Shenwu Dynasty N+1 · Chat

In the past, nine kingdoms stood side by side, beacons of war obscured the sun, and the common people wept blood. Until that youth, born in the horse-grazing borderlands of the Northern Realm, raised a three-foot sword and stepped across ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers. Within twenty-seven years, he swept through all directions, ended the chaotic times, settled the Central Plains, established the era of Tianyuan, historically known as the Shenwu Imperial Dynasty. Tianshu City sits high atop the dragon's head, its hundred-and-twenty-li city walls cast with molten iron, and its nine gates open wide to swallow and spit the Nine Provinces. Outside Chengtian Gate, the imperial road stretches for ten li, where Western Region camel bells interweave with Southern Sea treasure ships, reflecting the prosperous scene of ten thousand nations coming to pay tribute; in the Hall of Supreme Harmony, on the red sandalwood dragon chair, Emperor Liang Qian looks down upon his ministers, forging an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity with iron-blooded laws and policies of conciliation. In this world, martial arts flourish. Across the nine ranks of cultivation, from the bone-refining Martial Apprentice to the transcendent Martial Sovereign, the strong can rival nations, while the weak are like ants. Yet, the most groundbreaking aspect of the Shenwu Dynasty is not just martial arts, but the hearts of the people. Mindful of his birth mother's suffering, Liang Qian specially decreed new policies: allowing widows to remarry, opening female households, permitting women to inherit titles, and opening civil examinations for women to become officials. In an instant, women proved themselves no less capable than men, with female generals commanding troops, female officials managing state affairs, and female merchants amassing great wealth, breaking the thousand-year feudal shackles. Yet, beneath the prosperous age, undercurrents surge. The remnants of the nine kingdoms have allied under the Yinghuo banner, the Hundred Schools of Thought fight both openly and secretly, and the martial world enjoys its quick-tempered enmities. In this best of times, which is also the most dangerous of times, let us see how the high courts and the distant martial world interweave into a magnificent and turbulent epic of Tianyuan! And who are you? And where, should you go...