Fate was a mountain that would not topple; life, a long mountain road. In this world, too many people existed—dying every moment, being born every moment, falling every moment, climbing every moment.
Ji Fengzhou, ruler of the Central Empire, was undoubtedly the most powerful man in this world.
His life therefore allowed no room for retreat. One step forward, and he became the Son of Heaven of the Six Directions; one step back, and he was doomed beyond redemption.
The entire Present World churned in upheaval over Yin Xiaoheng's death, and countless lives hung upon the rage of the Central Empire.
Yet under such circumstances, Ji Fengzhou leisurely brought several of his children along for the final spring hunt of this bright third month.
The security detail was Calamity-Slaying Army of the Jing Eight Armors, commanded by the man Huang Sheli called "the Current Era True Lord with the greatest potential in Jing Kingdom"—the pillar of the Pei Clan of Zhengtian, Pei Xinghe, a grand master of military yin-yang.
Ordinarily, the Son of Heaven was guarded by the three palace armies. The six imperial-city academies were not being paid to sit around either.
Even if he left the palace to hunt through the countryside and had to deploy the elite soldiers of the strongest Eight Armors to display the Son of Heaven's majesty, it should have been Dou'e or the Divine Strategy Army. Now, there was also a new option: the Imperial Edict Army.
But Yu Que had died in battle, Dou'e had lowered its banner, and its new commander, Ji Jinglu, had yet to return from Fallen Immortal Forest. The Divine Strategy Army was suppressing the Original Heavenly God Cult in He State. Lou Yue, deputy commander of the Imperial Edict Army, had personally gone to receive the body