Simulation Ends

Yuan Tiangang had already expended more than half his strength in fighting you and was wounded.

In the end, believing it to be the will of Heaven, Yuan Tiangang said he had long forgotten the formula for the Elixir of Immortality. Only that single elixir pill remained, and whether it was real or fake was for you to guess. Refusing to give you another chance to threaten him, he directly took his own life.

Having failed to obtain the Elixir of Immortality, you were furious. To prevent Yuan Tiangang from coming back to life, you cut off his head as an outlet for your rage.

You brought Yuan Tiangang's corpse back to Taiyuan, secluded yourself to heal, and absorbed the remaining power in his body.

But your injuries were too severe, and your vital energy had been damaged. Although your strength had risen another level, you could no longer exert one hundred percent of your power.

The greatest obstacle to your unification of the realm had vanished, and you began consolidating power within the Jin Kingdom.

Many provincial warlords in the Jin Kingdom opposed you and wished to keep their troops for themselves. But before your strength, they were like mantises trying to stop a chariot and were easily suppressed.

You targeted several historically notorious rebel warlord territories and launched large-scale massacres.

On the screen, raging flames swept through cities and towns. Savage laughter, fierce battle cries, desperate weeping, terrified pleas for help, and mournful wails intertwined into an utterly chaotic scene. Soldiers in black iron armor were like cold-blooded reapers, wielding icy weapons and mercilessly harvesting lives. Countless corpses lay scattered in pools of blood, while the stench of gore permeated every corner of the city, making people retch.

The audience in reality stared blankly at the scene, endless fear and shock rising in their hearts. Yet this was only the beginning.

As Simulation Yun Ming gradually gathered the Jin Kingdom's authority into his hands and named Aogu his queen, more than a hundred thousand Mobei Iron Cavalry joined the Jin Army, making the Jin Kingdom even stronger. The horn for marching south to unify the Divine Land had sounded, and the entire land trembled.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" War drums shook the heavens. Jin Army soldiers gripped their weapons and wore heavy armor as they charged bravely forward. The cavalry drove their warhorses, kicking up clouds of dust as they thundered toward the enemy. Arrows filled the sky, falling as densely as rain. The clash of weapons, soldiers' shouts, and warhorses' neighs intertwined into a tragic battle hymn.

Brutal slaughter continued to unfold on the screen, every moment filled with the contest between life and death.

In the end, all eyes gathered upon a single figure.

He wore a jade crown and a black Dragon Robe embroidered with golden patterns, a treasured sword hanging at his waist. His icy gaze looked down upon the world, and his proud, towering form stood as majestic as a mountain, radiating incomparable authority.

The Imperial Guards below stood in orderly ranks, protecting him like a Great Wall of steel.

"Xia began, Xia ended. The nation shall be named Great Xia!"

His voice was loud and resolute, as though it could pierce time and space and reach every heart.

At that moment, he was not only the ruler of the Jin Kingdom, but the sovereign of the Divine Land.

After thirteen years of hardship, you finally unified the Divine Land. Yet this was not the end, but a brand-new beginning for the grand ambition in your heart.

The national name Great Xia displayed your towering ambitions. You resolved to march west, completely conquer the civilizations of distant lands, and spread the Confucian ideal of monarchs across the four seas. You yearned to establish a hereditary empire that would endure for ten thousand generations, even to forge an eternal golden age of Yun Xia.

In your eyes, martial arts manuals were like dangerous firearms, posing a tremendous threat to your rule. Thus, you resolutely launched a campaign to abolish martial arts and eliminate this hidden danger.

You held extensive discussions with the Buddhist and Daoist sects, establishing the Religious Affairs Office. The Daoist and Buddhist sects took turns governing it to balance all sides and consolidate your rule.

You established the Embroidered Uniform Guard and the Eastern Depot, strengthening intelligence gathering and surveillance to ensure the court's decrees went unimpeded.

To further consolidate your rule, you divided the Mobei Iron Cavalry that had followed you in unifying the realm, dispersing ten thousand troops to garrison each province. As the Mobei army had few numbers, they would inevitably draw closer to the central government, greatly strengthening your control over the regions.

You implemented a power structure of using the Han to rule the Hu and the Hu to restrain the Han, skillfully employing the strength of every ethnic group to achieve political stability and ethnic harmony.

Aogu bore you your first son. Having gained a son in middle age, you were overjoyed. You named him Yun Ying, placing upon him your boundless hopes for the future.

You proclaimed the crimes of martial artists to the world and issued the Martial Arts Abolishment Decree, setting off a terrifying purge. You would rather kill the innocent than let a single potential threat escape.

With your peerless martial arts and powerful military faction, even as the realm fell into turmoil, you still held the entire nation firmly in your grasp.

You further escalated the campaign to abolish martial arts. You not only eliminated martial artists physically, but also eradicated the influence of martial arts at its source. You ordered the Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian schools to alter their classics and burned countless martial arts books. To ensure nothing could go wrong, you even began changing written characters and the meanings of words, thoroughly erasing all traces of martial arts.

You knew that the great ancient tombs must contain profound martial arts manuals, so you carefully assembled a team of Tomb Raider Captains specifically responsible for excavating ancient tombs. Through their efforts, great numbers of precious ancient texts were unearthed one by one. In Emperor Gaozong of Tang's tomb, the Tomb Raider Captains even dug up the legendary treasure, the "Orchid Pavilion Preface," for you.

You knew that abolishing martial arts was not something that could be achieved overnight. It required decades, perhaps even a century, of sustained effort.

To preserve the stability of your empire and hereditary dynasty, you gradually became cold and ruthless, even somewhat deranged.

The Empress, whom you had imprisoned, unexpectedly bore you a pair of dragon-phoenix twins. Delighted, you named them Yun Lian and Yun Qing.

Only then did you suddenly realize that only powerful women could continue your bloodline.

However, the battle with Yuan Tiangang back then had greatly injured your vital energy. Over the years, although you tried every method to restore your martial arts, progress was exceedingly slow, and your body grew weaker by the day.

Your heart was filled with fear. Your eldest son was still young; if a younger son ascended the throne, it would be a grave taboo for the state.

You began seeking an elixir of immortality, but Yuan Tiangang's cold smile before his death, along with how easily the elixir had been obtained, made you doubt whether it was real. You also remembered that the Elixir of Immortality in the original work possessed incomparably potent effects, and your current body likely could not withstand it.

You let out a long sigh, understanding in your heart that immortality might be beyond your fate.

Your hatred for Yuan Tiangang deepened further. You imprisoned Li Xingyun after stripping him of his martial arts and humiliated Ji Ruxue. The following year, Ji Ruxue bore you a second daughter; the year after that, she bore you a third son; the next year, she bore you a fourth son.

Unable to endure the humiliation, Ji Ruxue ultimately held her breath until she died.

As the years passed, your physical condition worsened. The transplanted heart in particular often caused you unbearable pain. Illness came crashing down like a mountain, and you felt your life slowly slipping away.

You deeply felt that your life was nearing its end, your heart filled with unwillingness and struggle. You picked up that bottle of legendary Elixir of Immortality, hesitating over whether to try using it to save your life.