General Hong Tiantong, clad in noble Blood Armor, stood proudly in the sky, looking down coldly at the Blood Dripping Carefree Old Daoist below. His face was full of lofty disdain and arrogance!
Hong Tiantong came from the Hong Prince's Manor, the side-by-side prince's manor among the eight founding heavenly prince manors of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Born into nobility, he had stood above the billions upon billions of people across Qingzhou from the moment he entered the world!
Even though he had not initially been the Direct Son of the Hong Prince's Manor,
with the bloodline of the Hong Prince's Manor, he had lived a life of luxury and been fawned over by countless people since childhood.
Raised high above all others as one of the prince manor's bloodline, educated as a superior heavenly being among the founding nobility, he had come to see commoners, servants, and other Lowly Citizens as nothing more than dust beneath the earth.
Human lives were as worthless as grass.
Among the noble class, this notion could not have been more common or normal.
And throughout the Great Zhou Dynasty,
this notion
was likewise the common understanding of the higher-ups and nobles.
If Zhang Qingyuan had taken the time to learn about the structure of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he would have discovered that this dynasty had already rotted through, and that it bore a startling resemblance to a certain A San nation from his previous life.
The nobility stood high above, while the common people were like mud.
After ten thousand years, the entire Great Zhou Dynasty had already decayed.
The upper nobility wallowed in extravagance and debauchery, imposed harsh exactions upon lower-layer commoners, and allowed corrupt officials everywhere to exploit the masses in order to sustain themselves.
For instance, Li Zhengbang, the