Daojun, start from Penglai foundation building

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The underworld bells were struck one after another, and the entire ghost world began to change from being dead silent and dull. Ghosts and gods walked out of the tombs and gathered towards the Underworld Palace.

Soon, an order from Emperor Senluo spread throughout the Ghost City and spread to the entire Daqian Ghost Dynasty: Emperor Senluo, who is in charge of the eternal life of Xuanming, has ordered that the Daqian Ghost Dynasty march southward to raze the Yu Dynasty to the ground, unify the underworld, and certify the achievements of heaven and earth.

As Emperor Senluo issued the decree, the entire northern part of the Netherworld was mobilized, and ghosts and gods, led by their respective masters, left the Ghost City and headed south.

At the same time, a large number of ghosts and gods from the Qian Dynasty began to offer sacrifices to the Yellow Springs, making this originally turbid river of the underworld even more turbid and turbulent.

When ghosts and gods travel, they must be accompanied by a large number of wronged souls and dark armors, and they must also have ghost energy and negative energy as a force.

As a large number of ghosts and gods from the Qian Dynasty crossed the Senluo Mingshan Mountain and crossed the Yellow Springs to rush into the territory of the Yu Dynasty, chaos in the underworld was inevitable.

This catastrophe began with a national war initiated by Emperor Yingtian Qiyun Yongming Xuanming Senluo. The filth that had originally accumulated between heaven and earth suddenly began to boil, and calamity energy continued to surge out from the boundless filth in the abyss, and began to spread to the underworld.

In the beginning, only a small amount of calamity energy flowed into the Netherworld, causing the fighting in a small area to become fierce and resulting in the deaths of several ghosts and gods.

However, as ghosts and gods died, the calamity energy began to flow into the underworld after receiving sacrifices. There was more and more calamity energy in the underworld, and a large number of ghosts and gods were gradually shrouded by the calamity energy and began to lose their former sanity.

Originally, the ghosts and gods of both the Qian Dynasty and the Yu Dynasty were resistant to this war of ghosts and gods that was forcibly launched by Emperor Senluo. No one was willing to risk their hard-earned practice and life for an invisible future.

But as the calamity energy erodes, the conflicts between ghosts and gods become more intense, and the methods they use become more dangerous.

These ghosts and gods, whose minds have been eroded by the calamity energy and who have been trapped in the calamity, began to forcibly mobilize the power of the underworld and began to hold large-scale blood sacrifices. Various magic arrays and supernatural powers began to be frequently used, using other ghosts and gods as sacrifices in exchange for their own promotion.

For a time, the underworld was in chaos, and the Yellow Springs was restless. Countless ghosts and gods who died unjustly turned into evil spirits and killed people wantonly in the vast underworld. The large amount of spiritual energy in the underworld was absorbed, which made the Yellow Springs restless more and more frequent.

The gates of hell on earth kept opening, and countless evil spirits poured into the world. The monks of Jinhua Mountain began to go down the mountain frequently to deal with these evil spirits.

And the patience of the ghost and god families of the Qian and Yu dynasties was constantly being consumed by the increasingly voracious appetites of their ancestors in the underworld and their increasingly frequent blood sacrifices.

From the very beginning, this battle between ghosts and gods in the underworld consumed not only the power of the ghosts and gods in the underworld, but also the savings of the noble families in the human world.

As the siltation of the Yellow Spring became more and more serious, a large amount of filth from heaven and earth began to gush out into the Netherworld. Under the erosion of filth from heaven and earth and the dissipation of calamity and evil spirits, the barrier between the Netherworld and the human world became increasingly thin.

Finally, in the ever-expanding fierce battle between the ghosts and gods of the Qian Dynasty and the Yu Dynasty, under the constant erosion of the calamity and evil spirits, the barrier between the underworld and the human world was broken.

In the 100,08th year of the Shanhai Annals, after the chaotic war in the underworld had lasted for nearly three years, a group of ghosts and gods rushed into the human world without reason under the erosion of calamity, and wantonly displayed their ghost bodies on the earth, urging the eerie ghost energy and the evil underworld energy to conquer each other. The disaster of the underworld finally spread to the human world.

The ghosts and gods in the underworld are inherently much more powerful than those in the human world. After their human descendants could no longer satisfy their appetite, they began to actively enter the human world, perform blood sacrifices on their own, and exchange the lives of all living beings in heaven and earth for their own status promotion.

The influx of ghosts and gods from the underworld into the human world also caused the calamity energy that originally only permeated the underworld to begin spreading to the human world.

For a time, there were a lot of riots in both the Qian Dynasty and the Yu Dynasty.

First, the independent cultivators realized that the world was in turmoil and were dissatisfied with the imperial court and the aristocratic families occupying all the resources. They began to spontaneously organize themselves to attack the imperial court government offices and the aristocratic families of ghosts and gods to plunder resources and kill cultivators.

Then some ghost and god families became dissatisfied with the court's slowness in the face of this change, and began to form alliances to protect themselves, deal with local affairs spontaneously, and began to bloody suppress all independent cultivators and all suspicious people, no longer paying attention to the court.

The original order of the human world lost its due function under this turmoil. A large number of ghost and god families occupied the states and counties and began to protect themselves. All places became increasingly turbulent. Robber cultivators and demon cultivators emerged in endlessly, and all kinds of evil spirits and ghosts became more and more serious.

Amid such turmoil, the stability of Lingyou Province and its surrounding prefectures and counties becomes increasingly valuable.

Under Jiang Sheng's command, a large number of cultivators in Jinhua Mountain went down the mountain to stabilize the situation in the surrounding states and counties. At the same time, the ghosts and gods in Xuanqing Temple also began to make efforts to suppress the increasingly turbulent resentment and evil spirits in various places.

This made the area around Jinhua Mountain, within millions of miles, a rare peaceful place in the midst of the turmoil in the underworld. After Emperor Xian of the Yu Dynasty realized that this was not a turmoil in the underworld, but a catastrophe of heaven and earth, the emperor who had ruled the Yu Dynasty for more than 500 years made a decision that shocked the court and the public: he would travel around the world and offer sacrifices to Jinhua Mountain.

Emperor Xian did what he said.

The weapons, armor, ceremonial objects, carriages, horses and supplies were prepared as quickly as possible. Then, Emperor Xian, accompanied by a large number of ministers, monks, concubines and servants, began his eastern tour under the protection of the army.

Yes, it was said that he was touring the country, but Emperor Xian’s goal was very clear, which was to go east from the capital all the way to Jinhua Mountain.

When Jiang Sheng got the news, Emperor Xian was already on his way to Jinhua Mountain.

"This Emperor Xian is quite decisive."

Jiang Sheng chuckled as he flipped through the letter from the credential that was placed on his desk.

It clearly stated that Emperor Xian had conferred upon Jiang Sheng the title of Bingyang Taishang Miaofa Xuanji Tianshi of the Great Yu Dynasty, and had conferred upon Taoism the state religion of the Yu Dynasty. Jinhua Mountain was the holy land of Taoism, on the same level as Yudu, and he also stated that he would personally come to Jinhua Mountain to offer sacrifices to the immortal mountain and worship heaven and earth.

Xiang Yu Xianjun snorted lightly: "It is decisive. We are about to hold the Luotian Grand Ceremony, so this person came uninvited."

Jiang Sheng said, "Your Majesty once said that when we hold a Taoist ritual in Jinhua Mountain, he would personally attend and watch."

"It's not a bad thing for us that he can come here now."

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"No matter what, he is the emperor of the southeastern land of mountains, seas and humans, and he has a share of the world's fortune."

“If we have his help, during the Luotian Grand Ceremony, he can personally offer sacrifices to heaven and earth and welcome the Heavenly Lord. Perhaps we will be able to have a much easier time.”

Xiang Yu Xianjun nodded: "Yes, he is the emperor of the human world after all, and the Yu Dynasty is also an ancient dynasty that has existed in the human world for nearly 90,000 years. Using this power of humanity will indeed be a help to us."

"My friend, before the Luotian Grand Ceremony is held, Xuanqing Temple should also be integrated into the Jinhua Mountain system."

The merger of Jinhua Mountain and Xuanqing Temple was something Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu Xianjun had discussed a long time ago.

Originally, Jiang Sheng established Xuanqing Temple to accommodate ghosts and gods. Now, as Jiang Sheng opened a Taoist temple in Jinhua Mountain, in order to maintain the uniqueness of both sides, Jinhua Mountain and Xuanqing Temple have never interfered with each other.

But once the Luotian Grand Ceremony is held, the ghosts and gods will become celestial gods, and then Jinhua Mountain and Xuanqing Temple will merge.

According to Jiang Sheng, originally immortals and gods could be considered as one family. Given the current situation in the Mountain and Sea Realm, it is impossible to rely solely on Taoist monks or ghosts and gods.

Only by combining the Taoist practice system with the incense and fire system can we not only integrate the huge incense and fire luck of Jinhua Mountain and Xuanqing Temple, but also provide more protection for the monks of Jinhua Mountain when they are outside.

With the merger of Jinhua Mountain and Xuanqing Temple, Jinhua Mountain will enshrine the thousands of ghosts and gods in the Map of Ghosts and Gods in the future. Not only will the states and counties under the jurisdiction of Jinhua Mountain have to worship them, but the monks in Jinhua Mountain will also have to worship them.

And every disciple who enters the inner courtyard can choose a ghost or god from the chart of ghosts and gods as his or her patron god.

In the future, in addition to their own practice, Taoist disciples will also be responsible for supporting the guardian gods, and the guardian gods will share weal and woe with the Taoist disciples, protect them, and descend to help them when necessary.
In Jiang Sheng's plan, Taoist monks and ghosts and gods are no longer two clearly defined groups, but a community of interests that shares honor and disgrace.

The two sides practice together, fight together, and can also make use of each other's practice concepts and vision and experience. This is a plan that has only benefits and no harm, whether for Taoist practitioners or for the ghosts and gods who have just reincarnated as the righteous gods of heaven and earth.

If this plan is placed in the Three Realms, it will naturally have no possibility of being realized. Neither Taoism nor Shintoism allow people to live under someone else's roof, not to mention that even if the Eastern Heavenly Taoism and the Heavenly Court can eliminate the gap, the Western Heavenly Buddhist Sect will be furious.
But under the current complex situation in the mountain and sea world, this is a good idea and the most suitable method for the current situation.

Xiangyu Xianjun admired Jiang Sheng's plan very much, and even had a vague idea: after leaving the Mountain and Sea Realm, he could be closely connected with Jiang Sheng, serve as Jiang Sheng's guardian god, and use the huge luck of Penglai Dao Sect to practice (End of this chapter)