After Ji Zhao created Luo Ling, he fell into slumber again. Luo Ling's divinity grew ever stronger because the household head was increasingly influenced by him. Ji Zhao's own divinity, by contrast, did not keep growing, but remained in a state of equilibrium.
The founding of the Han Dynasty brought a major system update. Ji Zhao woke from his slumber and sat quietly in the peach blossom grove, waiting for the update to finish.
Before the system had finished updating, however, a message reached Ji Zhao's mind. [You may use one Heaven-Tier Item to extend your clan's dynastic fortune by at least one hundred years.]
If the Luo Clan ruled all under heaven, it would have only four hundred years of dynastic fortune. The affair of the Nine Tripods had increased that a little. This was the world's underlying programming, but Heaven-Tier Items existed precisely to modify that programming.
Ji Zhao turned his attention to this rule and soon deciphered its essence. He could choose to absorb that strand of Purple Qi that altered the Mandate of Heaven into his body, thereby influencing the dynasty's fortune through himself.
The price was that the Heaven Tier Item would break down and fall to an Earth-Tier Item. Its effects would be much like those of an Earth-Tier Heroic Spirit Card, but because it had descended from a Heaven Tier card, it would automatically cancel the Mandate of Heaven for that era.
In other words, everyone would have to rely on their own abilities. Even Ji Zhao would not know who could win all under heaven.
Ji Zhao grew interested. He currently had three Heaven-Tier Items. The Celestial Observatory Platform and the Celestial Card were both very useful. Only the Heavenly Book, powerful though it was and capable of producing renowned ministers in