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Chapter 33: Chasing the Ancients
The previous life and this life are two completely different worlds.

Geng Xuan already knew this when he first came here.

But there were many places in it that gave him a vague sense of familiarity.

The first time I had this feeling was when I saw the pictographic characters in this world that combined the characteristics of both fish and insect scripts and seal scripts.

The second time he had this feeling was when Geng Xuan reviewed the historical context of this life through the memories of his previous life.

More than 500 years ago in this world, a turbulent and far-reaching period of history caused waves that were very similar to a certain historical period in the previous life.

However, the difference in the world caused this turbulent period to eventually go in another direction.

Even today, more than 500 years later, the world is still reeling from the shadow of its aftermath.

More than five hundred years ago, the Ye Kingdom, which occupied most of Youzhou and part of Haozhou, welcomed a new monarch, Bai Lian, after several generations of wise rulers.

Twenty years later, the Ye Kingdom, which was originally just a corner of the world, swept across the nine provinces of the world under his will, ending the hundreds of years of struggle for hegemony among the countries and burying the destiny of the Daji Dynasty that lasted for more than 800 years.

Bai Lian moved the capital, changed Ji Du to Yuan Jing, changed Junzhou to Yuanzhou, dropped the title of king, and called himself Emperor Yuan.

Yuan means beginning, first, source, and root.

The decree said: "I have heard that in ancient times, there were titles but no posthumous titles. In the Middle Ages, there were titles, and after death, their deeds were used as posthumous titles. In this way, sons criticize their fathers and ministers criticize their rulers. I do not accept this.

From now on, the posthumous title system will be abolished, and I will be Emperor Yuan. Future generations will count by my name, from the second generation to the third generation, and so on to the tenth generation, and the tradition will be passed down endlessly. "

From then on, all the people in the nine provinces and tens of millions of places were subject to the will of Emperor Yuan.

Emperor Yuan's ambition to unify the nine provinces and make billions of people his subjects did not stop there.

Seeking immortality became his only obsession for the rest of his life.

To this end, Emperor Yuan did not hesitate to exhaust the people's strength and whip the whole world.

In the end, he died.

The Daye Empire fell apart in an instant, and the smoke of war once again spread across the nine provinces.

Until today, more than five hundred years later, heroes, tycoons, ambitious conspirators, countless players have come and gone on the Kyushu card table, but the world still has not produced a figure like Emperor Yuan who can hold Kyushu together again.

Because of Lao Shacai's words, Geng Xuan dug up everything about Emperor Yuan from his previous life's memory.

He wanted to know more, but this was all he could recall.

After all, the previous level of education is just elementary education, and the focus is on practicing basic reading and writing skills.

Apart from that, I only learned some simple historical knowledge.

He could still dig out so much information about Emperor Yuan from his previous life's memory, and even knew that his real name was "Bai Lian". It was because the elementary school teacher was too entangled in his emotions towards this Emperor Yuan, in a binary superposition state of extreme love and extreme hatred. From time to time, outside of the normal elementary school education, he would drag out this figure who had been dead for more than 500 years and scold him harshly, or bring him out and praise him harshly. In short, it was very divided, which indirectly allowed his predecessor to have a general understanding of this Emperor Yuan.

The old killer said leisurely: "Emperor Yuan is not the foolish king who would disregard everything for the sake of immortality as those foolish men and women think.

During the short few decades that he ruled the country, he did many things that had never been done before and have not been done to this day.

After wiping out all the heroes and unifying the nine provinces, the first thing Emperor Yuan did was to do his utmost to suppress the teachings of various schools of thought. He even killed countless of those stubborn people who would rather die than bow their heads.

A large part of the infamy he carries is due to this.”

Geng Xuan nodded slowly.

The Daji Dynasty had the Mandate of Heaven for more than 800 years, but in the last 300 to 400 years, it was no longer in existence. The reason why it was able to survive for several hundred more years was that no new Mandate of Heaven had appeared.

At that time, the nations were at war, all trying to seize a new destiny.

Various schools of thought emerged like mushrooms in this environment.

According to the memories of his previous life, Geng Xuan knew that before obtaining the Mandate of Heaven for the Nine Provinces, the Daye Empire headed by Emperor Yuan had worked closely with some of the various disciples of the various schools of thought.

It can be said that the disciples of the various philosophers and the theories they believed in made great contributions to Emperor Yuan's becoming the common ruler of the Nine Provinces and the Daye Empire's replacing the Daye Dynasty.

But when the mission of "seizing the Mandate of Heaven" was completed, Emperor Yuan did not hesitate to raise the butcher knife against the disciples who had once given him great help.

From then on, endless infamy has been like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, from the death of Emperor Yuan to now, more than 500 years later, and into the foreseeable future, it will continue to flow and will never stop!

As a bystander, Geng Xuan has his own understanding of this.

For Emperor Yuan, who had already seized the Mandate of Heaven, his request was simple—

loyalty!

Absolute loyalty!
This is something that the disciples of the various schools of thought would never be able to give him, because their belief in the doctrine transcends everything.

What Emperor Yuan could not accept the most was that each school of thought had its own interpretation of the Mandate of Heaven. Everything in the world, including the conduct of the monarch, had to unconditionally conform to, accept, and integrate into this system of interpretation.

Otherwise, you are a tyrant, a dictator, and destiny will leave you.

In this system, the philosophers are at the top and the king is at the bottom.

Can Emperor Yuan tolerate this?
Therefore, it is understandable that Emperor Yuan parted ways with the disciples of the various schools of thought and suppressed their teachings.

The old killer continued:

"However, unlike the fate of the various schools of thought, those who were denounced by the various schools of thought as petty thieves and petty thieves who were not worthy of being on the stage were actually favored by Emperor Yuan.

Those with the slightest talent were recruited as officials and gathered in Yuanjing. The best among them could even enter and leave the palace and face the emperor directly.

Emperor Yuan also issued an official decree, mobilizing the whole nation to search for all kinds of fragments, secret methods and strange arts in the countryside and markets of Kyushu, and compile them into books according to categories.

Having said that, Lao Shacai took a sip of tea but said nothing more.

Geng Xuan did not say anything, but his heart was filled with emotion because of these words.

After a while, Geng Xuan finally spoke: "These are the Nine Stream Secret Techniques?"

The old killer nodded first, but then shook his head.

"These books, compiled with the efforts of the whole nation, were never shown to anyone by Emperor Yuan, and he was the only one who knew the full picture.

After the fall of Emperor Yuan, the empire quickly fell apart.

Later, the Overlord entered Yuanjing and burned the thousand-year-old capital into ruins. Many treasures turned to ashes, and many were scattered across Kyushu with the rebel armies.

It was from then on that the Nine Streams Secret Art slowly spread throughout Kyushu.

Some say that this is the set of books that Emperor Yuan kept secret from the public, but others say that the authentic copies are in Emperor Yuan’s tomb, and those that have been circulated are all fakes.

However, regardless of whether it is true or false, the source of these Nine Streams of Secret Arts that are now scattered across the Nine Provinces can be traced back to Emperor Yuan, and this is unmistakable. "

(End of this chapter)