A night of cold wind swept through, yet it brought new life to this cruel world blanketed in silver.
Peace reigned over the bitter winter, and elixir fruits sprouted everywhere.
All across the mortal world, snow-white elixir fruits called "Taiping" grew without warning.
Eating three a day was enough to fill one's belly and leave one brimming with energy.
A miracle?
Or a gift from Heaven?
Naturally, grain merchants who had stockpiled rice and grain in preparation to make a killing during this harsh winter were unwilling to see such a thing happen. Yet faced with elixir fruits that grew back as soon as they were cut, endlessly and without cease, they could do nothing.
Even more mysteriously, the elixir fruits were not only inexhaustible, but could not be stored.
If they were not eaten within twelve shichen after being picked, they would disperse into a wisp of untouchable yuanqi and vanish.
Not a single person in the world understood the reason behind it, much less the common folk.
But they understood one thing: perhaps they could survive this deadly winter after all...
Such a miraculous occurrence naturally affected the Great Unity Dynasty itself.
For a time, everyone at court sang praises of the Son of Heaven's sacred virtue, saying that only the emperor's profound morality could have won Heaven's favor.
The emperor himself, lost in indulgence and pleasure, was utterly baffled. But in the end, under the "persuasion" of his ministers, he accepted the credit.
In this year of poor harvests, amid this bitter winter, a miracle had descended upon the world. Did that not mean that my virtue had moved Heaven, surpassing even the late emperors in merit?
The current emperor of the Great Unity Dynasty was arrogant by nature. The more he thought about it, the more