The Old Fellow

The 736th year of Great Zhou.

The Qin State broke Jin, destroyed the feudal states of Chu, Qi, Wu, and Yue, and forced the Son of Zhou to abdicate. Zao Fu proclaimed himself the Ancestral Dragon and Black Emperor, revered black above all else, took the dragon as his totem, and established the Immortal Qin Empire!

The Immortal Qin Empire abandoned the feudal system practiced by Shang and Zhou in the past. It abolished the feudal states outright, established commanderies and counties, and declared that it would never again enfeoff royal kinsmen. Thus began a centralized model of unified rule. It also issued decree after decree, confiscating the cultivation methods circulating throughout the world, listing them as forbidden texts, and burying a great many cultivators alive. Its purpose was shockingly clear: to monopolize the path of cultivation in the hands of the Qin State's Noble Clans.

This naturally roused the people of the world to rise in revolt. Unfortunately, cultivators were too weak. After the Five Hegemons vanished, there was not even a late-stage Core Formation cultivator left. They were easily defeated by Zao Fu, a Nascent Soul Cultivator. Countless cultivators were killed, and their inheritances were collected into the Immortal Qin Secret Vault.

A few cultivators either concealed their names or fled to the Western Extremity and the seas beyond. The eastern region of the Great Wilderness was completely unified!

After unifying the world, the Black Emperor also carried out many beneficial undertakings.

For example, he unified weights and measures, language, script, currency, and so on...

Objectively speaking, this strengthened centralized rule and also promoted the integration of the various regions of the Central Plains.

Under the rule of Zao Fu, the Black Emperor, the Immortal Qin Empire made tremendous advances in the Art of Mechanisms and Puppet Technique.