Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 120 Living Man

Refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, and then refining spirit into essence, forming a cycle, which can allow essence, qi and spirit to progress in tandem, and the physical body, magic power and soul to grow simultaneously without any defects.

This method of cultivation is truly perfect and complete, with only two drawbacks. One is that it consumes too many resources, several times more than an ordinary person.

Secondly, it requires many times more energy than ordinary people, which greatly prolongs the time required for practice.

In other words, Ao Bing has neither shortage of resources nor time, otherwise he would not dare to practice like this.

Chaos was silent, time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, decades had passed. Ao Bing, who was fully devoted to cultivation, knew nothing about it.

But on the other side, in Heaven, after decades of preparation by Ao Bing's incarnation and the gods, the operation of the Penal Department and the History Museum was finally on track.

The Penalty Department is fine. In addition to the few generals appointed by Ao Bing, it has recently recruited a lot of heavenly soldiers and generals, totaling about 10,000 people.

Among them, Tianpeng led 3,000 heavenly soldiers to patrol the 33 heavens and monitor the gods, while Zhenwu led 7,000 heavenly soldiers to patrol the heaven and earth and exorcise demons.

The ancient world was not peaceful, or rather, the only peaceful place was the Nine Provinces ruled by human beings.

Emperor Yu divided the country into nine states and used gold from the nine states to cast nine tripods. While suppressing the destiny of the human race, he also created a nine-state barrier, making it difficult for the strong men of all races to display their magical powers in the nine states.

From then on, the Nine Provinces were stable, and there were few demons and monsters wreaking havoc on the world.

But Jiuzhou is not the whole of Honghuang, it is only a part of it. Outside Jiuzhou, there are still large areas in Honghuang that are caught in endless disputes.

The eastern part of the prehistoric world is known as the Earthly Immortal Realm and is the base camp of the immortals. It is relatively peaceful here, but conflicts often occur among the immortals, which often lead to the mountains and rivers being shattered, the earth sinking, and the spiritual veins being cut off.

In addition, there are some immortals who, in order to speed up their cultivation, do not hesitate to over-exploit resources, or even directly extract the essence of spiritual veins for cultivation.

And all of these are not allowed by the rules and laws of heaven.

In the past, the duties of the Heavenly Court were unclear, and no one was in charge of these matters, but now that there is a Penalty Department, these matters must be managed. Depending on the degree of damage these immortals have caused to heaven and earth, they will decide whether to kill or capture them.

The southern part of the prehistoric world, where the Nine Provinces are located, is under the jurisdiction of the Human King and the Heavenly Court has no right to interfere.

The western part of the prehistoric world, where the west is located, although barren, is also under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court.

Don’t think that the West is peaceful just because it is the base of Western religions.

In fact, it is in the west that the demonic monks are most active. They show up from time to time to stir up disputes and collect calamity and evil spirits for practice.

Subduing demons is also within the authority of the Punishment Department. For example, Zhenwu is the True Lord of Subduing Demons, Tianpeng is the True Lord of Exorcising Demons, and Yang Jian is the Heavenly God of Subduing Demons.

It can even be said that the main responsibility of the Penalty Department is to go to various places to exorcise demons. The West is the place where demons are most rampant, and it is definitely the focus of the Penalty Department.

There is no need to say much about the northern part of the prehistoric world. It is the most chaotic area in the prehistoric world.

The aliens and poisonous creatures that are disliked by heaven and earth, the remnants of the demon race, the evildoers of the devil, the evildoers of the evil ways...

Basically, all the notorious people in the prehistoric world gathered in the northern part of the prehistoric world, making this place extremely chaotic and without any order.

The killing and fighting continue.

The criminals here often spread to other places to cause chaos. At the same time, those criminals who caused chaos often fled to the northern part of the prehistoric world after committing serious crimes.

Zhenwu led his troops to patrol the heaven and earth, mainly targeting the western and northern parts of the prehistoric world. If they encountered demons causing chaos, they would either kill them or capture them.

While maintaining the order of the three realms, it is also demonstrating the power of heaven to the world.

In addition, if a vicious beast appeared, it would be hunted down by the heavenly soldiers and generals. In fact, before the establishment of the Penal Department, the main task of the Heavenly Court was to hunt down vicious beasts.

Hunting and killing ferocious beasts not only earns merit, but also does not offend anyone. For those heavenly generals without any background, this is the least risky thing to do.

The main tasks of the Punishment Department are to monitor the gods internally and to slay demons externally. Ao Bing does not need to do these things personally. He just needs to arrange them and his subordinates will be responsible for them.

If you encounter a demon you cannot defeat, or an immortal you cannot afford to offend, there is no need to bother Ao Bing, or ask the Jade Emperor, or Laojun for help.

In short, although there are a lot of things to do in the Criminal Justice Department, they can basically be handed over to subordinates. He only needs to take charge of the overall situation, which can be considered as a leisurely period.

The History Museum, on the other hand, was more troublesome. It wasn't the things that were troublesome, it was the people.

After hearing that the Heavenly Court was going to compile a history for the demon race, the group of great masters of the past could no longer sit still. They did not agree with this matter, but they had no reason to object.

Therefore, after much deliberation, they decided to turn passivity into initiative and actively participate in the matter of history writing.

So, a group of disciples of great supernatural powers, or Taoist children, rushed to the Heavenly Palace, saying that they wanted to join the History Museum.

They said that they were worried that Ao Bing didn't know the past of the ancient times, so they sent people to help him find out the gaps, clarify the historical context, and restore the most authentic history. In fact, they sent people to monitor Ao Bing to prevent him from deliberately distorting the facts and using the name of history revision to discredit them.

They are all old foxes with rich experience. How could they not know the role of history books? They can provide the final verdict on people.

Once someone has been slandered in history books, his reputation will be completely ruined, and it will be extremely difficult to clear it up.

There are very few people with great supernatural powers who do not care about their reputation, so they will never allow such a thing to happen. They can compile history, but it must be done under their leadership and they must not allow the Heavenly Court to do whatever it wants.

A group of powerful people joined forces to exert pressure, and even the Jade Emperor could not withstand it, let alone Ao Bing. He could only allow their people to join in.

Then, things got troublesome.

Because they represent different camps, they often have different views on the same thing and all speak in a way that is beneficial to themselves.

To put it simply, everyone wanted to insert their own opinions into history books, but because there were too many people inserting their own opinions, many things began to contradict themselves and did not make sense at all.

But none of them were willing to give in, and they all wanted the other party to give in. In this situation, naturally everyone started arguing and even fighting.

Ao Bing has spent most of his energy on this in recent years, trying to balance the relationships among all parties and resolve the conflicts between them, which has made him physically and mentally exhausted.

Finally, Ao Bing had no other choice but to come up with an idea: let everyone compile a catalog of the history of the Heavenly Palace first, and then write a biography of each character based on the catalog, and then summarize it.

This is a type of historical writing, a biographical style that reflects historical events by narrating the activities of characters. However, the history of heaven that Ao Bing wants to compile is a chronological style.

Chronicle history books are centered on time and record historical events in the order of year, month and day. They use time as the warp and historical events as the weft, and can more intuitively reflect the connection between various historical events in the same period.

The biography focuses on characters, while the chronology focuses on time. Obviously, the chronology history book is more in line with Ao Bing's requirements. Therefore, if he wants to compile history, he must focus on the chronology history book.

However, the chronological history book meets his requirements, but does not meet the requirements of those great supernatural powers. But it doesn't matter, the chronicle does not meet their requirements, but the biography does.

What they want is fame, right? So Ao Bing simply suggested writing in the biographical style and asked their disciples and Taoist children to write a biography for them.

In this way, not only their requirements were met, but Ao Bing was also able to obtain sufficient historical materials to compile his chronological history book.

In addition, historical books also have other genres such as country history, period history, and chronicle style.

The national system can be used to record the history of races, such as the history of dragons, humans, demons, etc.

Period history can be used to record the history of an era, such as ancient history, ancient history, ancient history, prehistoric history, etc.

The chronicle style is mainly based on events, and can be used to record major events in the ancient times, such as Pangu creating the world, the catastrophe of ferocious beasts, the three tribes standing together, the battle between Taoism and demons, the three sermons in Zixiao Palace, etc.

With so many genres of historical books, there is always one that can meet the needs of the world.

Just like now, the people who were arguing fiercely suddenly became quiet and stopped arguing after Ao Bing proposed the biographical style and asked them to write their own history.

Instead, we began to think about how to portray the characters as gloriously and positively as possible without changing history. Letting them play freely may seem like there are no restrictions, but in fact, the restrictions are even greater.

Because if what you write does not match what others write about the same thing, then it is telling the world that one of the history books is fake, or both history books are fake.

If he wrote a fabricated history book and it got out, his reputation would be completely ruined.

In order to prevent this from happening, when people write history, they naturally have to try their best to restore the truth, so as to avoid it not matching what others have written and being exposed.

Involution!

Ao Bing understood the essence of internal circulation. With just one simple sentence, he not only solved his own troubles, but also caused the disciples and Taoist children of these great masters to fall into a crazy internal circulation.

What's even more outrageous is that even though Ao Bing forced them to fight inward, they didn't think there was anything wrong with Ao Bing doing so. Instead, they even wanted to thank him.

Roll on, roll on, roll on like crazy. The more they roll, the greater the benefit Ao Bing gets.

In addition to letting these people fall into internal circulation, Ao Bing also created a profession, namely the historian, or the recorder, who specializes in recording the daily actions and major events of the ancient times of great figures for the purpose of compiling the daily records.

Now, the Jade Emperor, Taishang Laojun, and other emperors in the heavenly court are all accompanied by a recorder to record their daily lives.

In addition, Ao Bing also sent recorders to the dojos of all the great masters in the prehistoric world to record their every move.

Ao Bing justified his actions by saying that he was collecting historical materials for compiling the daily records, but it is hard to say what the specific purpose was.

Anyway, since having the attendant, the Jade Emperor and Laojun around, they have learned to be cautious in what they say and do, and never speak carelessly. At the same time, the way they look at Ao Bing also becomes a little strange.

(End of this chapter)