Qingyu understood the difference between Tianming and the sun emperor. Facing the problem of the specters, the sun emperor would have chosen to cut the Gordian knot no matter how many people died. He would first destroy the specters to avoid trouble in the future. As for the deaths of his own people, he could always increase the population by encouraging births. However, Tianming didn't want those who had suffered to sacrifice their lives. Let alone a billion, he wasn’t willing to lose even a hundred thousand. But that didn’t mean he would go easy on the specters. To die, or to live with their tail between their legs, the choice was theirs. Revenge was impossible. Three thousand years later, even if Tianming was no longer...