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

September, Year 97 of the Five Kingdoms Calendar.

The Ninth Legion of the Great Empire marched north, reaching Qiluo City, the southern gateway to Xiqi, where they set up camp outside the city.

Several days later, a large-scale military coup occurred in Qiluo City. Fires spread for dozens of miles, the seemingly impregnable fortress collapsed from within, and the entire city descended into chaos.

Zhong Hu, commander of the Ninth Army Corps, seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and personally led his elite troops into Qiluo City, where he killed the supreme commander of the Western Qi Allied Forces, Prince Jun Changping of Western Qi, on the streets of Qiluo City.

The rebels were terrified and rushed to surrender to the Great Empire.

When the news reached Yu Cheng, he made no comment.

There was no counterattack, no retaliation, not even a verbal condemnation.

Emperor of Western Qi, Emperor Huoyun, wielder of the Holy Sword of Humanity, eighth in the world...

Despite being surrounded by so many accolades, Jun Xiangyang took no action after the death of his most trusted prince.

It was as if the one who died was not his eldest son, but some outsider who had nothing to do with him.

On the contrary, Jun Mingle of Dongqi sighed upon hearing the news, saying that the Jun family had lost another outstanding junior.

Jun Xiangyang remained secluded in the imperial palace of Yucheng, spending his days cultivating without showing any emotion whatsoever over the news of Jun Changping's death.

Even though the magnificent Apocalypse warship was only a hundred miles away from Feather City, and the entire Feather City was surrounded by the army of Eastern Apocalypse, the creator of Western Apocalypse did not make any response.

As the emperor of Xiqi and the core of its rule, Jun Xiangyang locked himself in the palace at a critical juncture when Xiqi's survival was at stake, ignoring everything outside the city.

His past grand ambitions and humanitarian will have been completely forgotten, and he is no longer as spirited as he was before ascending to heaven.

If there's one thing Jun Xiangyang did, it was to quickly appoint a new crown prince to handle government affairs, so that he wouldn't have to be distracted.

Apart from this, there have been no other measures to address the predicament.

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March, year 98 of the Five Kingdoms calendar.

Strange phenomena appeared in the sky above Yu City for seven days.

On the night of the seventh day, a golden beam of light stretched across the sky, starting from above Feather City, traveling south for thousands of miles, and finally disappearing.

In April, without any warning, the Dongqi Legion changed direction and turned its spearhead towards the Great Shi Empire.

The Apocalypse Legion and the Cloud Legion arrived in the skies above Qi'an City, the old capital of the Great Apocalypse, from different directions.

Using the Tianqi warships as mobile military camps, hundreds of thousands of elite troops from Dongqi descended from the sky and stormed into the poorly defended Qi'an City with unstoppable force, recapturing the old capital.

At the same time that Qi'an City was captured, in Shuzhou City, Bai Xi and Ye Lin's son Bai Ran also entered the final stage of ascending to the status of a terrestrial immortal.

At this crucial juncture, the three terrestrial immortals of the Bai family gathered together, and all unimportant matters were indefinitely postponed by Bai Xi and Ye Lin.

Even the fall of Qi'an City was temporarily suppressed.

May.

The old emperor of the Daqi era, Jun Cheng'an, the ancestor of the Jun family, appeared in court.

Since rebellions are rampant throughout the land and the power of the royal family has fallen into the wrong hands, at this critical juncture of life and death, the descendants of the royal family should unite as one and there is absolutely no reason for them to fight amongst themselves.

Jun Cheng'an proposed a solution to mediate the conflict between the two younger generations.

As long as Jun Xiangyang acknowledges the legitimacy of Dongqi, he will no longer pursue the matter of treason, will confer upon him the title of Western King of Daqi, and will retain the territory under his command as his fief.

With the tide turned against them, everyone in Yucheng was overjoyed at such favorable terms.

High-ranking officials and nobles have repeatedly stated in public that this is not a surrender or a compromise, but rather for the future of the Great Qi Dynasty.

This is a great victory; their officials in the west have made a tremendous contribution to peace.

In June, Jun Cheng'an, Jun Mingle, and Jun Xiangyang returned to the capital to pay homage to their ancestors.

The two organizations, East and West, were thus merged.

……

In August, with the protection of three terrestrial immortals from the Bai family, Bai Ran ascended to the position of a terrestrial immortal.

The Great Empire was adorned with lanterns and decorations and celebrated throughout the country in celebration of the birth of a new terrestrial deity.

In September, the Empress Bai Xi and Regent Ye Lin of the Great Empire were furious because Dong Qi had launched an undeclared war and seized Qi'an City several months earlier. They then mobilized troops and launched an attack on Dong Qi from dozens of directions at the same time.

At the same time as the attack was launched, a letter written by Ye Lin himself was sent from Shuzhou City to Qing'an Prefecture.

The messenger was none other than Bai Ran, the second son of Ye Lin, who had recently become a terrestrial immortal in the Bai family.

The letter recalled the long-standing friendship between the Mu and Bai families, and the kindness shown to the couple by the Great True Lord.

It was pointed out that Dongqi's actions had damaged the friendly relations between the Great Shi Empire and the Great Ling Empire, and seriously harmed the interests of all countries. It was hoped that the Great Ling Empire could send troops to support them and jointly attack Dongqi.

At the end of the letter, Ye Lin also mentioned that the Bai family princess had many admirers of the princes of the Great Ling Empire and hoped that the Mu and Bai families could become even closer through marriage and establish a blood relationship that would last for generations.

Mu Yong had absolutely no interest in sending troops to support the Great Shi Empire and waging war against the powerful Eastern Qi.

The Great Spirit Empire's focus has long since shifted to the Yin Yin Domain, located across the ocean.

The vast ocean holds countless riches waiting to be developed, and there are not enough people to develop them, so how can they have the time to fight here?

This kind of war, which is time-consuming, laborious, and doesn't bring much benefit, is a pure waste of time.

Although he had no interest in war, Mu Yong expressed that he was genuinely interested in the Bai family's princess.

There is no other reason.

According to Mu Yong's observation, among the royal families of various countries, the Bai family's qualifications are definitely among the top tier.

Without the aid of the nation's fortune, for four immortal beings from one family to appear in the same era simultaneously, their talent must be considered exceptional.

In comparison, the bloodline of the Mu family has some issues.

Although there is a great and unparalleled true lord, whose divine might is like a prison, illuminating the world.

However, the descendants of the Mu family are generally of average talent. Even with the world's top-level cultivation techniques and such vast resources, the Mu family has only produced one terrestrial immortal, Mu Yong, in hundreds of years.

Mu Yong felt that this was indeed a very strange thing.

The dragon begets the dragon, the phoenix begets the phoenix, and the child of the mouse will make a hole.

Given the unparalleled talent of the True Lord, how could the descendants of the Mu family be so mediocre?

After developing suspicions, Mu Yong secretly conducted an investigation.

Later, Mu Yong discovered an extremely terrifying truth.

The great True Lord has no blood relation to the Mu family at all!

It is highly likely that the True Lord was adopted into the Mu family back then.

The events of more than three hundred years ago have long been buried in the dust of history, but as long as you are willing to investigate, you can always find something.

At the first opportunity, Mu Yong personally silenced everyone involved in the investigation and sent them to meet their maker ahead of time, leaving no possibility of leaking any information.

The True Lord's surname is Mu, and he is the ancestor of the Mu family. The Mu family members possess the same great bloodline as the True Lord, which is an indisputable fact.

Their Mu family possesses the noblest bloodline in the world!

Anyone who raises doubts is a heretic!

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The truth can be kept secret, but the thorn in one's heart will never disappear.

After realizing that the Mu family did not actually have any True Monarch bloodline, Mu Yong began to have doubts and felt uneasy every day.

Once upon a time, in order to maintain the purity of his bloodline, Mu Yong only allowed members of the Mu family's royal family to marry members of the Mu family, in order to produce one or two geniuses.

I don't aspire to be as great as the True Lord, but only to have the possibility of becoming a terrestrial immortal, just like him.