I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 685 The Way of Humanity

Zhou Tieyi confronted the numerous deities.

With a new master in the Liangyi Hall, the Daluo Hall was fully opened.

The bridge of imaginary numbers continued to extend forward, but at this point there was no one else on the bridge except for Meng Qiuyu, an ordinary person who carried the shattered Imperial Seal of the State.

But having reached this point, cultivation has become a burden.

The Great Luo Palace is the source of all laws and the manifestation of the rules of this world. Anyone who embarks on cultivation will be influenced by the Great Dao that belongs to them.

On the contrary, ordinary people like Meng Qiuyu, who had no cultivation, entered carrying Zhou Tieyi's will.

All dangers were kept outside the Hall of Two Elements. Meng Qiuyu carefully stepped down the Bridge of Imaginary Numbers. Before him was a magnificent palace that encompassed everything. Flowers, birds, fish, insects, mountains, rivers, the sun, the moon, and the stars—all the rules that manifested on this planet could be found in the Great Luo Palace.

There's just one thing missing, something that the Heavenly Emperor deliberately omitted when he created the Great Luo Palace.

That is 'human'.

Ten thousand years ago, Zhou Tieyi set a goal for the great prosperity of humanity, but at that time only Phoenix Ancestor knew about this, and He did not inform the Heavenly Emperor.

Before ascending to sainthood, the Heavenly Emperor had already vaguely sensed that the human race would replace the divine path. However, at that time, He had not yet fully seen the future trend, so He tried to stop and delay the rise of the human path.

Therefore, when creating the Great Luo Palace, He deliberately did not incorporate the rules of the human race, thereby hindering the development of the human race.

However, things did not go as planned. Although the human race did not have the help of the Great Luo Palace to gather the rules, the Academy played the role of inheritance for the human race, allowing the three human sages to ascend to the throne. At the same time, in the final battle, it was precisely because the Great Luo Palace lacked the rules of humanity that the Confucian Sage, who best symbolized the rules of humanity, was able to break through the Heavenly Palace and cause the Heavenly Emperor to fall.

At this time, the Heavenly Palace was reshaped, including the Lotus World, the Three Pure Ones and all the gods, and naturally it also needed to include the human realm.

The Imperial Seal, now split into five pieces, suddenly emitted a dazzling light, flew out from the bundle behind Meng Qiuyu, and floated in the air. A series of rules began to naturally converge towards the Imperial Seal.

This led to many extraordinary phenomena, such as the human race raising livestock, planting grains, altering the course of mountains and rivers, reshaping the underworld, and re-establishing the heavenly palace.

The way of man is to make more than enough losses but more than enough sacrifices.

The core of humanity is to sustain itself with all things, which is why the human race is the most adept at transforming the world among all races.

The Imperial Seal of the State continuously draws power within the Daluo Hall.

The expressions of the deities who were confronting Zhou Tieyi changed again.

This was undoubtedly a move by a general.

Zhou Tieyi has already won this war. He has taken the lead in opening up the chessboard of the Heavenly Palace, while the Divine Path is still blocked outside the Small Heavenly Palace. When the Imperial Seal of the State and the Great Luo Palace merge, and when the Human Path begins to absorb the rules of the planet's origin, even if they hold Zhou Tieyi back in the sky for three hundred years, the subsequent trend will be just as Zhou Tieyi predicted.

Humanity is destined to overpower all races, but this process can be either a peaceful rise or an early war among all races. The choice of which path to take has now fallen into the hands of many divine beings.

What cannot be obtained on the battlefield cannot be obtained through negotiation.

"Yes, but the human race cannot establish a single country. Instead, they should intermarry with other races, establish a hundred countries, and distribute them throughout the world."

Humans themselves have a strong bloodline tolerance, and there are quite a few cultivators who possess dragon blood or phoenix blood.

If Zhou Tieyi and the Heavenly Emperor were to jointly alter the core rules of the planet, then intermarriage between the human race and the other races would be much easier, resulting in offspring. Zhou Tieyi wasn't a pure proponent of human race theory; in his view, with the expansion of the human race, intermarriage with the other races was inevitable, given the diverse preferences of the human race, with many liking animal ears.

As for the Heavenly Emperor's proposal to enfeoff a hundred kingdoms, Zhou Tieyi was more concerned. Undoubtedly, given that he could not stop the rise of humanity itself, the Heavenly Emperor wanted to consolidate his rule by dividing the human race.

Of course, Zhou Tieyi himself did not want another Great Xia emperor or Great Xia ancestor to appear.

At this moment, as the Imperial Seal of the State was absorbing the fundamental rules of the planet, he could clearly feel that the Great Ancestor of the Great Xia Dynasty was silently increasing his power.

"Intermarriage is permissible, but the birth rate between humans and other races should be far lower than that between humans of the same race; this is the way of nature."

To ensure the dominance of the pure human race while accepting the bloodlines of all races, ultimately forming a world order where the human race is the core race and the bloodlines of all races coexist.

"The Great Xia Dynasty still exists, but the emperor cannot cultivate during his reign and can only act on behalf of Heaven! As for the establishment of the Hundred Kingdoms, the Hundred Races can complete it by transferring human bloodlines themselves."

Zhou Tieyi set the rules again.

In the past, after the emperors of the Great Xia Dynasty ascended the throne, there was no concept of abdication. Therefore, if the emperors were allowed to cultivate themselves, there would inevitably be ambitious individuals who would challenge his rules and order.

Of course, Zhou Tieyi did not go to extremes, but gave the emperors a choice.

Either power or spiritual practice.

In this way, even if emperors ascended the throne, their reign would only last for thirty to fifty years. This ensured the continuity of the human empire's policies and allowed for orderly succession within the empire, maintaining its vitality.

As for democratically elected imperial politics, that clearly doesn't apply to this world.

The basis of popular election is equality for all, but in a world where cultivation is possible, cultivators have become qualitatively different from ordinary people in various abilities. For example, a second-rank official is fully capable of preventing a flood, but a popularly elected official does not have this ability.

As for allowing dynasties to change like the Five Emperors, this would indeed bring more opportunities to the lower classes, but it would also bring greater disasters.

With each change of dynasty, it was easy for 40% to 50% of ordinary people to die or be injured.

Without seeing things from the perspective of ordinary people in chaotic times, it's impossible to understand the immense catastrophe of dynastic changes.

Therefore, maintaining the current system is still meaningful. As for whether the Great Xia dynasty will continue in the future, that depends on the choices of the future Great Xia emperors.

Zhou Tieyi would neither support nor oppose dynastic change.

Of course, he will gradually change the role and value of the emperor himself. In the future, the emperor will gradually become a symbol of national unity and a channel of faith connecting heaven, earth and man, rather than a ruler with real power. Real power will continue to be delegated to the Three Departments.

This is the best system that Zhou Tieyi could think of for the development of the human race over the next few hundred years.

As for whether things will change in a few hundred years, that depends on the choices humanity makes. Sages only help humanity emerge from ignorance; it is humanity itself that truly ventures into the universe.

The Heavenly Emperor nodded and said, "Agreed."

The moment he agreed, the great millstone symbolizing the Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared in the Taoist temple of Liangjie Mountain. The Great Xia Emperor, who was absorbing the rules to restore his own strength, opened his eyes, looked at the Great Millstone of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and said frankly, "You really don't give me a hand."

Zhou Tieyi's voice came from the Great Millstone of Reincarnation, "I urge the Palace Master to reincarnate in this world for three hundred years and truly witness the changes in this land, and then determine the fate of the Human Empire."

(End of this chapter)