You promised yourself to be a caged bird, but you became the supreme young master?

"Look, these are all past issues of the daily newspaper."

Everything has been categorized and organized.

You can read either, but Ah Heng, I think if you really want to study it, you should study the Qingzhou Daily more.

The Great Qi Daily and the Southern Region Daily both publish major events that occur in an entire dynasty and a whole region.

That's way too far away from us.

The Qingzhou Daily is the closest to us.

"If there's anything truly useful to you, you'll probably find it here." Lu Jinnian took out three bound daily newspapers.

These are the newspapers Daqi Daily, Nanyu Daily, and Qingzhou Daily from the past year.

"Thanks." Lu Heng took the three newspapers without saying anything more.

The relationship between the two was somewhat one of guarding against honest people, but not against scoundrels.

If he is a gentleman, then there is no need to say anything more.

If he is a petty person, then nothing he says will make any difference.

As for what my future self will think?

Lu Heng was actually unaware of the situation either.

He is currently just a minor figure in the branch family, without even the cultivation level of the Qi Refining Secret Realm. In the Lu Clan, or even in Qinghe City, he can only be described as insignificant.

Therefore, it is impossible to predict what one might think if one day one becomes a so-called important person.

Until that day truly arrives, everything else is meaningless.

It should be known that pride is one of the seven deadly sins of human nature.

Is it not a form of arrogance to easily assume that you will not be arrogant in the future?

I went to the newspaper office and subscribed to three newspapers for the next year.

Normally, newspapers are delivered to customers' homes by newspaper boys.

However, Lu Heng's current situation of staying in the outer courtyard of the Lu clan to focus on cultivation is clearly not normal.

Fortunately, the newspaper in Qinghe City still had some connection with the Lu family.

Therefore, the newspapers from the outer courtyard were distributed by servants every morning.

Lu Heng didn't intend to linger in Qinghe City. After ordering the newspaper, he quickly returned to his room outside.

………………

"In the 136th year of the Kaiyuan era..."

The first newspaper Lu Heng opened was not the Qingzhou Daily, which was most likely to be useful to him.

It was the Daqi Daily that he was most curious about.

If newspapers hadn't been ubiquitous throughout the Great Qi Dynasty, he would never have been able to know about the important events happening throughout the entire Great Qi Dynasty at this stage.

By the time people truly realize that something important has happened, things have probably already fermented for quite some time.

Take, for example, the establishment of the Covenant of Nations, a major historical event.

Even though this world has cultivators, it is still in the ancient era.

Unlike in my previous life, I can no longer stay at home and learn about all current events through the internet.

The Kaiyuan era name at the beginning of the Daqi Daily is the reign title of the current emperor of the Daqi Dynasty.

The year 136 of the Kaiyuan era signifies that the emperor has been on the throne for 136 years, but the daily newspaper Lu Heng was reading was from a year prior.

It is now the 137th year of the Kaiyuan era.

If Lu Heng remembered correctly, no emperor, even the founding emperor, who bore the supreme position and the fortune of the nation, even with extraordinary cultivation, would usually not live past two hundred years.

The lower one's cultivation level at the time of succession, the shorter one's lifespan.

But the immense power and unparalleled strength he wielded while in power were still enough to drive people mad.

Even a true saint would tremble before a living emperor who is not the last emperor.

Normally, the most talented cultivators of the imperial family are sent to the major holy lands of the Great Qi Dynasty in their childhood and do not participate in the struggle for the throne.

Whether one can ascend to a high position is not solely determined by one's cultivation level.

It is determined by a variety of factors.

137 years have passed, and perhaps the current emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty has entered his twilight years.

Even though the emperor's supreme position prevents him from doing anything that would be morally reprehensible and cause public resentment, he still has the power to achieve his goals.

However, there are still many loopholes to exploit. In some books in this world that do not record history rigorously, commonly known as unofficial histories, it is normal for an emperor in his later years to be crazy.

This doesn't even mention the impact of the struggle for succession, or even the change of emperors, on the dynasty.

"These are turbulent times..."

Lu Heng shook his head and sighed.

The only thing to be thankful for is...

Although the Great Qi Dynasty has inevitably begun to decay, it has at least not yet shown signs of its twilight years.

However, Lu Heng couldn't help but think of the establishment of the Covenant of All Nations, the changes in the Western Continent, and even the silent spread of shady things like underground boxing rings throughout the Great Qi Dynasty.

A strong sense of déjà vu washed over me.

Oh no, that can't be right!

………………

I quickly skimmed through the past year's Daqi Daily.

As Lu Heng expected, when it comes to the level of the entire Great Qi Dynasty, apart from things like the Universal Covenant that are inevitably leaked, it's all about the matter.

The Great Qi Daily did not record any truly useful major events. It was mostly filled with singing and dancing, strange tales that happened in the Great Qi Dynasty, and even some gossip from the capital that was far removed from Lu Heng's present time.

For most people, being able to see gossip about big shots in the capital from a small border town is an extremely exciting thing, which has already ensured the sales of Daqi Daily.

There's no need to add topics that could potentially cause the Daqi Daily to cease publication altogether.

Quickly skimming through the past year's Daqi Daily, Lu Heng was dismayed to find that there weren't many current events that left an impression on him.

For example, the Imperial Capital Academy, which was established three years ago with reference to emerging teaching models in the Western continent and recruits outstanding talents from all over the world, is once again enrolling students.

The students recruited by the Imperial Capital Academy are at the very least ordinary cultivation geniuses with powerful backgrounds, and the slightly better ones are all top geniuses. Even the chosen ones are not considered the best.

In terms of teaching staff, there are even top-level cultivators who stand at the pinnacle of the Refining Mystic Realm and can be called True Monarchs, serving as deans, while ordinary Refining God True Persons are just instructors in the academy.

It may not be as good as a real holy site, but it recruits far more students than a holy site.

For ordinary people with cultivation geniuses, the Imperial Capital Academy is practically no different from a holy land.

Even Lu Heng couldn't help but feel a little curious.

Besides, he was mentioned most often in the Daqi Daily and was also one of the royal family members that Lu Heng believed was most likely to become the next emperor.

Princess of the Great Qi Dynasty.

In the cultivation world, the so-called eldest princess is not necessarily the oldest princess, but rather the most outstanding princess among all the princesses, who is qualified to be called the eldest princess.

At such a young age, he already possessed the cultivation level of a True Monarch of Divine Refinement, making him an extremely rare and exceptional case.

Based on this alone, Lu Heng felt that the possibility of this eldest princess succeeding to the throne was not low.

After all, in this world with cultivators, empresses have been born before, as long as they are outstanding enough.

For example, the establishment of the Covenant of Nations was actually foreshadowed long ago.

The Daqi Daily, published over the course of a year, mentioned the missions of several major Western powers, as well as delegations from overseas islands, to the capital.

"Tsk tsk." Lu Heng shook his head, not even bothering to look at the Southern Region Daily, and went straight to reading the Qingzhou Daily from the past year.