"Those two?"
Yue Wen had assumed he would not know the people Da Long mentioned. After all, those events had happened thousands of years ago, and the history of the previous Spiritual Qi Era was not all that widely known.
But he really had heard those two names.
The longest-lasting dynasty of the previous Spiritual Qi Era had been Southern Liang, and the most famous of its emperors was its ninth emperor, Jiang Guangkun.
As a rule, the emperor of a nation in a Spiritual Qi Era was not necessarily its strongest person. After all, a responsible emperor had to handle affairs of state, a demanding task that diverted considerable energy from cultivation.
Usually, then, powerful, high-realm members of the imperial family devoted themselves to cultivation and guarded the nation, while the emperor in the public eye only needed a cultivation level that was not too low. Generally, the seventh realm was enough.
Any weaker would not do either. If he had not even reached the Dao Realm, he could easily die in an assassination, which would not meet the dynasty's need for stability.
But Jiang Guangkun was quite a legend. Not only had he ascended the throne, he had later advanced to become a ninth-realm living immortal!
He had not even let word slip when he advanced. When celestial phenomena changed, everyone assumed that a guardian within the imperial city had attained the Dao. Later, demons and devils from the Otherworld plotted to lure Jiang Guangkun out of the imperial city, intending to assassinate him while he was away.
Only then had Jiang Guangkun revealed his true cultivation, laying a trap to kill a Demon Emperor and several Demon Generals before leading an army to eradicate evil spirits.
He had been the first emperor of the previous Spiritual Qi