The First Man After Bai Qi: I Built a Thousand-Year Clan

In the final years of King Zhaoxiang's reign, Bai Qi is executed and the six states attack Qin. Deng Ning takes power and leads the defense, annihilating a hundred thousand allied troops in a single battle and nearly destroying all six states at once. He thereby becomes the greatest general since Bai Qi.

After King Zhaoxiang dies, an edict appoints Deng Ning, a transmigrator, to assist King Xiaowen, Ying Zhu. He later serves as regent and helps the emperor govern, becoming a senior minister under three Qin rulers.

His family endures for more than two thousand years. Nine of its members serve as regents, and its name resounds throughout the world.

When I first made my name two thousand years ago, the people of Qin called me the second Bai Qi. I was hailed as one of the Four Great Generals of the Warring States, while the six states called me the Demon Lord, a fiend more terrifying than Bai Qi and Ying Ji.

During Qin's conquest of the six realms, my five children distinguished themselves in battle. Our family produced nothing but celebrated generals and ministers, and two of my children were named among the Four Great Generals of the Qin dynasty, alongside Wang Jian and Li Xin.

During the Chu-Han Contention, my grandson aided Emperor Liu Bang in founding the Han dynasty. He helped restore order and defeat the Three Houses of Chu, establishing the Han and carrying on the Deng family's legacy.

Eighteen hundred years ago, later generations posthumously honored me as the Supreme One Above, known to history as the Supreme One of Heaven and named Ning Xinzhu. From then on, I was regarded as a deity.

As later generations put it: The Deng clan of Wu'an began with its founding ancestor, Deng Ning. Its rise to power began in the fifty-first year of King Zhaoxiang's reign. Appointed general, he held back the six states and nearly destroyed them all in a single battle, earning the title Lord of Wu'an and becoming the greatest after Bai Qi.

From then on, the clan's legacy passed down through the generations. It produced kings, nobles, generals, and ministers, served as regent and guardian to rulers in nine dynasties, and even had its share of rebels against those dynasties.

Deng descendants can even be found overseas, in distant lands. The most notorious is that "demon," Adolf Hitdeng.

Whether loyal or rebellious, let posterity judge.