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News and books from outside were quite difficult to bring in here.
“But the State of Yuān had one more peculiarity,” Sun Fuling went on at once, as though remembering an addendum. “Their new monarch was human. The previous demon king abdicated the throne to him on his deathbed. If he accepted investiture from the gods, then for the first time in history, one of Beijia’s twelve monster kings would have been a human king.”
“Yet he still refused. Why wouldn’t he accept divine investiture?”
Sun Fuling gave a small laugh. “Who knows? People have their own ambitions.”
“When the Son of Heaven is enraged, blood flows until it floats the shields[1]. After the monster emperor broke Yuān, he simply carved it up and divided it among five other monster states. Of course, the most vital core territory was kept for Lingxu City itself. You just mentioned the Baoshu King. It, too, received a huge stretch of excellent land.” She sighed lightly. “After that, Beijia established a new law: if war breaks out between monster states, the other monster kings may only watch from the walls. None are permitted to enter the fray.”
As she spoke, she stroked the sparrowhawk’s head as if it were an obedient cat. “I heard from the headmaster of Shumin State Academy that the Yuān...
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