An evolutionary game starting from Suolongjing.

Chapter 745: Emperor, please put away your magical powers!

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As soon as he stood on the armor plate at the bottom of the Mountain and River Armor, the Sun Star Lord, who had been feeling depressed for a long time along the way, couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief!

It’s not that I’m afraid.

After all, which immortal or god in heaven is not proficient in both civil and military affairs, a civil servant?

Some civil servants are much better at fighting than military officers!

Especially those emperors who were ultimately targeted by various palaces and departments. Normally, they all wore gorgeous clothes and pretended to be kind, but when they really started fighting, they were more ferocious and violent than the other.

In other words, Emperor Zhenwu is as his name suggests, a breath of fresh air among his colleagues who are used to pretending to be kind-hearted old men.

His nickname is the Lord of Subduing Demons, and his daily tasks include slaying demons and monsters, cutting down mountains and destroying temples.

He is not as leisurely as other emperors, but in the Three Realms, his title is more useful than Haotian God in some cases!!!
Above them are the Emperors who have been tempered for countless years, and below them are the True Lords and Heavenly Masters who have overcome hardships and ascended to heaven. Even the heavenly soldiers who are commonly looked down upon were geniuses in the world in the original Pan-Jiuzhou civilization. When they were human beings, which one of them was not a Heavenly Master or a True Man who dominated the world, and which one of them was not a rare talent for cultivation who had not appeared in a hundred years.

In the entire heaven, except for those female fairies in Yaochi and other places who are mostly transformed from flower and plant elves and are somewhat ignorant of worldly affairs, if you peel off the veneer of kindness, you will find that they are all old foxes who are used to the vicissitudes of life!
They are just some foreign barbarians. Even though they are numerous and their greatness is much stronger than the two star gods who have been too busy with official duties and have no time for cultivation recently, he is not afraid of them.

Not to mention that they are originally envoys of Jiuzhou. According to the customary tradition of Jiuzhou, envoys are similar to disposable consumables on some level. They are responsible for dying on the enemy's territory to find a legitimate reason for their family to send troops!
Of course, as the Nine Stars, Taibai and Taiyang have long since transcended vulgarity and are no longer mere consumables, but just because they are not does not mean they cannot be!

What's more, the person they are about to meet is the first emperor appointed by the Heavenly Court since the war between men and gods, the first human king born after the ancient times, a man whose evil notoriety has spread throughout the void, and who is known to almost everyone!
If someone really dared to fight with them halfway, Taibai would be happy instead.

Regardless of whether they live or die, a large number of foreigners in the void will probably be wiped out because of this!

But Taibai, who was used to doing the job of an envoy, knew it well. The Sun Star Lord, who was experiencing it for the first time, could not help but be a little nervous. He was worried that Emperor You would not listen to advice and continue to slaughter the barbarian gods. Should he fulfill his duty and complete the task, or follow his heart and cheer for the boss?

It really is a dilemma!

In addition to this, ideas like the Barbarian God suddenly turning against him and wanting to take him and the old man as hostages; being intercepted by an alien god halfway through the journey, etc., these kinds of fantastic ideas echoed in the mind of the Sun Star Lord more than once, and he even made certain plans for these absurd ideas!

Looking back now, I can only say that the Sun Star God is still quite childlike.

As expected, a man is a young man until his death. Even if the Outer Gods were given ten times the courage, there might still be people who would hope to make things completely out of hand, wipe out most of the civilization system, and then fill themselves with the leftovers while the Kyushu wilderness is unable to deal with the spoils.

But attacking the Kyushu Divine Envoy?
No matter how brave you are or how high the price you offer, no one dares to tease you like this!

Fortunately, although the Sun Star Lord was having all sorts of wild thoughts along the way, he was also sulking about being dragged into this by Taibai and did not inform the other party, otherwise he would have been ridiculed and teased!
Even if one were to say something unforeseen, the gods in heaven would have something new to laugh at for some time to come.
With a strange look at the ever-changing Sun Star Lord, Taibai silently memorized his immediate reaction, then raised his head and said, "Emperor, we really should stop!"

"I know that you have a fiery temper and hate evil, and you cannot stand the strange monsters and aliens in the void. You want to sweep the universe, and the Emperor of Heaven is willing to support you, and the Nine Provinces are willing to stand in solidarity with you. But war is never just about killing. I won't tell you the principle of preparing food and grass before the troops move, and you don't need it. But after the war, the new wild land always needs hard work to be cultivated before it can be turned into cultivated land!
It always needs the farmer's careful care to bear full fruits. If it is not properly cared for, it will end up with weeds growing everywhere and the seedlings being barren. I do support your just actions consciously, but you, Your Majesty, must also have mercy on the gods of the earth, the mortals, and all the living beings.

The current work intensity has reached the limit that the immortals and gods can bear. The excessive operating pressure has caused the celestial officials above the fifth rank to split themselves into dozens of clones every day just to get a break. As for the earthly gods, even the county gods are so busy that they cannot take care of everything, let alone the underworld.

The reincarnation of life and death of the people of Jiuzhou alone has kept the Yin gods busy. The recruitment requirements for the soul-catchers have now been lowered from a clean background to no major evil or hatred. Even this is not enough. The Ten Kings of Hell want to expand the underworld system and lower the standards for the Yin gods, and they are sending memorials to the Lingxiao Palace every day.

It is even more difficult in the human world. Just mobilizing the people to open up the border and settle there is a huge difficulty, but what is even more difficult is that we don’t have that many people.”

Population is indeed the biggest shackle that has bound Kyushu since ancient times.

The Xia and Shang dynasties were too old, and most of the focus at that time was on the development of Kyushu. The unity and voice among the bloodlines of the various human tribes were far more important than opening up to the outside world. Although there were many barbarians in Kyushu at the same time, the strategy of the Xia and Shang dynasties was mostly to fight and kill, and the enthusiasm for occupying foreign lands and expanding territory was not that high.

In addition to the geographical environment, confusion about ghosts and gods, rampant sacrifices and other issues, in short, although the Nine Provinces expanded during the Xia and Shang dynasties, most activities were still concentrated in the river basins.

When the Zhou Dynasty had many princes, the struggle for hegemony forced some small princes in the corners to expand their territories to mitigate the losses caused by the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains.

Just like the State of Yan among the Seven Kingdoms of the Warring States Period, although it was located in a remote area and was repeatedly attacked by the neighboring State of Qi, those who could become the Seven Kingdoms of the Warring States Period all had some skills. They might suffer a little when attacking their own people in the heartland of the Central Plains, but they could easily bully the surrounding barbarians.

If we lose the battle, it's okay, we can just bully the barbarians and the land will be back. If we win the battle, it will be even better, we can bully the barbarians to show off the power of the King of Yan. Whether we win or lose, we use the barbarians to practice our skills. Although the borders within the Central Plains have been changing back and forth, and even retreated frequently in the middle and late stages, the sense of dimensionality reduction on the external level is too strong, and this back and forth has forced the State of Yan to survive!
Of course, Yan was not simply weak. It had its time as a powerful ruler, and there were times when it trampled on Qi and acted arrogantly, but in the final analysis, it spent more time seeking compensation from external countries.

And it was also due to this ability that although the State of Yan was far away from the Central Plains and had a harsh and cold environment, it managed to survive from the enfeoffment of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the conquest of the six states by the Qin Dynasty!
Later, whether it was the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Three Kingdoms, the Tang, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, they were constantly eager to expand outward. However, due to their own internal reasons and the rotation of dynasties, the repeated struggles for hegemony in the Central Plains caused the total population of Kyushu to fluctuate between the saturation line and the endangered line.

It is definitely not accurate to say that the population is insufficient. After all, the population during the prosperous Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and even the middle and late Ming Dynasty was absolutely overflowing. Even now, the Qing Dynasty, which is facing the destruction of its country and has been plundered by various powers and is only left with a piece of ancestral land and is still struggling to survive, still has a huge number at its peak!

Of course, now these people have become the property of the powerful nations that dominate the Nine Provinces and have enriched the emperor of his dynasty.

But compared to the prosperous times with surging population, the era of chaos and recuperation in the history of Kyushu is ultimately longer. Even if the Kyushu dynasties no longer compete with each other, it is still difficult to fill all aspects of the mountains and rivers of Kyushu like in the future when the population is evenly distributed! What's more, even in the future with a population explosion, there were still a large number of uninhabited areas before the recovery of spiritual energy. After the recovery of spiritual energy, the mountains and rivers expanded, even with the swallowing of the population of all races on the earth and the implementation of multiple births for two hundred years, the proportion of land plots has dropped by nearly 30 percentage points compared with before the recovery of spiritual energy.

There is no way. No matter how big the base number is and how much reproduction it can produce, two hundred years is only the time of eight or nine generations. Add to that various concerns and people's ideas and the ideal expansion data cannot be achieved. However, the expansion of mountains, rivers and lakes is calculated on a global basis!
Before the Shang and Zhou dynasties merged, Zhang Ke's investment in future generations had already amounted to dozens of low- and medium-level magic planes, as well as a large number of mountains and rivers exchanged from the Heavenly Court several times. If we really want to measure it with data, the earth must have expanded at least a hundred times, and this is still conservative. But can people in the world expand two hundred times in two hundred years?

Obviously not!

It is not so good in later generations, let alone the Shang and Zhou world where Zhang Ke has invested massive resources, integrated multiverses into the double-digit figures, and two or three civilization systems have been incorporated.

In later generations, where the land was already vast and the population was sparse, Shao You, Di You and the other two tribes, faced with the sudden expansion of the world, fell into an awkward situation where their ancestors were too capable and the only thing their descendants could do was to have children!
This is not a metaphor but a fact!

The current real situation in the Shang and Zhou world is that without much management by Zhang Ke, several princesses have summoned the heads of all tribes to formulate various strategies, one of which is that all tribal people must get married after they reach adulthood.

Monogamy is the standard, but you can marry spirits in addition to your wife, and half of the blood of the Nine Provinces is a concubine. You cannot recruit immortals or gods unless you have three sons, and you cannot join the personal guards unless you have five sons (two daughters are equivalent to one son)
However, even with such a radical approach, the expenditure was still not enough to cover the huge space and time.

There is no way. In the process of improving the essence of life, the ability to conceive does decrease proportionally. Even if the tribesmen are stuck at the node of adulthood and are allowed to reproduce with the highest probability before achieving the body of immortals, they cannot keep up with the speed of Zhang Ke's open source outside.

Vast tracts of wilderness were left for the barbarians to thrive and multiply, and all the two tribes could do was to regularly cut off the barbarians' excess branches while patrolling the world to keep them within a controllable range and wait for the slow advance of the royal army.

However, means are means, but the elders of Shaoyou and Diyou are not as hard-hearted as their ancestor Zhang Ke after all, and the fairies are mostly kind and benevolent. Even when dealing with the barbarians, they did not simply cleanse them but gave them a choice of way to survive.

Adult barbarians, unless they are stubborn and unruly, can seek out the spirits of the Nine Provinces. Those with half Nine Provinces blood can intermarry, and children born to them whose proportion of barbarian blood is low can be granted citizenship!
Regardless of whether they are spirits, half-Jiuzhou humans, or a hodgepodge, anyone with more than half Jiuzhou blood can be granted the same status as a commoner with half Jiuzhou blood, and can become a concubine of the Emperor's bloodline or the people of Jiuzhou.

Of course, this is already the peak at this stage!
Even though the tribesmen are not like Emperor You, there are still many people vying for the position of the main wife!
Not to mention our own people, in the New Kyushu, there are many places where nine out of ten houses are empty and no young men are left. Apart from that, because the Shang and Zhou dynasties were either passed down from ancient times or from later generations, the human race here does not have too many fears of monsters and rumors that humans and monsters cannot get along. Those flower and grass elves, foxes and snake beauties love to stroll here and try to see if they can get any bargains.

Too exaggerated?
No, no, no, it’s not an exaggeration!

Compared to being hunted and killed by the righteous people and being on strict guard in Jiuzhou, in the Shang and Zhou world, as long as you don't eat human beings, there is no discrimination at the general level. The only restriction for the monsters is that they cannot appear near the Wushan Royal City. But once they become demons and immortals and are given a title in heaven or underworld, this iron rule will be lifted.

There is no danger of survival, the environment is stable and peaceful, and the people of the ancient gods who are accustomed to marrying non-humans are simply blessed with animal-eared girl-obsessed people, which really tickles the monsters' preferences!

Especially the fox demon clan!
After the reputation of the pure fox lineage and the Qingqiu lineage was ruined, even the Tushan fox, which had produced many big men and even the wife of the human king, was no longer popular in Jiuzhou. Not to mention that compared to other monsters, the fox clan was more proud of the underdeveloped and honest human race.

Perhaps it was because the inheritance that Tushan clan had picked up was too tempting, and after having the breakthrough of Shang and Zhou dynasties, the young transformed foxes came here in groups to look for husbands!

Moreover, although there is a probability of gambling in their minds, there will not be much difference if they really find an honest person with no achievements.

After all, the human identity alone is worth the price of admission!
With the help of the simplicity of the human race, they can get rid of the evil spirits of monsters, and can use human energy to cover up part of the monster aura to eliminate the disasters in practice and the thunder disasters of heaven and earth when they attain the Tao. What's more, the bloodline of Emperor You, the seed of the King of Man, even if it is a weak bloodline that has been iterated countless times, can stimulate the monsters to make their bloodlines revert to a certain degree.

The fox clan is in such a state, not to mention the other spirits.

What's more, in most cases, monsters are more clear about love and hate than humans, and are more grateful. The probability of them abandoning their husbands (wives) and children after becoming rich is not zero, but it is very small!
However, although the atmosphere is so warm, Shaoyou and Diyou, who inherited Zhang Ke's will and blood, are still a little resistant to this. Unless it is a true match made in heaven and they receive help or favors, they rarely look at these charming and virtuous monsters even if they go to the future to find a "Lin Daiyu" to discuss marriage. But most of them are still digested internally, or they form relatives with the human race who have exchanges with the native land of Jiuzhou.

After all, even monsters can cross boundaries, so why can't humans?
Even though crossing the border requires a certain amount of practice and channels, if people from Jiuzhou can't get through, the Shang and Zhou people can go through on their own!
In contrast, people in later generations who had already achieved a certain unity of consciousness successfully accepted this love affair between a demon and a human that was unacceptable to the secular world, and it can be said to be mutually beneficial!

In this way, the female demons had a place to go, and would not be deceived by the scumbag men in Jiuzhou, nor would they be harmed and then evilened and hunted down by the Taoists; the human race in the Shang and Zhou dynasties benefited, and people in later generations fulfilled their dreams and made profits on all sides. No one knew who was silently enduring everything behind those who seemed to be making crazy money!
And precisely because of the frequent exchanges and almost overflowing marriages, ever since the Shang Zhou world was completely stabilized and connected with the Jiuzhou world barrier, the atmosphere here can be called a place of marriage. Even the gods in heaven and hell are so busy that they are dizzy, but a certain old man named Yue Lao also resides in the Shang Zhou world and is reluctant to leave.

It's not just that he is reluctant to leave. Sometimes the old man even personally comes out to persuade some infatuated men and women.

After all, this is not the time when he was forced to go to work. If this situation continues for hundreds or thousands of years, he will no longer be a remote little god on the edge, and he may even have a place on the throne of the emperor.

What is opportunity?

This is called chance!!!
But then again, the Shang and Zhou world has worked so hard to multiply as quickly as possible to digest the mountains and rivers outside the four borders, so how could Jiuzhou not take action?

However, although Jiuzhou had more of its own world integrated into it than the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it did not have many blood sources as "rich" as in later generations. Even with the advent of each era of the Qing Dynasty, facing the fierce and fierce Han Dynasty, after the plundering of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the three dynasties of Southern Yan, other dynasties could only snatch people from the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Yuan Dynasty which had not yet disappeared.

But even so, the number of people in Kyushu during these chaotic times was very small, and correspondingly, the miserable past of their own people during that era made successive dynasties feel heartbroken.

As a result, a series of wars to slaughter barbarians without considering profits or losses and just to vent anger broke out within Kyushu.

Despite the suppression and favoritism of the powerful Han and Tang dynasties, basically nothing went wrong in the overall process. Big wins and small wins are all wins. Even the Song Dynasty completely turned things around and swept away the decadence. But war is bound to kill people.

The gods and immortals who were already worried about the population were even more horrified when they saw the chaos in the mortal world. Although the emperor had been demoted from the throne of the king, they were equal to the emperors in terms of power in the world. Although the gods and immortals saw the fire, they could not really intervene to stop it, and could only try to stop it indirectly. However, for a group of people in Jiuzhou who had already been aroused, they would hardly stop until they really wiped out the people.

This added a few more obstacles to the already bumpy road ahead.
(End of this chapter)