[Mount Zhenwu, one of the Righteous Path pillars of the Martial Forest, possesses three Peak Masters.]
[They welcome your arrival, but to obtain Mount Zhenwu's Internal Skill you must still display your strength.]
[In the end you effortlessly defeated the Trinity Array set by the three Peak Masters; seeing this, Mount Zhenwu generously opened the Scripture Pavilion to you.]
[With both Mount Zhenwu and the Formless Temple helpless against you, the other Peak powers also gave up resisting and allowed you free access to their Internal Skills.]
[At 25, you reached the south; just as last time, a rare drought had struck.]
[You stayed two months, witnessing true human tragedy.]
[Traveling through the region you discovered the drought had affected over ten million—nearly a tenth of the Dynasty's population—an unprecedented disaster in all history.]
[You sensed that in your previous life this calamity had greatly hastened the Great Yuan Dynasty's fall.]
[Your purpose here, of course, was the Demonic Cult entrenched in the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.]
[The cult is actually a coalition of several factions hiding deep within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, where it is dark, damp, and crawling with venomous insects—the perfect refuge.]
[You had nothing to say to these cultists; you simply started killing. While the Righteous Path also contains scum, they are a minority.]
[But the vast majority of these cult members are guilty of heinous crimes.]
[After wiping them out, you uncovered their secret: they were plotting outright rebellion.]
[This reminded you that in your last life the first uprising also began in the south—you hadn't known it was the cult pulling the strings.]
[Whether rebellion will still break out now that you've destroyed the cult, you can't say, but you suppose it will; the Dynasty is in its twilight and cannot be saved—only remade. Who will strike first remains to be seen.]
[After eradicating the Demonic Sect, you went nowhere else; you returned to the county town where you'd first started.]
[Your old subordinates were overjoyed—your portrait had spread everywhere along with your fame, and they never imagined you'd already become the world's number one.]
[Back home, you renamed your Gang to the Tianxia Society—its creed: the Realm belongs to all.]
[Next you issued recruitment notices, proclaiming that Tianxia welcomes the talented and ambitious.]
[With the title of the world's supreme expert, Tianxia Society swelled rapidly.]
[At 26, you upgraded your Internal Skill to Lin Family Internal Skill v3.0. Deciding it needed a grander name, you rechristened it the Heaven-Melting Great Method.]
[If a Peak Master's Internal Energy equals a hundred years of cultivation, Heaven-Melting can accumulate one year per day; in a hundred days an ordinary person could gain a Peak Master's power—provided their Meridians are naturally unblocked.]
[At present you possess just over three centuries of Internal Energy; cultivating Heaven-Melting for one year will double it.]
[You then entered seclusion; while you meditated, Tianxia Society expanded explosively.]
[Branches sprang up in a dozen surrounding counties, and thanks to exclusive prescriptions plus lucrative products like soap, perfume, and glass, Tianxia amassed great wealth.]
[You knew only the basics of soap and perfume, but with your abilities you could recreate them from scratch.]
[At 27, from memory you created the Vajra Indestructible Body Divine Skill; after six centuries of Internal Energy you found your power compressing your body—this art was forged to strengthen the Physical Body.]
[Though you don't know the original, your version lets the flesh achieve the state of un-drownable in water, unburned by fire.]
[At Peak, it forms a ten-foot golden outer body—but that demands profound Internal Energy.]
[During this time you also upgraded your lightness skill. At full burst you now approach 300 metres per second; combining past-life aerodynamics with Internal Energy, you can glide over ten kilometres through the sky—short of true flight, yet miraculous to others.]
[At 28, just as last life, court inaction and endless regional disasters left the people destitute.]
[By now you possessed a millennium of Internal Energy, but found it impossible to advance further; even Perfecting the Vajra Indestructible Body could not push past this limit.]
[Still, a thousand years of power is more than enough for you.]
[You left seclusion and reviewed Tianxia Society's current state.]
[It now controls two commanderies—astonishing growth, for the Great Yuan Dynasty has only sixteen provinces and seventy-two commanderies.]
[Had the emperor not been obsessed with immortality while court factions fought, Tianxia could never have grown so strong.]
[Moreover, registered membership has surpassed ten thousand.]
[Thanks to rules you set, Tianxia enjoys an excellent reputation in surrounding commanderies.]
[One day you summoned every senior leader of Tianxia Society for a secret council; no one knows what was discussed.]
[Only the next morning did you shock the entire Realm with a single act.]
[Yes—you rebelled!]
[Rebellion? No. You simply wished to taste what it felt like to be emperor; you thought of it, so you did it, and to experience caring for the Realm.]
[With your power you could single-handedly crush the world; you do whatever you please.]
[You issued a war proclamation denouncing the emperor's fatuity, his obsession with immortality, the endless court factions, and his abandonment of the people—offenses that have angered Heaven and brought endless disasters and misery.]
[You ended with the rallying cry: "The Realm is not one man's Realm—it belongs to every common soul under Heaven!"]
[Within days your deeds spread across the land.]
[The world was stunned; though disasters and uprisings have been rife, no one expected the martial world's number one expert to raise the banner of revolt.]
[After all, Martial Forest sects traditionally stay out of dynastic change, fearing to back the wrong side and see centuries of Legacy destroyed.]
[Unconcerned with opinion, once the horn of rebellion sounded you ordered your men to recruit disaster victims and build an army.]
[The court, learning of your revolt, was furious; Tianxia Society is no minor force—if not crushed quickly, imitators will spring up and the Dynasty will truly fall.]
[Thus the emperor issued an edict branding you a traitor guilty of monstrous crimes, and dispatched three hundred thousand troops to annihilate Tianxia Society.]
[Unlike the enraged court, you remained leisurely; still, your call drew several thousand ragged volunteers.]
[You drilled them with the disciplinary methods of your past life—regardless of combat skill, they would at least stand like an army.]
[You even created a Cultivation Technique for them: the Dragon-Elephant Skill.]
[It can only reach the second-rate Realm of generating Internal Energy, but it is simple and fast, needing only abundant food.]}]