All the heavens begin with the love in the courtyard.

I had been in the cave for not just one day, but for several years!

Han Chunming cursed inwardly, and without thinking, he turned and ran along the official road toward Xianyang City.

Han Chunming moved with lightning speed; to an ordinary person, he would only appear as a fleeting shadow.

Han Chunming walked quickly, his heart growing heavier. How long had he been gone? What had happened?

Just then, Han Chunming suddenly saw a donkey cart slowly approaching from not far away. Han Chunming quickly slowed down and rushed to the donkey cart in a few steps. The sudden appearance of his figure, along with the sword in Han Chunming's hand, startled the old man driving the donkey cart. He quickly jumped off the donkey cart, knelt down, and begged for mercy.

"Hero, hero! I'm just a farmer from the neighborhood, going to the city to get some fertilizer. I have no money on me, no money at all!"

Han Chunming's face darkened. He then looked up at the back of the donkey cart and saw several large wooden barrels. A stench wafted out. Han Chunming frowned, quickly helped the old man up, and asked anxiously.

"Sir, don't be nervous. I'm not a bad person. I'm just passing by and want to ask you some questions!"

The old man raised his head, glanced cautiously at Han Chunming, and then spoke with a nervous expression.

"I'm just a peasant, I don't know what the hero wants to ask?"

Han Chunming asked with a stern face.

Does the Dragon Empire still exist?

Upon hearing the words "Dragon Empire," the old man was so frightened that he quickly stepped back, looking at Han Chunming with fear in his eyes.

Seeing the old man's reaction, Han Chunming's heart sank to the bottom.

Han Chunming, with a stern face, asked a few more questions, and the old man gave his answers haltingly.

The more Han Chunming listened, the more his heart sank to the bottom.

Three years had passed since he last left. In the second month after he left the Dragon Kingdom, an internal strife broke out in Xianyang. The old man did not know what had happened, but he knew that war broke out again after that. Fires raged throughout Xianyang, especially in the Xianyang Palace, which was burned to the ground, including the Epang Palace from the Qin Dynasty.

Later, the people of Xianyang City scattered in all directions, and it almost became a ghost town. Even after that, there were still government soldiers chasing after people from the so-called Dragon Empire everywhere.

The old man was not well-educated and had always lived in a nearby village. He didn't know much about these things and mostly just heard rumors from others. He told them everything he knew.

With a heavy heart, Han Chunming dismissed the old man and strode onward toward Xianyang City.

Although the old man didn't know exactly what had happened, Han Chunming knew that, as expected, the worst-case scenario had occurred: without him, the Dragon Empire was just a pile of loose sand and would instantly fall apart.

To find out what had happened, Han Chunming had to go to Xianyang City. When he arrived in Xianyang City, he saw that half of the city wall was missing from the city gate. The vendors who used to set up stalls everywhere were long gone, and only a few people were going in and out of the city gate.

Several uniformed soldiers stood lazily at the car door below the city wall; two were dozing off, and two were chatting.

Han Chunming's feelings were incredibly complex at this moment. He had considered what would happen today when he left, but he never imagined that such a situation would arise in just three short years.

Could it really be as Yi Xiaochuan said, that his Dragon Empire will never even appear in history?

Han Chunming slowly walked towards the city gate. The soldiers at the city gate stood up immediately when they saw Han Chunming with his sword.

Han Chunming thought the other party recognized him, but he was obviously overthinking it. A soldier lazily called out to Han Chunming.

"Hey! Bringing swords into the city will incur a ten-coin entry tax!"

With a stern face, Han Chunming took out a silver coin from his pocket and tossed it to the soldier.

The soldier took the silver coin and his eyes lit up. Several other soldiers around him also had their eyes light up, their eyes gleaming with greed. They exchanged glances, then picked up their long spears and surrounded Han Chunming.

Han Chunming held the Starry Sky Sword across his chest and coldly stared at the four soldiers.

Seeing Han Chunming's calm demeanor, the four soldiers exchanged a glance, and one of them shouted.

"I'm giving you a chance today. Hand over the silver dollars from the Dragon Kingdom that you've been hiding on you. Buddy, we're reasonable people too. You know anything with the Dragon Kingdom logo is contraband, including your money. Hand it over, and you can go wherever you want. We won't make things difficult for you. How about it?"

Han Chunming's face darkened, his mood growing heavier. All symbols of the Dragon Kingdom were contraband. Very well, very well. In just three short years, his own empire had become a contraband. How interesting.

Han Chunming rarely showed anger, but at this moment he could not hide his desire to kill.

He reached for the hilt of his sword, ready to unleash a massacre and storm into Xianyang Palace.

Suddenly, a soldier put away his spear and spoke in a fawning tone.

"Alright, alright, let's not hurt our relationship. You can go now, buddy. You're lucky to have met me today. If you had met any other inspectors, you wouldn't have been so lucky. Also, let me give you a piece of advice: melt down those silver coins with the Chinese dragon logo before you spend them. It'll be safer that way!"

Han Chunming paused for a moment, his heart sinking, and ignored the others, turning around and entering the city.

After he left, a soldier behind him shouted at the person who had just spoken, somewhat disgruntled.

"Old Wu, what's going on? This guy must still have something on him. We finally caught a fat sheep, why let him get away!"

The soldier who had spoken watched Han Chunming walk away into the distance before clutching his chest and shouting with lingering fear.

“Brothers, we can make money, but we have to be alive to spend it. This guy is obviously a ruthless character. If we really fight to the death, we might lose our lives here. Let’s make money peacefully. Most of Xianyang has been evacuated. I heard Liu Bang has even reached Hanzhong. Let’s just grab whatever we can. Brothers, let’s think about our future!”

If Han Chunming had heard the soldiers' discussion, his mood would probably have become even heavier.

However, he didn't need the soldiers to tell him; once he entered Xianyang, he quickly learned everything that had happened during the three years he had been away.

Since I left, the Xianyang Palace has changed hands several times and has no connection whatsoever with the original Dragon Kingdom.

Three years ago, after I left Xianyang City, a rebellion broke out in Xianyang Palace. Radicals of the Dragon God Cult, together with members of the scientific faction, successfully took control of Xianyang City.

Later, the fanatics of the Dragon God Cult launched a counterattack, wiping out all the radicals and scientists.

However, after Han Chunming disappeared, various factions began to emerge within the Divine Dragon Cult. Within just six months, the Dragon Empire was divided into more than twenty fanatical factions.

These fanatical believers wanted to bring the Western Regions' beliefs to the Central Plains, but unfortunately, the Dragon Empire at that time had no mass support, and the spread of the belief failed. The fanatics then began to carry out a harsh spread of the belief, which led to various rebel armies rising up once again.

In just one year, those fanatical believers caused the deaths of millions of people in the Central Plains, which aroused the furious revenge and fear of the Dragon God Cult by uprising armies in various places.

So in the following year, the various rebel armies almost wiped out the fanatical believers in the Central Plains, and even regarded everything that symbolized the Dragon Kingdom as contraband, including the gold, silver and copper coins that the Dragon Kingdom had once used.

When Han Chunming left the Dragon Kingdom, the Dragon Empire had only been established for less than a month and had no foundation whatsoever. As a result, in just two years, the Dragon Empire, including the Divine Dragon Sect, completely disappeared from the Central Plains.

After making a few inquiries in Xianyang, Han Chunming learned that the Divine Dragon Sect had been driven to the Western Regions by various rebel armies.

Moreover, he learned that among the rebel armies, Liu Bang was the strongest. When Liu Bang conquered Shu, he preserved almost all of his strength. Once the Long Kingdom fell into chaos, he swept across the land and occupied most of the Central Plains.

Han Chunming was filled with complex emotions. He felt as if history was correcting everything he had done. He sighed, bought a horse, turned and left Xianyang, heading towards Hanzhong.

Liu Bang's army had reached Hanzhong and was not far from Xianyang. If nothing unexpected happened, Liu Bang might once again become the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Han Chunming sighed. He had long lost his ambition. Now all he wanted was to find Lü Su and spend the rest of his life with her.

When Han Chunming arrived in Hanzhong, he saw Liu Bang's army camps neatly arranged outside the city. The army was disciplined, and the soldiers were all in high spirits. They were completely different from the lazy rebel army he had seen in Xianyang.

Seeing all this, he roughly understood why Liu Bang was able to become emperor. There is no victory without a reason. Liu Bang's army gave all the people hope, which was perhaps the reason why everyone wanted him to be emperor.

While his former Dragon Kingdom army was powerful, it relied more on military conquest. If you have strong military power, you can indeed dominate for a time. However, with his departure, the Dragon Kingdom, a country built on faith and military force, instantly turned into quicksand.

If I could have served as the cornerstone to consolidate the Dragon Kingdom for decades, and once everything was on the right track, perhaps the Dragon Kingdom would have become an unprecedented empire. What a pity!

Han Chunming spent several days investigating the city where Liu Bang was stationed. One dark night, Han Chunming sneaked into Liu Bang's residence, stood by his bedside, and patted Liu Bang's face with his Starry Sky Sword. Liu Bang woke up with a start and was so frightened by the sight of Han Chunming that he staggered.

That night, Han Chunming stayed until late, then left a booklet for Liu Bang before quietly departing.

A month later, Han Chunming found Lü Su in Sichuan. Lü Su had become even thinner. Han Chunming gently wiped away her tears and whispered in her ear.

"We'll never be apart again!"

With tears in her eyes, Lü Su nodded abruptly and threw herself into Han Chunming's arms, crying for a long time.

After that, Han Chunming took Lü Su back to a remote mountain near Xianyang, and the two settled down thereafter.

Time flies. Han Chunming occasionally heard about what was happening outside the mountains, but he rarely left the mountains anymore. Liu Bang officially ascended the throne and became the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Bang often took out the booklet that Han Chunming had given him, which recorded another piece of history, a history without the Dragon Kingdom, a history in which he, Liu Bang, forced Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Western Chu, to commit suicide at the Wujiang River.

In the third year of Liu Bang's reign, he finally decided to pass down the history in this book as the Records of the Grand Historian, and from then on, the Dragon Kingdom ceased to exist in the world.

Over the next hundred years, Han Chunming would visit that cave every few years and stay there for two or three years at a time.

Han Chunming and Lü Su had no children of their own, but eventually adopted an orphan named Han Doudou. Later, Lü Su passed away, and Han Chunming also faked his death. Han Doudou then left the mountains and went to Xianyang City, where he married and had six sons. From then on, the Han family line flourished and continued indefinitely.

Later, Han Chunming also went to the Western Regions, wanting to see the civilization he had left behind in Tianshan City and Jushi City.

Unfortunately, civilization is more fragile than he imagined. The Great Stone City was already destroyed, and the Heavenly Mountain City was also wiped out in a flood, becoming a legend like Loulan.

For the last twenty years of his life, Han Chunming stayed in that cave.

The energy of the meteorite in the sky had been almost completely absorbed, but the worm inside his body was becoming increasingly agitated, showing faint signs of awakening.

He had absolutely no idea whether he could take this insect down with him, but he had to try.

Yes, for the past hundred years, Han Chunming has been researching how to destroy the worms inside his body. The reason he wanted to destroy these worms was because he discovered them in his eightieth year.

Because by then, he had been evolved by this insect into an incredibly powerful tool. That evolution broke some of his body's limits, and he returned to reality in a half-dream, half-awake state.

But at that moment, he suddenly realized that he seemed to have brought this thing back to reality as well, and that heart-pounding fear brought him back to this world in an instant.

From then on, Han Chunming began to focus his research on how to destroy the thing inside his body.

Decades of research finally led him to a method: mutual destruction. He wasn't sure if his method would succeed, or if he would be unable to regain consciousness in reality after perishing.

Many mysteries will be revealed at the last minute.

In 2010, Yi Xiaochuan was exploring a primeval forest when he suddenly stumbled and fell off a cliff. In that instant, a dark hole appeared below the cliff, and before Yi Xiaochuan could scream, he fell in.

Yi Xiaochuan vaguely saw a man who looked exactly like him appear. Just as he was about to ask the man a question, he completely lost consciousness.

When he regained consciousness, he realized that he had actually arrived in the Qin Dynasty...!

Bailuyuan

Chapter 1: Becoming a Vegetative State

"Cough cough!"

"Cough cough cough...!"

The violent coughing finally woke her daughter, who burst into tears. The room lights came on, and Chen Ling, still half-asleep, got up to comfort her daughter.

Chen Ling turned around and glanced at Zhang Peng on the bed. Upon seeing him, she realized something was wrong. She quickly put her daughter down, went to the bedside, and nervously called out while touching Zhang Peng's forehead.

"Honey, honey, what's wrong? What's wrong? Mom, come quick!"

When his mother-in-law heard the news, she came over, looked down, and her expression changed drastically. She quickly said something.

"Lingling, I'm going to call 120. You go and comfort the child. Hurry up!"

At this moment, Zhang Peng, who was lying on the bed, was pale, with a trace of blood still remaining at the corner of his mouth. Occasionally, he would cough unconsciously and spit out a little blood. This scene was indeed frightening.