"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"..."
The Great Jing Dynasty.
Only the sounds of objects being smashed echoed through the grand hall of the imperial palace.
"Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it!" King Jing Xiu's voice rang out, a mixture of fury and terror.
For today, the armies of Great Wei had, with overwhelming force, utterly defeated the armies and cultivators of their Great Jing.
By now, the armies of Great Wei had already entered the royal capital.
"The common people rebel against me, and Great Wei seeks to invade me. In what way have I not been good enough!"
And at this very moment.
"Boom!"
The imperial city gates let out a tremendous roar, and countless powerful Golden Core cultivators stormed in, instantly resolving all resistance within the imperial city.
Hearing this commotion, King Jing Xiu's eyes widened further in panic. He wanted to call for guards to protect him.
But in the empty great hall, no one responded.
And half an hour later.
A large contingent of cultivators in Wei armor charged into the great hall, completely surrounding King Jing Xiu.
Immediately after, a path opened among the Great Wei cultivators who had entered the imperial palace's great hall.
A handsome young man with extraordinary bearing, clad in armor, walked to the forefront.
King Jing Xiu's gaze fixed upon this young man.
He had seen this young man multiple times during the trade between Great Wei and Great Jing in the past few years.
He was Cao Qin, the Crown Prince of Great Wei, and in the absence of any unforeseen circumstances, he would become the sixth Emperor of Great Wei.
King Jing Xiu's terrified face revealed confusion.
"Why, Crown Prince Cao Qin, my Great Jing and Great Wei have always minded our own business, why did you suddenly attack my Great Jing?"
Upon hearing this, Cao Qin's face was filled with coldness.
As far back as the era of the second Wei King, Cao Ma Yi, Great Wei had intended to act against Great Jing.
However, Great Jing was protected by the State Preceptor, Li Qi.
Because of Li Qi's prestige, across several reigns, Great Wei and Great Jing had maintained peace.
Yet, this King Jing Xiu had dug his own grave by revoking Li Qi's position as State Preceptor.
"Hmph, Great Jing has lost the hearts of its people. My Great Wei is merely acting in accordance with heaven's will to unify the world. Is this not only natural?"
"Furthermore, if it weren't for your Great Jing having the prestige of State Preceptor Li Qi, do you truly believe your Great Jing could have prospered for so many years?"
"State Preceptor Li Qi... what does he have to do with it..."
But... no one answered King Jing Xiu anymore. Cao Qin had no desire to waste further words with someone who disrespected Li Qi.
In the year 808 of the Great Jing calendar, King Jing Xiu, due to his foolish and tyrannical rule, Great Wei, in accordance with the will of heaven, launched a punitive expedition.
Thus, the Great Jing Dynasty was extinguished.
The Great Wei Dynasty, the world was unified.
...
Whether the Great Jing perished or not was of no concern to Li Qi.
Compared to the external world's political landscape.
Li Qi's current focus was on his speed attribute breaking ten thousand.
And this time, the system reward exceeded Li Qi's expectations.
The reward for breaking ten thousand speed this time was not a cultivation technique, nor a passive talent.
[Ding, congratulations to the host for your speed attribute exceeding ten thousand, your talent 'Madness' has been strengthened.]
[Strengthening host's talent 'Madness'.]
[Ding! Strengthening complete.]
"This talent can be strengthened too?"
Li Qi instinctively looked at his panel, where the 'Madness' talent, already strengthened once, was displayed.
His mouth twitched.
This time, the talent enhancement was both ordinary and extraordinary.
The duration of the talent had increased tenfold compared to before.
[Madness (Within six hundred seconds, the host can gain one hundred times the speed. Cooldown period: one day)]
"This is equivalent to saying that if I can't kill someone within a minute at full power, I still have nine minutes to escape, right?"
Li Qi couldn't help but mutter to himself.
However, a reward for breaking ten thousand was better than no reward, so Li Qi accepted the new 'Madness' talent.
With the complete unification of the world by Great Wei, peace reigned supreme.
Under the rule of a single dynasty.
The boundary between the human race inside and outside the 'circle' became increasingly blurred, but it didn't matter, as they were all humans anyway.
One day, Li Qi, in the back mountain of the Feisha Sect, seemed to sense something and suddenly stood up.
He gazed towards a place tens of thousands of miles away, a no-man's-land belonging to the Great Wei Dynasty.
There, dark clouds gathered, and thunder rumbled ominously.
Crackling, bolts of blue-purple lightning would occasionally strike down from within.
Li Qi's gaze was fixed on the center where the lightning was striking.
A terrifying aura emanated from it.
This aura far surpassed the peak of Nascent Soul.
Yet, it was still a slight distance from the Divine Transformation stage.
"Is a human cultivator undergoing the tribulation lightning for the Divine Transformation stage?"
Li Qi seemed to understand something.
This terrifying phenomenon had been sensed by countless cultivators. After all, the tribulation lightning for the Divine Transformation stage was the strongest tribulation lightning in the Ethereal Realm, so it was normal for its fluctuations to spread such a vast distance.
With this thought, Li Qi's figure instantly vanished from his spot.
In order to reach the vicinity of the cultivator undergoing the Divine Transformation tribulation lightning as quickly as possible, Li Qi even activated 'Madness'.
Indeed, the ten minutes of hundredfold speed from 'Madness' were impressive this time, long-lasting and durable.
Without much delay, Li Qi had already reached within tens of miles of the cultivator undergoing the Divine Transformation tribulation lightning.
From the densely packed thunderclouds ahead, an oppressive aura emanated, causing one's breathing to involuntarily slow.
Upon reaching this point,
Li Qi did not advance further, lest he be inadvertently caught up in someone else's tribulation.
Li Qi's gaze shifted to the side.
Many powerful cultivators were observing from a similar distance.
His eyes flashed slightly, and Li Qi was genuinely surprised.
Because among these cultivators, he even spotted Feng Dengxian.
Feng Dengxian also noticed Li Qi. They nodded to each other as a greeting.
Then, their attention returned to the tribulation lightning.
The thunderous roar from the center of the tribulation lightning, tens of miles away, continued unabated.
From time to time, a blue-purple lightning bolt as thick as an arm would strike down.
Watching this made the observing cultivators tremble with fear.
This tribulation lightning lasted for several days.
It wasn't until three days later.
The once terrifying and oppressive thunderclouds finally dissipated.
A powerful aura, belonging to a newly ascended cultivator of the Divine Transformation stage, emanated from the center of the tribulation.
All the cultivators present showed expressions of joy.
Success! Humanity had yet another powerful cultivator at the Divine Transformation stage.
"Congratulations, fellow cultivator, on successfully passing the tribulation."
"Hahaha."
Hearty laughter echoed from afar. The man who had just overcome the Divine Transformation tribulation lightning was rapidly approaching them.