Chapter 287: Maximum (1/2)

Fu Qiong, according to the book, appeared out of nowhere and swiftly defeated the gang leader of a bandit group that was taking residence in the Cardinal Kingdom.

He then slowly defeated everyone and turned the Cardinal Kingdom into his own land. He then slowly started declaring wars against the rest of the kingdoms and one by one defeated them.

It took him 8 years to fully destroy all the 18 different kingdoms that were available at the time and took them all under his own rule.

Once the land was too large to keep calling it a kingdom, he took the chance to call his land an empire and named it the Crimson Empire. Then he named himself an Emperor as well.

Fu Qiong ruled as the first Emperor of the Crimson empire for nearly 6 decades before he retired and passed along his throne to his first son.

The son of the emperor was also talented as well as being very strong. He successfully took over his father's work and continued to keep the empire united.

Thus came the rule of the Fu family. All of that happened nearly 1200 years ago.

Alex was a little stunned as he read all of this. 'It's not different from when our real world was separated and people fought over land. I guess they really did take inspiration from real-life stories to make up this game world,' Alex thought.

He then read the final page of the book.

'It was later revealed that the first Emperor…was not a resident of the Shattered Kingdoms but someone that came from… beyond the Southern Forest.' Alex's eyes went wide when he read that.

'Another person from beyond the southern forest. How does one traverse the giant forest?' Alex wondered. Just as he was wondering that someone tapped on his shoulder.

He was jolted awake from his stupor and quickly turned around. Behind him was Ma Rong who had at some point appeared on the 6th floor.

He looked at the book he was holding and said nothing. Instead, she just gestured for him to follow her. He was curious as to what she had found, so he quickly closed the book and put it away before following her.

Ma Rong climbed the staircase and went up floors without stopping anywhere.

7th floor, 8th floor, finally 9th floor. Only after reaching the 9th floor did she stop climbing the stairs and walked towards the books.

Alex expected her to walk towards the Alchemy section, but instead, she walked towards the Cultivation section. She picked up a book as soon as she reached there as if she knew exactly which one to pick up and turned the page.

Once she reached a certain page, she handed the book to Alex.

Alex curiously looked at the page and was surprised to see the information about the Spirit Cleansing Lily that he had been looking for all this time.