He opened up all the meridians of his body and enhanced the strength of his muscles, skin, flesh, and bones, to their maximum. Also, starting from this period, the system of Internal Martial Arts was finally perfected. Then, Tai Chi, Xing Yi Martial Arts, Eight Trigram Palm…… and many other types of martial arts began to appear one by one.”
Teng Qingshan read from the beginning to the end and felt extremely sad.
He could only sigh and make an emotional remark.
The ability of people to adapt to their surroundings was very strong indeed.
In ancient times, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth was abundant, and people learned to absorb the Spiritual Qi and train until inner strength was generated. They even trained until the Innate True Origin was produced.
However, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth decreased drastically. What could humans do?
After exploring for several hundred years, and through the efforts of an unknown number of talented people, wasting their youth and time, Internal Martial Arts gradually came into existence!
Until this modern period, the system of Internal Martial Arts had been improved and perfected to the point that there were the Godly Tiger Form Technique, Boulder of the Black Tortoise and Dragoncarp Ascension came into existence, the special skills which could only be practiced by Grandmasters.
During the period of the Spring and Autumn War Dynasty and the Qin and Han Dynasties, the people at that time could really attain such a level by practicing from the external to the internal?
“Actually, this process of refining was the process of the ‘Transformation of Vitality into Qi’ and ‘Transformation of Qi into Spirit’. In ancient times, the ‘Vitality’ in the ‘Transformation of Vitality into Qi’ referred to the essence of the world, the Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth. But now, this ‘Vitality’ referred to the energy and blood of the human body!”
Liu Yan mentioned in the book: ”Due to being unable to absorb energy from the surroundings, we could only absorb the essence in the human body. Thus, the experts practicing Internal Martial Arts were mostly very large eaters. Eating half a lamb in a single meal was really normal. Since they had to refine a massive amount of essence from blood, they obviously had to eat a lot more.”
Teng Qingshan nodded to himself.
Indeed, he himself was a really large eater.
In order to practice Internal Martial Arts, you need to have a strong body as well as adequate levels of energy and blood. Only when the essence and blood reached a certain extent, would one be able to gradually refine it into inner strength.


With five strikes of his axe, Emperor Yu split the mountains and unified everyone beneath the heavens. He partitioned the land into nine prefectures and erected the nine cauldrons. After Emperor Yu's death, incessant disputes arose within the Land of the Nine Prefectures. 

One thousand years later, a once-in-a-generation genius—the Heavenly Emperor of Qin Mountains—emerged from out of nowhere. With a strike of his palm, he was able to stop the motion of the 100-meter wide Yan River. With his peerless martial prowess, the Heavenly Emperor of Qin Mountains was ultimately able to unite the land beneath the heavens. However, when he died, chaos once again shrouded the Land of the Nine Prefectures. Several thousand years passed by, and still, no one was able to consolidate the nation.
 
Then the Grandmaster of the Xing Yi Martial Art—Teng Qingshan—arrived here unexpectedly from the modern world.

Mr. Martin and his wife questioned the two of them on what had happened in the evening, and so Li Du provided them with a detailed explanation.
The whole time, the couple kept making the sign of the cross at their chests. Their conclusion was just like that of Sophie's, that God had blessed them and sent an archangel to rescue them.
Li Du took out the birthday present he had brought for Mr. Martin—narwhal's tooth.
Mr. Martin taught history, not biology. He asked in bewilderment, "What's this?"
With a smile, Li Du shared the identity of the tooth. Mr. Martin stroked the smooth glossy exterior of the tooth, and said in astonishment, "This is a narwhal's tooth? God, it's beautiful! But, is it legal to keep this thing in a personal collection?"
In American society, there was an iron law dictating that whatever was prohibited should not be a collector's item. This included wild animals or natural products protected by the state, weapons and drugs that were not registered with the government departments—all of these could not be collected.
For example, wild elephants were protected by law, and collecting ivory was a criminal offense. Therefore, the sale and collection of ivory products were rarely seen.
However, it did not mean that there were none of these illegal items such as ivory in the American society. There were still some antiques and collectors' stores that had them, but these items were all from long ago before the legal injunction had been passed. Hence, these could be collected.
"There is permission to collect this. I've gotten someone to verify it. Judging from the fracture, it had dropped off more than half a century ago, so it can be collected," Li Du explained.
Mr. Martin and his wife were university professors. They surely enjoyed collecting things.
This narwhal's tooth could be included in their collection as one of their treasures. Afterall, it was very valuable and had a strong artistic malleability. If it were to be made into artwork, it would be even more valuable.
Since returning from the Martins', Li Du stayed put at the cabin instead of heading out. 
He'd experienced some bad luck in a short period of time and was not too keen on seeking excitement. According to the almanac, when Jupiter was in the West, one should not appear in public.
In addition, he was recuperating in preparation for his venture to the Petrified Forest National Park in search of fire opals.
It was the weekend, and Hans was planning on going to Hoffman's to attend the countryside auction. He asked Li Du if he would like to join him.
They were going to auction off the newly-completed "Men's Secret Hideout." Hans had priced it at 10,000 dollars. The electronic appliances in it were all famous brands, which cost at least 5,000 dollars in total—its value was pretty high.
Having spent the last few days brooding, Li Du jumped at the chance to head out for a breather and so agreed to go along.
In autumn, the auctions for old goods were especially vibrant. Many people in the countryside had spare time after the harvest period. With money in their pockets, they were also looking to buy stuff for their homes.
In the rural areas of the United States, families had the habit of conducting spring cleaning in autumn. To prepare for storing the harvested grains, they would clean up the house during this time.
During this process, they would find many things that had gone unused. They would not want to sell them as the items would only fetch a pittance at the provision stores.
They would choose to go to old goods markets to find what they needed and pass their things to the people who wanted them. This would earn them the maximum value of their items, achieving a win-win solution.
In the afternoon, the five of them, along with the four animals, drove to the town of
Hoffman.
The old goods market in the town was now extremely busy, just like the annual carnival back at Li Du's hometown. Stalls flanked both sides of the streets. One could find anything and everything being sold there: fruits and vegetables, snacks, hardware, furniture, household appliances, seafood, and handicrafts.
Li Du saw that many of the stalls were displaying curios of all sorts. His interest piqued, he went up to ask, "Are all these antiques?"
The stall-owner was a middle-aged Chinese man. He was fluent in English, and answered solemnly, "Yes, it's all Chinese porcelain, brought over by my grandfather when he immigrated to the United States from China."
Seeing Li Du's Chinese appearance, he asked, "Are you Chinese?"
Li Du nodded. "Yes. I've gotten interested in the cultural heritage left by our ancestors lately and would like to bring something interesting back for keeping."
The middle-aged man waved his hand immediately. "Then you are at the right place, buddy. Here are some of our cultural treasures. Come, on the account that we share the same ancestors, I'll give you 20 percent off whatever you choose."
Li Du laughed. This guy was very good at drawing in business.
He released the little bug to look for something with time energy.
It would be next to impossible to find any antiques in such a place. It was way too challenging to treasure hunt at a stall like this; the goods would have been appraised and if there were any antiques, they would have been put away.
His aim was to find things that contained time energy to feed the little bug with.
In the end, the little bug turnrf around and then returned to his shoulder with disinterest. Even though the things here looked real, they were actually worthless fakes.
In that case, he didn't want to waste his time. Shaking his head, he started to walk off.
The middle-aged man grabbed hold of him and said, "What's the matter, brother? Look, I've got good stuff here. You see, this is blue and white porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty. These are ancient coins from the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and weapons from the Sui and Tang dynasties . . . "
Li Du decided to walk away; the more he spoke, the less reliable he sounded. Ancient coins from the Yuan and Ming dynasties? Weapons from the Sui and Tang dynasties? Possession of any one of these items would enable one to buy everything in the entire market!
He anticipated that if he stayed, the middle-aged man might also take out the bronze vessels from the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC).
As the market was huge, there was bound to be something with time energy. The little bug flew about and soon found a rusty dagger.
Li Du strolled over to the stall, which was manned by an old goods treasure hunter. He was acquainted with the owner, by the name of Wright George. He visited his cabin often to hang out.
Since it was someone he knew, he didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "How much for this dagger?"
Wright's eyes lit up. "Hey, Li, what's so great about this dagger? Tell me, for friendship's sake, give me a chance to make some money."
This dagger was not a famous item. Just that it contained time energy, and so the little bug was interested in it.
Li Du used Reverse the Past and saw the scene of a veteran with the dagger at a World War II battlefield.
The veteran had cherished the dagger, often polishing and maintaining it. After he had passed on, his family had chucked the dagger in the garage, causing it to rust.
Li Du said, "Honestly, Wright, this knife's worthless. I just want to buy it for a look. I have no intention of collecting it or reselling it for profit."
He enjoyed a good reputation amongst the Flagstaff treasure hunters; he wouldn't profit from his own people, but would instead help them earn money.
Hence, Wright believed his words. With no other choice, he said, "Give me 50 for it. I bought it for 25 bucks."
Li Du threw him 50 dollars, took the dagger and threw it into his backpack. The little bug flew in immediately to absorb the time energy within it.


They love gold, and they love silver. Even more so, they love gems that dazzle, like stars across the skies. 
Firearms, jewelleries, and precious metals; A collector’s world will not be complete without antiques.  
Storage auctions, old goods trade, re-estate sales and gold-digging. But the truth is, if one wants to make money, then the supreme way is through searching for the legendary treasures. 
Holding the fort, there’s an ocelot, a wolf, and an Andes condor. At the side, there’s a loyal hound, an irascible ape, and an African honey badger. Who said that you can only rely on humans when treasure hunting?! 

These two people were the World Protectors of the two other worlds. One was the Dark Demon world's Mo Qi, and the other was the Fish Scale world's Yu Xuan. As World Protectors, both of them controlled immense power.
Mo Qi coldly looked at Zhao Fu and said seriously, "Your power is extremely monstrous, and I admit that I am inferior to you. Before, I did not want to join with others to kill you, but your threat is simply too great. If I don't get rid of you, my Dark Demon world will be in great danger in the future. You should feel proud about this!"
Yu Xuan also looked at Zhao Fu seriously, and he looked at the eight Aquatic Beast Kings before saying, "You have my respect for being able to make those eight submit. Before, I did not want to get involved in human affairs, but after you awakened those two terrifying stars, I can only apologize; you have to die in order for the Fish Scale world to remain safe!"
Boom! Boom!
Two massive explosions sounded out as Mo Qi directly exploded out with his full power and used his Clan Armament, while Yu Xuan did the same and also brought out his Clan Armament. Their power seemed to be able to cause the sky to fall, and it was unimaginably powerful.
"Hurry! Work together with them and kill Great Qin's Legatee!" Si Ji shouted to the others. It was evidently him who had contacted these two World Protectors, and he had most likely even given them Zhao Fu's information, resulting in them working together.
The other Chinese Dynasty Legatees understood that this was the best opportunity to kill Great Qin's Legatee, and they could not let it go. They were not following Si Ji's orders; they were simply doing what they felt was best. They did anything that would benefit them.
After all, the various Midland Continent factions had been willing to join this attack because Great Qin threatened them, and they wanted to destroy Great Qin to get rid of this threat.
It was not that China had the power to rally many supporters but that they all had a common target. Moreover, it was only because they held a great advantage that they were willing to attack Great Qin; without such a big advantage, how could they be willing to step into these muddy waters?
They had all acted according to their own interests, so they were not very united. Seeing how powerful Great Qin was, how difficult it would be to destroy the Great Qin, and how many losses they had suffered already, many of them already started to think about running.
China's various Dynasty Legatees raised their Nation Armaments and attacked Great Qin's Legatee together, while the other countries' Dynasty Legatees' expressions were quite unsightly and did not act.
They were unwilling to unleash their full Nation Armaments' power, and if they rushed up, they would die. They were not able to participate in this battle.
The two other worlds' World Protectors felt that the Chinese people had all gone mad; they had actually conspired with the World Protectors of other worlds to kill their own World Protector.
Even though the humans hated Great Qin, distrusted Great Qin, and thought that it was too great of a threat, it was still part of their human world. In actuality, the two World Protectors were an even greater threat to them.
Perhaps even if the humans were conquered by Great Qin, they could become its subjects, but if they were conquered by other worlds, they would either die or become slaves. Last time, the Fish Scale world had drowned countless humans; this was the best evidence.
The Dynasty Legatees of the other countries looked at each other and decided not to get involved. On one hand, they would use up too much Fate, and they were also worried that after Great Qin's Legatee was killed, the two World Protectors would turn on them. At that time, who would be able to stop them? As such, these Dynasty Legatees from other countries turned into rays of light and flew away, not planning on helping out.
Mo Qi, Yu Xuan, and the Chinese Dynasty Legatees didn't have time to pay attention to them; they were completely focused on attacking Great Qin's Legatee. Facing his attacks, if they were not careful, it would be easy for them to die.
On September 17, the great battle concluded. It had lasted for four days, and it had been extremely terrifying. It was the most shocking battle in the human world, and no battle could even compare to it.
The frightening power unleashed had caused the earth to crack, for the weather to change, and the sun to grow dim.
Ten or so regions seemed to have been obliterated, turning into a desolate wasteland devoid of any life. It was like an apocalyptic scene, shocking anyone who saw it.
After the conclusion of the battle, the two World Protectors escaped back to their own worlds with heavy injuries on the brink of death, shaking the Dark Demon world and Fish Scale world.
Out of the 11 Chinese Dynasty Legatees, the Legatees of the Shang Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Sui Dynasty, Song Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty died true deaths. After the battle, Bai Qi split Great Qin's terrifying army into five teams to simultaneously attack the five Dynasties, conquering them and destroying them.
The remaining six Chinese Dynasty Legatees escaped with heavy injuries, and they seemed to disappear and could not be found. They had most likely mass-relocated.
The results of this battle were that 400 million soldiers from the allied army had died while another 400 million soldiers had run away. 7,000 City Lords from the allied army had died, and 23,000 had run away.
These City Lords and soldiers all came from different factions, different countries, and different Continents, so they were not completely united. They had only been willing to attack Great Qin because of the apparent advantage they had, but seeing that things had gone sour, they immediately ran for their lives; no one wanted to die for something like this.
On Great Qin's side, they lost six million soldiers, and after conquering five Dynasties, they had lost another five million soldiers. 300 City Lords had lost their lives, and the most important person to Great Qin, the person at the core of this shocking battle, Great Qin's Legatee, may have died as well.
This battle was enough to shake three worlds. No one in China would have thought that Great Qin would be able to defend against this attack. They had never thought that the other two worlds' World Protectors would suddenly descend and work with China's Dynasty Legatees to try to kill Great Qin's Legatee.
Apart from in world wars in the real world, there had never been such great casualties before.
It could be said that all of China had taken a great blow, and the result of the battle was that five Dynasties had perished. The conclusion was incredibly severe.
This time, Great Qin's true strength had been displayed to the whole world, whether it was the eight Aquatic Beast Kings, the countless Wyverns, the terrifying Corpse Soul Commanders, the Dragon-Slaying Ballistae that instantly killed City Lords, or the Destruction Crystals and Disaster Pearls.
At the same time, there were the terrifying talisman arrows and bolts, the Undead army, and 13 Corps. Great Qin had unreservedly used all of its power, causing countless people to feel a chill in their hearts. If they hadn't attacked with such a massive army, they would not have known that Great Qin's full strength was so monstrous.


“Ding! Soulbinding has been successfully completed; you will now head to the Heaven Awaken World.” After hearing this, Zhao Fu’s vision darkened as he fell to the ground.

With bleak prospects in the real world, Zhao Fu’s life is turned around when countless crystals fell from the sky one night, which people could use to enter an alternate, game-like world. After obtaining an ancient Chinese empire’s legacy, Zhao Fu uses his intellect and resourcefulness to develop his own empire from a tiny village. However, with enemies both in the real world and in the Heaven Awaken World, he must make brilliant decisions and use creative schemes to survive.

"Really? At the Palace Museum? Is it even open at night? Your boss wants to attack the palace, right? Cheers!"
Qin Guan's staff fell silent. Nobody showed any sympathy for them...
Anyway, they were still getting paid vacation time, which was really important.
They were all trembling as they gathered outside the entrance of the Palace Museum. It was not gloomy and lonely, as they had expected. It was actually as crowded as a bazaar.
"Are you a staff member? Queue up over there!"
Maybe we came to the wrong site?
When they entered the palace, they realized that it was different. It was not as calm as usual. Instead, people were shuttling all over the yard. There were lights, props, dressing rooms...
Are they shooting a period show?
Suddenly, a voice was heard through the loudspeaker.
"Attention! Create a path in the middle for the couple to walk through and get into position!"
Qin Guan's friends had helped him find a crew that would shoot in the palace. He had hired them for one night, so that they would take his wedding photos. Cong Nianwei's dream of having a traditional wedding would come true. This was not a folk wedding, but a luxurious feudal feast.
The audience was expecting the couple to appear in costumes of the Qing Dynasty, when Qin Guan and Cong Nianwei suddenly showed up hand in hand. They were wearing costumes that combined the styles of the Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties, which had been China's golden time.
The red brocade looked gorgeous and joyful under the lights. Golden and silver silk threads were rolling like waves and clouds as they walked. A ribbon with two red flower balls connected them together.
One was on one end of the red ribbon, and the other was on the other end. They were holding hands as they thought about growing old together...
Silence prevailed in the yard as people were wishing the couple the best silently. The yard became an ocean of flashlights as cameras and cell phones worked endlessly.
An engineer coming out of the museum after work, who was shocked by the scene on the square, got off his bike and asked a security guard, "Is that crew shooting a film? What kind of film is it? Is it another one about the Qing Dynasty?"
The guard smiled. "Nope. This is the first time I see a couple take its wedding photos here."
"What?"
The engineer stopped. He decided to watch the grand event. Soon, his eyes were fixed on the costumes.
He was in charge of repairing ancient clothes at the museum, so as an expert, he found Qin Guan's formal outfit unique.
It was the combination of the Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties, as well as its modern aesthetics that made it unique. The historical combination impressed the old master, who had no idea about fashion.
The outfit had been created by the best designer team in the Chinese fashion circle, so it certainly deserved praise.
"It's brilliant!"
The man, who couldn't move his eyes away from it, took out his camera and joined the group of photographers.


Qin Guan was reborn and sent back to his final semester in High School 18 years ago. Getting a second chance at life, he works hard to turn things around and eventually become a Prince Charming. What will his life be like the second time around? What will he have to go through? How will he succeed in turning from a loser into a Prince Charming? Read this story carefully and find out!

China (Chinese: 中国; pinyin: Zhōngguó; literally: 'Central State' or 'Middle Kingdom'), officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around 1.428 billion in 2017.[12][13] Covering approximately 9,600,000 square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), it is the third or fourth largest country by total area.[j][19] Governed by the Communist Party of China, the state exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces[k], five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

China emerged as one of the world's first civilizations, in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. For millennia, China's political system was based on hereditary monarchies, or dynasties, beginning with the semi-mythical Xia dynasty in 21st century BCE.[20] Since then, China has expanded, fractured, and re-unified numerous times. In the 3rd century BCE, the Qin reunited core China and established the first Chinese empire. The succeeding Han dynasty, which ruled from 206 BCE until 220 CE, saw some of the most advanced technology at that time, including papermaking and the compass,[21] along with agricultural and medical improvements. The invention of gunpowder and movable type in the Tang dynasty (618–907) and Northern Song (960–1127) completed the Four Great Inventions. Tang culture spread widely in Asia, as the new Silk Route brought traders to as far as Mesopotamia and the Horn of Africa.[22] Dynastic rule ended in 1912 with the Xinhai Revolution, when the Republic of China (ROC) replaced the Qing dynasty. China as a whole was ravaged by feudal warlordism and Japan during World War II. The subsequent Chinese Civil War resulted in a division of territory in 1949, when the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong established the People's Republic of China on mainland China, while the Kuomintang-led nationalist government retreated to the island of Taiwan, where it continues to govern the Republic of China. The political status of Taiwan remains disputed to this day.

China is a unitary one-party socialist republic and is one of the few remaining Communist states. Political dissidents and human rights groups have denounced and criticized the Chinese government for human rights abuses, suppression of religious and ethnic minorities,[23][24][25] censorship and mass surveillance, and cracking down on protests such as in 1989.[26][27][28] The Chinese government says that the right to subsistence and economic development is a prerequisite to other types of human rights, and that the notion of human rights should take into account a country's present economic level.[29]

Since the introduction of economic reforms in 1978, China's economy has been one of the world's fastest-growing with annual growth rates consistently above 6 percent.[30] According to the World Bank, China's GDP grew from $150 billion in 1978 to $12.24 trillion by 2017.[31] According to official data, China's GDP in 2018 was 90 trillion Yuan ($13.28 trillion).[32] Since 2010, China has been the world's second-largest economy by nominal GDP,[33] and since 2014, the largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity.[34] China is also the world's largest exporter and second-largest importer of goods.[35] China is a recognized nuclear weapons state and has the world's largest standing army, the People's Liberation Army, and second-largest defense budget.[36][37] The PRC is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council as it replaced the ROC in 1971, as well as an active global partner of ASEAN Plus mechanism. China is also a leading member of numerous formal and informal multilateral organizations, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), WTO, APEC, BRICS, the BCIM, and the G20. China is one of the world's most technologically advanced nations and is home to some of the world's largest tech giants such as Huawei, Tencent, and Alibaba.[38][39] Since 2019, China has the highest number of rich people in the world.[40] China has been characterized as a potential superpower, mainly because of its massive population, economy, and military.[41][42][43]

Names

The word "China" has been used in English since the 16th century. It is not a word used by the Chinese themselves. It has been traced through Portuguese, Malay, and Persian back to the Sanskrit word Cīna, used in ancient India.[45]

"China" appears in Richard Eden's 1555 translation[l] of the 1516 journal of the Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa.[m][45] Barbosa's usage was derived from Persian Chīn (چین), which was in turn derived from Sanskrit Cīna (चीन).[50] Cīna was first used in early Hindu scripture, including the Mahābhārata (5th century bce) and the Laws of Manu (2nd century bce).[51] In 1655, Martino Martini suggested that the word China is derived ultimately from the name of the Qin dynasty (221–206 BCE).[52] Although this derivation is still given in various sources,[53] it is complicated by the fact that the Sanskrit word appears in pre-Qin literature. The word may have originally referred to a state such as Yelang. Later, the meaning transferred to China as a whole.[51][54] The origin of the Sanskrit word is still a matter of debate, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.[45]

The official name of the modern state is the "People's Republic of China" (Chinese: 中华人民共和国; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó). The shorter form is "China" Zhōngguó (中国), from zhōng ("central") and guó ("state"),[n] a term which developed under the Western Zhou dynasty in reference to its royal demesne.[o] It was then applied to the area around Luoyi (present-day Luoyang) during the Eastern Zhou and then to China's Central Plain before being used as an occasional synonym for the state under the Qing.[56] It was often used as a cultural concept to distinguish the Huaxia people from perceived "barbarians".[56] The name Zhongguo is also translated as "Middle Kingdom" in English.[58]

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The voice echoed about in a way that made it impossible to determine where exactly it came from. It almost seemed to surpass the flow of time itself. Those who heard it felt a connection to the voice, as though it contained a strange power that instantly calmed them down.
The Giant Ghost King shivered, and Gongsun Wan'er's breathing began to steady. As for the demigods who had come from the nearby immortal domain, their eyes shone with reverence as they turned in the direction of Saint-Emperor City, clasped hands, and bowed.
Gu Tianjun's expression flickered, and he closed his eyes momentarily. When they opened, there was no trace of killing intent or rage. The only thing that remained was frosty coldness.
"Come with me, Fellow Daoist Bai!" he said coolly.
Bai Xiaochun shivered inwardly at the strange qualities of the Saint-Emperor's voice. At the same time, the sliver of Willpower which had awoken when facing Ghostmother's celestial Daoist magic stirred yet again.
"The Saint-Emperor is so powerful!" he thought. However, he didn't let any emotions show on his face. Smiling broadly, he clasped hands and gave a slight bow in the direction of Saint-Emperor City. Then he returned to the battleship, and stood silently on the prow.
Gu Tianjun cast a cold glance at Bai Xiaochun, but didn't say anything. A moment later, he turned into a beam of sword light that shot back toward Saint-Emperor City. As for the demigods who had come with him, they also looked over at Bai Xiaochun, but this time, their expressions looked very different from before.
"This guy... seems different from the other people of Heavenspan that I've seen!" That was what most of the demigods were thinking. Eventually, they looked away, and followed Gu Tianjun to formally escort the newcomers into the Saint-Emperor Dynasty.
The battleship followed along, leaving the Eternal Sea and heading through the buffeting winds toward Saint-Emperor City.
Everyone felt a lot of pressure, and no one spoke. Two hours later, the effects of the Saint-Emperor's voice began to fade from the Giant Ghost King, whereupon a look of astonishment appeared deep in his eyes.
"From distant Saint-Emperor City, he said a single sentence that put me in a daze for that long?!?!" The Giant Ghost King was shaken, and his fear of the archaean emperors suddenly grew far deeper.
"It's because this is your first time dealing with an archaean," Gongsun Wan'er said, smiling faintly. "And you actually benefited from being a Heavenspan cultivator. Someone from the Saint-Emperor Dynasty would find their Willpower affected for days, during which time they would feel fanatical devotion!" Gongsun Wan'er currently had her cultivation base sealed, but that didn't affect her overall level. She had her Daoseed, and was also from the Vile-Emperor Dynasty, and therefore recovered much more quickly, although not as quickly as Bai Xiaochun.
"If it ever happens to you again, you won't be as severely affected, at least not unless the archaean intentionally makes it worse." After finishing with her explanation, Gongsun Wan'er looked over at Bai Xiaochun, who still stood there at the prow of the ship. Curiosity flickered in her eyes; she was truly interested in Bai Xiaochun's uniqueness.
"I wonder if what he said is true," she thought. "Does he really rank as high as the two emperors.... Or does he cultivate some technique that gives him the power to stand up to them!?" As Gongsun Wan'er pondered the matter, the Giant Ghost King regained more of his senses, and also looked over at Bai Xiaochun. All of a sudden, he realized that... maybe Bai Xiaochun really could become the hope of the Heavenspan Realm!
Bai Xiaochun could sense that the two of them were looking at him. Although his expression remained placid, inwardly he was feeling very pleased with himself. That calmness, and the way he remained steady under pressure earlier, was becoming something of a habit.
But then he considered that the emperors of the two dynasties were both experts in the Archaean Realm, and his nervousness mounted.
"This won't do," he thought. "If I start getting nervous every time I think about them, how am I supposed to stay in a good mood?" All of a sudden, his eyes lit up.
"Hold on. These two dynasties have funny names if you think about it. Vile-Emperor Dynasty? Instead of vile, how about smile! Yeah... the Smile-Emperor!
"And instead of Saint-Emperor Dynasty... how about paint? Heh. The Paint-Emperor!"[1]
All of a sudden, he felt much more at ease. He also couldn't help but turn to Gongsun Wan'er and ask, "Wan'er, does everyone from the Smile-Emperor Dynasty like to smile?"
"What?" Gongsun Wan'er replied, stunned. Then her eyes hardened into a glare, and any feeling of wonderment from before vanished. After all, never in her life had she ever heard anyone say Smile-Emperor before.
Gongsun Wan'er's glare caused Bai Xiaochun to feel slightly awkward, so he quickly looked away and went back to trying to seem grand and proud.
Down below, mountains and rivers stretched out in all directions.... The immortal domain they had come to also contained the capital city of the Saint-Emperor Dynasty. Therefore, after a few days of travel, they crossed a wide plain and, as evening fell... caught sight of an enormous mountain off in the distance!
It rose up dramatically into the sky, and had a very distinct outline.
It was definitely the largest mountain Bai Xiaochun had ever seen before in his life, and took up more than half of the prefecture. In fact, it was roughly half the size of the entire Heavenspan Realm!
A mortal who tried to climb this mountain wouldn't be able to reach the top in an entire lifetime!
It was no exaggeration to say that it connected the earth to the heavens!
At the very top of the mountain, there was no peak, only a massive heavenly pond!
Although the pond looked small when compared to the mountain as a whole, it was still huge. Dense mist roiled out from the pond, connecting it to the surrounding clouds and making the entire place seem like a paradise for immortals.
Lotus leaves floated on the surface of the water, each one seemingly as large as an island. In fact, upon closer inspection, all of the lotus leaves actually had spectacularly luxurious buildings on them!
There were thousands of such lotus leaves, all of them floating around something even more shocking, which lay at the very middle of the pond. It was a gargantuan lotus flower!
It was beautiful to the extreme, and emanated a shockingly pleasing aroma. Built onto the petals of the flower were buildings of the most flawless white jade imaginable. This was... the imperial palace!!
The lotus flower was the palace, the lotus leaves were the city. This was none other than the capital of the Saint-Emperor Dynasty, a place known as... Saint-Emperor City!
This mountain, this pond, and this city surpassed anything Bai Xiaochun could ever have imagined.
Bai Xiaochun wasn't the only one to be shaken. When the Giant Ghost King caught sight of the heavenly pond, his jaw dropped. It was unlike anything that had ever existed in the Heavenspan Realm.
Gongsun Wan'er was the only one to have little reaction. She had heard of the wonders of Saint-Emperor City before, although in her heart, the capital city of the Vile-Emperor Dynasty was far grander.
Gu Tianjun didn't react to Bai Xiaochun's shock, but the demigods were clearly very proud of their capital city, which was the most holy location in the land.
As the battleship got closer to the pond, Bai Xiaochun noticed numerous dragonfish swimming in the water. Occasionally, they would leap out of the water, and when the evening sun landed on their golden scales, it was a dazzling sight.
This city amongst the clouds actually surpassed any celestial paradise!
Soon, the cultivators who lived in Saint-Emperor City noticed the bone lizard battleship sailing through the air above them.
Within the imperial palace were all of the officials of the imperial court, whom the Saint-Emperor had summoned. When they looked up, some gazes were those of curiosity, while others were hostile. Most were arrogant to the extreme, as if they were the rulers of a massive country looking at common farmers from a tiny nation.
Even as Bai Xiaochun and his allies prepared to enter Saint-Emperor City itself, a piercing voice echoed out from the imperial palace.
"The Saint-Emperor has summoned Heavenspan Realm cultivators Bai Xiaochun and Giant Ghost for an audience!"
[1] In this passage I'm trying to keep the spirit of the Chinese, instead of translate it directly. It's a little bit of rhyming wordplay that sounds silly and funny. If you translated it all directly, it wouldn't make much sense in English. In the Chinese, the word for Vile-Emperor rhymes almost perfectly with the word for "crab roe", or at least, the orangeish-yellow soft meat inside of a crab, which is considered somewhat of a delicacy. Then, he picks a word that has a close pronunciation to Saint-Emperor, and also has the character saint as part of the component of one of the characters, but which means "razor clams". All in all, it's pretty funny in Chinese, but doesn't come across in direct translation.


With a thought, the land becomes a vast sea. With another thought, it transforms a field of mulberries.

With a thought, a thousand friends are killed. With another thought, ten thousand Immortals are slain.

Only I alone… shall be everlasting. 



Interestingly, I took the old maps, the Arabian paths, and made a map with it, put it on ea satellite images of different years and I got a new map. Map of the ruins and trade roads of the Silk Road period. On them I even found the lost cities and villages that existed in the 7-9 centuries of our era and were in the 10-16 centuries. And then they suddenly disappeared.

- Gone? How so? Were and suddenly gone?

Everything is simple. The situation changed, copper was no longer needed, in such volumes as was previously required, in other cases, there were gold mines near the settlements ... but then they were canned ... and the merchants stopped coming. Since there was nothing besides gold in these cities ... there were also those cities where roads changed, they began to pass through more convenient places ...

Merchants stopped coming ... and people left the cities ... some villages were covered with sand ... some were smelled during the era of total industrialization ... During the race for the USA ... when the task was to get more crops than in the USA. ..

And everything that could be smelled and turned into arable land was smelled. During this period of time, many old clay fortresses and caravanserais suffered this fate.

Surprisingly then these objects were not even studied by historians ... how many books in Arabic were simply destroyed, as well as in Chinese, in Persian ...

Now it's just that I am doing research ... I learned a lot. China and Persia were much closer to us than described in historical literature. Neither the Greeks nor the Chinese had a greater influence in antiquity.

Now the Chinese have come to Small-An again ... they are a deterrent to the neo-colonization ... of large empires.

The Silk Road unites ... as in antiquity ...

... Previously, our mountains of Light ... were closer to Arabistan, Europe, China, Persia than now ... there was trade, caravans arrived every 2-3 months ... brought goods from the East.

Bananas, nut nuts ... were known back in the 15-17th centuries ...

It was later that, with the advent of the Iron Curtain, all trade relations were broken ... and our mountains simply became a "region forgotten by the world."

For example, in the mountains, on the pass, I found an old Arabian caravanserai. Its ruins ... it operated from the 9th century to the 12th century ... when I looked near its walls, at a depth of 40 cm I found a couple of coins ... they were dated to the Tang era and 5 dynasties and 10 kingdoms and the Yuan empire ... So the trade continued ?!

There were Arab dinars and Umayyad dinars and dichramas ...

Of course, there you need to work with a metal detector and geophysical equipment. But it's impossible to work with us at such facilities without obtaining special permission from the Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Especially if it is not a legal entity. In general, I have filed an application so far, but there is no answer ... I've been waiting for the third year already. This is probably why many mountain areas still remain "white spots" in history.

There is another interesting object to study, an ancient fortress, on the site of the settlement and the source of water, known since the Neolithic! The fortress appeared later in the 8th-13th centuries and was rebuilt three times in the 14th century, 16th and 19th ...

The study of the fortress was ... but superficial in 1946, 1957 and 1976 ... and now there are new tools, new technologies that could give more practical material ... but for some reason everything remains unexplored.

History is also part of politics ... some of the data can simply be silent, forget, not say ... here history turned in another direction. Although this is a substitution, falsification of facts, but who cares? History as a science, this is a separate song ... but we will not talk about this sad topic.

For example, following a map compiled by myself, I went from a wholesale bazaar where goods were brought from Yarkend, Kashgar and Gaochan ... to the Svet Mountains. Surprisingly, on the way I used a metal detector ... found a lot of interesting material ... can be called cultural heritage monuments ...

These are mainly coins and arrowheads ... broken copper jugs, saber remnants, peak tips ... horseshoes ...

In the mountains of Light, I also found cartridges, cartridges, a pair of rifles and revolvers and machine guns of the First World War ...

Surprisingly, our region of the mountains of Light covers an area of ​​40 thousand square kilometers and the history of the eras of various empires, powers and principalities over 60 centuries is concentrated on it !!!!

COMPLETED

The Silk Road ... it is inevitable the emergence of wells, caravanserais, guard fortresses, postal stations, local bazaars, regional bazaars, the emergence of new jobs:
- robbers (there were whole settlements)
- caravan guards
- changed
- merchants

Just about them and will be discussed.


About their life, tricks.

Alas, English is still the same ... there are mistakes, I am sure of it.

I hope over time I will be able to fix them.

I just wanted to share information about such an interesting topic as the history of the development of the Silk Road.

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And also a series of stories about treasures, treasure hunters.

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This is a work of art. Any resemblance to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

It took us 3 months to get over India. Unfortunately, we were attacked by plenty of thieves. But also fortunately, we had to kill them, which means that my sword and I had a lot to consume. It took more 3 months to reach Gansu, where the great wall of china hang on the mountains. 
We approached the walls entrance and stopped. Instantly, two Chinese young men in Armour and spears talked with the most ancient Chinese language, "No cultivators are allowed in 'Kansu', unless they have a very important matter." 
A couple of mortals approached and walked through the two young men. I recognized this immediately.  I remembered that the ancient Song dynasty used to use this trick in order to frighten their enemies, but of course, with a large number of troops. 
" What the hell are they?" asked Tulip. 
"These are holograms of two guards in the emperor's palace. If anything happens, they'll appear here in the blink of an eye." I said then turned to the projections, "We have an important message for Emperor Sun Wu. Please inform him that we are from the Mansion of Night". 
The two guards disappeared and many ancient chinese lines appeared on a nearby board. The first one was of only one symbol "宋" which meant 'Sòng' in English, it was the symbol of the most ancient empire here in Gansu, 'The Song Dynasty'. 
I read the names of the later empires till I reached for the present one, '甘肅', 'The Gansu Dynasty'. 
We rode our horses for a weak till we reached a small unremarkable village. We entered to the only inn in the village. We got a few strange looks from people, I guess they didn't usually have outsider visitors. The manager of the inn showed us a few rooms before I said to him in traditional chinese, "Guardian of the door of East, we are cultivators just like you. Take us to your portal." 
The man looked confused for a while then nodded. He took us to a door marked with english 'No one is allowed to enter!' and opened it. It showed nothing but darkness. He stepped to it and disappeared. We hesitated a little and Tulip said," Are you sure about this?".
"We have come all this way not to be stopped here", I answered calmly and stepped into the darkness and behind me Tulip.
When we entered the void, we saw the other side of the place. Tall pointy mountains were seen in the horizon. The great wall of China can also be seen, bit it seemed like it was rebuilt. The area seemed larger than the previous one. I guess there was some sort of expanding magic on this place. I turned and saw the man that led us here was now wearing a long purple robe covered with dragon drawings.
He cupped his hands at us and said in english, " Greetings fellow doists, welcome to Gansu, the dynasty of Emperor Sun. May I ask what had brought you here to our paradise?"
"Greetings to you guardian. We have come here to deliver a message to the Emperor from a very important person. Can you lead us there?" I asked. 
He nodded. We walked through the magnificent Gansu dynasty. We didn't encounter any thief, it was well organized here, not like India.
" This place is magnificent", exclaimed Tulip.
"This is one of the most ancient places in China, it was even ruled before Egypt came to be", said the guardian. 
"That long?"
"Yes, my lady. The great Emperor Song found this place and brought a batch of cultivators to set great cities here. But unfortunately, the dynasties became weaker and weaker until our esteemed Emperor Sun came."
"How long did the Emperor reigned in this land?" I asked.
"It has been 5 chaos cycles since Emperor Sun started to rule this place."
I nodded. We continued our journey in silent until we saw a big chinese palace at the top of a mountain. We stopped at the beginning of this mountain and the guardian said, "You shall continue to the sect alone. I can lead you no more from here." 
"You have done to us great things, fellow doist. We thank very much", said Tulip. I nodded. We bid the guardian farewell and began to climb the steps. 
It took us two days to reach the top. The palace was right in front of us, big, red, and well, Chinese. We walked toward the entrance where we were stopped by the two same guards that stopped us on the entrance of the wall. They told us to follow them inside. We entered a broad plain and in the middle was wrought the 'immortal' sign in traditional chinese, '仙'. 
We entered to a great hall where no one was present. After a while, a middle-aged man walked and sat on the throne, two guards stood beside him followed by another man. 
Tulip bowed a complete one while I only bowed my head and crossed my hands at the chest. 
We said together, "Emperor Sun".
The middle-aged man, Emperor Sun, nodded and said in a deep voice in english , "Greetings, my guests. My guards told me that you have a message for me."
"We indeed have, sir", I took the letter from my enchanted bag, handed it to theEmperor, "It is from the lord of chaos." 
He frowned and unsealed the letter. He read it for a while and then sat silent. Neither of us talked. Finally he said cutting the silence, "This is indeed a letter from the lord. However, what bothers me is that how can I be sure that you are the right messengers?" 
"Knowing from what you said, sir", said Tulip, "you sure have met Master before". He nodded. 
"Emperor", I said, "you have all the rights to be suspicious of us. Neither my obvious resemblance of the lord nor our presence here can be a proof . But I don't think you'll doubt these". I took off my upper robe-armor, revealing my marks. 
He just sat there with his mouth wide open, disbelief filled his eyes. He said, "I am sorry I doubted you", he bowed his head and said, "you are sure tired of the travel. Please rest here for the night at my palace and come to see me tomorrow morning. Take good care of them." He addressed his Seconde and left the hall while smiling. 
The man that hadn't talked a word yet gestured for us to follow him. I put on the robe-armor and followed, Tulip beside me.

"You ask who I am? I am the one that is made of mortal flesh and dust. I am the one that revived the creator. I am the one that was tested by tragedies, but these didn't make me stop my path. You dare to test me? You'll be my guest!"
This is a story that originates in the fields of Midgard (Earth), where many ancient civilizations filled of ancient threats are hidden in the modern world. 
"You still don't know who I am? My name is Hasan, and I am the Lord of Ice!" 
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