Yang Kingdom was founded in the twenty-fourth year of the Dao Calendar by Ji Yanqiu, a great ruler of his generation. From the very beginning, it stood as overlord of the Eastern Domain. At its height, it sprawled across the southeast.
It fell in the year 2813 of the Dao Calendar. The last Yang Emperor ruled in reckless defiance, utterly losing the people's hearts. In the end, forcing the great families to reveal their ancestral secret classics became the last straw that broke the camel's back, drawing rebellion from all under heaven. He also forcibly summoned the Sea Frontier armies back to the capital to guard him, intending to abandon the Human Race's coastal defenses in order to preserve his realm. The Sea Frontier garrison refused... and thus he lost everything.
The Great Yang Empire, once dominant for an age, the great state that had checked Jing Grand Ancestor's grand ambition to become Son of Heaven of the Six Directions, finally exited the stage after a reign of 2,789 years.
How many men of grace and brilliance had once lived, only to drift away with the winds of time.
It was nothing more than night and day cycling endlessly, turning history over like pages in a book.
"When Yang falls in the West Mountain, nine kingdoms rise with the sun."
In the end, it was the secluded Qi State that rose abruptly to prominence and brought Old Yang's glory to an end.
At the close of the Dao Calendar's two-thousandth years, Yan Sheng was a great Confucian scholar renowned throughout the land, his literary name shining brightly.
He had once served as the Yang Crown Prince's Grand Tutor.
He had been the East Palace teacher of the last Crown Prince.
Unfortunately, that Crown Prince had no great inheritance to succeed