I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 548: The Fall of Miscellaneous School

Zhou Tieyi then asked, "What happened after that? How did the Taoist Master Tianyi separate the Small Heavenly Palace?"

Only by understanding the essence of the Little Heavenly Palace can we better control it.

Ju Zidan said, "It is difficult to destroy the entire Heavenly Palace. Even if we admit the way of God, we can still use some of the Heavenly Palace rules. So the Taoist master of Tianyi took a different approach and launched a huge robbery!"

Speaking of this, Ju Zidan's eyes sparkled and his heart was surging. Even though three hundred years had passed, when he talked about this matter again, he couldn't help but admire the plan of Tianyi Taoist Master.

Then he looked at Zhou Tieyi's brilliant divine body, and for a moment the two figures seemed to overlap, at that time and moment, just like this moment.

Zhou Tieyi's action of condensing the thirty-three heavens above Taiyi Temple is no less than that of the original Master Tianyi, but Master Tianyi failed in the end, and the thirty-three heavens above Taiyi Temple have not yet been determined.

"Notorious thief..." Zhou Tieyi showed an interesting smile, "Robber?"

Ju Zidan nodded and said, "When the thief family reaches the sixth level, they can already use the shadow world. The thief family believes that everything has a shadow, even the Tao. So the original leader of the thief family once deduced that the highest level of the thief family is the 'sage'. Because the Tao scripture says that as long as the saints don't die, the thieves will not stop. When someone becomes a saint, the thief family can steal the shadow of the saint and become a saint at the same time. But whether that can be achieved has not been determined yet."

Zhou Tieyi sneered and said, "The Dao family is really bold. I remember that the highest rank in the Dao family is only the second rank, right?"

The top nine schools of thought have all produced great figures of the first rank, and the rest of the schools of thought have to have a third-rank lineage to be called a "school". Schools like the historians, thieves, and doctors, which are second only to the top nine schools of thought, have also produced second-rank figures.

However, in the past three hundred years, the most powerful Taoist was only of the third rank, and there had never been a second rank. Now that I think about it, it was because of the battle in the Heavenly Palace.

Ju Zidan also chuckled. Although the thieves' family had a faction called "Gentlemen on the Beam", it was not orthodox after all. No school would like to teach a student who steals.

“Although it’s just a foolish dream, the leader of the Daoist family and the Taoist master of Tianyi were close friends back then, and the two of them did reasonably deduce the Dao of the Daoist family’s first rank. However, the Daoist family’s leader only used this technique once at the cost of his own life, which caused the Daoist family to not even be able to produce a second rank in the past three hundred years. Otherwise, there would be one more family among the top nine families.”

Zhou Tieyi's expression became more serious. "I'd like to hear the details."

Ju Zidan pointed at the surrounding clouds and mist, "Didn't you guess it, Lord Zhou? A first-class thief, at least his magic has reached the level of 'stealing the sky and changing the day'."

"Everything has a shadow, but the Heavenly Palace is mysterious and the divine radiance is unobstructed. With the ability of the second-grade master of the thief family, he can't find the shadow of the Heavenly Palace at all. The Taoist master of Tianyi used the Taoist God to obtain the key to the Heavenly Palace from the old Heavenly Master, and used this to gain the support of the ancient priests. He pretended to reopen the divine meeting, but in fact, he activated the core authority of the Heavenly Palace."

"In the final battle, the Taoist master Tianyi was in the center of the Heavenly Palace. He failed to ascend to the throne by force, but he also opened the Daluo Palace. Daluo is all-encompassing and has everything. It is one of the symbols of the origin of the rules of our planet, which naturally includes the shadow rules. The Taoist master Tianyi forcibly upgraded the shadow rules to the level of a saint, and then asked the master of the thief family to steal this part of the shadow. Therefore, that night was as hot as day, and there was no darkness in the world."

Zhou Tieyi felt the time and space around him and listened to Ju Zidan's narration of the complete origin of the Small Heavenly Palace. With his current strength, he was able to perceive the slight differences between the surrounding time and space and the real time and space, which was enough to show the secret ability of the Small Heavenly Palace.

"The shadow of Tao? No wonder, for all these years, except for a very few predestined people, the first-class priests of the various schools of thought and the Shinto priests have been unable to find the Little Heavenly Palace. Even if the Tianyi Dao lineage wants to find the Little Heavenly Palace, it must connect time and space and use the holy power of the original Tianyi Dao master as a trigger."

He was somewhat glad that he was not looking for a needle in a haystack, otherwise he didn't know how long it would take.

As he spoke, Zhou Tieyi thought carefully for a moment, "It's not just the shadow of Tao, there are other changes."

He looked at the Conferred God Platform under his feet again and said with a smile, "So you also want to make the fake look real."

As a second-rank official, Ju Zidan was well-versed in the secrets of the past, so he understood it immediately, "Does Lord Zhou mean that after the Small Heavenly Palace has pardoned all the gods, it will completely replace the Heavenly Palace?"

Zhou Tieyi nodded. "Different paths lead to the same destination. I have also thought about something similar. The leader of Tianyi Dao cooperated with the Shinto Dao in the beginning, and eventually the Tianyi Dao vein was taken over by the Shinto Dao, causing him to be deserted by his friends and relatives. At the last moment, he had a sudden realization and built the Conferred God Platform under our feet in addition to the changes in the Heavenly Palace. If this Conferred God Platform can be used to confer the gods, then the principle of the reversal of yin and yang can be used to control the real Heavenly Palace in reverse."

After figuring out the essence of the entire small heavenly palace, Zhou Tieyi began to act. He gently raised the hand holding the Taiyi Jade Disc, and a series of cloud scrolls emerged.

First, three divine names were spoken.

Kuishen, Beimo, and Qingsen voluntarily died in the library to avoid being sealed. Originally, if a god died, even if his name was still passed down, it would take decades or even hundreds of years for him to be reborn, and his own strength would be greatly reduced. Therefore, the Queen Mother did not care at that time. After all, they were just three third-grade gods, irrelevant to the overall situation, and it was not worth spending energy at that time.

But with the Taiyi Jade Disc, reviving the gods has become easier than ever before.

The three most important things for a third-grade deity.

Divine artifact, golden body, kingdom of God.

For ordinary gods, their divine weapon is their own divine power. The Ninth-Rank Divine Seal of Shinto condenses their own divine power into a specific divine weapon, thereby gaining powerful power.

Generally speaking, after the death of gods, their artifacts will be obtained by their enemies, so they will lose the foundation of their divine power and it will be difficult to resurrect.

However, all the divine powers of the gods listed in the Taiyi Jade Disc are based on the Taiyi Jade Disc. They themselves are merely borrowing the nominal godhood. After their fall, the nominal godhood is scrapped, and the Taiyi Jade Disc no longer grants them divine power. The divine power itself is still in the Taiyi Jade Disc.

At the same time, the kingdom of God of Kuishen and the other two merged with the Taihang Divine Court. As the foundation of the Taihang Divine Court, even after its fall for a short while, the Divine Court still had enough strength to mobilize the power of the earth veins and faith to support the operation of the kingdom of God.

Therefore, the only loss of the three gods was the golden body that they had spent a lot of faith to forge.

But Zhou Tieyi can help find someone to pay this price, which will serve as a reward for the three people's actions.

The three names of gods formed by the cloud scrolls fell on the Conferred God Platform, quickly outlining the figures of the three Kuishen.

The feeling of resurrection from the dead is extremely mysterious, and the same is true for the gods. The three Kuishen are like waking up from a long dream. At the same time, their own great achievements, that is, the traces they left in this world, are decreasing unknowingly, which makes some of their believers begin to forget their existence.

Of course, this is not a big deal for the three people who believe in Taihang Divine Court, because Taihang Divine Court will help them promote the name of God again.

In addition, the power of faith flowed out of the Taiyi Jade Disc like water. Of course, the belief in the rebirth of the third-grade gods can be fully supported by the current foundation of the Taihang Divine Court, but Zhou Tieyi has a better way to support it.

A blood-colored amber appeared in his hand, and within the amber was sealed a second-rank general of Yuan Meng.

It is one of the Zhou family's secret treasures, but Zhou Tieyi has never used it.

Because the power of the generals is different from that of the gods.

The source of power of the divine generals is relying on gods, which is somewhat similar to the virtual godhood of the Taiyi Jade Disc, but not as advanced as the virtual godhood. After all, the method of the virtual godhood is a combination of the ways of Tianyi Daozhu, Taixu Huanzhu and Zhou Tieyi, and it is the real method of virtual enfeoffment if compared with the method of the divine generals.

Then the divine generals are like the feudal emperor of Zhou who granted fiefs to the princes. The emperor granted his own power to others. Although he could use this power to call on the princes to fight for him, the actual power was already in the hands of the princes.

The system of nominal fiefdom is closer to the modern system of central appointment and removal. It gives you the title to act, but the power is always in the hands of the central government and will not be lost.

Zhou Tieyi can use the magical power of [Usurpation of God] to steal the divine power of this second-grade general, but the result will inevitably be sensed by Yuan Meng. In the past, Zhou Tieyi used the magical power of [Usurpation of God] to steal ownerless artifacts or the nine ancient gods who were dead, so his biggest secret has not been exposed yet.

It is definitely not worth it to exchange this secret for the divine power of a second-grade general, so even though Zhou Tieyi had the crystal of the general in his hand before, he did not use it.

But the conditions are different now. This is the Small Heavenly Palace, and it is on the Conferred God Platform. With the help of the connection between the Taiyi Jade Disc and the Conferred God Platform itself, Zhou Tieyi can completely shift the blame of the theft to the Conferred God Platform and make Yuan Meng's perception problematic. After all, part of the Small Heavenly Palace originated from the Taoist tradition of the thieves, and this is definitely no secret among Yuan Meng. Even if the divine power of a second-rank general was stolen, they would first suspect the Small Heavenly Palace. It just so happens that Zhou Tieyi can use this suspicion to make another move.

He first glanced at Ju Zidan, then reached out a hand from his Taiyi Jade Disc and grabbed a cloud talisman. The cloud talisman was red in color and incomplete. It was from one of the Five Elders of the Five Directions, the Southern Red Emperor Dan Ling Zhenlao Sanqi Zhenjun.

"Mr. Ju has re-established the Miscellaneous School of Taoism. If you are willing to work with me to change the world, please accept this talisman."

When Ju Zidan saw Zhou Tieyi take out a magic talisman from the Taiyi Jade Disc, he sighed in his heart, it was indeed as expected.

No wonder the ancient Lord of Yanhuang was willing to explain the secret to him, because this secret was the origin of Zhou Tieyi's legitimacy.

Zhou Tieyi has been planning for the great development of the human race from the beginning to the end, so the last point that the various schools oppose Zhou Tieyi, that is, Zhou Tieyi's identity as a god, is no longer a problem.

Considering the reforms that Zhou Tieyi is currently promoting throughout the world, compared to the Great Xia Emperor on Yujing Mountain, the person before him is the ruler who governs the world as dreamed of by all scholars.

At this time, Zhou Tieyi treated him with great gifts. The honorable position of one of the Five Elders of the Five Directions must mean that he was one of the most core people in Zhou Tieyi's Divine Court. Obtaining this position was also a disguised way of allowing eclectic theories to enter the mainstream of the Divine Court.

Ju Zidan certainly wouldn't say anything stupid like what would happen if I didn't accept it. He smiled and said, "I don't think I have any reason to refuse."

He reached out and took the virtual godhood handed to him by Zhou Tieyi and merged it with himself.

The next moment, Ju Zidan's aura suddenly surged, and an illusory river of Taoism flowed out from his body.

Ju Zidan had already reached the pinnacle of the second level of the Miscellaneous School, but his path to the first level of the Miscellaneous School was sealed by the Shi family, so he could not touch the first level.

At this time, the first-grade path of Taoism was opened, and the illusory Taoist river extended forward, passing through the undercurrent of history, and interpreting the whole story of the original seal.

"Little children."

"Equally distribute the land and exempt the tax, and buy and sell at an equal level."

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At that time, the Eclectic School was the most powerful in the State of Chen among the Five Kingdoms. As an inclusive school of thought, it also had many factions within it.

But success and failure are both due to tolerance.

In this era when the orthodox doctrine was prominent, the eclectic school absorbed the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism, and Legalism, but each of these schools already had its own orthodox doctrine, so the eclectic school could not find its own "Tao". As a result, the second-level students of the eclectic school in successive generations either learned Taoism to find the orthodox doctrine of the first class, or learned Legalism to find the orthodox doctrine of the first class, but none of them could get out of the orthodox doctrine of the first class.

At this time, the most widely circulated doctrine among the eclectic schools, the "Theory of Valuing the Masses", put forward the most radical theory, combining Confucianism, Mohism and Legalism to carry out a bottom-up class reform.

Starting from the bottom, we will achieve equal distribution of land and exemption of taxes, and unify food and accommodation, so as to resist the exploitation of the upper class and ultimately make the upper class give power to the lower class.

But this great social experiment ultimately depends on reform for both its success and its failure.

Just as Zhou Tieyi lamented before, the teachings of eclecticism are actually very close to socialism, but there is still a crucial layer of paper between them and true socialism. This is why when Zhou Tieyi was creating the Railway Chamber of Commerce and preparing trade unions to curb the possible growth of the bourgeoisie, he immediately thought of the teachings of eclecticism, because eclecticism and socialist doctrines are really only one or two steps away.

That is, the eclectic school still believed that "the ruler comes from the people", but did not realize that "power comes from the people".

The difference between the two led to the fact that while the eclectic school realized the importance of the grassroots people, it still placed hope on the birth of a benevolent monarch like the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and this benevolent monarch even needed to recognize the "abdication system."

This led to the eventual downfall of the eclectic school of thought.

Because there is only class struggle from the bottom up, and there can be no class reform, or the prerequisite of eliminating the middle class.

You cannot ask the lower classes to move the rentier class; you can only weaken the rentier class through struggle.

The eclectic school clung to the last glimmer of fantasy about feudal monarchy, so although it was very successful in the beginning and even produced the first-class eclectic school member "Letian", the word "Letian" also doomed the eclectic school's reform to be naive. In the end, the King of Qi joined forces with the Confucianists, and the historians made the final conclusion and completely wiped out the first-class doctrine of the eclectic school.

(End of this chapter)