Rise from a Low-class Family to Martial Artist-Chapter 121 - 22: The Grand Ancestor’s Three Wishes, the Three Chuunibyou Adults

The Holy Decree naturally would not be sacred, so these three truly admire the Grand Ancestor Emperor from their hearts, that kind of fervent worship cannot be faked.

So, Lord Su is not just setting up traps to trick me into admitting anything.

Being merely a little student, Lin Chen felt that he wasn’t important enough to have the Ancestral Founder’s Decree invoked.

"Now, do you believe my word?"

Su Lingchuan looked at Lin Chen with a smile, and Lin Chen, somewhat embarrassed, said, "I misunderstood, my Lord."

"Had I not read your file, I would have assumed you were some noble family’s child, so meticulous and cautious, unlike the son of a fisherman."

Fang Ze stared at Lin Chen, and even just his gaze brought immense pressure to Lin Chen.

"Though I hail from a fisherman’s family, I read many books as a child and enjoyed listening to storytellers’ tales. The more I heard, the more I pondered the ways of the world."

Lin Chen replied candidly, confident that as long as he didn’t speak of his transmigration, no one could know, so there was nothing to feel guilty about.

There are naturally people with a Wisdom Root, my little cleverness is nothing special.

"Lin Chen, now that you know of the Ancestral Founder’s Decree, let me ask you, do you wish to know about the demon beasts?"

Su Lingchuan brought the topic back, his eyes fixated intently on Lin Chen.

This time, it was Lin Chen’s turn to fall silent.

From the sound of it, the Grand Ancestor Emperor of the Liang Dynasty had issued a decree forbidding the spread of information about demon beasts among the people, so should he know or not?

Three breaths later, Lin Chen made his decision.

Having already set foot on the path of a Martial Artist, he would inevitably come to know the truth.

"I wish to hear the details, my Lord."

Su Lingchuan and He Ruyun exchanged a glance, and for the first time, the previously silent He Ruyun spoke: "Three hundred years ago, the Great Chu court was dim and lawless, with demon fiends wreaking havoc unchecked."

"The Royal Family was in decline, unable to restore its authority, as noble families in various regions amassed troops for their own purposes, resulting in endless warfare."

"Common people were plunged into suffering, perishing in the flames of war and the claws of demon fiends, indescribably miserable, cries of lamentation echoed everywhere, a scene unbearable to witness."

"Until the Grand Ancestor Emperor rose up in revolt, gathering people from all over the world to respond. In just five years, he eradicated the gate valve families, unified the land, and established our Liang Dynasty."

Lin Chen listened quietly; he heard nothing extraordinary in this, as it was merely the usual cycle of dynastic rise and fall, with nothing particularly special, just an old corrupt dynasty crumbling and a new one taking its place.

As for the adjectives used by Lord Su, being the victors, they naturally had the freedom to write the history.

"Do you know what makes our Liang different from Great Chu?"

It seemed as if He Ruyun could see through Lin Chen’s thoughts. After seeing Lin Chen shake his head, He said emphatically: "The difference between Liang and Chu is like that between the clouds and mud!"

"Before Great Chu was Great Song, and before that, there were regimes like Great Qi and Great Zhou. But the transitions of past dynasties were merely changes in the Royal Family’s bloodline, a change of hand over Jiangshan, only our Liang’s Grand Ancestor redefined the cosmos with unparalleled audacity, creating an unprecedented new order."

He Ruyun spoke with passionate indignation, and Lin Chen could see that what Lord He said came from the heart, which aroused even more curiosity about what the Grand Ancestor Emperor had accomplished.

"Throughout history, whenever a dynasty fell into turmoil, a new one would rise to replace it, but the chaos caused by demon fiends never changed in the slightest."

"These newly established dynasties, to ensure their stability, would humiliate themselves, colluding with demon fiends, signing treaties under duress, ceding land and offering their people, for temporary safety."

"Some went even further, taking advantage of the chaos to collaborate with demon fiends in secret, hoping to use their power to ascend to supreme rule and dominate the world."

"Such shameless acts inevitably could not last. These regimes manipulated by demon fiends would be overthrown by the enraged populace, reduced to ruin in a decade or less, or at most within a century."

"Even powerful states like Great Chu, Great Song, Great Qi, Great Zhou, faced with demon fiends, often adopted appeasement policies, preferring peace talks to gain temporary respite through compromise."

"In times of prosperity, demon fiends might restrain themselves, but once a dynasty entered its late phase and its national power waned, demon fiends would reveal their true faces again, wreaking havoc across the land."

"By that time, the Royal Family, to protect their hold on Jiangshan, could no longer contend with the demon fiends, left only to retreat constantly, ceding land for peace. By the end of Great Chu, their once vast territory was left with less than thirty percent, its lands fragmented and desolate."

With that, He Ruyun’s voice suddenly rose, his eyes slightly red: "Only our Liang’s Grand Ancestor Emperor, at the founding of the state, decreed national policies that forbade any demon fiend from existing, stating that if one generation could not eliminate them, then two generations must, and if two were insufficient, then three, with the policy never changing unless all Liang citizens perished."

"The Grand Ancestor set three national policies, founding the Military Affairs Department to oversee all matters of the Martial Path, and allowed all Liang citizens to learn Martial Arts Techniques!"

He Ruyun looked at Lin Chen: "Before Liang, no dynasty had ever opened the Martial Path to the entire populace, the resources of Martial Arts Techniques were held by the Royal Family and the influential gate valve families, leaving ordinary people with no way to learn martial arts."

Lin Chen felt a chill in his heart, understanding why previous dynasties did not open the path of martial arts to everyone.

If all people learned martial arts, governance would become even more challenging.

The Grand Ancestor Emperor showed great boldness; such actions were beneficial for the nation, though they might be quite the opposite for the Royal Family.