I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 637 Shen Tuyuan's Progress
It is now the middle of winter, and the interior of the imaginary machine is naturally as warm as spring, but outside the imaginary machine is covered with white snow.

After Shen Tu Yuan said in the car that he was leaving the Zhushen Division, everyone fell silent.

Hao Ren and A Da exchanged a glance, and A Da suddenly laughed and said, "I was told that you've only been in the God-Slaying Division for more than a year, and yet you've mastered the game within the game. It's a shame not to stay in the God-Slaying Division."

Shen Tu Yuan's move completely overturned Hao Ren and A Da's previous views of Shen Tu Yuan. This was a game within a game.

From the moment Shen Tu Yuan brought the two men to stop Gao Wencan, this game was not only aimed at Gao Wencan, but also at the two leaders of the Zhou Party in Yujing Mountain.

If this plan succeeds, with the help of Zhou's party, Gao Wencan can be suppressed. When the news gets to the God-Slaying Division, Shen Tu Yuan will be able to ease his own predicament. In the future, whenever Gao Wencan gets into trouble, he can pull Hao Ren and A Da to suppress him until the Queen Mother or Zhou Tieyi personally comes out to stop it.

Anyway, the final fault will not be his.

If this situation fails, then Shentu Yuan will retreat to advance. It's not that I don't want to control Gao Wencan, but if the two of you third-rank officials don't put in any effort, how can I, a fifth-rank official, control him?

Obviously, Shen Tu Yuan has made some progress in his battle with Gao Wencan in the God-Slaying Division over the past six months.

On the other hand, Gao Wencan has indeed made great progress recently, but Sanpin is an extraordinary person after all, and Hao Ren and Ada are also successful, so they naturally will not underestimate the progress of others.

Shentu Yuan picked up the warm wine in the lotus cup and rubbed his fingertips on the silver carved wine cup. "I really want to withdraw. Buddhism has invaded the barbaric countries for many days. It should have been a big problem half a year ago. Fortunately, I was born in the lotus world and was spared this catastrophe. But I have a feeling that this catastrophe is only postponed. It will come sooner or later. This is the time for me to make achievements. The old man is short of people, and I want to try my chance."

What Shentu Yuan was talking about was that half a year ago, Zhou Tieyi fell into a sea of ​​blood and the world focused its attention on the Fourth Yama Palace.

Although Lord Maitreya Buddha made such a big fuss, he was actually doing it secretly.

The Buddha of Killing, with millions of Buddha soldiers who had been transformed into earth-like beings, crossed the vast desert to the west.

But it was not just the barbaric nations that were stunned. The Buddhist soldiers marched straight in and approached Miaoshan City, just like Zhou Qinlong's surprise attack from thousands of miles away.

And this was just the beginning of the shock.

It’s just that the relics of Miaoshan City can defend against Yuanmeng’s divine soldiers, but they cannot defend against Buddhist soldiers.

Later, Yuan Meng made a bold decision. He gave up pursuing the cause of Buddhism's surprise attack on hundreds of countries, and instead joined forces with Buddhism to retake Miaoshan City.

Miaoshan City is the gateway to hundreds of barbaric countries and has always been regarded as a forbidden delicacy by Yuanmeng. After Zhou Qinlong captured Miaoshan City, it not only meant that Daxia controlled the gateway to hundreds of countries, but also meant that Zhou Qinlong had the ability to raid the heartland of Yuanmeng.

If it were any other third-rank general, Yuan Meng would definitely not care, but Zhou Qinlong is Zhou Tieyi's father. If he really gets Zhou Tieyi's support or instructions, he can really wipe out Yuan Meng, which is a matter of life and death.

It’s just that at the beginning of this year, Tian Khan’s recovery was incomplete. His heavenly soul was taken away by Zhou Tieyi, so he could only recover in secret.

Now he has found an opportunity with the right location and the right people.

Renhe is that Zhou Tieyi is temporarily lost in the sea of ​​blood, and the same is true for the Emperor of Daxia. The Fourth Yama Palace has attracted the attention of all forces in the world, and Zhou Tieyi's forces have also been involved. The first-rank warriors are pulling each other to attract firepower, and it is unrealistic to suddenly leave the battlefield.

The Buddhist soldiers of Dili can directly penetrate the barrier left by the relics of Yu Monk, which is equivalent to directly breaking through the barrier of a first-grade master.

The only question is who will move Zhou Qinlong.

Zhou Qinlong is the biological father of Zhou Tieyi's body. No matter what the reason, he will inevitably be subjected to severe revenge. However, if Zhou Qinlong is not taken, it will be impossible to take over Miaoshan City and stabilize the situation in the Hundred Wild Countries.

Although Buddhism is powerful, there are twenty-four Buddhas, and no one wants to pay this price.

So Tian Khan made a prompt decision to kill Zhou Qinlong! He only needed Buddhism and Xuanwu to help him block the first-class people who came to support Daxia.

Anyway, he and Zhou Tieyi's future son are having a battle of heavenly souls, so naturally he doesn't need to care about killing one more father of Zhou Tieyi.

Among them, Xuanwu plays a crucial role in centralizing and coordinating.

So when there was a big commotion in the Fourth Yama Palace, even though Yuan Meng was such a powerful force, there was no sound at all. It was because Tian Khan was already planning to capture Zhou Long. To him, Hanba in the Fourth Yama Palace was just a bait to divert the attention of the top talents in the world.

This was originally a huge situation, a joint preparation of Buddhism and Yuan Meng to deal with Daxia. As long as Miaoshan City was taken down, Yuan Meng and Buddhism would be able to completely connect the north and the west and truly dominate half of Daxia's world.

Unfortunately, the geographical advantages and human conditions have all been calculated, but the only thing that cannot be calculated is the timing.

The final change in the Fourth Yama Palace was not caused by the drought demon, but by the birth of the lotus world.

Zhou Tieyi stole the holy power, became a sub-saint, and founded the Lotus World, leaving a glimmer of hope for all living beings.

This is Zhou Tieyi’s holy way, and also Zhou Yulong’s holy way.

Zhou Yulong secretly crossed the Chencang Pass, using Zhou Tieyi as the real one and himself as the fake one.

For ordinary Taoist practitioners, from the second level of guarding the void to the first level of coexistence, they don't know how much "reality" they need to condense in order to be able to completely return to the void and coexist with all things in the world.

But Zhou Yulong didn't need to. It was enough for her to give birth to Zhou Tieyi, a 'reality'. When the heaven and earth in Zhou Tieyi's body were created, when the dream became real, when the whole world became Zhou Yulong's support for returning to the void, in an instant Zhou Yulong was also born with the entire lotus world. That is the realm that all Taoists of the first rank dream of, to be born with an entire complete world of time and space.

When one person attains enlightenment, all the chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven, let alone the identity of the mother of the Heavenly Lord.

So during the most crucial battle in the Lotus World, when Zhou Tieyi was temporarily unable to divert his attention, Zhou Yulong came out of Yujing Mountain, used Tai Chi Yin and Yang to build a bridge, and went straight into Miaoshan City eight thousand miles away, mediated the creation, fixed the changes of the twenty-four heavens of Buddhism, opened up the connection between the inside and the outside, and allowed the first-class people of Daxia to provide support.

One person suppressed 24 Buddhas, especially with the sub-sage power of the Equal King Buddha among them. There was no doubt that Zhou Yulong fulfilled the Taoist prophecy of the sub-sage. It was indeed a fish dragon sent down by Taoism, and it was bound to prove the sub-sage status. However, no one expected that the Taoist fish dragon's method of proving the Tao was completed in this way.

Under such circumstances, even the Heavenly Khan and Buddhism could only sigh and stop fighting.

This is exactly what Shentu Yuan was talking about. Now Zhou Tieyi has to suppress the Lotus World and cannot leave for a moment. Miaoshan City is only stabilized because of Zhou Yulong, but once the gap is opened, the Zhou family will definitely retaliate and will not let Yuanmeng have an easy time. Now after half a year of reorganization, the Zhou family must be ready to completely break the Yuanmeng Divine Court, so this is also an opportunity for those in the Zhou party who want to make achievements.

Shentu Yuan kept saying that they should help the "old master", but Ah Da was at a loss for words. He was the young master's personal soldier, but he was also selected by the old master. He could not stop others from helping the "old master" for both moral and logical reasons.

Hao Ren picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then said, "It seems that you have decided to leave. Is there anything you can help us with?"

Shen Tu Yuan immediately put on a mercenary smile, since he had to withdraw from this round, he couldn't withdraw in vain. He made Hao Ren realize that in the past two years, although he had no merits, he had worked hard in the God-Slaying Division. There were many rewards that Zhou Tieyi could not give, but Hao Ren could.

"I do have some experience with the military."

The Shentu family was originally a family of generals with titles. Shentu Yuan, as the worthy successor today, had done such a big business with Li Jing's steamship investment company, so Shentu Yuan actually had no shortage of money, food, and people.

But there are some things that cannot be bought even if you have money, especially things that transcend the three levels.

"I heard that the steam engine technology of the Mohist and Gongshu schools has made substantial progress. Qin Yu is very tight-lipped about my secrets. Please help me to suppress him. It will be my reward for all my hard work over the years."

Speaking of Qin Yu, Shentu Yuan also sighed. Except for that idiot, the few small flags under Zhou Tieyi actually had a bright future as long as they faced the reality a little bit. The beating they received was not in vain.

As a pioneer and experimenter of Zhou Tieyi's steam mechanism technology, Qin Yu is not well-known now, but everyone knows that as a small flag directly under Zhou Tieyi, his treatment cannot be bad, especially in the past six months, steam technology has developed rapidly due to the arrival of sentient beings from the Lotus World. Shentu Yuan even secretly suspected that Qin Yu had already reached the third rank, but just kept it secret.

Although he didn't know whether Qin Yu was a third-grade one, he knew that the mechanical device Qin Yu had researched could confront a third-grade one head-on, and it was a mass-produced mechanical device!

Shen Tu Yuan certainly couldn't suppress Qin Yu, because he had no leverage to threaten Qin Yu, and he didn't have enough connections. But with Hao Ren involved, it was different. Hao Ren was in charge of the Zhou party's purse, and steam engine technology was the most expensive thing, so the friendship between the two of them was enough.

Hao Ren thought for a moment and said, "I'll try."

Shen Tu Yuan smiled happily upon hearing this, and quickly picked up the wine pot and poured a glass of wine for Hao Ren. Then he looked at Yu Hong and said, "How about you, kid? Are you willing to work with me to establish a career? If you achieve military merit in this round, I can't guarantee that you will be promoted to the third rank, but you can stand up straight and be independent in the future."

Boss Yu, who is behind Yu Hong, is in charge of many resources in the Lotus World. How could a general complain about having too much food?

Moreover, everyone in the Lotus World is a warrior and is the best source of soldiers. As long as Boss Yu is willing to help, he can easily add tens of thousands of elite soldiers to Shen Tu Yuan's troops.

Yu Hong was somewhat tempted after hearing this. Didn’t he want to leave the Lotus World just to see the real world outside and make achievements?
Boss Yu quickly stretched out his hand to beg for mercy, "General Shentu, I am your only child. I dare not let my son think about making achievements and establishing a career. Just have children and spread them out."

Shentu Yuan felt a little regretful, but did not say anything more. He knew that there was a common problem in the Lotus World, that is, although there were many people there, they were all only children. He didn't know what the adults were thinking when they created this world and why they set up such a strange rule. Could it be that there were not many brothers in the adults' family, so the world of his dreams was like this?
Shentu Yuan finished talking about his important affairs, and then began to explain the things that needed attention in the God-Slaying Division. He really wanted to retreat.

Today, the God-Slaying Division is actually in name only.

Originally, when Daxia established the God-Slaying Department, it was to eliminate Shintoism.

But now, not only have immortals and gods merged, but Buddhas and gods have also merged. People all over the world are increasingly accepting that there are actually two types of gods: righteous gods and evil gods. Immortals are righteous gods, and the Heavenly Lord is also a righteous god.

Even the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have gradually accepted the concept of guardian gods because of the Temple of Heavenly Kings.

However, although the God-Slaying Division is almost in name only, its power is not diminished, but rather overwhelming.

First of all, the God-Punishing Division was still the government office of the Tianjing Newspaper. Although the Great Xia court later established the Newspaper Department to manage the Tianjing Newspaper, the God-Punishing Division had adhered to the policy of "advising and petitioning" from top to bottom. This was the Qiankun Strategies set up by Zhou Tieyi, and the Emperor of Great Xia also agreed to it at that time. Therefore, Ke Anran, who is now the Minister of Education, tried several times to abolish this system, but failed.

Later, Gao Wencan took over as the commander of the Zhushen Division. Although theoretically he was on the side of the Great Xia Emperor and should have agreed with the court to weaken the Zhushen Division, the Zhou Party's base camp, but the butt determines the head. Who would agree to cut his own butt?

Everyone is a loyal minister. If my department is cut down, doesn’t that mean I am not a loyal minister?

Secondly, with Mei Juncang's attainment of the third rank, the new commercial law was smoothly implemented. Because of Zhou Tieyi's outrageous manipulation, commercial taxes were no longer under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue, but were managed by the Ministry of Revenue through the Zhushen Division. The Zhushen Division would only report the taxes to the Ministry of Revenue after getting them. As for how much to report to the Ministry of Revenue, that really depended on the Zhushen Division's mood. At least during the year that Zhou Tieyi was there, the Zhushen Division collected tens of millions of taels of various silver, but didn't give a single cent to the Ministry of Revenue.

Commercial taxes and freedom of speech, plus the fact that the Zhushen Division has some military command power, so although it is now a department-level unit, it is no less powerful than a ministry, and even surpasses it, almost equivalent to an independent small court.

Therefore, within this small court, there are also the Queen Mother faction, the Great Xia Emperor faction, the Zhou Party, the Hundred Schools faction, and now there is the Four Princes faction headed by Hu Wenlang. It can be said to be very strange.

Hao Ren frowned as he listened. He previously thought that the God-Slaying Division was important but it was still under its control. Now, after listening, he realized that Shen Tu Yuan was not without effect. He was really delayed by the God-Slaying Division in the past one or two years.

Hao Ren suddenly raised his hand, "Who do you think can take your place and stabilize the situation?"

Shen Tuyuan took a sip of wine before saying, "If you want to take advantage of this situation, you must first be a third-rank person, otherwise it will be too difficult to face Gao Wencan."

He felt this deeply.

"Secondly, you must be an 'old man' in the God-Slaying Division. You cannot parachute in from other departments. Otherwise, given the current situation, if you parachute in from other departments, you will be viewed with hostility by all factions."

"Finally, you don't have to be a member of the Zhou Party, but you must support Tianzun's policies in action."

Ah Da said, "It seems you have a choice."

Shen Tuyuan put down his wine glass and said with a smile, "Sha Youcheng, the governor of Tangzhou Prefecture."

(End of this chapter)