Great Zhou Empire

## History

The Great Zhou Empire is a country even more powerful and prosperous than the Great Qin Empire. The kings of the past all worked diligently to make the country prosperous resulting in the flourishment of the country. When the throne was passed onto the current emperor, Liang Pan, the country’s power rapidly expanded even more.

Liang Pan and Zhu Hongwu both advocated the suppression of the development of sects and holy grounds with religious backgrounds in the country. Moreover, 20 years ago they teamed up with the Nine Heavenly Sword Alliance and other powerful groups had engaged in an earthshaking event; changing the power grid of the entire Grand Celestial World.

The elimination of Buddhism!

The Great Zhou Empire joined together with many other forces and led a campaign against one of the world’s three great holy lands located in the borders of the Zhou Dynasty, the Great Thunderclap Temple.

The battle was tragic to the extreme, countless masters died in battle and there were even numerous Primordial Spirit stage cultivators who died.

In the end Liang Pan and Zhu Hongwu succeeded, from that point onwards the Great Thunderclap Temple was erased from this world. Of the world’s three great holy lands only the Great Void Temple and the Mount Shu Sword Sect remained.

The Great Void Temple was one of the three Taoist holy land and was likewise in opposition against the Great Zhou Empire. Because of her relationship with Zhu Hongwu, Meng Bingyun was even swept out of the sect and moreover was nearly executed.

## The Fall of the Great Zhou Empire (1271 - 1282)

The Great Zhou Empire has exhausted all resources to build up its military power these few years and started many bloody massacres that have taken countless lives. The Great Zhou conquered other places and imposed heavy taxes on people that have made it difficult for them to survive.

They attacked the Arctic State’s capital in the past and led a massacre on the Arctic State for 3 days straight. After that and executed all males above 12 years old.

After the Arctic State came under the Great Zhou Empire, the taxes imposed on the people of the Arctic State were more than twice of the other Great Zhou states.

Besides the Arctic State, the Great Zhou also conquered neighboring states and their people were offered to the satanic cultivators that need live souls or blood sacrifices. These satanic cultivators were even secretly recruited by the Great Zhou Empire.

The Great Zhou Empire cleansed the powers of the aristocratic families and sects in the empire. There was a sect called the Golden Mist Sect, which made great contributions to the Great Zhou. They were like the Vast Sea Sword Sect and should have been spared. But because Zhu Hongwu wanted to fix the Great Heavenly Wheels, he sent people there to steal their treasure that led to the destruction of their entire sect.

But the worst of all is that the Great Zhou schemed during the War of the Two Worlds and tried to harm fellow humans. They tried to exploit the attack of the Hades tribe on Mount Baiyun to destroy Xiling City.

Zhu Hongwu and Liang Pan escaped to the Ying Sea(but were found and taken care of very swiftly) and Liang Gan became the new 'Emperor' under the Celestial Sect of Wonders approvell and some could say control. (Chapter 1282)