With Liu Bing taking Esdeath, the Empire's greatest fighter, as his follower, only General Bud was left struggling to hold the Empire together.
Night Raid had stopped carrying out assassinations. Instead, its members spread the ideas in that red book through the Empire's villages and towns.
At Sayu's suggestion, they adopted a strategy of turning a single spark into a wildfire, chipping away at the Empire step by step.
Sayu was busy too. She took the People's Banner around to collect the enforcers kept by the corrupt nobles, stripping them of the overwhelming force they used against ordinary people.
Liu Bing paid none of it any mind. How far they got was up to them. He had never intended to interfere in the first place.
He had simply happened to run into Esdeath and taken her along.
The system Liu Bing had been waiting for emerged soon afterward. He promptly took possession of it, then returned with Leone and Kishirika.
Meanwhile, in Great Tang, Li Shimin had been run off his feet. He and Empress Zhangsun had traveled to later eras to connect them with Great Tang, teaching quite a few of their descendants a lesson along the way.
With Li Shimin away in later eras, Li Chengqian was temporarily running Great Tang.
Around that time, little Si Zi was playing with a cat in her palace courtyard when a tiny ring of light suddenly appeared before her.
"What's dat?" Si Zi peered curiously at the ring of light, then told the cat in her arms, "Beilusi, dere's a funny little circle here."
The cat glanced at it, then closed her eyes and ignored it.
It was only a Space-Time Node.
Seeing that the cat wasn't interested, Si Zi stopped trying to show it to her. Instead, she reached out