War Begins, the San Andres Empire

Blue Star, Yanhuang Empire.

A month had passed since the last grand celebration.

Today was the day the war began.

Ye Chen stood on a high platform in his black Star Robe, hands clasped behind his back as he gazed down at the endless ranks of soldiers stretching beyond sight.

Farther away, hundreds of Kunpeng fighter jets stood ready, their pilots waiting beside them.

At that moment, the officers below were giving speeches to raise the troops' morale. Ye Chen had no need to say much. As Emperor and the sole deity of the Yanhuang Empire, simply standing there was enough to inspire the soldiers.

Couldn't he see the soldiers below listening to their officers while gazing at him with fervent admiration?

At last, under the crowd's fervent gaze, Ye Chen offered a few words to sum things up.

"We've raised our troops for a thousand days, and now it's time to put them to use. As war approaches, the empire's glory and strength..."

Clatter!

As Ye Chen's voice fell, the endless ranks of soldiers dropped to one knee in perfect unison.

"For the empire's glory, we will die for the Emperor!"

"Everyone, draw your swords!"

Shing!

"Fight! Fight! Fight!"

As their swords left their sheaths, their battle cries pierced the heavens, and killing intent filled the air.

"Excellent. That's the spirit."

Looking at the crowd below, their fighting spirit soaring, Ye Chen was very satisfied.

Then the fighter jets roared into the sky and flew toward the empire's borders, ready to begin the advance.

For this war, Ye Chen had chosen the nearest continent as his first target. Several countries lay there; he would destroy them first.

He would have liked to cross the ocean and attack Huaxia, which was now in the late Ming period. But he knew that the people there were different from those elsewhere, especially in their way of thinking.

They were intensely wary of outsiders and placed great importance on bloodline and legitimacy.

They could fight among themselves, since they all traced their ancestry back thousands of years to the same forefather and considered themselves one family. No matter how fiercely they fought, it was still a family squabble.

But outsiders couldn't attack them. If anyone from beyond their borders dared to do so, they would instantly put aside their infighting and unite, like a pack of enraged wolves. Even if it meant dying, they would tear a piece of flesh from their enemy.

The people of that land also believed in fighting to the death, never retreating, and meeting their end on the battlefield.

They weren't like those foreign barbarians, who would raise their hands and surrender without hesitation as soon as they realized they were outmatched.

So, if Ye Chen wanted Huaxia to become part of the Yanhuang Empire, he needed a legitimate claim. In other words, he had to find himself a common ancestor.

Only then would the people there consider him one of their own rather than a foreign invader.

Fortunately, he was originally from Huaxia and had no objection to finding such an ancestor. His forebears had lived in the Huaxia of his previous life, but who would know that unless he told them?

Moreover, all the people of the Yanhuang Empire he had founded were dark-haired, dark-eyed, yellow-skinned Native Americans. They were themselves descendants of people who had left Huaxia overseas during the Shang period.

So, both in appearance and in blood, the Yanhuang Empire and Huaxia were one family.

Their merger would be national reunification—a matter of course.

When Ye Chen had subdued the Native American tribes, he had already noticed that their customs, tools, language, and many surviving traditions had all evolved from Huaxia culture.

For example, many of the pottery pieces used by some Native Americans were decorated with Taotie patterns and Cloud fragrance patterns. These designs were exactly like those found on Huaxia bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou periods.

Their writing, too, included the Oracle bone script and Bronze inscription script commonly used during the Shang and Zhou periods.

All these traces confirmed that their ancestors had come from Huaxia.

Otherwise, how could such a coincidence exist? They all had yellow skin, dark eyes, and dark hair, and their writing and designs looked so similar.

Three months later.

On the western coast of South America stood its only two empires: the Inca Empire, founded by the local Inca people, and the San Andres Empire, founded by the Spanish.

According to history, Spanish overseas colonists would have established an empire in North America. But unfortunately for them, Ye Chen had arrived there first and had long since claimed the land as territory of the Yanhuang Empire.

So when the Spanish first arrived, they discovered the Yanhuang Empire.

At the time, those newcomers had dared to look down on the Yanhuang Empire and tried to deceive Ye Chen.

When Ye Chen saw their arrogant faces and realized they thought of him as an uncivilized native, he was nearly amused into laughter.

So he couldn't be bothered to play along with those arrogant idiots. He simply had them killed.

The others, after hearing what had happened, fled far from the Yanhuang Empire in terror.

In response, Ye Chen branded the Spanish, who were so out of place among the people of the Yanhuang Empire, as foreign barbarians and forbade them from entering imperial territory.

That was why, when Angel Zhi arrived in the imperial capital, she had been reported as a foreigner and arrested by the city guards.

The rest of the Spanish fled and joined up with the Native Americans who had not yet been subdued.

At the same time, they sent word to Spanish overseas colonists in other regions, calling on them to gather and unite against Ye Chen, the tyrannical native ruler.

The outcome was clear. Ye Chen never took them seriously. For years, the soldiers guarding the empire's borders had beaten those Spanish like dogs.

And whenever they captured one, they killed him outright. There was no other outcome.

As the Yanhuang Empire expanded rapidly, the Spanish were forced to retreat again and again, fleeing farther and farther until they reached the Inca Empire in western South America.

While causing trouble, they also established a country near the Inca Empire, which they called San Andres, and clashed with the Inca Empire from time to time.

And because of Ye Chen, they deeply hated the Inca people, who shared their yellow skin. Whenever they captured an Inca, they subjected him to the most brutal punishments.

As a result, the Inca Empire and the San Andres Empire became sworn enemies. But the people of San Andres had firearms, and they beat the Inca Empire like dogs.

They took out all the frustration and hatred they had carried away from the Yanhuang Empire on the Inca Empire.

It had to be said that Ye Chen's arrival had triggered a butterfly effect that changed the entire balance of power in North and South America.

The Spanish, who had originally founded their country in North America, had been driven to South America. And the Inca Empire, which should have fallen in the sixteenth century, had been forced by the San Andres Empire to end its infighting and unite against an outside threat, allowing it to survive to this day.