“So, is there no hope for our Song Dynasty?”
Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing.
In the northwest part of the city, at the residence of Li Qingzhao, the Assistant Minister of Rites.
Sixteen-year-old Li Qingzhao stood by the window, dressed in her robe.
Gazing at the moon outside the window, approaching its fullness, she uttered these words.
Thinking about the fate of this country being trampled underfoot by foreign tribes, she sighed softly.
She turned to the chat group page, about to thank everyone in the group for clarifying her doubts.
But she saw several new messages in the group.
Huang Rong: “No hope? Not necessarily.”
Lin Fengjiao: “Indeed, from the moment Li Qingzhao joined the chat group, your destiny and the destiny of your entire country depend on whether you are willing to change it.”
Yukine Shiori: “Miss Yi An should have checked the Mall, right? You wouldn't have said that if you did.
“There is a ‘Martial Arts Classic’ in the Mall. The highest level of cultivation is the Martial Dao Golden Core, Refining Aperture Celestial Immortal, possessing the ability to move mountains and fill seas, destroy heaven and earth.
“The group owner has provided each new member with an initial overdraft limit of one thousand points.
“One thousand points can purchase a complete Heavenly Man level internal martial arts skill or a complete Refinement of Viscera Realm body-tempering technique.
“Heavenly Man and below Heavenly Man, it's the difference between mortal and transcendent. Cultivating Martial Dao Heavenly Man or Innate Martial Master, one person can conquer a nation, one person can repel millions of soldiers.
“There are also Nine Aperture Golden Pills in the Mall, costing only three hundred points each. After using them, people can quickly break through to the Martial Dao Heavenly Man, Innate Martial Master realm.
“Even if one thousand points are not enough to buy a complete Heavenly Man realm technique and Nine Aperture Golden Pill.
“But just buying Grandmaster Realm or the entry-level Heavenly Man realm technique, along with a Nine Aperture Golden Pill, is enough for a person to step into the transcendent realm of 'unmatched by human power' within a few days.
“Once you have the strength, earning more points will be much easier.
“That's why Lin Daochang said that since joining the chat group, your destiny has changed, Miss Yi An.
“As for whether to change the destiny of the country behind you, it's up to you to decide.”
Li Qingzhao: “‘Martial Arts Classic’? Nine Aperture Golden Pill?
“Thank you all for letting me know, I'll go check the Mall first.
“Also... I don't have the title ‘Miss Yi An’ now.
“Leaning on the south window to find solace, contented with my simple life. The two characters ‘Yi An’ are not something I desire.”
“So, please just call me by my name.”
Yukine Shiori: “Sorry, my mistake.”
The sixteen-year-old talented woman from the Li family, her literary foundation was already formed, her poetry and prose came naturally.
She had not yet been tempered by the hardships of life, she was at her most spirited.
Phrases like ‘Returning to the boat at sunset, lost in the depths of lotus flowers’ and ‘Know it or not, it should be green fat and red thin’ were all written during this period.
How could she have the mindset of 'contented with my simple life'?
Li Qingzhao: “It's me who should thank you all.”
Northern Song Dynasty, Bianjing.
Li Qingzhao thanked everyone in the group again, and then, following the instructions she learned after clicking the red button, she opened the Group Mall, which contained various functions and usages.
There weren't many items sold in the Mall, and she easily found the ‘Martial Arts Classic’ and Nine Aperture Golden Pill mentioned by Yukine Shiori.
She first read the description of the ‘Martial Arts Classic’, and gained a more direct understanding of the so-called ‘Martial Dao Golden Core’, ‘Refining Aperture Celestial Immortal’ with the power to destroy the Liao, Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties in one strike.
While feeling shocked, she was also speechless at the price of 500,000 points.
Five hundred thousand... She saw that one hundred taels of gold was only worth one point in the Mall.
Five hundred thousand points, that's fifty million taels of gold.
Even if she sold the entire Song Dynasty... well, selling the entire Song Dynasty, it seems she could get that many points.
However, as a Song person, although she lamented its misfortune and was angry at its incompetence, she wouldn't go so far as to sell her own country.
So, after reading the introduction of the ‘Nine Aperture Golden Pill’ in the Mall.
After only a moment's thought, she decided to follow Yukine Shiori's recommendation and buy a technique capable of breaking through to the entry-level Heavenly Man realm and a Nine Aperture Golden Pill first.
First, she would raise her strength to the Heavenly Man realm, 'unmatched by human power', and then try to earn more points and change the destiny of this country.
Thinking about this.
At this moment, Li Qingzhao was filled with gratitude for the group owner, whom she had never met.
If he hadn't invited her into this chat group, if he hadn't put the ‘Martial Arts Classic’ and Nine Aperture Golden Pill up for sale in the Mall, and even generously provided an overdraft limit of one thousand points.
Twenty-five years later, facing the fall of Bianjing and the collapse of the country.
How helpless and powerless would she be in the future?
Sui Dynasty, Thirteenth Year of Daye, February.
While Li Qingzhao was browsing the Mall, reading the chat of the group members, Li Shimin also opened the Group Mall.
Staring at the ‘Martial Arts Classic’ priced at 500,000 points, which could make one practically like a celestial being after cultivation, his breathing quickened involuntarily.
One finger can shatter mountains and break rocks, one palm can cause the earth to sink.
Such power, even the legendary celestial beings, gods, and Buddhas, wouldn't be much different.
If he could truly possess such power.
What Sui Dynasty, what Xue Ju, what Liu Wuzhou, wouldn't they be easily crushed?
As for the few black marks that the group owner mentioned on him besides the issue of educating his children...
With such power, the Xuanwu Gate Incident wouldn't happen, right?
Father and son forcing each other, brothers fighting each other, it was truly something he couldn't bear to see.
And this chat group right now, gave him hope that he could prevent those futures.
Thinking about this, he couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude towards the members in the group, towards the mysterious group owner.
Then he saw...
Li Yi: “Uncle Jiu, aren't you going to drink foreign tea?
“If you don't leave now, you'll be late.
“I'm waiting for your livestream, the flowers are about to wither.”
Li Shimin: “......”
Li Qingzhao: “......”