On July 19, the New Monarch Ji Ao announced a change of era name to Zhao Shou. This year would be the first year of Zhao Shou.
Zhao Shou carried the meaning of proclaiming to the world and pacifying the four quarters. From the era name alone, one could roughly see the enterprising ambition of the New Monarch Ji Ao.
There was naturally no honorific title for him at present.
An emperor's honorific title generally came only after his prestige had steadily risen during his reign, when the ministers petitioned to bestow one upon him and he declined several times.
Ji Ao still bore the stigma of murdering his sovereign father. Unless he could sweep away Great Zhou's decline, it was far too early to speak of an honorific title.
And on the very day the era was changed—the nineteenth day of the seventh month in the first year of Zhao Shou—the North Sea Aquatic Race, said to number ten million, swiftly swept through the waters of the Jade Scale Dragon Palace before coming ashore from the Yongping River estuary in North Sea Commandery.
When the Water Clan went to war, they placed extreme importance on favorable waters.
This favorable water did not refer to Great Zhou's irrigation works. It meant that only in places with bodies of water or abundant moisture could the Water Clan's combat strength be fully exerted or enhanced.
Conversely, if the battlefield lacked water or sufficient moisture, the Water Clan's strength would not only receive no enhancement, but would decline drastically, and they could not remain there for long.
As their cultivation increased, the Water Clan's dependence on water continuously diminished, but water remained their foundation.
Much like three daily meals were to the human race of Great Zhou.
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