Shared Heavens from Douluo Continent

In the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, the Life and Death Talisman created by Tianshan Tonglao was known as "the number one hidden weapon in the martial world" because Tianshan Tonglao herself was one of the greatest experts in the martial world.

Aside from the unfathomable Sweeping Monk, no one else could forcibly dispel a Life and Death Talisman formed from Tianshan Tonglao's internal energy using their own internal energy.

In the end, Dai Changsheng's Soul Power was still too low. Once he broke through to Title Douluo in the future, very few people would be able to withstand his Life and Death Talisman.

After figuring out the power and limitations of the Life and Death Talisman, Dai Changsheng secretly chuckled. "Those guys are getting off easy, but they're all one of us. It's a good thing if they master the Life and Death Talisman too."

Dai Changsheng could already imagine how overjoyed his other selves would be the next time they entered the Gray Mist Space and shared the cultivation memories of the Life and Death Talisman.

Especially for Heaven Sword Changsheng, who was preparing to overthrow Yuan Dynasty rule, the Life and Death Talisman would undoubtedly play an unimaginable role as a terrifying weapon.

As the saying went: winning an empire was easy, but keeping one was hard!

With Heaven Sword Changsheng's strength, overthrowing Yuan Dynasty rule would be easy. However, building a brand-new prosperous dynasty atop those ruins would be difficult.

Especially in an ancient society with backward communications, collusion between officials and merchants was all too common, while imperial authority often failed to reach the countryside.

After all, Heaven Sword Changsheng was only human. His energy was limited, and he could not possibly manage the entire realm by himself. He still needed officials to govern the land.

After learning the Life and Death Talisman, Heaven Sword Changsheng could plant one in every civil and military official at court, placing their lives and deaths at the mercy of a single thought.

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Anti-Yuan Alliance

This could not completely eliminate corrupt officials, but it could reduce their numbers to the lowest possible level.

Moreover, as long as Heaven Sword Changsheng did not imitate Tianshan Tonglao by casually tormenting the civil and military officials, they would certainly not dare risk their lives by joining forces in rebellion.

Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber World

Wudang Mountain, True Martial Hall.

Roar—

Accompanied by a deafening dragon's roar, Zhang Sanfeng, a living legend of the martial world, was sent flying by Dai Changsheng's palm strike before everyone's shocked eyes.

Zhang Sanfeng's feet scraped across the ground, carving two clearly visible tracks into the hard bluestone floor before he barely managed to steady himself.

"Cough!"

Just as Zhang Sanfeng was about to speak, he could not help coughing. A streak of glaring blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.

"Master!"

Song Yuanqiao and the others hurriedly gathered around Zhang Sanfeng, their faces filled with guilt and self-reproach.

If Song Yuanqiao and the others had not failed in their assault on Bright Summit and instead fallen into a trap laid in advance by the Demonic Cult, Zhang Sanfeng would not have agreed to Dai Changsheng's wager in order to save them.

"It is nothing. I am not seriously injured!"

Zhang Sanfeng first reassured Song Yuanqiao and the others, then cupped his hands toward Dai Changsheng. "Cult Leader Dai's martial arts have reached the pinnacle. They are unfathomable, like gods and ghosts. This old Daoist admires you. A wager is a wager, and I accept my loss!"

When Dai Changsheng had led the Demonic Cult to Wudang Mountain not long ago, Zhang Sanfeng had not taken them seriously. He had only just emerged from seclusion after comprehending the True Meaning of Tai Chi and had been looking for someone to test its power on.

What Zhang Sanfeng had not expected was to encounter a monster like Dai Changsheng and nearly be slapped to death in a single strike.

Seeing that Zhang Sanfeng had taken his Dragon Subdues the Sun strike and merely coughed up blood without suffering anything serious, Dai Changsheng could not help admiring this former number one expert of the martial world.

Although he had not used his full strength in that palm strike, under the enhancement of the Heaven and Earth Great Shift, it had still unleashed roughly ten thousand jin of force.

Even Jie Lun Fa Wang, after cultivating the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill to the tenth level, would have died on the spot if he took that palm strike from Dai Changsheng!

Had Zhang Sanfeng not comprehended the True Meaning of Tai Chi and forcibly redirected most of the palm force, coughing up blood would have been the least of his problems.

"Since that is the case, from now on, True Man Zhang shall be the Deputy Alliance Leader of the Anti-Yuan Alliance. You need only obey the orders of this Alliance Leader."

The "Anti-Yuan Alliance" Dai Changsheng spoke of was a new alliance he had established to make it easier to subdue the major sects of the Central Plains.

If Dai Changsheng had directly told Zhang Sanfeng and the others that he wanted to dominate the martial world, conquer the realm, and reign supreme over all, they would certainly have resisted with all their might.

But if Dai Changsheng said that his purpose in forming the "Anti-Yuan Alliance" was to "drive out the invaders and restore the lands of the Han people," so that the people of the realm would no longer suffer humiliation at the hands of the Yuan people, Zhang Sanfeng and the others would instead support him.

That was the art of speech!

Of course, while Dai Changsheng subdued the major martial sects of the Central Plains, there would certainly be some stubborn old fossils like Abbess Miejue.

Dai Changsheng would not show mercy to such stubborn old fossils. He would directly brand them as traitors to the Han and kill them as a warning to the rest!

The others were not particularly surprised to hear Dai Changsheng directly appoint Zhang Sanfeng as Deputy Alliance Leader of the Anti-Yuan Alliance. Instead, they found it perfectly natural.

Before Dai Changsheng's sudden rise, Zhang Sanfeng had been universally acknowledged as the number one man under heaven.

Other than Dai Changsheng, no one else possessed the qualifications or strength to order Zhang Sanfeng around.

"Xiao Zhao, give the Black Jade Intermittent Ointment to True Man Zhang!"

"Yes, Young Master."

Xiao Zhao, who followed Dai Changsheng as his personal maid, obediently nodded. She took a bottle of Black Jade Intermittent Ointment from her sleeve and sweetly handed it to Zhang Sanfeng.

"Thank you, Alliance Leader."

"True Man Zhang, there is no need to stand on ceremony. This was part of our earlier agreement."

The wager Dai Changsheng had proposed to Zhang Sanfeng was roughly as follows: Zhang Sanfeng would fight him. If Zhang Sanfeng won, Dai Changsheng would unconditionally release Song Yuanqiao and the others, while also providing a bottle of Black Jade Intermittent Ointment to cure Yu Daiyan's paralysis in all four limbs.

If Zhang Sanfeng lost, he would have to lead the entire Wudang Sect into the Anti-Yuan Alliance. In that case, Dai Changsheng would likewise give him a bottle of Black Jade Intermittent Ointment.

Because the Wudang Sect had Zhang Sanfeng guarding it, it was the toughest nut among the Central Plains sects. That was why Dai Changsheng had saved it for last.

Now that even the Wudang Sect had joined the Anti-Yuan Alliance, Dai Changsheng had effectively become the martial alliance leader of the Central Plains. It was time to launch a counterattack against the Yuan army.

At Dai Changsheng's command, the anti-Yuan forces hidden across the land rose in revolt one after another. Working with the local martial sects, they prioritized hunting down officials serving the Yuan people.

Perhaps some of those officials were innocent, but in the final years of a dynasty where corruption ran rampant, it was difficult to find even one official out of a hundred who genuinely benefited the common people.

In the ancient society of backward communications, once local officials serving as liaison points were killed, the garrisons throughout the land were left leaderless and could not reestablish contact with the imperial court in a short time.

Faced with the sneak attacks of the well-prepared anti-Yuan armies, the local garrisons, plagued by severe payroll fraud, were quickly beaten back step by step and fled in panic!

By the time the Great Yuan Emperor received news of rebellions breaking out everywhere and hastily assembled an army to suppress them, more than half a month had already passed. The Anti-Yuan Alliance had occupied over half the territory.

Because Dai Changsheng had laid down rules in advance that the anti-Yuan armies could only plunder local landlords and wealthy gentry after entering a city, must not mistreat ordinary civilians, and had to distribute grain for disaster relief, the people greatly welcomed them when they entered the cities.

It was not that Dai Changsheng was deliberately indulging lax military discipline. Without sufficient benefits, why would the people beneath him follow him into rebellion?

Even if Dai Changsheng wanted to reform military discipline, he would have to wait until after overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty, when the realm had gradually stabilized, before slowly carrying out reforms.

In any case, most of those landlords and wealthy gentry were Yuan people. No matter how miserably they suffered, Dai Changsheng would not feel sorry for them.

There might have been some Han people among them, but most of them had gotten what they deserved.

After all, under the Yuan Dynasty system, the people of the realm were divided into four classes. From highest to lowest, they were Mongols, Semu people, Han people, and Southern people.

The Han people ranked third and could generally only work in lowly occupations.

Under normal circumstances, Han people were not qualified to become landlords or wealthy gentry unless they were Han traitors serving as dogs for the Yuan people.

Establishing the Great Ming

However, as the saying went, even a rotten ship still had three thousand nails!

Although the Yuan Dynasty was already deeply decayed, it had ruled the Central Plains for nearly a century. It could still muster an elite army by drawing on the strength of the entire country.

At the Great Yuan Emperor's command, an elite army of one hundred thousand troops rushed to the front lines at top speed, blocking the advance of the anti-Yuan forces.

Unfortunately, before a cheat like Dai Changsheng, even an elite army of one hundred thousand was nothing?

To transform himself into a true slaughter god on the battlefield, Dai Changsheng had specially had a set of exclusive equipment forged for himself.

In addition to the Mysterious Iron Horse-Slaying Saber reforged from the fragments of the Dragon Slaying Saber and Heavenly Sword, he also possessed a set of metal armor weighing over three hundred jin, capable of directly ignoring the blades, spears, and rain of arrows on the battlefield.

Rumble...

Accompanied by thunderous hoofbeats, a cavalry corps composed of one thousand heavily armored riders was the first to charge toward the anti-Yuan army.

Just as Zhu Yuanzhang and the others prepared to avoid their edge for the moment, Dai Changsheng, clad in metal armor, raised his Mysterious Iron Horse-Slaying Saber and took the initiative to meet those ferocious heavy cavalrymen.

Slash! Slash! Slash...

Before everyone's disbelieving eyes, the heavily armored cavalry, which should have been unstoppable, was slaughtered madly by Dai Changsheng as though he were chopping melons and vegetables.

With his true strength unleashed, every slash from Dai Changsheng erupted with tens of thousands of jin of monstrous force. Wherever he passed, men and horses shattered alike, blood and severed limbs flying through the air.

To those Yuan soldiers, Dai Changsheng, covered from head to toe in blood, was like an evil ghost crawling out of the eighteenth level of hell.

But in Zhu Yuanzhang and the others' eyes, Dai Changsheng was an invincible war god!

"Brothers, charge with me!"

"Kill—"

Seeing Dai Changsheng single-handedly carve through the most troublesome cavalry corps, the anti-Yuan armies snapped back to their senses and charged madly at the Yuan army as though their blood had been set ablaze.

Faced with the high-morale anti-Yuan army, the Yuan soldiers, whose morale had plummeted, had no strength to resist. The moment the two sides clashed, they began retreating step by step.

Especially after Dai Changsheng cut through the military formation and severed the head of the Yuan commander along with the command banner, the remaining Yuan soldiers completely lost their will to resist. Their army collapsed like a mountain, and they fled in defeat!

Dai Changsheng and his forces' great victory in this battle also signaled that the Yuan Dynasty had truly begun its final descent into destruction.

Time flew by like a white colt passing through a crack, and more than two months passed in the blink of an eye.

Over those two months, two earth-shaking events occurred across the Central Plains.

First, Dai Changsheng led the anti-Yuan army into the Great Yuan imperial palace, slaughtered the Great Yuan imperial bloodline to the last, and formally overthrew Yuan Dynasty rule.

Second, surrounded by numerous founding generals, Dai Changsheng donned the yellow robe and ascended the throne as emperor. He established the Hongwu era and changed the nation's name to "Great Ming."

Since Great Ming had only just been established, Dai Changsheng's first imperial decree, intended to win over the people, was to exempt the citizens of Great Ming from taxes for three years.

After all, Dai Changsheng had slaughtered the Great Yuan imperial family and its high officials and nobles. The wealth they had extorted from the people over the years had all fallen into his hands, enough to sustain Great Ming's normal operations for twenty or thirty years. There was no need to covet the scraps held by ordinary citizens.

Moreover, once the country stabilized, Dai Changsheng planned to form a naval army and destroy Wa Country, bringing its several large silver mines under his control. Then he would not have to worry about lacking money.

As for whether those silver mines, worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver, would cause a financial crisis within Great Ming, there was even less reason for concern.

Dai Changsheng was not an idiot. He certainly would not use all that silver within Great Ming. Instead, he would use it to aggressively purchase supplies from neighboring countries.

Once those money-grubbing merchants exchanged all their supplies for useless silver, the surrounding countries would inevitably fall into turmoil. At that point, Dai Changsheng could openly send the Great Ming royal army to "assist" them.

Do not ask why Dai Changsheng was so merciful. The answer was two words—he was kind!

In addition to granting a general amnesty, Dai Changsheng elevated the Ming Cult into the state religion. Under the pretext of worshipping Ming Zun, he had the people replace burials with cremation.

According to Ming Cult doctrine, only by cremating the deceased could their souls enter Ming Zun's divine kingdom.

Dai Changsheng promoted cremation mainly because it could reduce the spread of disease.

At first, this policy drew opposition from quite a few citizens. However, after Dai Changsheng declared that he too would be cremated after death, almost no one objected any longer.

Resident Evil World

China, Shanghai.

More than a month had passed since Dai Changsheng last entered the Gray Mist Space.

During this time, in addition to developing his Psychic Power every day, Dai Changsheng had established a survivor base.

The survivor base had originally been a department store. After Dai Changsheng cleared out the zombies inside, he converted it into a survivor base.

More than three hundred survivors had now gathered in the base, most of them young and able-bodied adults.

After all, reality was unlike the movies. In a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the disabled who lacked the ability to protect themselves would certainly be eliminated first.

Since the department store contained relatively abundant supplies, the survivors did not need to worry about running out of food in the short term.

However, Dai Changsheng had no intention of playing babysitter, and with his strength alone, he could not protect the safety of several hundred survivors at once.

Therefore, Dai Changsheng selected some suitable martial arts and taught them to the survivors.

To prevent the survivors from entertaining improper thoughts, Dai Changsheng had no intention of teaching them overly powerful martial arts. He only taught them some relatively easy-to-master third-rate techniques.

Those third-rate martial arts could roughly be divided into three types: lightness skills, hidden weapons, and saber techniques.

After learning lightness skills and hidden weapons, those survivors would be able to advance and retreat freely when dealing with zombies.