Pangu World, the Divine Land of China.
An ancient saying held that a realm long united must divide, and a realm long divided must unite. This truth rang all the more true in the mortal world, where average lifespans were shorter.
Since the national fortune cloud of the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty had vanished, eighteen feudal lords had risen in rebellion. The smoke of war rose everywhere, and the people could barely survive.
After fifteen years of warfare and assaults by rival powers, the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty, which had once awed the world, existed in name alone. Like the Great Qin Empire in its final days, it could only retreat to the frontier wilderness and cling to its last breath.
The Divine Land of China was now nominally divided among four powers: Great Huan, the Great Wei State, Great Han, and Great Wu. The other factions and more than a dozen feudal lords had been washed away like sand beneath great waves, vanishing without a trace.
Great Huan, the highest-ranked power and the only celestial dynasty, had withdrawn its core forces to Nine Dragons Commandery, retaining the Nine Dragons Forbidden City as its capital. It nominally held Nine Dragons Commandery, Hengshan Commandery, the Lingnan Baiyue region stretching directly south, neighboring Yue Province-the former Yue State Zone-the ancient capital of Luoyang and its surrounding territory, otherwise known as Sanchuan Commandery, Old Qin's Guangxi Region, and Penglai Commandery, isolated overseas: the former Marshall Islands and Hawaiian Islands.
At first glance, its territory seemed vast. In reality, it was small and fragmented, with one scrap in the east and another in the west. The mighty tiger had grown old.
The core faction of the Great Huan Celestial Dynasty was led by the Benevolent Empress and Huan Empress Qi Ji. They held the