I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 465: Emperor of Life and Death
After making arrangements for Zhou Tiege, Zhou Tieyi ascended the throne and began to deal with the daily affairs of the Divine Court.

On his left hand side is Cao Shan, the God of Rewarding Kindness, and behind Cao Shan are the five kiln owners he has gathered, as well as two more kiln owners who have been gathered during this period, a total of seven people. On his right hand side is Zukui God, the ancient soldier who commands the army of the Divine Court, and behind him are more than ten ancient tribal gods.

The two sides happen to be one civil and one military, one modern and one ancient, and they restrict each other and together form the nine pillars of the Taihang Divine Court today.

Balancing subordinates is almost the instinct of those in power. This is something that must be done in every force. Zhou Tieyi sighed in his heart and instructed Cao Shan, "The kiln owner will not focus on gathering them from now on. This matter will be handed over to Kuishen. Anyone who finds any trace will be killed."

Now is the best time to recruit these kiln owners. After so many days, the remaining kiln owners have probably found new buyers. Even Zhou Tieyi is not completely confident about the seven people recruited by Cao Shan. However, the Divine Court needs third-grade gods to fill the situation, and he, the master of the Divine Court, cannot do everything himself.

"Yes."

Cao Shan held the black and white tablet in his hand and agreed respectfully.

Zhou Tieyi turned to look at Kuishen, "How is the army integrated now?"

Although he brought the most elite warriors of the ancient tribes to this era, these warriors mostly relied on the power of the gods' followers, and their cooperation was not tacit, and they had not even practiced the basic martial arts.

Over the past half month, Kuishen, as the God of War of the Divine Court, naturally could not disperse these tribal warriors as he did before. Instead, he unified them into the Divine Court and established troops directly under the Divine Court. The most important thing was that in this era, the means of war were very different from those in the barbaric era.

In the barbaric era, ordinary warriors did not need to consider the situation of fighting against enemies of the upper third level, but now this is a situation that everyone needs to consider.

On the battlefield, middle and lower-rank soldiers are not completely defenseless against top-three-rank enemies. The most critical factor is the military formation. This formation, developed by military strategists and capable of gathering the power of the crowd, can often cause the top-three-rank cultivators to be trapped in it and die. This is why the front lines of Yuanmeng and Daxia have to maintain so many soldiers and are not composed entirely of third-rank cultivators.

Because a large amount of land requires a large number of ordinary troops to occupy it, and at the same time, the ordinary troops form a combat force and cooperate with military strategists and generals to exert their strength far greater than that of a single third-grade cultivator.

"Reporting to my Lord, I have passed down your martial arts and you have learned the basics. Now I am waiting for you to re-cleanse with the fire of humanity, and then you can completely belong to the Divine Court."

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly. Although the warriors of other tribes had not practiced martial arts before, they were able to serve as the front-line troops to resist the beastmen. They were all elite soldiers of each tribe. They were extremely strong and had been nourished by divine power for a long time. After experiencing so many wars, it was natural that they would get twice the result with half the effort when practicing martial arts.

The source of the divine power of these human tribal warriors all comes from the fire of humanity passed down by the Yan clan, so they can start from the source and help them sort out their foundations to achieve the effect of integration.

If you want to maximize the effect of the military formation, you need to connect the people in the formation and highly unify their spirits, so that you can effectively gather everyone's strength.

Next comes the battle array itself.

Zhou Tieyi pondered and thought, the basic Five Elements military formations definitely need practice, but this is just to make the soldiers accustomed to the military formations. If they really want to fight the enemy, they need to master the third grade or even higher military formations.

The military formation inherited by the Zhou family, the 'White Tiger Senluo Formation', can effectively gather the evil spirits of soldiers, forming a Senluo net to encircle the enemy, while at the same time transforming into a giant white tiger supervising soldiers, mobilizing the power of Gengjin in the west.

However, this was enough for the enemies that the Zhou family had to deal with in the past. Now, the enemies that Zhou Tieyi Taihang Divine Court needs to deal with are only of this level, and the White Tiger Senluo Formation is definitely not enough.

Either the White Tiger is used as the basis to evolve the four symbols of earth, wind, water and fire, or the Geng Metal is used as the basis to evolve the Five Elements and Five Emperors. Both paths evolve along the original military formation of the Zhou family, and Zhou Tieyi has methods of deduction for both.

Of course, Zhou Tieyi can also deduce a new military formation based on his current understanding of the Dao.

"I will deal with this matter later."

After the two matters were confirmed, the owner of Xiaguang Kiln stepped forward and said respectfully, "My Lord, we have just returned and we dare not just sit there and do nothing. Please give me your instructions."

After these kiln owners were subdued, their own kingdoms of God were moved to the nine underground caves of the Taihang Divine Court, and the ownership of the kingdoms of God were refined into the Divine Court bit by bit.

Originally, even the original Divine Court could not do this, because the Kingdom of God is the foundation of gods. However, the Taiyi Jade Disc, which has integrated the fire of humanity, is a peerless artifact and naturally possesses mysterious powers. With the power of the Divine Talisman, even the power of faith can be distributed uniformly, and naturally the power of these gods can also be distributed. This is an important reason why Zhou Tieyi dared to place these kiln owners whose loyalty is still uncertain in the Divine Court crypt. As long as the Taiyi Jade Disc is not lost, it will be more than enough to suppress several kiln owners.

The reason why the Xiaguang Kiln Master spoke up was because they could feel that their own kingdom of God was being stripped away bit by bit, but their own strength and faith strangely did not disappear. Especially after they had branded their real names on that peerless artifact, this feeling became even stronger.

This also made them increasingly uneasy, fearing that when their own kingdom of God was completely stripped away, they would be slaughtered like cattle and horses, so only by deeply participating in the affairs of the God's court could they feel at ease.

Zhou Tieyi also understood this point. The Taihang Divine Court had been undergoing internal integration for more than half a month, and this would not immediately highlight any contradictions. Once the Divine Court completed its internal integration, such a huge force would inevitably come up with the next action plan.

Even if it is to bide its time, the Divine Court must still work out how to develop believers. Now that Taihang Mountain is undergoing reforms, the power of Shinto has been severely damaged. It will be ineffective to develop believers in Taihang Mountain. At the same time, it will cause a conflict between the two different forces in Zhou Tieyi's hands, and both sides of the hand will be in jeopardy.

So Zhou Tieyi has other plans for Taihang Divine Court.

"How much have you heard about the netherworld?" Several kiln owners looked at each other. The owner of the Xiaguang kiln bowed to the figure shrouded by the sun and the moon and said, "Although our kingdom of gods is underground, our believers are still mainly miners and rural villagers. Although we have heard some things about the netherworld before, they are also the descendants of the Emperor of Life and Death among the Nine Ancient Gods, and we only know the basics of it."

"The fur is also a clue."

Zhou Tieyi retorted, "I want to rule the underworld with mountains, and establish the Underworld Imperial Court in the Taihang Mountains. After this, all souls who die in the world will be judged in the Taihang Yinshan Mountains, their merits and demerits will be wiped out, and they will be sent to the underworld through the law of reincarnation, and reincarnate into the next life to clear the sins of heaven and earth and clear the cause and effect of heaven and earth."

This was also his previous idea. For all gods of mountain authority, the extension of divine power must have two directions. The first direction is to enthrone emperors on earth, and the second direction is to integrate the underworld.

This was the case with Taishan in his previous life. In Zhou Tieyi's opinion, even the authority to unify the underworld was higher than enthroning an emperor on earth.

He is now the lord of Taihang Mountain, holding the Taihang Divine Court, controlling many third-rank gods, and having a hundred thousand warriors under his command. At the same time, he has absorbed a part of the power of the underworld. When he spoke of the next goal of the Taihang Mountain God System, he was speaking in accordance with the will of heaven, just like when he gathered the power of the [Ancestor of Soldiers], boundless evil spirit surged from all directions.

Wisps of dark white dark winds continuously surged up from the bottom of the Taihang Mountains and combined with the Taihang Mountains' Divine Court to form a piece of underworld extending from the Divine Court towards the underworld. However, no sooner had this piece of underworld been formed than it aroused the dissatisfaction of the origin of the other world.

A pair of orange-yellow vertical pupils lit up in the darkness. Zhou Tiege, who was originally sent to the Bingsha by Zhou Tieyi, now felt cold all over. The blood in his body seemed to be out of control. The hot blood quickly became as cold as a snake. The spiritual talent combined with the innate divine blood turned into a winding snake of the underworld that was unknown how long.

As soon as this Netherworld Snake appeared, the sound of rushing water was heard one after another. The surging Yellow Springs actually used him as the coordinate, directly penetrated the void, and descended on the Taihang Divine Court.

As Zhou Tiege's mind turned cold, he immediately realized that the source of their Zhou family's bloodline was backfiring.

The moment the huge yellow vertical pupil lit up, it looked down at all the gods in the Taihang Divine Court with a very high attitude. The owner of the Xiaguang Kiln, who had just asked Zhou Tieyi about the next plan, now wished she could slap herself in the mouth. Under this will, even if she was in perfect condition at this moment, she would be like a white rabbit stared at by a poisonous snake, and could not find a way to fight back against her opponent. Instead, the opponent only needed to inject a little bit of "venom" to kill her. This was the essential difference.

For a moment, the entire vibrant kingdom of God actually felt like it was slowly heading towards death, and everything here was dying at a hundred times the speed.

But everything changed in the next moment. Zhou Tieyi was sitting on the throne, and the Taiyi Jade Disc behind him was rising like the sun. The warm sunlight shone indiscriminately in every corner of the divine court. The warm humanitarian flame symbolized life on earth, in contrast to death in the underworld.

"I thought you could hold it in all this time?"

Zhou Tieyi's chuckle echoed throughout the entire kingdom of God. In the same posture of descending from a very high place, he stretched out his finger and pointed at the source of all the coldness, which happened to be where his eldest brother was.

The outside of the Taihang Divine Court is wrapped in the long river of history. Unless a true saint descends, even the top-level saints will find it difficult to penetrate this barrier of the long river of history.

Although the Emperor of Life and Death was one of the Nine Ancient Gods and a deity comparable to a saint, he had fallen from his saintly position after all and was suppressed and sealed. The reason why he was able to accurately locate the Taihang Divine Court was because Zhou Tieyi brought Zhou Tiege in.

When Zhou Tiege used his innate magical powers, he told Zhou Tieyi all the information he knew about the Zhou family bloodline.

The Zhou family bloodline does come from the Emperor of Life and Death. The Great Xia Dynasty tolerated the Zhou family because the emperors of all dynasties wanted to prolong their lifespans. However, every time the Zhou family's bloodline used the [Yellow Spring] talent, it would gradually be devoured by the bloodline until it was completely controlled by the will of the Emperor of Life and Death.

Although Zhou Tiege was far from being devoured, he had indeed used his [Yellow Spring] talent several times. Now that the Nine Ancient Gods were about to revive, Zhou Tiege was the only inheritor of the bloodline of the Emperor of Life and Death. Even Zhou Qinlong, the head of the Zhou family, could not compare to him in this respect, because Zhou Qinlong also had an elder brother, Zhou Tieyi's uncle, who died on the battlefield long ago. It was because of the inheritance of the essence and blood of the Emperor of Life and Death that he died. In each generation of the Zhou family, there is only one person who can inherit the unparalleled blood of the gods.

However, this kind of inheritance is not a good thing. Because he is worried and afraid of the power of his own blood and essence, Zhou Tiege needs to give up his blood and essence in everything, and is unable to unleash his terrifying talent.

And now Zhou Tieyi, speaking in accordance with the will of heaven, began to change the nature of Taihang Mountain with the will of the gods, giving Taihang Mountain the ability to swallow up the underworld. This naturally caused the instinctive resistance of the will left by the Emperor of Life and Death.

But since Zhou Tieyi was confident about doing this at this time, as he pointed his finger at Zhou Tiege, the Shinto talisman that had just been given to Zhou Tiege was also ignited, and clusters of warm humanitarian fire also began to burn along Zhou Tiege's blood.

Since birth, Zhou Tiege has carried the blood of the Emperor of Life and Death, but he also carries the blood of the human race. However, even Zhou's mother did not have the ability to gather the true fire of humanity to balance the blood of the Emperor of Life and Death in Zhou Tiege's body.

One is cold, the other is hot, two completely different forces flow in Zhou Tiege's body. Zhou Tiege originally thought that his golden muscles and jade bones, which had been trained to the extreme, first dried up and decayed quickly under the washing of the Yellow Spring, like a layer of dead skin. Then, this layer of dead skin was quickly ignited under the blazing fire of humanity, and was reborn in the flames, revealing skin as delicate and white as a baby's.

Zhou Tiege also grasped the key instantly. He immediately recited the Taoist nine-character mantra. As he recited the mantra, purple thunder surged all over his body, symbolizing the revival of life and death in the world. The purple thunder turned into sharp swords of lightning, shuttling through Zhou Tiege's blood, controlling the pivot of yin and yang and breaking the cycle of life and death.

While Zhou Tiege was controlling life and death with thunder, in his sea of ​​consciousness, the understanding of the words life and death that came from Confucianism and famous schools of thought quickly completed and transformed into two completely different yet connected dragon seals.

At the moment when the two dragon seals were transformed, in the void, the dark yellow pupils that seemed to be towering over the sky, the unknown underworld snake had new changes. In Zhou Tieyi's vision, the 'snake tail' hidden in the darkness appeared, and it was another head!
However, this head was pure white, and there was no cold greed in the eyes, only pure curiosity like a baby. The head flashed in the darkness, like a fragment of the future.

Then the black head looked at Zhou Tieyi with a playful smile, and then retracted into Zhou Tiege's body.

Zhou Tieyi put down his hand and thought in his heart, the Emperor of Life and Death, who was born before death, has always mastered more than one kind of power, but the other power was suppressed and could not be revived. Now, under his "chance", the power of life has also been revived.

(End of this chapter)