Crimson empire

## History:

Before the Crimson Empire was formed, the place was called the Shattered Kingdoms. There were multiple small countries that ruled their own lands and were in constant war with each other.

Each of these kingdoms had their own king that tried to fight against other kingdoms to add those lands to their own country.

The kings were obviously a cultivator, so the mortals remained in fear every day, hoping this wasn't the day that they were randomly attacked and killed.

The different cultivators showed no mercy to anyone they met and freely killed people in the name of their kings. The war-trodden times were a time of terror and fear.

Each of the kings wanted to rule over the entire land, but they were all equal in strength so they couldn't do anything to each other. The king's armies weren't very strong either when compared to the others.

So, this caused a lot of small skirmishes and battles that simply showed aggression for the sake of aggression. None of the kings could win against the other kings and they knew it.

That, however, lasted for not so long. A person appeared out of nowhere and became the king of a small land near the southern forest called the Cardinal Kingdom.

The name of this illustrious person who was going to change the stability amongst the different kingdoms was Fu Qiong.

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.

## Anual Alchemy Competition:

### Themes:

> The competition has been separated into 4 themes.
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> Sunday will be all about ingredients. Alchemy ingredients, formation flag, and ingredients, Talisman ink ingredients, etc. The exact competition hasn't been revealed, however, so we will have to choose the participants tomorrow on the ground.
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> For Monday, the theme is Speed. It's how fast you can do stuff. I assume for alchemy it will be making pills very fast, but we will have to wait until the competition is revealed.
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> For Tuesday, the theme is Perfection. It's how well you can do a single task. It's almost certainly the highest harmony for pills. But, as I said, we will wait until the competition is revealed.
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> For Wednesday, the theme is said to be Learning. From the way the competition holders talked about it, I assume it has to do with who can learn the fastest and use it. You might get a new recipe, technique, whatever. We will have to wait until it is fully revealed.
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### Points:

> "For the production and specialty competitions, its… kind of weird. You basically get points equal to 100 divided? by your rank."
> "If you are 1st in rankings, you get 100 points. 50 for a second, 33 for a third, 25 for a fourth, 20 for a fifth, and so on. So, the higher your ranking, the better points you get," Ma Rong explained
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1. ↑ chapter 286
2. ↑ chapter 287
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 251