Chapter 988: Chapter 58: First Year of Da Zhi, Shocking Discoveries After the Review!
The Dragon Clan is a wise race, at least the True Dragons are.
The Great Zhou’s treasury requires specific individuals with a token to cast a spell to open it.
Back when Ye Yuxong was handling governmental affairs, the Fengchen Treasury could only be opened in the presence of the Prefecture Lord himself.
The Dragon Clan also has a hierarchy, with the Dragon King belonging to a rank within the Dragon Rank.
The Dragon Clan is a once-flourishing civilization, an enormous yet lost world that people have yet to fully uncover.
Shi Wenxuan said: "Where there is an Unsealing Spell, there is a Sealing Spell as well, which is used at certain checkpoints of the Dragon Court."
"Besides these two main categories, there is also the Imperial Decree Spell."
"It can harness some of the ancient powers left by the Dragon Court."
"In addition to these, there are attack, defense, and support spells, but these are not necessary to learn."
Zhao Xing nodded, as the spell techniques and secret skills of the Human Clan are more convenient to use and powerful.
No need to learn them.
Focus mainly on three major categories.
One is Unsealing, two is Sealing, and three is Imperial Decree.
Of course, even these three categories are just the tip of the iceberg in Dragon culture.
It’s impossible to completely avoid risks, but with only three years left before opening, Shi Wenxuan must emphasize his teachings to Zhao Xing.
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As Jingxin Calendar’s December in the thirty-seventh year passed, the court issued a new Calendar.
The third emperor of the Great Zhou, Ji Mingjing, changed the era name to ’Taiping.’
A reform spanning over three hundred years finally came to a conclusion.
Zhao Xing also took time to read the bulletin issued by the court.
However, due to his sealed memories, he felt nothing.
He even had the thought that ’the world is finally at peace, and we can relax a little.’
Yet intelligence from the Military Realm revealed that small-scale frictions still occurred along the Great Zhou’s borders.
The ill effects of Prince Liang’s rebellion cannot be undone quickly.
Because of Prince Liang’s incident, the territories fought for in the Jing Xin Year were all reclaimed by the Southern Barbarian Royal Court, and even the scale of Jiutian Yingyuan Mansion returned to the early levels of the Ping Man War.
To this extent, the Southern Barbarians dared not continue and retained a buffer zone of thousands of miles.
But minor frictions and probing still occur.
Additionally, the chaos among the Eastern Sea Water Clan continues. Under Emperor Jing’s command, the three major Water Clan Chiefs—Bai, Ao, and Tang—conduct ongoing high-pressure purges of the external sea areas of the East Sea.
But for the inland, the East Sea’s Inner Sea was without war, and trade routes began to gradually recover.
In the First Year of Da Zhi, Lvliang State was renamed due to its many hills to ’Fuzhou.’
The original Prince Liang’s City was destroyed in the war, and after being rebuilt, it was renamed Fubu County.
Its administrative level was directly reduced from the Royal Capital to a county, and many counties carved out were directly under court control.
The same bad fortune befell King Lv.
Due to Prince Liang’s rebellion, King Lv failed to supervise and was stripped of his sealed country, reducing him to a Marquis.
All his territories, vassals, and armies were significantly reduced. The vacated places were also under direct court control.
The original Lv Royal Mansion was renamed Prefecture City, and King Lv’s mansion was moved to a nearby satellite city for the Lv family to reside in.
"With descent comes ascent, Lv Yuanwei, King Lv’s direct descendant, still commands the Divine Thunder Army and was promoted to a first-class Marquis, which is the same level as his father was." Zhao Xing couldn’t help but smile.
Lv Yuanwei was quite famous during the early stages of the Ping Man War.
At that time, Zhao Xing and the others intended to follow behind Lv Yuanwei to earn their keep.
However, plans couldn’t keep up with changes.
Only Xia Jing continued to fight, whereas Zhao Xing, Long Xiao, and Chen Shijie all withdrew.
"Twenty years of change is indeed quite substantial."
Zhao Xing put the intelligence aside and continued to immerse himself in cultivation.
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Immersed in cultivation, he lost track of time.
In the First Year of Da Zhi, Shi Wenxuan’s other students also gradually left.
Because in the last two years, they too had to prepare for other matters.
Since Zhao Xing began learning Upper Dragon Language, he started studying with Shi Wenxuan’s other students.
Among them, the Lu siblings, ’Lu Manman’ and ’Lu Xiuyuan,’ who had stayed the longest, were grouped with Zhao Xing.
Initially, the Lu siblings weren’t particularly attentive to Zhao Xing; when he came to ask for advice, they saw it as guiding the younger rather than an exchange of skills.
But gradually, this changed.
In April of the First Year of Da Zhi.
Lu Xiuyuan said with some surprise: "Zhao Xing, you’ve mastered twelve out of the large category of Unsealing Spells? That’s quite fast."
"You can spar with the two of us siblings now."
In June of the First Year of Da Zhi.
"You want to learn the ’Eastern Dragon Sealing Technique’? Isn’t this supposed to be learned after completing the first four Sealing Spells?"
"What? You’ve already mastered the first four?"
In August of the First Year of Da Zhi.
"Brother, have I been dreaming? How come I woke up to find Zhao Xing casting the ’Dragon Spring Sealing Technique’?"
"I only slept for three days, yet he makes me feel like I slept for thirty years!"
Lu Xiuyuan exclaimed: "You didn’t see wrong, indeed, he has already mastered sixteen kinds of Sealing Spells."
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In December of the First Year of Da Zhi, Zhao Xing had mastered four kinds within the category of Imperial Decree Spells.
By now, Lu Xiuyuan and Lu Manman looked at Zhao Xing with different eyes.
"Brother Zhao, have you been having private lessons? How is your progress so fast?"
"A monster, a monster indeed!" Lu Manman exclaimed, "We’ve only mastered three Imperial Decree Spells after twenty years."
Zhao Xing smiled slightly, while King Heavenly Destiny appeared behind the two siblings.