Lord Man, or you could call him Zhang Tong. However, it didn't matter how you called him. In the past 100 years, he had used all kinds of aliases and identities to travel the world.
What was his original name? Sorry, he had forgotten it. Now, most people called him by his alias, Lord Man.
One of the aliases he often used was Zhang Tong. Therefore, we might as well refer to this legendary figure as Zhang Tong.
He was born in the last years of the Qing Dynasty. It was said that he was a descendant of nobles. As for whether he was a Manchu noble or a Mongolian noble, or a member of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, no one knew. Zhang Tong was the only one alive. He could say whatever he wanted, and no one could refute him.
The only thing that was certain was that Zhang Tong was born into a noble family. He had the characteristics of the nobles of that era. He was arrogant, self-centered, and looked down on commoners.
However, he also had something that the nobles of that era didn't have. For example, he was studious and had considerable attainments in both literature and martial arts.
During that era, it was fashionable for the nobles in the capital to wear ragged clothes and lead a group of rich playboys who pretended to be beggars to eat rotten meat noodles at the front gate.
Zhang Tong had displayed extraordinary abilities back then, even though he wasn't as powerful as he was now. However, the nobles of the Qing Dynasty had always valued martial arts. During that rotten era, Zhang Tong was one of the few nobles who displayed martial arts abilities.
Therefore, he got an opportunity. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was vigorous, and the Manchu Dynasty's rule was in danger. Zhang Tong led 5,000 soldiers to reinforce Jiangsu in Tianjin.
During the fierce battles in Jiangsu, Zhang Tong defeated several Taiping Heavenly Kingdom armies. This earned him the recognition of the Manchu Dynasty's ruling class.
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Manchu Dynasty started the Westernization Movement under the leadership of Zhang Zhidong, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang. Training the new army became the most important thing for the ruling class.
During the battle against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Ceng Guofan's Xiang Army displayed the ability to suppress the Central Dynasty's army. This made the ruling class feel threatened.
Later, Ceng Guofan suppressed the world and became the world's number one governor. After that, the southeast officials led by Zhang Zhidong even made the [Southeast Mutual Protection Treaty]. Although it was still under the command of the central government in name, in fact, it had torn the gap of division.
The ruling class of the Manchurian Qing Dynasty was both angry and powerless. At that time, the Qing government was facing all kinds of internal and external troubles and had no power to manage the Southeast. As long as the Southeast could still pay taxes every year, the central government could only pinch their noses and endure.
Under such circumstances, Zhang Tong, who had performed outstandingly in the battle of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, was once again brought up. With the Manchurian Qing completely decaying, it was too difficult to find a noble warrior.
Zhang Tong was an exception. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty was trying their best to cultivate this noble warrior who could be useful among the nobles of the Qing Dynasty.
A large amount of gold, silver, and all kinds of weapons were gathered in Zhang Tong's hands, and he began to organize and train a new army. However, the Qing Dynasty did not know that what they had done had brought disaster to themselves and even to China in the future.
Zhang Tong had never been a simple person. Beneath his seemingly modest appearance, he had even greater ambitions. Becoming a powerful minister or even an assistant minister was already the highest achievement a minister could achieve.
However, this was not enough to satisfy Zhang Tong's ambition. He wanted to go one step further! As an aristocrat who had been educated in a feudal society, Zhang Tong's so-called one step further was to become the emperor.
As a person who had been educated in a feudal society, Zhang Tong's thoughts could not be measured by the standards of modern society.
He didn't organize and train the new army to protect the Manchurian Qing Dynasty. Instead, when the Manchurian Qing Dynasty was about to fall, he stood by and did nothing. He treated the new army as his private property, and it became his capital to fight for hegemony in the world.
It was a chaotic era. People's lives were like grass, and those who had guns were king. Before the start of World War I, China had already entered an era of warlords and wars (this was the history of the Marvel World).
In the winter of 1909, the army led by Zhang Tong had conquered most of China's territory. Because of his identity, the traditional aristocrats naturally supported him.
The day when he conquered the world and became the emperor was just around the corner. In that era, the idea of the supremacy of the imperial power was very popular. Not only China, but many European countries also had monarchies.
That was the best time for Zhang Tong to become the emperor, or rather, his last chance. However, he missed it. The night before he was about to unify the country and establish a new dynasty, Zhang Tong mysteriously disappeared.
His subordinates didn't know where he went. When the supreme leader of a regime suddenly disappeared without a trace, the damage caused by this power vacuum was fatal to an organization.
It was not a lie to say that a country could not be without a ruler for a day.
After losing the Lord Man, his subordinates started to fight each other for power and interests. In the end, the good situation was ruined, and the hope of unifying China was completely ruined.
As for where the Lord Man went? His subordinates had many speculations, many of which were nonsense. However, one of them was right.
"Did he find a way to cultivate immortality and prepare to become a god?!" At that time, the theory of gods, ghosts, and immortals was very popular.
This person's speculation was a little off the mark, but not completely correct. The Lord Man Zhang Tong didn't find a way to cultivate immortality. Instead, he found a way to cultivate magic skills. Zhang Tong was a martial arts fanatic.
Before he mastered magic skills, he could already use his body to defend against the foreign guns of that era. However, many of the guns of that era used lead bullets, which didn't have strong penetrative power.
After Zhang Tong conquered the capital, he found a treasure map and a magic skill cultivation method from the Qing Dynasty's treasury. It was a legend about the Dragon Vein. The one who obtained the Dragon Vein would rule the world. It sounded like a story in a novel.
However, Zhang Tong believed it because there was a ring with the treasure map, a ring full of magic power. It was found by an emperor of the Qing Dynasty when he was looking for the Dragon Vein.
To Zhang Tong, the content of the treasure map was like a cat's paw scratching his heart. He couldn't forget it at all times.
In the end, he decided to look for the legendary Dragon Vein and the whereabouts of the other nine rings. He believed that even if he didn't find the Dragon Vein, he would be more powerful to rule the country if he found the other rings.
Therefore, he followed the map and went to the Western Region of China. At the border of the Western Region, which is today's Western Region, he found the legendary Dragon Vein and the remaining nine rings in a mountain range between Kazakhstan and Afghanistan.
Zhang Tong found that this place was a good place to cultivate. It was a blessed place for cultivating magic skills. Therefore, he decided to try cultivating there for one night to see how effective it was.
However, it was a dream of a hundred years. When he woke up from his cultivation, it was already 1969. He had been in seclusion for a total of sixty years. During these sixty years, the world had undergone tremendous changes and the world had undergone tremendous changes.
The organization he created was destroyed, and the world was completely different from the one he knew.
This was not an online cultivation novel. Immortals could go into seclusion for hundreds of years, and the world would remain the same as it was hundreds of years ago. After only 60 years, Zhang Tong felt that he couldn't understand the world anymore.
There were two world wars that swept the world. There were planes that could fight in the sky. The United States dropped a terrifying atomic bomb in the East Ocean. The Soviet Union detonated a terrifying hydrogen bomb. Humans flew out of the earth and even left footprints on the moon.
Alright, he had achieved great success in cultivating magic skills. But was he really invincible? Zhang Tong didn't have the confidence to face the explosion of a hydrogen bomb head-on. He felt that he would definitely die if he did that.
Now that he had achieved great success in cultivating magic skills, he would be able to fly. That would be an amazing thing. However, humans had already entered outer space. If he was thrown into outer space without a spacesuit, Zhang Tong felt that he would also die.
Zhang Tong was very strong. No matter what civilization he was in, he was a very strong warrior by any standard. Especially after he had the support of the 10 rings. Even in Asgard, which was famous for its Einherjar, Zhang Tong was still very strong.
However, this was not much help to his plan to conquer the world. The world had changed. It was no longer the world that Zhang Tong was familiar with.
In 60 years, the world had changed. Things remained the same, but people had changed. Some people's thoughts and ideas had been eliminated by time!
… …
Time: Now.
Zhang Tong woke up from his memories. He wasn't a nostalgic person. However, this world gave him a feeling that it was unreal. He knew very well that the Ten Rings Gang was a motley crew.
However, in this era, other than creating a terrorist organization, what else could they do to topple China's regime?
With the 10 rings, Zhang Tong walked through a special secret passage in the mountains of Central Asia. This place was called the Dragon Vein by the Qing Dynasty. Zhang Tong originally thought that this was the Dragon Vein. Especially after he saw the [Dragon].
However, after all these years, he began to understand that some things might not be what he thought they were. For example, the [Dragon] might not necessarily be the [Dragon].
At the deepest part of the secret passage was a huge natural cave. It was more than 100 times the size of the Bird's Nest stadium in Beijing. This was naturally formed by nature. This was the work of nature.
In this place that the Qing Dynasty called the Dragon Vein, a huge lizard-like creature was crawling on the ground. It was more than hundreds of meters long. Every breath it took was filled with the smell of sulfur and fire.
The scales on its body were a kind of dark green. Because the color was so deep, it even looked a little blue. Its huge wings were tucked away. However, once it spread out, it would definitely be a scene that would cover the sky.
Yes, this was the creature that the Qing Dynasty had kept a secret. It was called the Dragon by the Qing Dynasty.
PS: I used some of the Marvel settings for the Lord Man's character design. However, I also added a lot of my personal settings. This was because the Marvel editors obviously had a lot of misunderstandings about China's culture.
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