Champion City.
The first city on the North Bank of the Great River, the greatest fortress under heaven, the shield of the Qi Kingdom.
During the Taikang Era, the Demon Race invaded southward. The Worthy Crown Prince held Champion City for three years without falling. Later, for unknown reasons, a traitor emerged within the city and opened its gates. Champion City fell, and the Worthy Crown Prince was captured.
This triggered the second of the Four Calamities of Taikang: the Demon Clan's Entry through the Pass.
That day, the palace examination results were announced. Zhao Yishan was the top scholar, Xu Chuxin second, and Zhou Chunfeng third.
The three wore splendid robes, high-spirited and full of vigor, ready to parade through the streets on horseback, when news of Champion City's fall and the Worthy Crown Prince's capture spread throughout the Divine Capital.
The Jade Forest Banquet was canceled.
That year was Bingchen. Later, people called the three of them the Three Sons of Bingchen.
That year, Emperor Taining was merely the Prince of Ding.
That year, Prince Ding's fourth son learned that his uncle had been captured and wept loudly.
Without an imperial edict, he journeyed alone north to the Great River, gathered the defeated troops and stragglers, and protected the South Bank of the Great River alongside the cultivators of the world.
From that day until he was granted the title of Grand General King during the Taining Era, and until this day, he never returned to the Divine Capital.
Even ten years ago, on Emperor Taining's fiftieth birthday, though Emperor Taining issued three imperial decrees in succession, the Grand General King merely sent back a single page of letter.
Then the fog closed in, leaving behind only one corner of Champion City.
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