Finally there was someone who mentioned some information with regards to the pitiful guy’s mother. Hearing Yi Nan’s Aunt’s words, the pitiful guy’s mother seemed to be the successor to the Hundred Flowers Clan?
The thing that made Yue Yang surprised was that the Valley of Butterflies and Hundred Flowers had actually governed a kingdom before.
They were actually crushed by the combined attacks of the Demonic Palace and the Thousand Goblins Sect… This was not an easy feat. The Demonic Palace and the Thousand Goblins Sect were both powerful secret organizations. Especially the Demonic Palace, even Da Xia, Tian Luo and Zi Jin, the three great kingdoms, didn’t dare to scorn them. The Valley of Butterflies and Hundred Flowers, being able to resist the attacks of both the Demonic Palace and the Thousand Goblins Sect at the same time, could actually be considered to be extremely strong.
“What was your Kingdom called previously?” Yue Yang was really curious. Every hundred years or so, there would be quite a few small kingdoms in the Soaring Dragon Continent that was destroyed. But he would never have thought that some of these kingdoms would be that strong, being able to resist the Demonic Palace and the Thousand Goblins Sect together.
“Our Kingdom is originally called the Dawn Kingdom. The outside world would usually call us ‘Guang Ming’ or ‘Ming’ Kingdom.” Yi Nan’s Aunt seemed to be unwilling to talk about it too much as she explained to Yue Yang indifferently.
(Shiro: Guang Ming means radiant, ming means light)
“What?!” Yue Yang almost jumped out of shock.
This ‘Guang Ming’ or ‘Ming’ kingdom, Yue Yang had heard about them before.
The Ming Kingdom was originally a great kingdom, it was ranked the top 5 in the Soaring Dragon Continent. The weird thing was that this Kingdom disliked battles and wars, furthermore, only females would be selected as monarchs. The Ming Kingdom would rather pay a huge sum of ‘Peace Offerings’ to the surrounding kingdoms than send their soldiers out to war. Even a small kingdom the size of a pea located near the Ming Kingdom could demand a Peace Offering from them.
The Ming Kingdom was also the only Kingdom who wouldn’t initiate an attack on any Kingdom.
When other kingdoms invaded them, they would rather send their rankers to stop the invasion and advise the invaders to retreat, offering a huge sum of money instead.
If City Masters rebelled or if they were attacked by enemies, the Ming Kingdom was also the only kingdom that would appease their citizens, allowing them to follow their City Masters and live in their new Kingdom. They would also give them a huge sum of money to redeem citizens who were still willing to continue to stay as citizens of the Ming Kingdom.
If there was a Kingdom in this world that could set a compassionate standard for other Kingdoms to follow, it was this Ming Kingdom which was ruled by women.
For an ordinary common folk, such a Kingdom was perfect.
However, for a warrior, such a kingdom was extremely depressing, because there was no hope of battling at all. They only received beatings and never retaliated, what would such a Kingdom even count as?
Such a ‘cowardly’ kingdom should have been destroyed very quickly, but on the contrary, the history of the Ming Kingdom spanned over thousands of years. Other than Da Xia, Tian Luo and Zi Jin, the three great kingdoms, Ming Kingdom was one of the Kingdoms with the longest history. Furthermore, countless Rankers had originated from the Ming Kingdom. Even all the combined rankers that originated from Da Xia, Tian Luo and Zi Jin together might not be more than the Ming Kingdom… This Ming Kingdom, whose territory had diminished but number of Rankers had increased over the years, was a joke in the eyes of outsiders. Although there were so many Innate Rankers in the Ming Kingdom, they were invaded by kingdoms with no Innate Rankers. Furthermore, after being invaded, they did not even retaliated… No one knew the reason for how this Ming Kingdom, who had always ranked within the top 10 of the Soaring Dragon Continent for the past hundreds of years in terms of kingdom strength and territory, would suddenly disintegrate a few decades back. Various City Masters and City Lords rebelled against them, and in the end, the Ming Kingdom had become a small kingdom, only the most flourishing and thriving capital was left as its territory.