Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 193 The Strength of Dashang

Since the Su State is colluding with the remnants of the demon clan, wiping them out would, to some extent, weaken Lu Ya.

As the prince of the demon clan and the only heir of Emperor Jun, Lu Ya, as long as he is alive, the fortune of the demon clan will spontaneously gather on him.

After all, the demon race was once the overlord of the world. Even though it has declined now, in terms of strength, it still ranks among the top ten among all races and is the overlord of the prehistoric world.

It is true that because of the deliberate suppression by humans, the demon race has a very hard time and has none of the demeanor of a big race, but this cannot deny the power of the demon race.

Therefore, there is still a lot of remaining luck of the demon clan, which gathered on Lu Ya and could bring him a great boost.

Although both are second generation, the saint’s disciple is not as good as the sinner Lu Ya. The luck of the demon clan is the key.

The stronger the luck, the harder it is to kill. If Ao Bing wants to deal with Lu Ya, the first thing he has to do is to find a way to weaken his luck.

The luck of the sun is not easy to weaken, but as for the luck of the demon clan, as long as the remnants of the demon clan can be severely damaged, their luck can be weakened by half immediately.

As the trigger of the war between wizards and liches, Lu Ya was able to survive until now, all thanks to his strong luck. If his luck could be cut off, he would probably be close to death.

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At the meeting of princes, everyone was arguing over the division of territory, while on the other side, Ao Bing and Huang Feihu had already begun to mobilize troops to prepare for the attack on the Su Kingdom.

As the saying goes, speed is of the essence in war. Since we have decided to fight, we cannot delay. The sooner we send troops, the better. It would be best if we could capture the Su Kingdom before the end of the meeting of princes.

Only in this way can we severely intimidate the princes present at the meeting and make them honestly cooperate in building the void channel.

At the same time, this move will also help the Shang Dynasty to re-establish its prestige and prevent the princes from having any rebellious thoughts.

Why was the Zhou able to overthrow the Shang Dynasty? The reason was the same as the Shang Dynasty's overthrow of the Xia Dynasty, both of which lost the support of the princes of the world.

The princes are the minions of the king. If the king loses the support of the princes, he is like a tiger without minions. His strength will be greatly reduced, and it is normal for him to be overthrown.

But if the Shang Dynasty can still gain the support of the princes of the world, even if the Zhou Dynasty is ten times stronger, it will never be able to overthrow it.

Ao Bing was a pro-Shang party, so he could not only consider himself when doing things, but also consider the Shang Dynasty.

We need to find a way to change the image of the Shang Dynasty in the eyes of the princes, so that they will put away their rebellious hearts and become obedient again. Only in this way can the Shang Dynasty be stable.

Using the expedition against the State of Yousu to re-establish the prestige of the Shang Dynasty was only the beginning. Ao Bing also had a series of plans to follow up, such as facilitating the diversion of water from the Tianhe River to the Tongtian Lake.

The prestige of the Shang Dynasty plummeted, and it was ultimately due to the weakening of the country's strength. The easiest way to change this was to make the Shang Dynasty strong again.

If the Shang Dynasty wants to become stronger, diverting the water of the Tianhe River into Tongtian Lake is the key. As long as the princes of the world see that Tongtian Lake has been restored, they will naturally understand that the signs of the Shang Dynasty's revival have appeared.

If you don't want to bring about a catastrophic disaster, it is best to continue to obey the Shang Dynasty and follow its orders as before.

If Da Shang is stabilized, it means Jiejiao is stabilized. Although there will still be losses in this killing calamity among immortals and gods, its foundation will not be shaken.

"Hey, I have done my best to repay your kindness. If this still doesn't work, then I can only say that it is God's will. There is nothing I can do about it."

Thinking of his own plan, Ao Bing could not help but sigh. The reason why he worked so hard for Jiejiao and Da Shang was partly for his own personal gain and partly to repay his gratitude. Tongtian Jiaozhu accepted him as a disciple, and in order to repay his master's kindness, he should do his best to preserve Jiejiao. Emperor Xin gave him a ray of imperial energy and helped him capture Nezha. In order to repay this kindness, he also had to do his best to preserve Da Shang.

But human power is limited, all he can do is to try his best and have a clear conscience. As for whether it will succeed in the end, it all depends on God's will.

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"The elite troops of the Shang Dynasty are the Xuanniao Guards, all of whom are selected from the sons of nobles. There are a total of 100,000 people. The weakest of them is also at the level of Lianxu. Wearing black armor and holding black spears, they can defeat even a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers."

"Below the Xuanniao Guards are the private armies of the various nobles, totaling about a million people. Their cultivation is similar to that of the shrimp soldiers and shrimp generals of the Dragon Palace, and they all have innate cultivation."

"After that, there are the slave armies, which are made up of slaves. They are the largest in number, with around tens of millions of people at ordinary times. During a war, the size can even expand to over one billion people."

"In the past, the slave army had little combat power. Most of them were mortals. There were not many cultivators in the post-natal realm. They were all used as cannon fodder."

"But since the current emperor ascended the throne, he has repeatedly broken traditions and actually started to make use of slaves and select their talents for training. This has given the slave army a bit more combat power and has barely had some effect."

Leaving Tongtianze and on the way to Chaoge, Huang Feihu briefly introduced the situation of the Shang army to Ao Bing.

One hundred thousand are in the realm of refining emptiness, and one million are in the realm of innateness.

How should I put it, this strength is definitely stronger than the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, but it is somewhat unworthy of the status of Da Shang.

As the orthodox race of the human race, the Great Shang Dynasty must have at least one million Void-Refining cultivators. One hundred thousand? If this were to get out, everyone would think that the human race had no one.

No wonder many princes were unwilling to obey the Shang Dynasty. Its strength was indeed lacking and it was not worthy of the status of the common ruler of the world.

Not to mention the era of Emperor Yu, there were hundreds of millions of immortals in Jiuzhou alone. Let’s just say that at the beginning of the establishment of the Shang Dynasty, a hundred thousand refining masters were nothing. A hundred thousand immortals could be gathered together, which frightened the heavenly soldiers and they did not dare to go down to the mortal world easily.

It has only been a few million years, how come the Great Shang Dynasty has fallen to the point where there are only 100,000 Refined Voids? The descendants of later generations are really unfilial and unworthy of the foundation left by their ancestors!

Moreover, this is not the key point. It doesn't matter if the national strength is declining. As long as everyone is united, even if we cannot revive the Shang Dynasty, we can at least maintain the current situation unchanged.

But from Huang Feihu's tone, Ao Bing was afraid that there was no unity within Da Shang and that the fighting was fierce.

There is no doubt that Huang Feihu was a loyal minister of the Shang Dynasty, and even more loyal to Emperor Xin. But even so, when he mentioned Emperor Xin's employment of slaves, his tone was still full of dissatisfaction.

Even his confidants were like this, not to mention the rest. It is estimated that there were many people in the Shang Dynasty who were dissatisfied with Emperor Xin.

There were powerful enemies lurking outside and internal strife going on inside. There was a reason why the Shang Dynasty was destroyed.

However, Ao Bing could understand the reasons for the internal strife in the Shang Dynasty. Every era has its own rules, and the rule of this era is to put clan members first.

Whether it was the king or the princes, if they wanted to appoint officials, they had to choose from among the clan members. And the clan members were the nobles.

Officials must be selected from nobles, this was the rule of that era, but what Emperor Xin did, by employing slaves, was exactly contrary to this rule.

(End of this chapter)