I saw demons slaughtering civilians and keeping people penned up like livestock.
I saw humans killing one another, leaving bodies strewn across the land.
I saw emperors and generals, in the name of some so-called greater good, trampling loyal ministers, valiant generals, and hundreds of thousands of lives underfoot.
I also saw young children having their hearts cut out and their bellies ripped open, all for a fanciful pill that supposedly grants immortality.
Li Chenqing thought he could watch it all with indifference. He thought he could do the same.
But he was wrong. He could not.
The land of Shenzhou is vast, vast enough to hold hundreds of millions of lives!
And yet it is small, small enough for all its people to scheme against one another, killing and slaughtering without end!
The victors rule and the defeated perish: who will write of the beacon fires that consume the land in troubled times? With my sword, I shall slay the flood dragon!
What a drama!