"Because of this, however, the Emperor of Datang accumulated extremely heavy karmic sins. In his later years, he suffered a deviation in his cultivation that caused these sins to erupt. As it happened, malicious individuals in the imperial palace took advantage of this, using dark arts to refine the Emperor's sins into a demon, which wreaked havoc in the palace."
"Chaos engulfed the palace, and right at that moment, several small nations previously conquered by Datang also stirred in rebellion, launching a counter-offensive against the empire."
" Beset by troubles from both within and without, Datang was in grave peril."
Chapter 35