Recaps

The heavenly screen recounted Zhang Bangchang’s brief reign as a Jin-backed ruler and his return of power to Zhao Gou, then described Tie Xuan’s execution and the destruction of his family after Zhu Di’s victory. Historical figures reacted to the accounts, while discussion of Zhu Di’s rebellion and its effects on the people of Shandong continued.

• The heavenly screen said Zhang Bangchang accepted the throne under Jin pressure, wept through his enthronement, and avoided acting like a true emperor.
• After the Jin army took Emperors Huizong and Qinzong north, Zhang Bangchang sent for Zhao Gou and returned power to the Zhao family, but Zhao Gou later ordered him to commit suicide.
• The heavenly screen described Zhu Di’s execution of Tie Xuan and the brutal punishments imposed on Tie Xuan’s family, prompting Zhu Yunwen, Qi Tai, and Huang Zicheng to condemn the Yan rebel.
• Commenters questioned accounts of Zhu Di’s rebellion and its consequences for Shandong, while Zhu Di objected that later histories blamed him for events whether or not they were true.
• A commenter contrasted Li Shimin’s rebellion with Zhu Di’s, saying Zhu Di’s actions harmed the people of the realm, and Tang officials mocked Zhu Di’s ambition to match Li Shimin.

A later-generation video criticized Zhu Di’s northern campaigns as costly expeditions with limited results, provoking disbelief and anger among the emperors watching. After recounting the first three campaigns, the video left the fourth and fifth unexplained.

• Later-generation commenters criticized Zhu Di’s treatment of Tie Xuan and questioned claims that his reign was prosperous.
• A short video began examining the results of Zhu Di’s five campaigns north of the Gobi, as Zhu Yuanzhang and earlier emperors watched.
• The video said Zhu Di’s first campaign killed few enemies before defeating Bunyashiri, then ended when supplies ran short.
• The video described the second campaign as a costly battle against Mahamu’s Oirat forces, with heavy losses on both sides and Ming firearms helping Zhu Di withdraw.
• The video said Zhu Di’s third campaign spent months searching for Arughtai, then attacked the Uriankhai Tribe on the return journey and killed several hundred people.
• The watching emperors mocked the campaigns’ expense and limited results, while Zhu Yuanzhang said he finally understood something.

Zhu Di accepted that his costly northern campaigns had achieved little after Zhu Gaochi urged him to stop. A new heavenly-screen video imagined emperors swapping dynasties, prompting reactions from rulers across the eras and debate over whether Ying Zheng could have reformed the late Qing.

• The heavenly screen recounted how Zhu Di’s final northern expeditions failed to find Arughtai and left the Ming weakened, before Zhu Di died on campaign.
• Zhu Gaochi warned Zhu Di that the campaigns cost too much and that the grassland tribes could exploit the Ming’s exhaustion; Zhu Di silently agreed.
• Viewers and rulers reacted to a video imagining emperors swapping dynasties, including Ying Zheng arriving in the Qing, Zhu Yuanzhang leading a campaign in Europe, and Zhao Gou seeking a guide to Xuanwu Gate.
• The video imagined Li Shimin taking Adou’s body and restoring the Han, while Zhuge Liang asked where his former emperor had gone.
• Viewers debated whether Ying Zheng could have modernized the late Qing, arguing that the Qing had resources but spent them poorly, before concluding that history had no 'ifs.'

A sky-screen video imagined Liu Shan ruling Great Song in Zhao Gou’s body, where he empowered Yue Fei to lead a northern expedition. A second documentary argued that Liu Shan had been a capable ruler whose political choices stabilized Shu Han, prompting emperors across different planes to reconsider his reputation.

• The sky screen showed Liu Shan asking Yang Yizhong for a Zhuge Liang-like minister and then questioning Yue Fei about how to conduct a northern expedition.
• Liu Shan appointed Yue Fei to command all circuits’ forces and gave him authority to act without waiting for every imperial order.
• Zhao Gou fainted after seeing a comment that even a leashed dog would be better than him, while Liu Shan, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang reacted to the video.
• A documentary explained that Liu Shan waited until Shu’s army returned before granting Zhuge Liang a posthumous title, then divided power between Jiang Wan and Fei Yi.
• The documentary described Liu Shan’s political restraint and gradual rise to personal rule, and emperors across the planes wondered which rulers had been worse than him.

The sky screen reassessed Liu Shan as a capable ruler who endured humiliation while Jiang Wei tried to restore Shu Han, then began explaining how Ming Dynasty policies favoring agriculture and suppressing commerce weakened state revenue. It left emperors and officials realizing that Zhu Yuanzhang’s system no longer suited later conditions and that reform was needed.

• The sky screen revealed Jiang Wei’s secret letter and described his failed plan to use Zhong Hui’s rebellion to restore Shu Han, reframing Liu Shan’s surrender and Jiang Wei’s actions as loyalty and endurance.
• People watching the sky screen reconsidered Liu Shan’s reign, and Liu Bei lamented that he had failed to give his son a united realm.
• The sky screen presented Ming financial figures showing that agricultural taxes supplied most state revenue while industrial and commercial taxes remained small.
• The sky screen explained Zhu Yuanzhang’s policies promoting agriculture and suppressing commerce, including low commercial tax rates and restrictions on merchants.
• Zhu Yuanzhang agreed that his policies reflected the conditions of his time, while the sky screen blamed later Ming subjects for preserving the ancestral system after circumstances changed.
• Emperors and officials recognized that the old system called for reform, and some reacted with dark expressions.

Zhu Yuanzhang and other emperors learned how later generations used ancestral institutions and debated the need for reform. A proclamation honoring Zhu Yuanzhang then introduced the republican system, leaving him wondering whether rule by the people could bring peace and prosperity.

• Zhu Yuanzhang learned that later officials had invoked his ancestral institutions to curb imperial power, and he angrily blamed the civil officials before him.
• Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di realized that the growing imperial clan and its allowances could become a serious burden on the Great Ming.
• Later commentators argued that institutions had to change with the times, prompting the emperors to recognize how difficult and dangerous reform could be.
• The emperors learned that Sun Yat-sen had led officials to pay respects at Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum in 1912 and read his proclamation praising the founding emperor and announcing the Republic.
• Zhu Yuanzhang wondered whether a republican system could let people live in peace, while recognizing that the emperors of their own dynasties would never surrender their family rule.

The heavenly screen explained the mournful song mocked as the Great Ming Ominous Song and showed videos and animations teasing Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di. It then recounted how Zhu Yunwen’s campaign to curb the princes alienated them and helped set the stage for Zhu Di’s rebellion.

• The heavenly screen explained that Half a Lifetime Away became associated with Ming tragedies and played its sorrowful lyrics, prompting jokes about Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di.
• A video showed sixty thousand people singing the song at the Bird's Nest, and viewers joked that the gathering was a rebellion and a new Ming case.
• An animation showed Zhu Yuanzhang ordering Zhu Di to protect Zhu Yunwen, while Zhu Di denied the invented commands and Zhu Yunwen accused him of seizing the throne.
• The heavenly screen described how Zhu Yunwen curbed the princes, stripping several of their ranks and driving Zhu Bai, Prince of Xiang, to burn himself to death.
• The explanation said Zhu Yunwen’s actions frightened the princes, cut him off from them, and left his rule vulnerable to Zhu Di’s rebellion.

A heavenly screen recounted Li Shimin’s rise, military achievements, and growing struggle with Li Jiancheng for the Tang throne as rulers and ministers across different planes watched. The chapter ended with Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji killed at Xuanwu Gate in 626 CE.

• The heavenly screen introduced Li Shimin with an imposing list of offices and titles, prompting praise from later viewers and congratulations from his ministers.
• The screen described how Li Shimin helped Li Yuan establish the Tang Dynasty and commanded campaigns that defeated Xue Rengao, Liu Wuzhou, Dou Jiande, and Wang Shichong.
• Li Shimin built up his power through the Tiance Office and his literary academy, where Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, and other capable followers gathered around him.
• The screen recounted the worsening succession struggle, including Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji’s failed plot involving Yang Wengan and Li Yuan’s repeated suspicions of Li Shimin.
• Li Shimin’s faction arranged an ambush at Xuanwu Gate, where Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were shot dead and the Eastern Palace guards surrendered.

The heavenly screen recounted Li Shimin’s rise after the Xuanwu Gate Incident, then showed mocking videos that recast the deaths of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji and claimed Zhu Yuanzhang had passed the throne to Zhu Di. The chapter ended with Zhu Di realizing that later generations were ridiculing him and his version of history.

• The screen described Li Shimin becoming crown prince and then emperor, prompting historical figures to praise his achievements and debate his reputation.
• A short video claimed Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji had accidentally fallen from their horses at Xuanwu Gate, while commenters offered increasingly absurd versions of the incident and angered Li Yuan and his sons.
• The screen showed another video claiming Zhu Yuanzhang had passed the throne to Zhu Di in the thirty-fifth year of Hongwu, and commenters mocked Zhu Di’s account in the Veritable Records of the Ming.
• Zhu Di, who had initially liked the video, felt targeted when he realized the later generations were making fun of him and his alteration of history.

The heavenly screen described how the Jin conquest of Northern Song subjected Emperor Huizong, Emperor Qinzong, and the imperial family to captivity, abuse, and public humiliation. It revealed that Huizong was kept under house arrest as a hostage after Zhao Gou established the Southern Song, leaving the question of how Huizong fathered twelve children unresolved.

• The heavenly screen introduced the Humiliation of Jingkang, and officials across the dynasties debated whether Huizong, Qinzong, or Zhu Qizhen had suffered the greatest humiliation.
• The screen recounted how Jin forces captured Huizong, Qinzong, and thousands of imperial relatives and officials in 1127, then drove them north under brutal conditions.
• The screen described Jin soldiers abusing and coercing the women, while Wang Wanrong chose suicide after Nianhan took an interest in her.
• The Jin subjected the captured imperial family to the Sheep-Leading Ceremony, then gave Huizong and Qinzong mocking titles and forced the women into the palace.
• The screen explained that Huizong was sent to Yilan County in Wuguo City and held under house arrest as a hostage after Zhao Gou established the Southern Song.

A record exposed Empress Dowager Wei’s captivity in the Jin State, her return to the Southern Song, and the lengths she went to conceal her past. It ended with the revelation that Zhao Gou executed Imperial Princess Roufu after Wei pressured him to silence her.

• People mocked Emperor Huizong of Song for living as a captive, fathering more children, and enduring the humiliation of his family’s treatment before he died.
• The record described Emperor Qinzong of Song’s death in a polo match and Zhao Gou’s failure to rescue his pregnant wife, Lady Xing, after she was captured.
• The record said Empress Dowager Wei and Lady Xing were held in the Laundry Bureau, where Wei became a highly sought-after courtesan before being assigned to Wanyan Zongxian.
• The record explained that Wei returned to the Southern Song after the Jin lost interest in her, and that the court falsified her age to make her seem chaste.
• The record said Wei had two sons in the Jin State and sent money to them after her return to the Southern Song.
• The record revealed that Wei pressured Zhao Gou to declare Imperial Princess Roufu an impostor and execute her because Roufu knew about Wei’s captivity; Zhao Gou carried out the execution.

People across different eras debated the Northern Song’s failures, the Jingkang Incident, and whether later generations could have prevented it by keeping Song, Liao, and Jin in balance. The chapter ended as a new video began to ask how the Southern Song took revenge on the Jin Dynasty, promising that Jin’s fall brought suffering worse than Jingkang.

• Later-generation commenters argued that Zhao Guangyi’s descendants suffered retribution when Zhao Gou, left without an heir, adopted a descendant of Zhao Kuangyin’s line.
• Commenters debated whether northern Han people identified with the Song, while commoners and emperors in other eras reacted to claims about Song oppression and scholar-official privilege.
• A commenter said Zhao Gou killed officials and scholars who urged him to resist the Jin State, extinguishing the hopes of people who still believed in the Song.
• Later generations argued that the Jingkang Incident could have been avoided if the Northern Song had supported Liao against Jin instead of helping Jin destroy Liao.
• The video began introducing the Southern Song’s revenge, claiming that the Jin Dynasty’s fall brought misery worse than the Humiliation of Jingkang.

Gao Shengyang’s video comments described the Jin State’s fall and the Southern Song-Mongol revenge against its people, prompting reactions across historical eras. His claim that his ancestors served first the Jin and then Mongolia led him to reveal they descended from Gao Huan and had won favor with Jin nobles and Northern Song imperial women.

• A Jin man and a nobleman from the Jin State’s height raged at the Song and Mongols after hearing how the Jin people were treated following their state’s collapse, while Song people celebrated the Jin’s defeat.
• Viewers debated the Song Dynasty’s alliances and the fate of the Jurchens, then wondered whether any family had lived through the successive conflicts among the northern states.
• In Bohai City, Gao Shengyang recognized the video on his television and found his own comment claiming his ancestors had served the Jin and Mongolia and consorted with imperial women.
• Historical viewers asked about Gao Shengyang’s ancestors, and he revealed they were descendants of Gao Huan from the Gao Clan of Bohai who had passed themselves off as Xianbei and served the Jin and Mongols.
• Gao Huan and his sons reacted to the revelation, and Gao Shengyang added that his ancestor’s appearance had attracted Jin noblewomen and women of the Northern Song imperial family.

The sky screen presented Huang Chao as a failed examinee whose rebellion devastated the aristocratic clans and weakened their hold over government, prompting reactions from emperors and nobles across different eras. It ended with later readers debating his atrocities and whether accounts of his cannibalism had been exaggerated.

• The sky screen introduced Huang Chao as the strongest failed examinee, a rebel leader who helped bring down the Tang and attacked the aristocratic clans.
• Li Yuan condemned Huang Chao, while Li Shimin acknowledged the clans’ dominance and said he would have led an army against him; Yang Guang cheered his revolt.
• The sky screen explained that powerful clans monopolized court offices and that Huang Chao’s repeated examination failures helped drive him to rebel.
• The sky screen recounted Huang Chao’s entry into Chang’an and his slaughter of aristocratic families, including members of the Cui clans.
• Later readers debated Huang Chao’s legacy, with some praising his attack on the clans and others condemning his army’s use of human flesh as rations.

Gao Shengyang discussed Huang Chao’s rebellion and the decline of the aristocratic clans, provoking strong reactions across the dynasties while deliberately drawing out Emotion Points. A new post then asked whether 100,000 cavalry could save the late Ming, and its author declared he would restore the House of Han instead.

• Li Shimin condemned the Tang soldiers who sold civilians to Huang Chao’s army and looted Chang’an.
• Gao Shengyang explained that the aristocratic clans had already weakened before Huang Chao slaughtered their leading families, and revealed that his ancestors had joined Huang Chao’s rebels while hiding their origins.
• People across the dynasties reacted to Gao Shengyang’s claims, while Gao Huan admired his descendants’ boldness.
• Zhu Yuanzhang welcomed the question of saving the Great Ming, and Chongzhen claimed 100,000 cavalry could defeat the rebels and Jurchens.
• The post’s author said he would use his 100,000 cavalry, including 20,000 heavy cavalry, to restore the House of Han rather than save the Great Ming.

The emperors and viewers debated whether a late-Ming commander could field a hundred thousand cavalry, and the heavenly screen explained the costs and limits of maintaining such an army. It then introduced Northern Liang’s Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, describing its commander, equipment, and versatility.

• Liu Bang praised the prospect of a later descendant restoring the Great Han, while Zhu Yuanzhang and other Ming emperors questioned whether a hundred thousand cavalrymen could remain loyal or be sustained.
• Viewers explained that late-Ming forces were depleted by desertion, corruption, poor equipment, and unpaid wages, and that the Manchu Qing relied on surrendered Ming troops as well as their Eight Banners forces.
• Comments explained that horses and supplies made large cavalry forces prohibitively expensive, and argued that thirty thousand Great Snow Dragon Cavalrymen—or even ten thousand—could defeat the Manchu Qing.
• The heavenly screen introduced the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry as Xu Xiao’s ten-thousand-man personal army among Northern Liang’s forces, commanded by Yuan Zuozong.
• The screen described the cavalry’s three elite horses per rider, armor for both men and horses, flexible heavy and light formations, and fine Liang sabers, crossbows, and arrows.

The heavenly screen recounted Dong Zhuo’s rise from a hardworking youth and celebrated frontier commander to the ruler who seized the Han capital and plunged the realm into chaos. As the lords gathered to punish him, Dong Zhuo still carried Xiang Yu’s saber, but he was no longer the wandering hero he had once been.

• A heavenly-screen discussion of Northern Liang’s Great Snow Dragon Cavalry left the ancients uncertain whether it was real or fictional.
• Dong Zhuo found Xiang Yu’s patterned saber while working in a field, then gained Qiang allies’ support after hosting them at a feast.
• Dong Zhuo built a military reputation on the frontier, shared his rewards with his soldiers, and repeatedly suffered setbacks from court intrigues and eunuchs.
• After He Jin invited him to the capital, Dong Zhuo entered Luoyang, seized control, deposed the young emperor, poisoned him and the empress dowager, and moved the capital to Chang’an.
• The lords of the realm marched against Dong Zhuo, who still carried Xiang Yu’s saber but had become far removed from his former heroic self.

The Heavenly screen explained that early Western Han emperors were shaped by hardship, while later sheltered rulers declined, and praised Emperor Wen Liu Heng as a benevolent pioneer of a golden age. Liu Bang and Lü Zhi learned that Liu Heng would become emperor, while Liu Heng himself saw posterity honor his rule and frugality.

• Commenters debated Dong Zhuo’s ambition, his death at Lü Bu’s hands, and gossip about his relationship with Empress Dowager He, angering Emperor Ling of Han and Cao Cao.
• The Heavenly screen argued that the early Western Han emperors’ hardships forged capable rulers, while later emperors raised in luxury lacked the same qualities.
• Liu Bang and Lü Zhi reacted with surprise when the screen identified Liu Heng as Emperor Wen, and Liu Bang approved of the idea that hardship could strengthen heirs.
• The screen praised Liu Heng’s benevolent rule, thrift, low agricultural taxes, and care for the people, while Li Shimin expressed admiration for him.
• Emperor Jing Liu Qi worried that rebels who spared Liu Heng’s tomb might still disturb his own, while Liu Heng was moved by the praise of his reign.

A heavenly screen compared how emperors with the temple name Taizong came to power, arguing that most had not inherited the throne through normal succession. Li Shimin took comfort in being among the more legitimate Taizong emperors, while the screen clarified that Zhu Di was originally called Taizong before the Jiajing Emperor changed his temple name to Chengzu.

• The heavenly screen explained that Liu Heng became Emperor Wen of Han through ministers’ support after the Disturbance of the Lü Clan, rather than as Liu Bang’s designated successor.
• The screen listed other Taizong emperors who gained power through ministers, coups, civil war, or disputed successions, including Sun Xiu, Sima Yu, Fu Deng, and Li Shimin.
• Li Shimin insisted that Li Yuan had passed the throne to him, while Zhao Guangyi and Hong Taiji rejected claims that their accessions were improper.
• The screen argued that early dynasties were unstable and that Taizong emperors often seized power before imperial authority and succession customs had settled.
• The screen clarified that Zhu Di’s temple name had been Taizong until Zhu Houcong changed it to Chengzu.

Later generations debated Zhu Di’s merits against Li Shimin’s, while the emperors reacted to their judgments. The heavenly screen then listed famous generals removed from the Martial Temple by Emperor Taizu of Song, ending with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

• Zhu Di, Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Biao reacted to comments comparing Zhu Di with Li Shimin and questioning Zhu Di’s claim to the title Taizong.
• Zhao Guangyi took comfort from a comment praising his civil governance, while Li Shimin was pleased and Li Yuan felt slighted by comparisons between their sons.
• Zhu Di protested that he was Taizong, not Chengzu, after later generations praised his achievements and favored his Chengzu title.
• The heavenly screen named Bai Qi, Wu Qi, Sun Bin, and Lian Po among the generals removed from the Martial Temple, prompting anger and surprise from rulers and generals across the dynasties.
• The screen continued with Han Xin, Peng Yue, Zhou Yafu, Duan Jiming, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, and viewers were especially shocked that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had been removed.

The chapter criticized Zhao Kuangyin for removing many famous generals from the Martial Temple, then introduced Song Taizong Zhao Guangyi and the suspicions surrounding his rise to the throne. It left Zhao Guangyi’s account of the Golden Coffer Oath and his succession presented, while the circumstances of Zhao Kuangyin’s death remained disputed.

• The account listed generals removed from the Martial Temple and explained that Zhao Kuangyin judged them by flaws in loyalty, conduct, or political behavior.
• Later commentators condemned Zhao Kuangyin’s removals as inconsistent and argued that the Martial Temple should honor military ability rather than an emperor’s preferences.
• A later-era title card introduced Zhao Guangyi with a long list of mocking epithets, prompting historical figures to react to his reputation.
• The account described Zhao Guangyi as suspected of killing his elder brother Zhao Kuangyin, poisoning relatives and a rival ruler, fleeing battle in a donkey cart, and forcibly taking Li Yu’s wife.
• The account recounted that Zhao Kuangyin summoned Zhao Guangyi on the night of October 19, 976, before dying amid the Candle Shadows and Axe Sounds rumors.
• Zhao Guangyi claimed the Golden Coffer Oath entitled him to succeed Zhao Kuangyin, and he ascended the throne after a eunuch summoned him instead of Zhao Kuangyin’s son Zhao Defang.

The chapter recounted Zhao Guangyi’s alleged crimes, his disastrous campaigns against Liao, and the deaths of Zhao Kuangyin’s sons and brother. It left the emperors and generals of other dynasties condemning him for destroying the Song’s founding army and wasting the military strength Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin had built.

• Zhao Kuangyin and Ying Zheng questioned the Oath of the Golden Coffer, while the account accused Zhao Guangyi of poisoning Zhao Kuangyin and abusing Empress Zhou the Younger.
• The account said Zhao Guangyi defeated Northern Han, then lost the battle at Gaoliang River and fled in a donkey cart, earning mocking titles such as Chariot God of Gaoliang River.
• Zhao Guangyi blamed Zhao Dezhao for the defeat, and Zhao Dezhao later died by suicide; Zhao Defang and Zhao Tingmei also died, leaving no rivals under the Oath of the Golden Coffer.
• The account described Zhao Guangyi’s later disastrous campaigns against Liao, including his remote command of the army, and other dynasties’ leaders mocked Great Song’s military weakness.
• Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin lamented that Zhao Guangyi had squandered the elite troops they had built, while the founding emperors agreed that he had thrown away the Song army.

The heavenly screen criticized Emperor Zhenzong of Song for paying the Liao State an indemnity after victory, then holding fengshan sacrifices at Mount Tai and diminishing the ceremony’s prestige. Gao Shengyang read the divided reactions to historical videos and considered how portraying emperors through extreme praise or blame could earn Emotion Points.

• The heavenly screen recounted how Emperor Zhenzong of Song accepted the Treaty of Chanyuan after the Song army killed Xiao Talin, securing peace with the Liao State while paying an indemnity.
• Historical figures condemned Emperor Zhenzong of Song for holding fengshan sacrifices at Mount Tai, and later commentary said his actions made the ceremony worthless to future emperors.
• The heavenly screen said Emperor Zhenzong of Song bribed his own chancellor to carry out the ceremony, while Zhu Yuanzhang and several other rulers agreed that Mount Tai had lost its prestige.
• The heavenly screen criticized Zhao Heng’s legacy but also blamed Zhao Guangyi, Zhao Kuangyin, and Shi Jingtang for the Song Dynasty’s military weakness and lost chance to recover Yan and Yun.
• Gao Shengyang read arguments about historical emperors and reflected that extreme praise or criticism in videos could help him earn Emotion Points.

The sky screen explained why the Qing Eastern Tombs were repeatedly plundered while the Qing Western Tombs were relatively safer. The Qing emperors learned that most Eastern Tombs were robbed and that Guangxu’s was the only Western Tomb to be dug up.

• The sky screen revealed that Sun Dianying abandoned Kangxi’s waterlogged Jingling and robbed Qianlong’s Yuling and Cixi’s Ding Eastern Tombs instead.
• After Japan’s defeat in 1945, Wang Shaoyi and descendants of tomb guards looted Cixi’s tomb again, then robbed Xianfeng’s, Ci’an’s, Tongzhi’s, and Kangxi’s tombs.
• The sky screen described Jingling’s destruction, including the scattered remains of Kangxi and his consorts, and said Shunzhi’s Xiaoling was the only Eastern Tomb left intact.
• The sky screen attributed the Eastern Tombs’ repeated plundering to their location and the wealth of the emperors buried there, while the remote Western Tombs held comparatively poor emperors.
• The Qing emperors reacted with grief and anger, and Guangxu learned that his tomb was the only Western Tomb to be robbed.

Ancient viewers watched a video explaining Logia Devil Fruits from One Piece and debated their powers, rarity, and resemblance to supernatural arts. They were especially astonished that Akainu and Aokiji’s battle permanently changed Punk Hazard’s climate, while their reactions to Wa and the later world remained unresolved.

• Cixi read comments about her robbed tomb and the state of her corpse, while viewers from the Ming and Qing periods reacted to talk of zombies.
• Ancient viewers learned the term “rescue excavation” after comments explained why Kangxi had not been recovered from the water.
• The video introduced Logia Devil Fruits, their elementalization, and Smoker’s Smoke-Smoke Fruit, prompting viewers to compare the ability to divine powers and Zuo Ruotong’s transformation into qi.
• The video explained Logia users’ vulnerability to Haki, their potential, and their rarity, while ancient viewers speculated about Devil Fruit powers and Conqueror’s Haki.
• The video showed Akainu and Aokiji’s battle turning Punk Hazard into an island of ice and fire, shocking viewers with its permanent climate change.
• Ancient viewers discussed the great height of the fictional admirals and a claim that Wa women sought children with taller men.