After that.
Cangyuan coordinated with Patriarch Bodhi to train Six-Eared Macaque, Yuan Hong, and Sun Wukong.
At the same time.
Southern Jambudvipa, the mortal realm's Nine Provinces.
A thousand years had passed since the First Emperor Ying Zheng led the Immortal Qin to ascend beyond the heavens.
Although the First Emperor and the Immortal Qin's important generals and officials had all gone beyond the heavens, the mortal realm's Nine Provinces were still ruled by Great Qin.
But as the saying went, what flourished to the extreme was bound to decline. Mortal Great Qin had gone through several generations of outstanding rulers, and at the very end had drawn a guaranteed jackpot—Ying Zheng.
Great Qin's National Fortune had already been exhausted.
Before Ying Zheng left for beyond the heavens, he passed the throne of Great Qin's emperor to his eldest son, Fusu.
But Fusu's character was far too weak, and he was often swayed by the ministers, wavering back and forth.
This let Ying Zheng's eighteenth son, Huhai, see an opportunity.
The deeds of all rulers through the ages could be gathered into one sentence: fight to become emperor.
Huhai declared: I want to be emperor so badly. I even dream of it.
And so.
Huhai joined forces with some ministers and secretly made moves against his dear elder brother.
On the surface, the ministers continued opposing Fusu, often angering him until his blood pressure soared.
In the dark, they then tampered with Fusu's daily food and drink, making his body grow worse and worse.
It was not poison, nor was it a curse, but the most ordinary food and medicine.
But if food and drink were not paired properly, they could also kill.
The treasonous faction relied precisely on this method, ordinary to the point of being unremarkable, to bypass