Qizhenzi's death.
Time seemed to press the fast-forward button, racing ahead with unstoppable momentum.
Ten years.
Twenty years.
Thirty years.
Thirty years of Longxing's reign passed in a blink.
The "Jianlong Prosperous Era" faded into history.
Generation after generation of emperors rose and fell, each era swept away by the tides of history. Da Liang, since Emperor Jianyan's revival, experienced the glory of the Jianyan and Longxing eras before inevitably entering the cycle of rise and fall.
After the prosperous era.
It barely sustained itself for another eighty-seven years before finally collapsing, the Zheng Dynasty on the brink of extinction.
A hundred-year dynasty.
A thousand-year lineage of noble families.
The unyielding Baozhi Forest.
Amid cycles of ascension and decline, dynastic changes, Baozhi Forest stood tall, unbroken for two hundred and thirty years.
One hundred and seventeen years ago.