But after learning this secret, Azure City was no longer a good place to establish the Interception Sect.
Because Azure City was a place where a seal had been laid.
In earlier years, before the Wei Dynasty was established, another dynasty had ruled this land.
Like every dynasty at its beginning, it had a wise ruler who laid the foundations for a golden age. None of his descendants had managed to expand upon that foundation; instead, they had merely preserved what they inherited.
But those who came after knew nothing of their predecessors' hardships. They did not understand the need to prepare for danger in times of peace, and as they lost themselves in the whirlpool of power, the golden age declined step by step.
It was simply that a cultivation system existed in this world, so dynasties generally endured longer, and each successive monarch lived a very long life.
Naturally, they also had children very late in life.
Under normal circumstances, that dynasty could still have survived for a long time. Yet before long, natural disasters suddenly began striking year after year.
Famine and plague swept through every part of the dynasty, one after another.
The dynasty's state treasury faced a tremendous ordeal. One crisis after another drained it dry.
For a time, resentment rose throughout the land, and rumors spread that Heaven had decreed the dynasty's destruction.
Among the common people, word began to spread that the reigning king had taken the throne illegitimately, and that Heaven and Earth had therefore sent down this punishment.
These were all rumors, with very few historical facts to support them.
By the time truly complete historical records appeared, ten years had already passed.
In those ten years, the dynasty had truly reached the end of its road.
What followed was another