Thousands of years passed in the blink of an eye after the Hundred Schools of Thought attained the Dao.
In Southern Jambudvipa, a flood of ideas intertwined with campaigns of blood and iron.
Confucian scholars spread benevolence and ritual through the halls of power; Legalists promoted harsh laws on bronze tablets; Mohists defended the weak states; farmers toiled in the fields; members of the School of Zongheng dazzled rulers with their eloquence; strategists devised plans and secured victory on the battlefield...
The Dao lineages of the Hundred Schools spread like sparks setting the land ablaze, scorching the ashes of the Old Order.
Human Dao Destiny was constantly reshaped amid fierce clashes, as the old shackles of ritual and music imposed by the Zhou Dao Lineage were smashed to pieces.
At the same time, the states' campaigns for supremacy grew ever more intense.
Jin, Chu, Qi, Qin, Zheng, Song, Wei, Lu, Yan, Chen, Wu, Yue... War fires raged across the land, rivers and mountains ran red with blood, and Hegemons rose and fell.
The struggle for supremacy between Jin and Chu was particularly brutal.
Chu avenged its humiliation at the Battle of Chengpu by crushing the Jin army at the Battle of Bi. King Zhuang of Chu then challenged the Nine Tripods in the Central Plains and achieved supremacy.
The Chu army deployed outside Luoyi. King Zhuang gazed up at the Nine Tripods, seeking to seize the Mandate of Heaven from the Zhou Dynasty.
Though Zhou Dynasty's Fate had waned, the Primordial Heavenly Venerate had secretly protected it with a Yuqing Talisman, and the virtues of ritual and music established by Duke of Zhou Dan still sheltered it. A thread of the Mandate of Heaven remained.
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