In 1037, the first year of Shazhou, the Mandala Stone Kingdom ushered in its most dangerous and turbulent era.

Not only are the three major families that control the Diet and the Church: Ryuzhao, Oni, and Holmium Zhao perennially at odds and are tense everywhere, but the neighboring Snowy Ling Kingdom and Yuanmu Lie Kingdom are becoming stronger and stronger, and the national strength and military of the two countries have been greatly developed.

These two countries, one is a perennial ice and snow, composed of rare Xuelan elves and Lingling beast spirits, and the other is located in the vast abyss forest, the subjects are mostly orcs, although there are many types of orcs, but the race is single, it is an authentic Warcraft country.

For 5,000 years, they have been suppressed by the Mandala Stone Kingdom because of their number and race restrictions, and they are attached to the Stone Kingdom. However, in the past 300 years, both countries have appeared without precedent Ming monarchs, and the governance of the country is thriving.

All this made the ruling Cloud Dragon King Shi Duyun deeply feel that the Mandala Stone Kingdom could not rush to expand externally, but should carry out a thorough reform and rectification.

Shi Duyun is the only son of the 34th generation of the powerful Cloud Dragon Clan, and has now inherited the throne as the 35th Cloud Dragon King.

He has the unique golden eyes of the Cloud Dragon Sect, dark golden pupils and golden hair as brilliant as the sun, his sideburns are like golden dragon whiskers, and the tail of his beard has a little red. The ends of the hair are supple and downward, fluttering behind the neckline, like a dragon's mane, spreading the slightest rays of sunshine in the dark gold background.

Shi Duyun was eight feet tall, and in the center of his forehead was a golden dragon pattern holy seal representing the supreme ruler of the Stone Kingdom. His temperament is unparalleled in the world, but at the same time, his sharp eyes are like meteors, and his sword is roaring, which makes people shudder.

The Yunlong Sect and its sub-clans only exist in the Mandala Stone Country, although there are not many clansmen, only about 1/2 of the three major families, but they have the strong strength and authority to absolutely crush the tribes. Each clan has a sacred seal representing a demigod, and can control elves, demonic beasts, and even defeat fiery beasts (a giant beast that only exists in the kingdom of Abysperwood, belonging to the half-demon clan) without much effort.

In addition to the main sect, there are a total of eight hereditary honored nobles within the Yunlong clan, known as the sub-clans, namely Hei Yu, Deva Yao, Long Xiang, Xiangyin, Vishka Lou, Jin Yaluo, Ah Shitian, and Mohu Luojia.

The lifespan of the Yunlong people is generally about 300 years, and the lifespan of the royal family is slightly longer, about 320 to 350 years. The first 100 years are equal to the process from infancy to youth, the second 100 years are equal to the middle and prime of ordinary people, and the last 100 years are equal to the period from middle age to old age.

However, the lifespan of the royal family is not necessarily limited to 350 years, and there are occasional long-lived people, such as Shi Muyun's father, who lived to be 394 years old before dying.

Shi Muyun had been helping his father supervise the country when he was young, and it was not until he was in his 120s that he officially sat in the position of Cloud Dragon King.

In fact, when Shi Muyun's father was seriously ill, he had actually mastered the command of the Standing Army, the Demon Department and the Spirit Department.

The Standing Army, the Demon Division, and the Spirit Department are the three most important military forces in the Mandala Stone Kingdom.

The standing army is an army composed of ordinary humans, this team is the most numerous, mainly infantry and cavalry, mainly responsible for daily garrison work in peacetime, and the surplus personnel will be sent back to their families to work in agriculture and business, and then be called up when there is war.

The combat effectiveness of the standing army is average, and the lifespan is not long, only about 1/3 of the Yunlong clan. Once there is a war, most of the time they are used to ensure logistical support, and only when the front line is tight, they will go to the battlefield.

The number of demons and spirits is a little smaller than the standing army, but it is still about five times more than the Yunlong clan as the ruler.

In terms of strength, the Yunlong clan is the strongest, followed by the Demon Division, most of the Demon Divisions are power-type warriors, who are known for their physical skills, and their strength has a strong instantaneous explosiveness, and there is a tendency to destroy the withering and decaying when fighting.

Then it belongs to the spiritual department, the spiritual department is also known as the dark department, although the physical strength is slightly inferior, but it has a strong spiritual strength and speed, the body is flexible, and the battle is like a rabbit, making the enemy difficult to fathom.

The lifespan of both the Demon and Spirit tribes can reach more than 200 years.

In peacetime, the main job of the Demon Department is to guard the frontier, and the Spirit Department will become the shadow of the Cloud Dragon Clan, transmitting information or carrying out some shady instructions for them (that is, performing the work of the Shadow Division).

When war came, the Demon Department naturally bore the brunt of the vanguard, and the Spirit Department often made a detour behind enemy lines to carry out surprise attacks.

The Standing Army, the Demon Division, and the Spirit Department form an army system that can only be possessed by the Mandala Stone Country, and all of them are indispensable.

On the Sava Continent, only the Mandala Stone Country has the three major races of humans, demonic beasts and elves at the same time, and at the same time, there is also the protection of the Yunlong clan and the three major families in the center.

Ten years ago, the new Cloud Dragon King Shi Muyun made an exception and promoted a human general and made him the Grand Governor of Eastern Luan Huazhou, that is, the supreme governor who commanded the entire Eastern Stone Kingdom's borders. This official position has never been done by a human before.

This person is Zhang Ziqing, Zhang Ziqing is a human being, Bing Xue is smart, resourceful, and proficient in the art of war and strategy, so Shi Duyun admires this human very much and entrusts him with important tasks.

And Zhang Ziqing is like a person who is only suitable for the battlefield and the smoke of gunpowder, as soon as he took office, he expanded the border line of Luan Huazhou in the east that he ruled outwards for hundreds of miles, approaching the edge of the big forest where the Yuanmu Lie Kingdom is located.

At this time, due to the gradual clarity of the contradictions between the three major families in the royal capital, as well as Shi Duyun's own dissatisfaction and changes with the old system, King Yunlong felt that there was no need to be in such a hurry to expand externally.

He made a temporary peace agreement with the Snow Domain Ryokuni and the Fuchiki Lie Kingdom, promising not to invade each other for 100 years. Concentrate all our energies on the country, with the main policy of appeasing the three major families, calming down internal troubles, and reforming the old system.

Unexpectedly, this decision was strongly opposed by Zhang Ziqing, who was a human being, and he even risked his life to admonish the Cloud Dragon King, hoping to continue the war of external expansion. Reunify the Sava continent as soon as possible.

After being severely reprimanded by King Yunlong and ordering him to keep to himself, Zhang Ziqing actually publicly issued an edict in the name of Dongluan Huazhou, ordering the people of the whole state to be ready for war and ready at any time.

And once again wrote to the Cloud Dragon King, hoping that the peace agreement could be unilaterally canceled, and the Snow Ling Kingdom and the Yuanmu Lie Kingdom could attack and destroy the two before their national strength surpassed that of the Stone Kingdom.

He strongly showed a completely different ideological approach from Shi Muyun, and he was reckless. For this reason, Shi Muyun was very annoyed, so he sent an envoy to Dongluan Huazhou to reduce Zhang Ziqing's military power as a warning.

In the warrant brought to Zhang Ziqing by the envoy, not only did he cut off most of Zhang Ziqing's military power, but King Yunlong clearly ordered Zhang Ziqing through the pen of Ye Yulong: He must not set foot in the royal capital again, and if he dares to mention the war again, he, his family and all the clansmen will not escape the death penalty.

Since then, Zhang Ziqing seems to have become much more peaceful, and even gradually disappeared, and there is no longer any information about him.