As mentioned last time, Ji Cheng, the protector of the Qianzhou Empire, became the emperor of the Qianzhou Empire at the suggestion of Zhou Shuyu. Now, the territory that the Qianzhou Empire can control is only a part of Northern Qianzhou, a part of Chengtianzhou and a part of Juntianzhou, and the surrounding forces, large and small, all want to cut a piece of meat from the now crumbling Qianzhou Empire. This also made Ji Cheng have to start training his troops, preparing to fight enemies from all sides at the same time.

Although with the help of the three hidden sects of Tianhang City, Xuanshui Palace, and Ling Tian Palace, the Qianzhou Empire was able to stabilize its position for the time being. However, as those talented and intelligent people on the continent quickly mastered the cultivation method of Heaven and Earth Xuanqi, it was natural that batch after batch of masters had risen. Although some of them heeded the admonition from the ancestral gods, they eliminated violence and peace, saved the people from fire and water, and relieved the people from hanging upside down. However, although there are many good people, there are many bad people, especially the peerless heroes who want to establish eternal achievements, these people have forgotten the warning of the ancestral gods, and have forgotten that the ancestral gods had told them that the bloodthirsty ghost clan invaded, and they began to constantly mobilize troops, annex lands, and kill innocents at will. In the hearts of these heroes, which one is not "Rather teach me to bear the world, and stop teaching the world to bear me." For them, those people should be ruled by them.

It's just a pity that these heroes are terrified to find that every time they hurt an innocent person, their lifespan will be shortened by a whole decade, even if they continue to cultivate, the speed at which they increase their longevity as their cultivation grows is simply not as fast as the speed at which they lose their longevity, and naturally many heroes die on the bed before they even have time to make a contribution. However, their descendants suddenly discover that even though the person who caused the sin is dead, the karma is still spreading in their descendants. The retribution of those who have the blood of countless innocent people in their hands will be stronger, and many of the descendants of the heroes will even be wiped out because of karmic retribution.

Nearly three thousand years have passed in this way, and the originally chaotic situation in the Qiankun Continent has been completely stabilized.

As for the Qianzhou Empire, due to the conscientious governance of the Qianzhou Empire, which has now retired to the countryside, the Qianzhou Taizu Ji Cheng, Gaozu Ji Rui, Ming Zu Ji Shu, and the three ancestors and five sects of Wenzong Jiren, Wuzong Ji Xin, Jingzong Ji Liang, Xuanzong Ji Bo, and Zhuangzong Ji Ji, the Qianzhou Empire has completely recovered a large area of frontier areas, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, all industries are prosperous, and the people are prosperous.

It's just that the three ancestors and five sects of the Qianzhou Empire, because their cultivation is strong, and although they are emperors, their hands have to be stained with blood, but they have never been like the emperors mentioned in those history books, proficient in imperial power, regard all the people as mustard, and regard the ministers as chess pieces. In particular, when Zhuang Zong Ji Ji announced his abdication and passed the throne to his eldest son Ji Li, the ministers were simply confused, especially Ji Li, who only then understood why his second brother Ji Lian, third brother Ji Xi and sister Ji Lingxi either went to the border or went to practice.

Now, he has no choice but to sit on the throne and watch the courtiers worship. In fact, what he hates most is to be this emperor, he loves his younger brother and sister very much, and even once thought that the throne should be passed on to his third brother Ji Xi, he thought that the third brother's talent was definitely better than him. It's just that he never thought that his father still chose him to become the emperor.

In fact, in the past 3,000 years, the Ji clan has multiplied nearly 50,000 people, and because of the extreme unity within the Ji clan, coupled with the strict clan rules, anyone who is a small person must be punished with a felony according to law. Because of this, the righteousness within the clan is great, and the evil wind must not spread. In particular, the Ji clan has received strict training since childhood, and they eat and live in the same way as the common people. Anyone who bullies the people and harms the people by the children of the clan shall be punished according to the law once discovered, but whoever has a shield in the clan shall be punished according to the law.

Because of this, the Ji clan can be twisted into a rope, and the children of the clan will not calculate each other and cheat. Although the three ancestors and five ancestors are all emperors, the Ji family has never thought that they are superior because they are relatives of the emperor.

For the Ji clan, what they attach most importance to now is not the throne, but the future of the Qianzhou Empire and even the Qiankun Continent.

At this moment, the two hundred and sixty-year-old Emperor Ji Li, looking at these civil and military ministers who were loyal to the empire, his heart was filled with a touch of respect. When every emperor of the empire succeeded to the throne, he would definitely go to the Temple of Heaven to thank God, and at the same time, he would also go to the Martyrs' Shrine to worship all the loyal souls who sacrificed for the country. Ji Li looked at the martyrs' tablets that were now buried in the ground, some of them he knew and some he didn't. In the Qianzhou Empire, the Loyal Martyrs' National Ancestral Hall is far more important than the Taimiao, and in the hearts of all the Ji children, it is even more believed that to be able to die for the country, the tablet is enshrined in the Loyal Martyrs' National Ancestral Hall, which is far more glorious than being enshrined in the Imperial Taimiao. The reason why the royal families thought so, not to mention the important families within the empire, who were loyal to the empire for generations was because they believed that their allegiance was not to a country with one surname, but to a country with all people. Therefore, the family of loyal ministers of Xu Du does not set up an ancestral hall at all, not because it is disrespectful, but because the tablets of their relatives who died in the war for the country are all set up in the Loyal Martyrs' National Ancestral Hall, and if they want to worship their ancestors who died for the country, they can all go to the Loyal Martyrs' Shrine to worship.

It's been nearly 3,000 years! The imperial family of the Ji clan of the Qianzhou Empire died in the war for the country, and the number of loyal ministers and families who also died for the country is innumerable, the temples are like this, and the people of the Qianzhou Empire are even more so. Just like the eighteenth year of Xuanzong Ji Bo Yanping, which was united by the eighteen countries adjacent to the Qianzhou Empire, launched a war of annihilation against the Qianzhou Empire, as a result, one elder brother, a younger brother and a younger sister of Xuanzong Ji Bo all died for the country at that time, and the Ji royal family sacrificed three hundred and sixty-seven people for the country, and the children of the Manchu Dynasty's important ministers and families sacrificed for the country reached a full nine hundred and eighty-seven, and the number of victims of the imperial people was unknown. In this battle, the 18-nation coalition army was terrified. Whenever they breached a city, they could only look at the city and sigh unless all the officials and civilians in the city were killed. Later, the Eighteen-Nation Coalition had to retreat because of heavy casualties, and the commander of the coalition army who was stained with the blood of the innocent people of the Qianzhou Empire because of his hands was evacuated from the Qianzhou Empire, once sighed with emotion, "It is easy to shake the Tianfeng, and it is difficult to shake the Qianzhou Empire." ”。 Later, the commander was assassinated by assassins sent by the Qianzhou Empire, and his head was taken to the graves of innocent people who died under his sword.

In fact, since the establishment of the Qianzhou Empire, the days of peace in the country are very short, because there will always be countless powerful countries, sect forces and even families suddenly popping up on its frontiers, and they will always think about annexing the Qianzhou Empire, and the result will always be the fate of failure, and then they will be like retribution, basically the family is ruined, but the Qianzhou Empire will basically not expand externally except for recovering its homeland.

At this time, Ji Li, who has changed the name of the year to Yide, the first thing is to wage war against the eight tribes of the Western Wilderness Prefecture that often invade the western frontier of the Qianzhou Empire, and the Western Wilderness Prefecture where the ruins are located is separated from the former Western Desert Prefecture, when the original Taizu Ji Cheng served as the emperor of the Qianzhou Empire, the Western Wilderness Prefecture has been divided and occupied by more than 100 families, after nearly 3,000 years of annexation wars and the recovery of the Western Wilderness Prefecture by the Qianzhou Empire, now only the eight families in the western region of the Great Wilderness are still in control of the area west of the Great Wilderness Prefecture。

Because the western part of Xihuangzhou is the most barren and sparsely populated area in Xihuangzhou, the so-called poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, these places lack everything, but there is no shortage of countless bandits and robbers, and these eight families are born bandits, they burn, kill and loot, and do all kinds of evil. However, because of the great sins of these eight families, the adults among them, even if their cultivation is high enough, have all been killed, in short, all kinds of cruel deaths. However, these eight families were preparing to go all the way to the dark, and their methods intensified, constantly invading the western frontier of the Qianzhou Empire, and the total number of strong soldiers in their hands was more than 30 million, while the number of troops stationed on the western frontier of the Qianzhou Empire was only 9 million. Although the strength of the Qianzhou Empire is far less than that of the Eight Great Families, after nearly 3,000 years of fighting, these 9 million troops are all elites who have survived a hundred battles, and any soldier among them will be transferred to other armies and become an officer completely. Because of the nearly 3,000 years of national strength reserves and the intelligence collection of these eight families, Ji Li suddenly understood in his heart that his father had his intention to let him take the position of this emperor. Why? Because the second brother Ji Lian and the third brother Ji Xi are indeed outstanding people, but first, it is the ancestral system to establish a successor, and the second brother and the third brother are all gentlemen, and it is precisely because they want to prevent the throne from falling on their own heads, so they returned to the army with the children of the clan and went to the border, and the direction they went to was the west.

On the eighth day of August in the first year of Yide, on this day 30 years ago, it was the eight evil families who washed a city called Xiping City in the west of the Qianzhou Empire.

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.