The chariot raced onward, dragging the Great Sun behind it. It first circled Stone Ridge Mountain, carving out an absolutely safe zone tens of thousands of meters wide.
Then it opened a road connecting the other human empires.
Only then did it begin roaming the newly born forbidden zone, opening up new empires.
Madam Jin was not particularly interested in empires or anything of the sort.
But she was kindhearted and could not bear to see the suffering of humanity.
"However many human territories the forbidden zones swallow, I will reclaim that much territory for humanity.
"Better yet, I will make the forbidden zones repay it a hundredfold, a thousandfold."
The chariot raced along the former borderlines. One round trip burned out a strip of blank land twenty to thirty thousand meters wide.
This efficiency was more than ten times greater than the combined efforts of everyone on the entire continent over more than a decade.
And for the Great Sun Chariot to make one such round trip, it took only five days and five nights.
After making one round trip along the border, the chariot opened up another day and night's worth of imperial territory for Zhao Hongxiu and the others.
Then it continued making another round trip along the border.
Again and again, without rest, day and night.
The result made all living beings cheer.
The top aristocratic families and imperial clans that had once fled also wished to seize the chance to return to their former lands and rebuild their empires.
For a time, territorial interests sparked countless conflicts.
Yet neither Chu Qing nor Madam Jin cared.
Madam Jin only needed to open up human territory.
Other than the lands occupied by Zhao Hongxiu and the Empress, she did not care who occupied the rest.
In any