The Yuan Empire had been established on what had once been the lands of the Central Plains.
It was a powerful, centralized empire founded by Kublai Khan, a descendant of Genghis Khan, inheriting the most powerful and most extensive territories of the Mongol Empire, which had spanned Europe and Asia.
Although the Yuan Dynasty no longer ruled territories beyond East Asia, it remained vast and mighty.
But this dynasty was not friendly to the Han Chinese. Within the empire, they were merely lambs of the lowliest status.
The surviving subjects of the Song Dynasty in the south held an even lower status.
Many noblewomen of the Song Dynasty were taken by the Mongols who advanced south, while the men were enslaved.
After losing their former power, the descendants of these scholar-officials had fallen to a state worse than pigs and dogs.
Who knew whether, upon seeing their descendants reduced to such a state, they would regret their past struggles for power and profit?
When Jiang Yang and the others arrived in the east, they first visited Mount Kongtong.
He wanted to see whether Bai Weiwei had emerged after nearly two hundred years of secluded cultivation.
After entering the Heavenly Court Secret Realm, they found the same four giant-like Divine Generals standing guard.
The Four Mo Brothers.
They had a special cultivation method and did not cultivate quietly in seclusion like the others.
Jiang Yang had also contributed to this method, refining its meditation component.
The subject of their meditation was Sphinx, who had guarded the entrance to Kunlun Mountain back then-in other words, Lu Wu.
Sphinx was now living very comfortably in the Divine Realm, and had not fallen behind in cultivation either.
Sphinx was very shrewd. After arriving in the Divine Realm, Sphinx rarely took human form and often