I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 535 Overt and covert fighting
Above the bright and unobstructed temple, nine huge red copper pillars extend into the invisible darkness in the void. Something seems to be flowing in the darkness, but everyone in the Taihang Divine Court knows not to explore what is there, because the moment you see it, you will be trapped in it and disappear in everyone's memory. There is a tributary of a long river of history with no beginning and no end that always wraps around the entire Taihang Divine Court, leaving this place in a semi-closed state.

One after another, huge red copper pillars connect important nodes that cover the entire 5,000-mile Taihang Mountains. Currently, there are nine third-rank gods who have suppressed them with their kingdoms of God. Together with the Taihang Divine Court, there are a total of 100,000 barbarian warriors living there from ancient times. This does not include the Netherworld Divine Court that is currently being built, corresponding to the Taihang Mountains.

These nine third-grade gods stood on the left and right in the divine light. Most of the gods on the left were civil officials, who were also the gods of this era, with Cao Shan, the True Lord of Punishing Evil and Promoting Good, as the main one. Cao Shan had absorbed all the accumulation of the owner of the Dongzhen Kiln. In addition, the duty of punishing evil and promoting good must be the core duty of the underworld divine court. Naturally, this original fifth-grade kitchen god became the core civil official of the Taihang Divine Court.

Even Hao Ren and Shentu Yuan could not compare to him in this respect, because they were not complete gods after all, and each had their own affairs in the human world. Even if they had received divine office and participated in divine meetings, it was more like an audience with a provincial governor.

On the right hand side are the gods of ancient human ancestors who came here from the barbaric era, led by Kui Shen. After half a year of adaptation, four of these barbaric gods were originally fourth-grade gods. They obtained the resources and virtual godhood bestowed by Zhou Tieyi, and now they have also built their own kingdom of God and been promoted to third-grade gods.

It can be said that the Taihang Divine Court today is no less powerful than any real divine court, except that it does not have a second-rank great god in charge. Its power is so great that it is able to govern the Tangzhou Prefecture, which is 5,000 miles away from the Taihang Mountains or even further away.

After hearing Ah Da's words, Shen Tu Yuan glanced at the gods shrouded in divine light, and then snorted coldly at Hao Ren.

He didn't care much about these third-grade gods, because he was confident that he could become a third-grade god in the future and be on equal footing with them.

But the current situation really made it difficult for him to argue with Hao Ren anymore, otherwise these old people from Tianjing would have no place to stand in the Divine Court.

Stepping up the white jade steps and entering the divine palace, Cao Shan, as the head of the clerks, wearing a scarlet robe, was the first to speak, "Our Lord has asked us to do what we want. What do you think of this oracle?"

After all, Taihang Mountain and Tianjing are thousands of miles apart, and the news that the Divine Court usually receives is always delayed. Naturally, they do not know what happened in Tianjing this morning, so they are a little confused by the oracle that Zhou Tieyi suddenly released.

However, unlike humans, gods have certain foresight abilities, especially the second-grade god 'Yi Xuanji' who has the ability to fulfill wishes. But the more they have these abilities that can go against the laws of reality, the more they know the horror of predicting the future. Therefore, Bodhisattvas fear causes and mortals fear consequences. Many times, even if gods can see what will happen in the future, they will issue vague oracles and let all beings choose their own paths.

Therefore, the vagueness of the oracle is consistent with the gods' own understanding.

As a captain of the God-Slaying Division, Shentu Yuan had no time to play with the logic of the gods. He took the lead and narrated the key points of what happened in the morning, and then explained that this was the result of his request.

"The situation in the capital is unpredictable now. Your Excellency is concerned about the world, but the Great Xia court is still pressing forward. As your subjects, if we cannot strike back head-on, then why would Your Excellency support us?"

Shentu Yuankang made a general speech, but the gods present all had their own plans in mind.

Especially the few Taihang Mountain kiln owners who had originally naturalized, they clearly realized that this matter was to support the power of the Tianjing faction. Although they were all Zhou Tieyi's people, Shenting was Shenting after all, and Tianjing was Tianjing after all.

The Xiaguang Kiln owner glanced at Cao Shan. They, the kiln owners, were either recruited by Cao Shan or deceived by Cao Shan. In any case, they were all members of Cao Shan's faction and naturally had to follow his opinions.

A higher-ranking official can crush a person to death, and this is also true in Shintoism. The Taihang Divine Court is especially different from other divine courts in that they have the Taiyi Jade Disc. Therefore, while their beliefs are not afraid of the poison in people's hearts, they are also uniformly distributed by Zhou Tieyi. The principle of Zhou Tieyi's distribution is naturally based on Cao Shan's evaluation of merit.

Therefore, Cao Shan theoretically controlled the salaries and promotions of the gods present, and was a well-deserved prime minister among gods.

Cao Shan hesitated for a moment, "This is a military matter, what does Kuishen think of it?"

Kuishen is in charge of all military affairs of the Divine Court and trains weapons. If the Divine Court attacks Tianjing this time and seizes the things in the library of the Imperial Academy, then the decision on how many people to send and how to command them should be made by Kuishen.

Kuishen looked at the surrounding wild gods. These gods were all ready to fight. They were different from the gods who had surrendered like the owner of Xiaguang Kiln. Although they also surrendered later, in this era, Zhou Tieyi or the Lord of Yanhuang was the source of all their beliefs. The rules and thinking of the wilds were also very simple, which was to protect their own power and territory.

And as a god of war, he certainly needs to prove his own worth. As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to train soldiers and only a day to deploy them.

"I support Shentu Shenjiang's statement. This time, we the Divine Court need to take the initiative to make the Great Xia court understand that the world is not just maintained by them. Without us, the world will be in chaos."

Flames rose from the hollow, deep eye sockets of his skeleton helmet, and behind him, his cloak, like the ashes of a battlefield, kept rolling up smoke and dust.

"However, entering the library this time will be dangerous. Gods below the third rank do not need to participate. Beimo, Qingsen, the two of you follow me."

Kuishen selected two third-grade gods from the barbarian faction and then looked at Cao Shan.

Cao Shan turned his head and looked at the gods on his side first, only to see that many kiln owners were avoiding his gaze. Even for a third-rank god, going to Tianjing Tai College to snatch treasures was still a life-and-death situation. Even those who were willing to go basically held the mentality that they would die.

Although it is known that Zhou Tieyi's Taiyi Jade Disc has the ability to revive, there will definitely be losses during the revival. It is not clear how much loss there will be.

These kiln owners have not yet completely surrendered, and they need to be persuaded further, Cao Shan thought to himself.

Suddenly, an unexpected person appeared. A divine general stepped out and said, "I wish to go with you."

Everyone's eyes fell on this divine general. This divine general was holding a tower in golden armor. The tower body was pure white, with layers of good karma gathered from it. He had a burly figure, a dignified appearance, eagle eyebrows and wolf eyes. He was none other than Hong Yang, the original divine general of the Nine Chapters of the Tianyi Taoist Prison.

The connection between this prison-suppressing general and the Tianyi Dao lineage was severed but not completely broken, so although Zhou Tieyi revived him at the beginning, he did not devote many resources to his training.

But just as Zhou Tieyi thought, since the other party had followed Taoist Tianyi into the Heavenly Palace for the battle, even if he was cannon fodder, he must have mastered a lot of core secrets.

In the past six months, Zhou Tieyi let things take their own course and commissioned the gods to search for the original fragments of the underworld. Hong Yang also made many achievements. According to him, based on the records of the Tianyi Taoist lineage, he united the gods in the Divine Court and really found many secret realms of the underworld. Therefore, not only did his own strength recover quickly, he also left a lot of good impressions among the third-grade gods.

Cao Shan said calmly, "Hell-suppressing God General, this matter cannot be accomplished with just passion..."

Hong Yang clasped his fists and said, "My Lords, you may not know that the Historian Library is very important. It is even more dangerous than the long river of history surrounding the Divine Court!" Cao Shan and Kuishen looked at each other, and Shentu Yuan asked, "How did you know this?"

His eyes were solemn. He originally thought that even if the historian's library was dangerous, the historian had only produced a second-rank god after all. Even a third-rank Confucian holding an official seal dared to break in. If he could send out a third-rank god, he would naturally be able to break in.

Hong Yang continued, "Historists have always been a national discipline, but they are not well-known to the world. Even those who practice history are more reclusive than monks in the mountains and forests. Even when encountering chaos or peace, they just bury their heads in recording. As a result, many people forget that history is the earliest discipline, and it existed before Confucianism and Taoism."

"When I first joined the Tianyi Sect, the Taoist master was extremely talented. Like my master, he wanted to change the world. He naturally noticed the power of historians. Therefore, before he did anything big, he repeatedly spoke in front of us, describing the various peculiarities of historians, and asked us, the core members, to practice a method that could avoid many of the historians' techniques. That's why I dared to go with him."

"What is the method?"

Seeing the eager eyes of the gods around him, Hong Yang just shook his head and said, "This method is a secret weapon of the Tianyi Dao lineage. When I learned it, I swore in front of the Dao Master that I would not pass it on to others. Otherwise, I would have offered it to the God Court long ago."

"That's it."

Cao Shan said with regret, but did not pursue it too much. It was normal to swear to pass on such a top-level method in secret.

Cao Shan said, "Let me report this matter to the Lord first."

Above Taiyi Temple, Zhou Tieyi naturally knew what was happening in the Divine Court. When he heard Hong Yang take the initiative to reveal some information, and that he was willing to go to the Taixue Academy library, a smile appeared on his lips. Then, with a thought, a large seal passed through layers of space and fell into the Divine Court Hall.

This seal has six sides, covering mountains, rivers, the country, heaven and earth, and encompassing the infinite universe. It symbolizes the Taihang Mountains and the water veins extending from the Taihang Mountains to the Luo River. It is the core seal of Zhou Tieyi's divinity, the Qiankun Seal.

This seal completely integrates the divine power of the Goddess of Taihang, and combined with Zhou Tieyi's own authority, it has become a treasure of Shintoism and a well-deserved first-grade divine seal.

As the seal fell on the hall, Zhou Tieyi pointed in the air, pointing to the water lake outlined by the seal, which was accurately located on Panyang Lake. At the beginning, Zhou Tieyi obtained the position of the third-rank water god of Panyang Lake, thereby controlling the Huai River and reviving the two gods of Qi River. However, he did not revive the water god of Panyang Lake at that time, because the other party was the god chosen by Jiang Taiyi, and reviving him at that time might cause unexpected changes.

And now the people from Confucius Academy and Xuandu Mountain are so anxious to open the historian's library of Taixue Academy, wanting to take out the thing that can restrain them. With a little reasoning, Zhou Tieyi will naturally be able to know what it is?

There are only a few things in the world that can restrain one's Thirty-Three Heavens Path. They are either the relics of the Nine Ancient Gods or saints, or the relics of the Holy Emperor or the Great Xia Taizu. The next level is only the Butcher Jiang Taiyi. Apart from them, even the Five Emperors cannot restrain themselves, but are restrained by themselves.

It is hidden in the library of Taixue Academy and guarded by historians. It is most likely related to the butcher Jiang Taiyi.

As Zhou Tieyi pointed at the lake, the long river of history began to ripple, and the power of [Usurpation of God] turned into rainbow light, and a black tortoise-snake was fished out from the silent and obliterated history. However, before the black tortoise-snake could fully revive in the real world, its intelligence was imprisoned in the first-grade divine seal [Qiankun Seal].

"History, after all, has a beginning and an end. It is not completely impossible to travel through time."

Time itself is indeed infinite, but the history that historians can record is limited.

When Zhou Tieyi first encountered the long river of history surrounding the Taihang Divine Court, he had to rely on Tian's father's holy power and the Tai Chi Yin-Yang Bracelet to cross all living beings in history.

But now it is far from being so troublesome. Since he unified his own past, now, his entire history shines through the ages. He can even confidently say that he has participated in the creation of all human history. Naturally, he will not be buried by history and will have the opportunity to travel through this long river of history woven by historians.

Although he didn't know what method the Tianyi Dao lineage used to allow his subordinates to travel through history, he happened to have a group of human ancestors who had survived from the barbaric era to the present.

Therefore, the Kuishen also run through the entire human history and have the ability to cross the entire history recorded by historians.

The divine light of the seal gradually faded and fell into the hands of Kuishen.

Kuishen immediately understood, "I will follow your wishes."

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By the afternoon, Zhang Shizhong, Zhao Guanshan, Wei Shaoan, and Gao Wencan sealed off the crime scene and reopened the Imperial Academy. After thinking it over, they decided to go to the Simin Mansion.

At this time, the wind and rain outside had stopped a little. He came to the study. Although it was not the first time he saw Dong Xingshu like this, Zhang Shizhong still couldn't help but sigh.

In just about a month, Dong Xingshu seemed to have aged twenty years. Although his hair was originally gray, it was thick and shiny, but now it was falling down like an old tree that was about to die.

Not only did Dong Xingshu have to work harder and harder at court, but the harm caused by Daxia's efforts to abolish the Five Emperors' worship was still continuing.

At the Taiyi Temple, Zhou Tieyi integrated the luck of the Five Emperors with the Five Elders of the Five Directions. The old Taoist priests from Xuandu Mountain were unwilling to follow this path, and they all fell completely from the third rank. What's more, Dong Xingshu, a second-rank Confucian who had been committed to establishing the virtue of water.

Seeing Dong Xingshu like this, Zhang Shizhong sighed and said, "Brother, it is not shameful to cherish your body when doing great things."

He rarely used the title of senior brother, and he wanted to persuade Dong Xingshu not to directly confront Zhou Tieyi's Five Directions and Five Elders Taoist tradition. He had also heard a little about that Taoist tradition, and apart from the revival of Shintoism, it was indeed a way to govern the world and not a crooked way.

Confucianism is not good at longevity. If Dong Xingshu continues to resist like this, old age and physical weakness will directly take his life.

Dong Xingshu waved his hands. Although his voice was a little weak, it was still loud and clear. "If you cherish your life in a big event, you will have no successor. Now I have someone to succeed me. This is the time to seek benevolence and get benevolence as taught by the teacher. Don't worry, my old bones can still hold on for another two years. Then we will see the result."

(End of this chapter)