The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

Sure enough, this world is extremely chaotic. The ways of heaven are constantly broken, the ways of humanity are declining, and the ways of monsters are flourishing. The whole world is shrouded in resentment, and the breath of catastrophe cannot be dissipated. It is really a chaotic world!

The moon and stars are sparse, and the cold moonlight shines down on the earth, surrounded by a dark and secluded forest, with the sound of wolves and tigers roaring one after another, and lonely graves scattered in the forest can be seen everywhere, which is a terrifying scene.

This is the world that Zhong Yu traveled through again after returning to the small world. He has a famous name, Liaozhai.

This is a world where people are not human, ghosts are not ghosts, demons are not demons, loyalty and evil are hard to distinguish between good and evil, and love and hatred are inseparable.

Judging from the mainstream of today's world, human orthodoxy in the human world is human in name, with an infinite population of human beings, scattered in this vast land, firmly occupying the identity of the ruler.

However, the human nature is so powerful, but it does not always occupy the upper hand. The principle of victory and decline has been common sense since ancient times.

Especially in these years, as the dynasties in various places on the mainland have become more and more incompetent, the livelihood of the lowly common people has become more and more difficult, and there are corrupt officials everywhere, constantly searching for the people's fat and anointing.

Under such circumstances, the imperial court's army became weaker and weaker, and the army's salary had not been paid for a long time, which made the army's combat effectiveness unsatisfactory.

Coupled with the internal disputes between Taoist and Buddhist schools in various places, as well as various other cultivators, they have become a mess with each other, and it is difficult to work together.

It can be said that by now, the power of humanity in the entire world has declined to the extreme, and it is impossible to even control the vast basic territory of human beings today.

There are news from every state and county that there is a powerful demon making troubles, occupying one side, and harming the surrounding area for dozens of miles.

The more powerful demons directly lead their demon soldiers to attack cities and conquer lands. Every time they come and go, one mansion and one place will be devastated, and there will be no one in a hundred.

Facing the riots of monsters everywhere, the governments of more than a dozen dynasties on this continent are unable to calm down. They can only order the defenders from all over the city to stick to the city and not to attack wantonly, so as not to cause a catastrophe.

In this way, although it can ensure the stability of those areas with strong city walls, it can preserve the main strength of the entire dynasty. But for some other towns, or remote areas with low walls, it is fatal.

Up to now, the territory occupied by the entire human race has shrunk by 1/10, and large areas of bitter cold frontiers have been abandoned, or sparsely populated areas have been abandoned, and even officials are unwilling to take up their posts, gradually becoming desolate.

These lost places have become the paradise of those monsters. Countless monsters gather here, and rely on the resources of these places to gradually grow, forming a stronger force to invade and plunder other human regions.

In addition to these powerful monsters, there are dozens of powerful demon kings and ghost kings in the underworld who are causing trouble in the underworld, blocking the communication between the world and the underworld, preventing countless innocent souls from reincarnating, and leaving them in the world to cause disaster.

Even in the bustling places where human beings are most concentrated and powerful, there are often demons haunting them, but their strength is not strong and their numbers are not large, so they cannot cause too much influence.

This is also the source of legends where it is often rumored in the world of Liaozhai that a scholar meets a fox fairy, or gets entangled with ghosts.

Generally speaking, this is an extremely chaotic world without the slightest order and complete chaos.

In a small county town, after reading all the books in the city, Zhong Yu finally had such a general understanding of this world.

The way of heaven in this world, for some unknown reason, seems to have been broken.

Not only can the laws of heaven and earth function normally, the human world and the underworld can reconcile yin and yang, which are the basic duties of the heavenly way, but they can't even fulfill their real manifestations.

I don't know when it started, whether it was thousands of years ago, or thousands of years ago, all the great powers in this world gradually found that they could no longer communicate, or could not feel the breath of heaven.

After the initial panic, ecstasy followed.

There is no repression of heaven on the head. Many things were not dared to do or could not be done in the past, for fear of being punished by heaven, but now everything can be done.

Even the life-threatening pass for practitioners and the catastrophe for liquidating all causes and effects disappeared along with the Dao of Heaven.

At this point, the entire Nether world ushered in a golden age of cultivation.

After thousands of years of evolution, the strength of the yin and yang realms has become much deeper than before, and genius masters have emerged in endlessly, leaving behind countless legends in the two realms.

Up to now, the strength of the yin and yang realms has been more than ten times that of before the disappearance of the heavenly way, which is terrifying.

Among them, under the way of heaven, there are two meanings of human way and demon way. After the way of heaven withdraws, the growth of power is unknown.

In order to compete for the inheritance left by the Dao of Heaven, these two fought each other openly and secretly according to their instincts, and set up disasters one after another, just to compete for the authority between heaven and earth and make themselves stronger.

In this struggle, the Yaodao finally won.

It can be seen from the fact that demons are flourishing everywhere, constantly causing disasters in the world, and even intervening in the basic human territory of the nether world, plundering 1/3 of the area, and blocking the communication between Yin and Yang.

On the contrary, the human way is in decline, luck is scattered, and people who practice orthodoxy in various places in the world are also constantly disputes and killing each other.

In the face of the attack of monsters, they are at a disadvantage, making the human territory shrink continuously, and gradually have a tendency to perish.

However, such a chaotic situation is playing tricks on me, without too many constraints.

Zhong Yu was a little surprised.

Usually in times of peace and prosperity, the hearts of the people are stable, the people enjoy their work, and everything is maintained in order. Even if he wants to raise the flag to rebel, it is not certain how many people will follow.

And if there is no power to crush a world, it is unwise to stand out rashly and easily cause the siege of the whole world, and even attract the attention of consciousness aggregates such as heaven and humanity.

But now it is different, the whole world is divided into more than a dozen dynasties, each occupying a corner of the world, dividing the whole world into dozens of regions, and it is difficult to unify with each other.

Even within the dynasty, there is a scene of the end of the dynasty, with chaos everywhere, changes in people's minds, and everything can be done.

For example, the small county where he is now is Hecheng County under the command of Guide Mansion in Dongjiang Province under the Ming Dynasty. It is located in the southeast of Guide Mansion and is the frontier of the Ming Dynasty.

The north and west of Guide Mansion are the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Although it has come to the end of the dynasty and the chaos is deepening, it is basically stable and there are no major disturbances.

But from east to south, there are vast mountains and forests, thousands of miles across, in which monsters, ghosts, poisonous insects and beasts are everywhere, and ordinary people can't cross it at all, it is a dangerous place.