Peacock Dynasty.
It was said that ever since the Primordial God split open the heavens and earth, from the moment humanity came into being, the Peacock Dynasty had existed.
Yet throughout the river of history spanning countless years, the dynasty had sometimes flourished, unifying all under heaven, and sometimes fractured, with warlords scattered everywhere. During one particularly dark stretch of history, the Peacock Dynasty had even been destroyed outright, vanishing from people's eyes and the records of history.
The Peacock Dynasty could disappear, but the surname Ying had never vanished.
That was because the first ruler of the Peacock Dynasty had been Ying Zheng of the Ying Clan—the First Emperor, and the first person to unify all of Shenzhou. Later, when the Peacock Dynasty fell apart, Shenzhou entered an age of warlords vying for power.
Unification and division, war and uneasy peace.
Some seized the momentum of thunder to ascend the throne, while others hid among the common folk, like divine dragons glimpsed only by their heads and never their tails.
Such were the people of the Ying surname.
During the great catastrophe that had struck Shenzhou a thousand years ago, the genius martial artist Ying Qiangu, born in humble cloth, led a group of fellow disciples in founding the Peacock Dynasty once more. He had dredged that ancient name from the dust of history, allowing it to rebuild its glory and shine with dazzling light.
Over the more than thousand years since then, the Peacock Dynasty's national power had grown ever stronger. It was one of Shenzhou's three great empires, strong enough to stand as an equal to Xifeng and Dawu.
The Peacock Dynasty was terrifying because it was an undying dynasty.
Throughout the changes in humanity's seat of power, countless nations had vanished and countless rulers had died.