From Dust to Glory

The years not told in the main story hide the birth of an empire. This book contains more than ten independent novella stories. The timeline spans the turbulent era before the beginning of the main story. It uses the mortal fireworks, the Taoist heart of the spiritual master, and the ups and downs of Juelu to write about those figures that do not appear in the main story. From the tenants struggling in the mud to the practitioners hiding in the mountains; from the step-by-step work of the last five nobles to the thorny paths of the founding ancestors, each independent chapter of 20,000 to 50,000 words is a vivid life and a past that supports the foundation of the empire. It has nothing to do with the glory of the main story, but only about perseverance in the dust, choices in troubled times, and inheritance in the blood. Those joys and sorrows and blood scattered in time will eventually converge into the original appearance of the Tuju Empire standing at the westernmost edge of the continent and becoming the overlord of the nine empires.