Chapter 517: Kill a Batch, Recruit a Batch!

[Forty-fifth Year, Seventy-one Years Old.]

[The Resistance Coalition was completely annihilated, and the Heavenly Calamity Alliance achieved global unification.]

[You believe that since the globe has been unified, it's no longer appropriate to stand as a sect power, and a nation should be established.]

[Establishing a nation means many new positions will be created, so this proposal received everyone's support.]

[The Heavenly Calamity Alliance was dominated by the Tiansha Sect, and the dominant race within the Tiansha Sect was the Dragon-Man tribe.]

[Therefore, this new nation covering the entire surface of Blazing Star should naturally be called, Heavenly Dragon Nation!]

[From then on, the people of this nation would usually call themselves, Heavenly Dragon People!]

[The founding ceremony was grand and magnificent, the newly built capital packed with crowds.]

[Wearing Si Duoduo's appearance, you stood atop the sacred altar for heavenly worship, the holy flame blazing fiercely behind you.]

[Below the platform were Alien Race members bowing and chanting in worship, a vast dark mass kneeling in prostration.]

[The Human Race was forbidden from attending the ceremony.]

[Your heart felt deeply unsettled.]

["If the race cannot stand, what purpose do I serve..."]

[In the current Real Realm, the situation of the Human Race on various planets, though slightly different, was largely the same.]

[Some were pure slaves, fallen into the dust, like the former Fortune Star.]

[But there were also places like Vermilion Violet Star, where human forces could possess Immortal Lords, such as the Ji family and Jiang family.]

[But even the Ji family and Jiang family were essentially constrained by the Alien Race.]

[They had to comply with every demand of the Alien Race, even frequently having to swing the butcher's blade against their own kind, just to preserve that portion of cultivator strength.]

[In other words, the Alien Race allowed the Ji family to have an Immortal Lord and so many High-Grade cultivators because they had utility value.]

[So whether it was Vermilion Violet Star or Fortune Star, the Human Race was at the very bottom of the chain of oppression by all races, unable to raise their heads for all eternity.]

[When a race is treated this way, the weight falling on each individual could be a mountain.]

[Your uprising on Fortune Star, your secret support of the Human Race on Blazing Star, was helping this race, but even more so helping yourself.]

[When the nest is overturned, no egg remains unbroken.]

[As long as the Human Race remained in this state of being suppressed, bullied, guarded against, and strangled by the Alien Race, if you wanted to cultivate in the Real Realm and climb to higher realms, you would face endless obstacles.]

[Their hands indeed could not reach into the Void Realm, but the problem was the Void Realm couldn't provide advancement.]

[So every step you took was first creating a safe environment for yourself, or a retreat path, and then seeking further progress.]

["Your Majesty! Now that the great enterprise is complete, Blazing Star is unified, the Tiansha Sect reigns supreme, and you have ascended to the throne!

Now, we no longer need the Human Race. It is time to stop teaching them our ways and immediately eliminate those among them with high aptitude!"]

[You had just finished the founding ceremony and returned to your magnificent palace, when the former Grand Elder of the Tiansha Sect, now the Chancellor of Heavenly Dragon Nation, Ya Dada, immediately counseled eliminating human cultivators.]

[He was well aware that the Alien Race population was generally small, and combined with years of war and your refusal-to-surrender policy, the Alien Race population across the entire planet was now less than one-tenth that of the Human Race.]

[So he didn't say to wipe out the Human Race entirely, or slaughter a large swath, only to continue the ancient policy of forbidding humans from cultivating, and to eliminate those among them with high aptitude.]

[You looked at the assembled ministers and smiled.]

["Yes, it is time to eliminate them."]

[You changed tack and continued.]

["But this matter cannot be rushed. My great Heavenly Dragon Nation has just been established and only recently restored contact with the outside world. If other planets see that we resorted to massacre right after founding, it would be most unsightly.

Therefore, we must proceed gradually, we must have just cause, we must make people sincerely accept it."]

[The hall full of Alien Race high officials and ministers were filled with admiration for you.]

["Your Majesty is brilliant!"]

[See that? These ones saying "Your Majesty is brilliant," all of them have now entered your death list.]

[But eliminating all these high officials in one breath would be inappropriate.]

[Too strange.]

[How to eliminate a group of high officials while making it appear unrelated to you, at most making people think you're somewhat inept, unable to distinguish the loyal from the treacherous?]

[This is simple.]

[First find a reason, kill a few extremely disobedient ones, establishing your image of dragon majesty that cannot be offended.]

[Then recruit some upstarts who want to rise, hinting that you will support them.]

[You must understand, the dominant race of this Heavenly Dragon Nation is the Dragon-Man tribe!]

[What's the temperament of the Dragon-Man tribe, need it be said?]

[Finally, let the upstarts and old clans fight each other, openly and covertly eliminating all disobedient old clans, letting your trusted followers and the upstarts take the stage.]

[The above.]

You thank the version of yourself from back on Earth who seriously watched historical dramas, learning a smattering of imperial political tactics.

[This superficial understanding might not work on the Human Race with their deep cultural heritage.]

[But dealing with these barbarians was more than enough.]

[Your scheme quietly operated.]

[Over several months, the court underwent dramatic upheavals.]

[Some were killed, demoted, or had their cultivation stripped for offending the imperial countenance.]

[Some were rapidly promoted for a few words that pleased the emperor.]

[Some formed cliques, engaged in partisan self-enrichment, and openly attacked other ministers, yet the emperor turned a blind eye.]

[The ministers privately discussed among themselves.]

["Sigh, the one on the throne, I increasingly cannot see through him."]

["Indeed, every time I meet his gaze, my heart palpitates. Those eyes seem as eerie as an abyss..."]

["I never thought being a high official would be harder than fighting wars back then. I want to resign and go home, focus on cultivation and be done with it!"]

["Resign? Brother, if the power in your hands falls into your political enemy's hands, can you and your clan still cultivate in peace? They'd torment you to death!"]

["The officialdom is terrifying..."]

[Forty-sixth Year, Seventy-two Years Old.]

[The newly established Heavenly Dragon Nation's core court had fallen into a vortex of internal strife.]

[Behind this was naturally you, fanning the flames.]

[Those who advocated kicking the donkey once it's done grinding regarding the Human Race now had no energy to deal with the Human Race at all, already addicted to internal strife, oblivious to heaven and earth.]

[One day, you secretly ordered the Grand Palace Steward to deliver confidential letters to certain ministers in court, arranging a meeting at the Temporary Palace outside the city.]

[The letters hinted that this meeting was intended to eliminate the rebellious faction in court and restore proper order.]

[To prevent alerting the enemy, this meeting absolutely could not be disclosed to anyone.]

[After these people received the letters, they immediately realized: His Majesty is going to stand up for us!]

[Then it absolutely must be kept secret.]

[If those who always wanted to bring you down so they could rise to power found out, this matter couldn't be accomplished!]

[Thus, aside from those who received the confidential letters and the Grand Palace Steward who would definitely be silenced afterward, no one else knew about this secret meeting.]

[Dim lighting, a hall with every seat filled.]

[You in a black imperial dragon robe, seated high in the primary position, your gaze sweeping across these Transcendent Realm cultivators in the hall, the pillar ministers of Heavenly Dragon Nation.]

["Is everyone here?"]

[This familiar question, you had also asked in Spearhead Valley on Lingwei Star.]