But it was not the Qianwu Ancient Country; it was a neighboring ancient country—the Cangshui Ancient Country!
A powerful ancient country whose national strength and foundation were no less than that of the Qianwu Ancient Country, possessing a Three Tribulations Divine King.
Yet, it proved utterly defenseless against the Barbarian Tribe.
Because the Barbarian God King personally took action, directly shattering all resistance, charging into the capital of the Cangshui Ancient Country, slaying its ancient Divine King, and overthrowing the imperial authority of an entire ancient country.
The world was shaken!
Countless forces were even more astonished—why did the Barbarian Tribe not move against the Qianwu Ancient Country, but instead against the Cangshui Ancient Country?
This caught everyone completely off guard.
While bewildered, the Qianwu Ancient Country also felt a sense of relief, fortunate that the attack was not directed at them.
However, those familiar with the inside story understood, and many forces grew panicked.
Because the Cangshui Ancient Country was one of the forces that had taken advantage of the Barbarian God King's passing to carve up his territory back then. The Barbarian God King was now taking revenge.
The next day, the Cangshui Ancient Country changed its national title to—Huang!
When this news spread, it puzzled the world. Why not—Barbarian?
What the world did not know was that "Huang" represented both the Barbarian Tribe's predecessor, the Huang Imperial Clan, and also signified Ye Chen's origin—the Huang Realm.
The Huang Ancient Kingdom. The Barbarian Tribe replaced the old imperial family, becoming the new imperial family. Under absolute martial force, the transition was completed smoothly with almost no casualties.
Over the next month, the Huang Ancient Kingdom remained active. As the world had anticipated, it moved against all the forces that had once acted against the Barbarian God Ancient Kingdom, sweeping through them like thunder, including three ancient countries and twenty-seven sectarian forces, wiping them out in one fell swoop.
Moreover, including the Cangshui Ancient Country, these were the four ancient countries that had surrounded the Qianwu Ancient Country.
Now, they had all become part of the Huang Ancient Kingdom, shaking the entire hundred nations.
In an instant, the original one hundred and seventeen ancient countries became one hundred and fourteen.
This caused panic among the hundred nations and ten thousand sects.
Many ancient countries speculated that the Huang Ancient Kingdom would likely move against other ancient countries.
Faintly, many ancient country forces began planning to unite to resist the powerfully returned Huang Ancient Kingdom.
Especially the Qianwu Ancient Country, which was in a state of panic.
Because the territory of the Huang Ancient Kingdom was vast and boundless, directly encircling the Qianwu Ancient Country on all sides, like a country within a country.
If the Huang Ancient Kingdom chose to strike at this moment, the Qianwu Ancient Country would not only be powerless to resist but also isolated with no allies on any side. How could a solitary country contend with the Huang Ancient Kingdom, which had absorbed four ancient countries?
Furthermore, the most terrifying factor was the Barbarian God King, a peerless Divine King whose presence alone was enough to suppress multiple ancient countries.
That night, the Qianwu Ancient Country's imperial family dispatched an envoy to the Huang Ancient Kingdom for negotiations.
The Qianwu imperial family hoped to pay a sufficient price to prevent the Huang Ancient Kingdom from annexing them.
But they received a refusal from the Huang Ancient Kingdom, which stated that the Qianwu Ancient Country should best prepare for war, as the Huang Ancient Kingdom would soon launch a true full-scale assault against it.
The Qianwu Ancient Country envoy returned with a grim expression. When the imperial family learned of this, everyone's faces turned dark.
The Huang Ancient Kingdom was making it clear that it was determined to conquer the Qianwu Ancient Country.
The Qianwu Ancient Country imperial family also issued a statement, declaring that the Huang Ancient Kingdom's invasion of other ancient countries violated the agreement of the hundred nations, and called for uniting with other ancient countries to deal with the Huang Ancient Kingdom.
That night, someone entered the Qianwu Ancient Country's imperial palace.
The next day, the Qianwu Ancient Country changed its tune, issuing a declaration expressing willingness to join the Huang Ancient Kingdom, become a royal clan within the ancient kingdom, and follow the Huang Ancient Kingdom in conquering the world.
This declaration immediately shook the Primordial Heaven Realm. No one knew what had happened the previous night, or why the Qianwu Ancient Country had suddenly changed its stance.
But everyone had a premonition that this era was not only a Golden Age but also a time of chaos. The structure of the hundred nations and ten thousand sects in the Primordial Heaven Realm might undergo tremendous changes, all starting from the rise of the Huang Ancient Kingdom.
However, at this point, the Huang Ancient Kingdom chose to halt its advance, proclaiming to the outside world that this was revenge against the forces that had carved up the Barbarian God Ancient Kingdom in the past. Other ancient countries and forces were not targets, which allowed many forces to breathe a sigh of relief.
Otherwise, facing the Huang Ancient Kingdom with a peerless Divine King presiding over it, over ninety percent of ancient countries would have no choice but to retreat.
At this time, the Huang Ancient Kingdom began integrating all five ancient countries into one.
Originally belonging to five different ancient countries, each with its own rule, merging them inevitably led to various frictions.
But the Barbarian God King was forceful, displaying the imposing might of an overlord from the Recent Ancient Era. Moreover, the Barbarian Tribe replaced the imperial families of the five ancient countries, becoming the new imperial family. They began changing all systems, transforming national policies, replacing them with the policies and systems of the Barbarian God Ancient Kingdom from the Recent Ancient Era.
However, they did not immediately reform the faith system; it was still too early for that.
The Huang Ancient Kingdom had ultimately existed for too short a time—merely a month. Rashly reforming faith would be impossible to implement across the entire country and could even trigger massive backlash, greatly affecting the stability of the entire ancient kingdom.
Since Ye Chen intended to challenge the contemporary Dominator of the Heaven Realm's hegemony over faith, he naturally had to lay the groundwork properly.
He aimed to fundamentally dismantle the Dominator of the Heaven Realm's hold on faith within the Huang Ancient Kingdom.
High in the heavens, Ye Chen stood in the void, looking down from a commanding height upon the vast Huang Ancient Kingdom, and also overlooking the Luo River Mountain Range stretching for millions of li.
At this moment, the armies originally belonging to the five ancient countries of the Huang Ancient Kingdom had long been integrated. Among them, the Barbarian Tribe personally selected a million-strong army loyal to the current Huang Ancient Kingdom, which entered the Luo River Mountain Range to combine with numerous demonic beasts and fierce beasts as cavalry, undergoing strict training.
This was the future strongest legion of the Huang Ancient Kingdom for conquering other ancient countries.
He also saw at the Luo River, four Divine King-level demon race beings as massive as mountains dwelling there, along with numerous Demon Kings and Beast Kings, and demonic beasts numbering in the billions, revealing a faint smile.
"Once my Dao injuries are fully resolved, I can truly and fully implement that plan."
Another three months passed in this manner.
Boom—
On this day, in the territory that was originally the Qianwu Ancient Country, precisely at the Luo River Mountain Range in the Eastern Victory Thirteen Prefectures.
Suddenly, Heaven and Earth Phenomena manifested, covering a radius of a million li, astonishing and shaking the world.
Faintly visible, it seemed as if boundless heavenly palaces manifested, accompanied by various rare Heaven and Earth Phenomena, immediately attracting everyone's attention.
The world was shaken, all understanding that a relic from the Mythical Epoch had emerged from the Qianwu Domain.
The Qianwu Domain was the renamed territory of the original Qianwu Ancient Country, changed from country to domain.
The Cangshui Ancient Country was also changed to the Cangshui Domain.
This directly stirred the Primordial Heaven Realm, attracting an unknown number of forces and powerful experts.
For a time, countless experts arrived one after another, all for the sake of this relic site.
It had long been rumored that the original Qianwu Ancient Country likely contained relics related to the Mythical Epoch, and not ordinary ones at that. Now discovered, it was indeed true.
Among the younger generation, countless geniuses rushed there, hoping to be the first to obtain that immense opportunity.