"Greetings, Your Highness, Prince Yan!"

The resounding voice echoed through the clouds, shaking the heavens and the earth.

At that moment, everyone within sight, whether prostrating themselves or kneeling on one knee, expressed their submission to Chen Yuan, this "Prince Yan."

Yan was indeed the title of Chen Yuan's maternal grandfather.

Chen Yuan thought long and hard and felt that this title was the most suitable.

After all, a title couldn't be chosen casually. It could be derived from the surname, the place where the uprising began, or the title of a noble ancestor.

Prince Chen didn't sound good, Prince Shu was too limiting, and as for Prince Chu... Chen Yuan had actually considered it, but Tianxu Daoist had rejected his idea.

Firstly, because the remnants of the former Chu were still around, which almost everyone in the world knew.

It wouldn't be appropriate for him to take the title of Prince Chu.

Secondly, did he want to become the restorer of the Great Chu?

In the end, "Yan" sounded more natural.

What Chen Yuan wanted was to be the founding emperor, only in this way could he gather the strongest power of the masses and condense the most blazing power of national destiny for his own use.

Yes, the main reason Chen Yuan went through so many twists and turns was to make his uprising more legitimate and to gain more recognition from the people and the Jianghu.

Only in this way could he deeply penetrate the hearts of the people.

If he just started an uprising casually, it would seem to lack a sense of ritual and wouldn't be as shocking.

Chen Yuan's great enemy was the Immortal Domain. Although he hadn't faced them yet, they already weighed heavily on his mind like a mountain, and he had to prepare for them early.

He wouldn't follow the path of Emperor Taizu of Chu, but he could still learn from it.

Only by uniting a unified, deeply rooted dynasty could he gather the most powerful force, although this couldn't be achieved with just a title and a ceremony.

But anyway, it wouldn't cost much effort, so doing it wouldn't hurt.

Therefore, he personally arranged all of this. As for the giant turtle in the Li River, it was actually the Bi You Palace's Sect-Protecting Divine Beast, an exotic beast brought back from Southern Border by the Bi You Palace immortals during the Demon Subjugation War five hundred years ago.

Its status was extremely low now, but it was just not revealed to the world.

Chen Yuan had asked Tianxu Daoist to help him borrow it, in order to make the event seem more miraculous.

In fact, what Chen Yuan really wanted to establish was a Celestial Court.

It is said that the dragon slayer eventually becomes a dragon. Chen Yuan hasn't slain a dragon yet, but he already has such thoughts in his heart. Of course, compared to the methods of the Immortal Domain, he wouldn't be so extreme.

He would only truly unify the human world.

But Chen Yuan's strength and influence are not enough now. Establishing a Celestial Court would only be a laughingstock. Only when he destroys the Immortal Domain and becomes the strongest in the human world,

and then establishes the Celestial Court, declaring himself the Celestial Emperor, will it be legitimate!

"Yan" will just have to do for now.

Looking at the dark mass of people below, Chen Yuan waved his hand, and an invisible force lifted all the kneeling people to their feet, as he said softly:

"Rise."

"Thank you, Great King!"

"Thank you, Great King!"

This act further added to Chen Yuan's divine aura. At least the people present were shocked by the giant turtle's ability to speak human language and the ability to make everyone rise with a single thought.

When they returned, the news would spread even faster and penetrate deeper into the hearts of the people, reaching all corners of the world.

"Crush the tyrannical Jin! Restore Chu!"

Suddenly, a voice rang out in the crowd, followed by a chorus of voices, as if at this moment, the tyrannical Jin had become an unforgivable sinner.

No, the tyrannical Jin was indeed a sinner.

When Chen Yuan presented Jingtai's crimes and evidence to the world, the first to be stirred up were the people of the South, especially the people of Shu Province.

The headquarters of the Unborn Teaching was within Shu Province, and Jingtai had slaughtered millions of people for his cultivation, committing countless crimes in Shu Province.

Who didn't have family or friends who had disappeared?

Regardless of whether these acts were committed by the Unborn Teaching, from the moment Chen Yuan revealed them, they would all be attributed to Jingtai, and then to the imperial court.

Therefore, Chen Yuan, who killed Jingtai, enjoyed such popularity in Shu Province. As soon as he recruited troops, people flocked to him.

"Crush Jin and restore Chu" was the slogan Chen Yuan used, and it was also the slogan tacitly approved by almost all forces. Even though there was little left of the Great Jin, they could directly enter the Central Plains after these people decided the outcome.

But a slogan was just that, nothing more.

It was the last resort, after crushing Jin, this was the best way to win the hearts of the people.

Restoring Chu, restoring Chu, wasn't restoring the Chu of the Xiang family, but restoring the heavenly kingdom that dominated the world in the hearts of the people, and the Xiang family would become a thorn in the side of all forces.

Chen Yuan first declared himself king, then restored Chu, almost giving the other forces a reason and an idea, so that they didn't have to worry about anything else. It could be said that he was digging up the Xiang family's roots.

And this was what he wanted to see the most.

What if the Xiang family had won over the Seven Killing Hall of the Heavenly Demon Palace and unified Xue Province?

As long as he dared to make a big move, the other forces would prioritize eliminating them, the most conspicuous orthodox power. Of course, no one would admit it openly.

The Xiang family... had already been harmed by the tyrannical Jin, hadn't they?

As for what happened in Xue Province, even if most people knew the truth, so what?

This would only make the Xiang family more constrained!

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There was no enthronement ceremony. The hundreds of thousands of people who witnessed the event at the Li River made it the most appropriate enthronement ceremony. It was a kingship that Chen Yuan achieved by responding to the will of Heaven and the hearts of the people.

It was beyond reproach!

If the imperial court wouldn't grant him a kingship, then Heaven would.

Anyway, it was just a piece of meaningless paper, it really wasn't important.

After the uproar subsided, all the people present began to return to Shu Province in an orderly manner, while Chen Yuan personally watched the giant turtle leave on the water.

And expressed his gratitude to Bi You Palace.

This could be considered a display of goodwill from both sides. Although Zhao Danqing hasn't shown any intention of siding with Chen Yuan, others already thought that he had.

The rest was even easier.

After the enthronement ceremony, the real work had just begun. After returning to the Sky Surveying Department, Chen Yuan immediately began to integrate the forces under his command.

Su Ziyue was named the First Consort, while Madam Xu, Yu Qingyan, Shangguan Hong, and Zhang Wanshu were named secondary consorts. As for Yu Qingyan, since there had been no substantial relationship to date,

and she hadn't expressed her feelings, Chen Yuan deliberately ignored her. This also relieved Yu Qingyan, she couldn't say she loved Chen Yuan, but she didn't dislike him either.

Becoming a princess now felt awkward.

After settling the harem, the main event followed.

Chu Changfeng was appointed by Chen Yuan as the General of the Southern Expedition, in charge of the 200,000 troops under Chen Yuan's command. Although he was a martial artist, he was also very knowledgeable about the military.

He had trained an elite force and was well-trusted, so he was qualified for this important position.

The Great Jin Sky Surveying Department was renamed the Yan Prince's Embroidered Uniform Guard, which was also a bit of Chen Yuan's dark humor. The black cloud uniforms and wild goose wing blades were all replaced with flying fish uniforms and Embroidered Spring Blades.

Of course, this was just a change in name, the style didn't change much, at least to distinguish it from the Great Jin imperial court.

Jiang He was the first Commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

Yang Huatian, the evil mastermind who had done all sorts of evil in Nan Province, and Zhu Huai, Huang Tianshu, and other Jianghu experts from Shu Province, served as Jiang He's deputies. Lu Renyi, the former Golden Envoy of Shu Province, and Zhang Xuan, Shangguan Yu, and others also held important positions in the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

This force was not small. He had already begun to secretly expand it when he was in charge of Tangshan Prefecture. It was originally under the control of Han Yu, but his current cultivation was too low, not yet at the Dan Realm, so he couldn't be convincing in an important position.

The governors of the prefectures under the Yan Prince's command were Liu Zheng Song and many other civil officials, mainly responsible for managing logistics for the army

and the people's livelihood in Shu Province.

This was the one with the least power.

Mount Shu and Tai Xu Palace were not officially appointed, but their status was very high. They were already tacitly recognized as the state religion of the Great Yan Dynasty in the future. Of course, they didn't care about official positions.

As far as they were concerned, it was enough as long as their interests could be met in the future.

The Shangguan clan, the Su clan of Nan Province, the Liu clan, and other forces that supported Chen Yuan were also dispersed by Chen Yuan and assigned to the major factions under his command.

At this point, the various levels of factions that Chen Yuan had prepared before were completed in terms of the major framework. The rest was to gradually use time to make them more compatible.

They were divided into four major forces to check and balance each other.

Namely, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, the military, the immortal sects, and the weakest civil official faction.

While Chen Yuan was sharpening his sword and preparing to attack Nangong Lie in Nan Province,

The news of his declaring himself king and rebelling spread quickly throughout the world, causing quite a stir.

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The day Chen Yuan declared himself king was the 12th day of the 11th month of the ninth year of Jingtai.

Before the new Emperor Sima Ke had officially changed the era name, what was currently used as a time calendar was still the era name established by Jingtai.

The news of his declaration of kingship was like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, causing a thousand ripples. The first to be shaken was the Jianghu.

Then, it quickly spread throughout the world.

The various forces had been restrained, not wanting to be the first to step forward, and were also thinking about how to be more justified. Now, Chen Yuan pointed out the way for them.

The commotion he caused at the Li River was great, and could deceive the bottom-level Jianghu martial artists and ordinary people, but couldn't hide from the heroes of the world.

For martial arts experts, creating some anomalies was simply too easy.

The first to respond to Chen Yuan was his neighbor Nangong Lie. He also directly denounced the current Great Jin as tyrannical and inhumane in front of hundreds of thousands of troops in Nan Province.

It deserved to be destroyed.

On that day, a fire phoenix descended from the sky, carrying a letter, and the Prince of Zhennan, Nangong Lie, then rose up in rebellion, taking the title of King Cheng, and also using the slogan of destroying Jin and restoring Chu, which was known as Cheng Chu.

And the force led by Chen Yuan was also known as Yan Chu.

The storm swept to Qing Province, and the various forces also declared themselves kings.

The Goddess Palace also declared its independence, with the title of Ning, and Feng Jiuge as the first queen in history, quickly occupying half of Yun Province.

On the day of her independence, immortals descended to the mortal world, with flower petals stretching for hundreds of miles.

The Gu clan, one of the five great families, quickly won over the other two families, the Huangfu clan and the Yan clan, and jointly elected the old ancestor of the Gu family as King Qian.

On the day of the enthronement, ten thousand fish jumped over the Dragon Gate in the river.

The East Sea also quickly gathered under the banner of Martial Emperor City, electing Ye Xiangnan, the City Lord of Martial Emperor City, as King Ming. On the day of his enthronement, the East Sea had a glow that stretched for hundreds of miles.

A certain general of the original imperial army in Bing Province also seemed to want to be a king, and directly took the title of Han. On the day of his enthronement, someone dug up a jade stone from the belly of a fish.

It wrote that someone should be king.

Another general of the imperial army in You Province, in the face of the pressure from the Northern Liang army, also directly declared himself king, taking the title of Yuan. There were no anomalies on the day of his enthronement.

The main reason was that the pressure was too great, and there was no time to prepare.

In Liang Province, the former Prince of Northern Liang, Wei Jinfeng, removed the word "Northern" and took the title of King Liang.

In Lanzhou, Jiaozhou and other places, there were also various tribes and mountain villages that declared themselves kings.

As for the commotion in Xue Province, it was even greater. Liangshan directly raised the banner of the orthodox Great Chu, but unfortunately, there was a lot of noise but little action. Apart from the Seven Killing Hall and the Heavenly Demon Palace responding,

it was not recognized by the other rebel kings at all.

Because they were all using the slogan of destroying Jin and restoring Chu, and many people even found an ancestor among the former Chu officials to justify themselves.

For a time, all parties in the world were rebel kings!

Counting carefully, including the Lingshan, which was gradually controlling Lanzhou,

there were a total of eighteen rebel forces that could be put on the table, with different titles.

The state titles of Wei, Wu, Jin, etc., were also used.

However, there were only a few forces that were truly worthy of Chen Yuan's attention, Nangong Lie, Xiang Qianqiu, Feng Jiuge, Ye Xiangnan, Wei Jinfeng, the Gu family, and Lingshan.

Including him, there were only eight.

As for the others, they were really just extras. Any one of these forces could easily destroy them. Among them, the place with the most pressure and competition was

none other than the three southern provinces.

Whether it was Chen Yuan, Xiang Qianqiu, or Nangong Lie, who was colluding with the monster race of Southern Border, none of them were easy to deal with. Killing them was not that simple.

The Great Jin imperial court in the Central Plains seemed to have resigned itself to its fate in response to the rebel kings, and did not make any response, as if they did not exist at all.

Many forces could also ignore the existence of the Jin imperial court.

Although the slogan they were using was destroying Jin and restoring Chu, what they were doing was annexing each other to increase their strength, because everyone knew that the imperial court was just a piece of fat on the chopping board.

Only after eating those appetizers could they swallow the last piece of fat more easily. Of course, if the Sima clan were to make any changes,

the various forces would tacitly push them back to the border of the Central Plains.

If the Battle of Zijin Mountain, in which Chen Yuan killed Jingtai and severely damaged the imperial court, was the prelude to the great chaos in the world, then his self-declaration as king in front of the Li River outside Shu Province truly plunged the undercurrents of the various forces into great chaos.

There was one thing Chen Yuan didn't say wrong.

That was, this chaotic world was really opened by him!

Perhaps, it would also fulfill another of his words.

The chaotic world should also be ended by him!

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