All the heavens begin with the love in the courtyard.

The first thing Han Chunming did upon returning to the Dragon Kingdom was to prepare to marry Lü Su as his queen. It was time for him to get married and have children.

Han Chunming has always presented himself as a true god to the people, which has led the vast majority of the people to believe that their king is a god. How could a god marry and have children?

Now, Han Chunming has announced that he will marry a princess, which has surprised many people.

However, Han Chunming had always exercised autocratic rule in China, and no one opposed his proposal.

Han Chunming had someone choose a date, and that was how Lü Su's official status was decided.

The wedding banquet was held in the capital of the Dragon Kingdom. Hundreds of envoys from various countries came, and the carriages carrying gifts blocked the city gate for three days and three nights before they were cleared.

Inside and outside the palace, Han Chunming invited hundreds of top chefs to hold a grand banquet for a month, sharing the joy with the people. Whether guests or citizens, everyone could enjoy the banquet for free for a month. This wedding banquet cost over 100,000 gold coins.

Han Chunming originally didn't want to go to such lengths, but he was in a rare good mood, and with so many guests coming, he ended up setting up this place without really thinking about it.

However, it was all worth it. Before the wedding banquet was over, Han Chunming had already disappeared.

He indulged himself once again, staying in his palace for seven days and seven nights before finally leaving. He experienced the ultimate bliss in this month-long world.

Wine, women, and beautiful women can easily lead one astray. Perhaps it was because Han Chunming had taken an elixir of immortality that he suddenly felt his long-cherished wish had been fulfilled, and he couldn't help but indulge himself.

To put it simply, he suddenly became arrogant. Even if Han Chunming took the elixir of immortality, he is still a human, not a god. As long as he is human, he will become complacent and will have shortcomings.

What Han Chunming was unaware of was that from the moment he returned to the Dragon Kingdom, a conspiracy against him had already been secretly unfolding.

After the wedding banquet, Han Chunming finally returned to his newly built palace, which he had specially built for Lü Su. The entire palace was built in the style of Central Plains architecture, and an artificial lake was even dug outside the palace.

That day, Han Chunming was embracing Lü Su, enjoying her soft and fragrant embrace, when suddenly a strong sense of crisis struck him. Han Chunming was jolted awake from his sleep and instinctively shielded Lü Su beneath him.

Immediately afterwards, with a loud bang, a huge shockwave struck, and the sound of the impact and the flames spread instantly. Han Chunming felt a burning sensation on his skin, and the pain made his muscles tense up instantly.

After a long while, Han Chunming slowly crawled out of the ruined palace. Lü Su had been knocked unconscious, but fortunately, with his protection, she was not seriously injured.

Looking at the palace, now reduced to ruins, and smelling the stench of explosives in the air, Han Chunming couldn't help but let out a cold laugh.

He simply couldn't believe that trinitrotoluene, a yellow explosive several times more powerful than black powder, was making its first appearance in this world in this way.

What's even more interesting is that the other side managed to plant explosives in my newly built palace. It's really fascinating. What interesting things happened in the Dragon Kingdom during the year I was away?

Han Chunming looked at his arm, which had been burned white, and felt waves of burning pain. The wound on his arm was visibly growing new muscle tissue.

The burned skin slowly begins to scab over, eventually becoming new skin with almost no scars.

This is the change brought about by the elixir of immortality. Even if the arm is blown off, it will still slowly grow new muscle tissue and eventually grow back into a complete arm.

However, the pain did not disappear. Han Chunming gritted his teeth and carried Lü Su out of the palace.

Chaos had broken out outside the palace. Groans and severed limbs were everywhere. Fire and smoke from the explosives covered an area of ​​several hundred meters.

Han Chunming coldly watched all of this. This time, the other side was clearly determined to succeed or die trying, and the amount of explosives was considerable.

Yellow explosive is the legendary TNT, the king of explosives. Han Chunming originally thought it would take at least five years to invent this explosive, but he never expected that this sudden surprise would be so unexpected.

The only institution capable of producing TNT is the Dragon Kingdom Science Research Institute, which is Han Chunming's core base. The talent there was gathered by Han Chunming with the full strength of the nation, and the teachers there were all his students who had followed him for many years.

Han Chunming coldly watched all of this. It seemed that during the year he was away, something he couldn't have imagined had happened. Now, even his core base had been taken away. Indeed, politics is bloody.

Soon, a figure led a group of guards and rushed to Han Chunming's side. The person was Yin Tian, ​​who was on duty as a guard for his wedding.

Yin Tian was shocked to see Han Chunming unharmed. He immediately knelt down and shouted nonsense about being late to the rescue.

Han Chunming coldly stared at his top military commander. If Yin Tian was unaware of this incident, Han Chunming would absolutely not believe it. As for whether Yin Tian was involved or not, that was no longer important.

Han Chunming didn't waste any words. He carried Lü Su out of the palace. Since the other party had already made their move, they wouldn't be surprised if he used swift and decisive measures.

Watching Han Chunming's retreating figure, Yin Tian, ​​who was trembling all over, slowly turned gloomy. He clenched his teeth, looked up at the sky, and finally took out a whistle and blew it.

The whistle was shrill, soaring into the sky. When Han Chunming heard the whistle, he frowned, and then a cruel smile appeared on his lips.

"Boom...bang..."

As soon as Han Chunming stepped out of the palace, he saw a row of gun barrels pointed at him. Han Chunming's expression hardened, and he quickly turned his back. He heard a thud behind him, the dull sound of iron bullets hitting his skin, which finally enraged Han Chunming.

First TNT, then firearms. It's quite interesting that during the year I was away, the Academy of Sciences seemed to have entered a stage of rapid technological development, yet I hadn't noticed anything unusual during my return, and no one had come to report to me.

As the gunshots subsided, hundreds of uniformed soldiers surged out from all sides, each wielding a spear and a longsword, and charged toward Han Chunming.

Seeing the soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the Dragon Kingdom rushing towards him, Han Chunming's eyes instantly turned bloodshot. He held Lü Su in one arm and strode into the crowd.

At this moment, he seemed to exude an invisible pressure. Han Chunming had never been so angry since he transmigrated to this world.

The anger of being betrayed by one's own people, the anger that comes from the bottom of one's heart, can only be fully vented through killing.

After taking the elixir of immortality, his strength had far exceeded the normal level that mortals could understand. In the eyes of mortals, he was a god at this moment.

Unfazed by the countless swords and blades, he charged into the crowd like a bulldozer, turning anything and everything in his path into dust.

He threw a punch, which, from nearly a meter away, transformed into a shockwave, instantly turning the head of one person in front of him into a bloody mist. He grabbed the collar of another person, his eyes red, and roared viciously.

"You have insulted this uniform, die!"

As he spoke, Han Chunming slammed the man to the ground with a "thud," turning him into a pool of blood.

Han Chunming's power and brutality sent chills down everyone's spines, but it was too late; they had successfully ignited Han Chunming's rage.

The killing had only just begun, with blood red becoming the dominant color. Han Chunming had no idea how many people he had killed.

It wasn't until Lü Suyou woke up in his arms, trembling as she hugged him tightly, their hearts pressed together, that Han Chunming fully regained his senses.

Knowing he was a king, not a heartless butcher, Han Chunming took a deep breath and finally calmed down.

Han Chunming carried Lü Su slowly out of the palace, a sea of ​​blood behind them.

This was a meticulously planned coup, but it failed due to a misjudgment of Han Chunming's strength.

If Han Chunming hadn't taken the elixir of immortality, which caused his power to surge once again, this coup might actually have succeeded.

If Han Chunming is successfully assassinated this time, the next step will be the formal disintegration of the Dragon Kingdom, with Yin Tian taking the largest slice of the pie.

Yin Tian became the biggest winner because he had the support of a technical expert from a scientific research institute. Glass, ceramics, and paper were just minor things; TNT and firearms were enough to make him the new overlord.

This coup may seem complicated, but it is actually quite simple. The Dragon God Cult, which has long been practiced in the Dragon Kingdom, has been brainwashing the entire population through faith, and this trend has gradually spread to the Academy of Sciences.

The scientific faction of the Academy of Sciences is a group of top talents with high IQs. They learned a lot of scientific knowledge from Han Chunming, which made it easy for them to uncover the secret of Han Chunming's miracles.

The invasion of the Dragon God Cult caused serious disagreements between them and the believers. Previously, when Han Chunming was in the Dragon Kingdom, these disagreements could be suppressed.

However, during the year Han Chunming was away, the Dragon God Cult became increasingly audacious, not only spreading its faith extensively in Tianshan City and Jushi City, but also doing its utmost to suppress the scientific and technological development of the Academy of Sciences.

When faith and science clashed, the weaker scientific faction eventually erupted, inventing TNT and gunpowder-powered guns within a year.

Although these were all theoretical concepts proposed by Han Chunming, these people implemented them within just one year, proving they are truly talented individuals.

Sure enough, war and conflict are the only driving force for scientific progress. This group of scientists joined forces with Yin Tian and several cabinet ministers of the Dragon Kingdom. These people had reached their limit of tolerance for the Dragon God Cult and decided to launch a major attack to kill their god and establish a truly practical nation based on scientific theory.

The plan went smoothly, and the operation was a success. Had they not misjudged Han Chunming's abilities, they might have actually succeeded.

If it were Han Chunming a year ago, whether it was TNT, guns, or even a series of attacks, this combination of punches would have turned Han Chunming into minced meat.

The internal rebellion caused Han Chunming great distress. More than one hundred people from the Academy of Sciences were involved in the incident, which accounted for almost half of the Academy's top talents.

Han Chunming really couldn't bear to kill them. After years of cultivation, these people had become towering trees. If they were given another twenty years, they might be able to cultivate thousands of top talents.

However, Han Chunming had no choice but to kill not only these hundred-plus top talents, but also the rebels, including Yin Tian and his Yin clan.

The number of people affected by this rebellion was beyond imagination, accounting for one-fifteenth of the total population of the Dragon Kingdom, nearly 400,000 people.

With a cold expression, Han Chunming issued the order: all the main culprits were to be slaughtered without exception, along with hundreds of science and technology enthusiasts from the Academy of Sciences and Shenlong University, totaling nearly 10,000 people.

The rest of them will all leave their hometowns to herd livestock and farm in remote deserts, dedicating their lives to the cause of the frontier.

This incident also made Han Chunming realize that nothing in this world is perfect.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. The Dragon God Cult's beliefs and the scientific school's pursuit of science are inherently in conflict. It's difficult to strike a balance between making others believe in science and believing in faith.

Han Chunming was helpless in this regard. Faith was his tool for uniting all the people, while scientific progress could liberate productive forces and make the country progress. It was almost impossible to perfectly reconcile the two.

The only saving grace is that Han Chunming now has enough time to slowly resolve all of this, because he has already achieved immortality, and the Dragon Kingdom is like an experiment; whether it succeeds or not, it is an attempt.

His ideal world was like the faiths of later generations: people could worship whatever they wanted and continue developing nuclear weapons if necessary—that was a balance of faiths.

This purge lasted for nearly half a year, and Han Chunming finally emerged from his life of wine, women, and killing. The Xiongnu in the north had already occupied the entire territory of the Donghu and were now launching an attack on the Yuezhi.

Han Chunming no longer waited. Hundreds of thousands of troops assembled and gathered at the border, preparing for a full-scale attack on the Xiongnu. The battle to unify the northern grasslands had officially begun!

Chapter Thirty-Six: A New Era

On the frontier of the Xiongnu border, in a royal tent, Modu sat on the throne with a donkey-like face.

He was surrounded by a group of burly men, drinking sheep's milk wine and eating roasted whole lamb, making a lot of noise. The tent was filled with the aroma of heat, but at that moment, Maodun felt a chill in his heart.

The Dragon Kingdom finally took action against the Xiongnu. In the past two months, the two sides have clashed several times. Although these were all small-scale probing attacks, the Xiongnu lost more often than they won and were almost completely suppressed by the enemy.

The Xiongnu were furious but helpless. Finally, the two countries signed a letter of agreement, deciding to divide a territory and set a time for the final battle.

Both sides have already amassed large armies on the border, preparing war supplies and assembling their forces.

With such a large-scale troop movement, both sides are on high alert, and a final battle is about to take place in the next week. Whether they will win or lose, Maodun has no idea what to expect.

Modu Chan was filled with anger and deep worry at the sudden attack launched by the Dragon Kingdom. He had four of the most powerful adversaries around him: the Donghu, the Yuezhi, the Qin Dynasty, and the Dragon Kingdom.

Now that the Donghu have been eliminated, the Yuezhi are also destined for destruction, leaving only the Qin and the Longguo.

The Dragon Kingdom was originally just a small country in the Western Regions, but in just a few years it has developed into a behemoth and is the country that Modu fears the most.

Legend has it that the Dragon Kingdom possesses a true god, whose power is boundless, capable of splitting mountains and shattering rocks, and even possessing the divine might to fly into the sky and descend into the earth. Moreover, according to the news brought back by spies, this legend is highly authentic.

In fact, Maodun was not very afraid of these legends. The Xiongnu also had warriors with immense strength who could lift a thousand catties. He always felt that it was impossible for real gods to participate in the war between mortals.

What he truly feared was the endless stream of new equipment from the Dragon Kingdom. Leaving aside auxiliary equipment like saddles and harnesses that could increase combat effectiveness, what he feared most was the Dragon Kingdom's weaponry.

During the two months of probing between the two sides, the disadvantages of the Xiongnu have become fully apparent. War is a contest of logistical resources and weapons, and the Xiongnu are at a disadvantage in both aspects.

In several battles, the Xiongnu also acquired a lot of armor and steel swords from the battlefield, especially long swords made of steel.

Each steel knife was a priceless treasure to the Xiongnu, capable of severing their curved swords with a single strike.

The quality of the weapons on both sides was not even in the same league; they were practically from different eras.

Maodun knew very well where the reason lay: the forging technology mastered by the Dragon Kingdom had far surpassed that of the Xiongnu, and that was the real reason why he was wary of the Dragon Kingdom.

In fact, the forging technology of the Dragon Kingdom had attracted the attention of Maodun several years ago. Over the years, he had sent countless spies to the Dragon Kingdom in an attempt to obtain the forging technology, but all of them ended in failure.

All of the steel mills in the Dragon Kingdom are located in Giant Stone City and Tianshan City. Giant Stone City, needless to say, produces the most technologically advanced products, and outsiders can hardly get in.

The factories in Tianshan City, although mostly producing civilian products, are built in the form of industrial zones, and ordinary people are prohibited from entering.