Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

In the eighty-fifth year of the Five Kingdoms Calendar, the Tianqi Domain was peaceful and tranquil, and construction projects were carried out in various places, with temples dedicated to the Five Elements True Lords being built extensively.

Over the past year, various forces, including Da Shi, Ling Bei, Dong Qi, west Qi, and Da Tong, have recruited a large number of literati, scholars, and temple priests to recompile the mythological system of the Nine Realms.

All factions unanimously decided to place the title of the Five Elements True Lords at the highest level in the mythological genealogy.

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The Five Kingdoms Calendar, year 88.

Because the Great Spirit Empire adjusted its strategic direction and withdrew from the struggle for the Apocalypse Domain, a large number of border cities of the empire were directly abandoned.

Most of these cities were acquired later and lacked a solid foundation for rule, consuming a large amount of the Great Spirit Empire's manpower and resources every year.

Taking advantage of this strategic adjustment, Mu Yong made a ruthless decision and abandoned more than 300 similar cities in one fell swoop.

Over the past few years, various countries in the Apocalypse Domain have engaged in a series of open and covert struggles over these unclaimed cities.

Over time, and with more frequent occurrences, the conflicts inevitably became more intense, and more and more people died in the accidental clashes.

In the summer of the 88th year of the Five Kingdoms calendar, the Dark Feather Guard under the Western Qi and the Sky Patrol Division under the Eastern Qi clashed in Fancheng. The conflict lasted all night, with both sides mobilizing more than a thousand people to fight in the streets, resulting in heavy casualties.

The pretense of a ceasefire was completely torn away in this conflict, and various forces mobilized their troops to seize the border cities abandoned by the Great Ling Empire.

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Ninety years into the Five Kingdoms period, the war gradually intensified, with the conflict between the Eastern and Western kingdoms being the most fierce.

Both sides, each claiming legitimacy, have been continuously increasing their troop deployments in the border regions.

It started as a small-scale conflict, but because the generals on both sides were eager to make a name for themselves, they expanded the scale of the war in the shortest possible time, which led to a sharp increase in the number of dead and wounded.

Furthermore, since both the Eastern and Western Qi dynasties considered themselves the legitimate successors of the Great Qi and viewed each other as rebels, the fighting was particularly fierce.

This situation caused the war to spiral out of control, transforming from a small-scale military conflict into a matter of life and death for the entire nation.

The battlefield turned into a meat grinder, with more and more soldiers being thrown into the front lines and consumed like consumables.

Every minute and every second, soldiers die on the front lines, and families are torn apart by the war.

A decade or two of life is condensed into a single day, or even a fleeting moment, on the battlefield.

Blood soaked the earth; human lives were worth less than the swords and knives on the ground.

From initial intense fighting to a life-or-death struggle, it only took a few short years.

As the flames of war between the East and West continued to spread, more and more families lost their sons.

Along the vast border between the two countries, thousands of cities were draped in white cloth, and hatred permeated every corner of the border region.

If people from the two countries met outside, even the weakest woman would pick up a stone and throw it at the other.

With life and death forgotten, more and more people are left with only the raging flames of hatred burning in their hearts.

The nature of the war gradually changed, galloping towards the unknown like a wild horse.

At the same time, because the wars of the past century have rewritten the war situation in the Apocalypse Domain, countries have paid more and more attention to the development of weapons and equipment in recent years, and every war consumes countless resources.

The weak Western Qi was the first to succumb and sought support from its former enemy, the Great Shi Empire to the south.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Lin of the Great Empire sold a large number of weapons to Xiqi, intending to use Xiqi's strength to weaken Dongqi.

The Datong Empire, located at the southernmost tip of Daqi, also recognized the opportunity and sent a large army north, pressing on the border of Dongqi, forcing Dongqi to mobilize a large number of troops to defend itself.

The Lingbei Empire extended an olive branch to Dongqi, successively selling dozens of hundred-meter-class sky warships to Dongqi, and transporting tens of thousands of talismans, swords, and armor from Lingbei to Dongqi.

Even though the wise men of Dongqi and Xiqi realized that something was wrong and that the Da Shi Empire and Lingbei Empire were using them as pawns, the situation at the front and the domestic situation left them with no way to retreat and they could only rush along this road.

More and more able-bodied men were conscripted to the front lines, and large-scale uprisings broke out in both countries.

With its well-established system and deep-rooted experience, Dongqi was able to barely maintain stability, while Xiqi had completely fallen into chaos.

But whether in the Eastern or Western Qi, the court reached a consensus: only a major victory at the front could change the status quo.

The best way to resolve domestic conflicts is to win wars against foreign powers.

This attitude of both Eastern Qi and Western Qi caused the already tense war to slide deeper into a quagmire.

In the same year, Zhuge Xiang, who came from the Wenhong Hall, announced to the world that he had ascended to the realm of terrestrial immortals as a student of Sui'an Academy, and called himself Wuxiang Shusheng (Scholar Without Form).

The month after Zhuge Xiang ascended to the status of a terrestrial immortal, the Datong Empire held a grand celebration to commemorate the addition of the Grand Preceptor Zhuge Xiang.

The Wenhong Hall, located far away in the Tianming Domain, also responded. Its first wave of students had arrived in Changzhou and were building the Wenhong Academy in Changzhou City, the capital of the Datong Empire. Led by the deputy hall master Zhuge Xiang, they were promoting the Wenhong Academy's philosophy of literature and Taoism.

The name of Sui'an Academy spread far and wide, arousing the curiosity of countless people.

In the eyes of the world, since Sui'an Academy can cultivate a literary immortal, it must be a sacred place with profound literary cultivation.

Countless students embarked on a journey to find Sui'an Academy.

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, Bai Ling and Li Yin were still walking together on the land of the Yin Yin Domain.

Over the past few years, Bai Ling has repeatedly preached her ideas to the people of Yin Yin Domain, but has made no progress whatsoever.

She went into villages, into deep mountains, and into the homes of people in need, but received no reward.

The people of the Yin Yin Domain seem to have no concept of gratitude, and only know how to pursue profit like wild beasts.

Acts of kindness were seen as foolishness and stupidity. The prepared relief supplies were snatched up. On several occasions, Bai Ling and Li Yin tried to maintain order by distributing relief supplies to the weak, only to be thrown away by the villagers with stones.

Some villages, seeing that Bai Ling was a rare beauty with a delicate and graceful figure, actually dared to set their sights on her.

If it weren't for Li Yin protecting her and fighting through hundreds of villages, Bai Ling would be in a terrible situation right now.

With Bai Ling's strength, she would naturally not be harmed by a few villagers, but if she were to personally create one tragedy after another, it would probably plunge her into utter despair.

Fortunately, Li Yin did not let this happen. Whenever she encountered such a situation, she would resolve the problem in advance when there were signs of trouble.

Even so, several accidents still occurred.

Even someone as good-tempered as Bai Ling felt deep anger in the face of this situation, and after the anger came a deeper reflection: a profound sorrow for the current state of the Yin Yin Domain.

If a newborn child is a blank sheet of paper, then most people in the Yin-Yang Domain today are like tattered, torn pages.

The people here have lived in purgatory for far too long, so long that they have long lost the spirit that humans should have, and their ideas have become solidified from their past enslavement. Erroneous perceptions have penetrated their minds and permeated their entire lives.

This also makes them extremely stubborn, to the point that there is almost no possibility of them changing.