Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 216 Willing Power
Although Su's reinforcements include 120,000 Lianxu and 300,000 Xiantian, they are not even elite troops. They are all scattered soldiers. How can they be a match for the 100,000 personal guards of Emperor Xin?

Even after seeing how Emperor Xin's personal guards slaughtered the demon army, they surrendered without even resisting.

Kill those who surrendered but did not surrender, so after Ao Bing captured them, he did not kill them, but instead kept them in the rear to cheer for the soldiers besieging the city on the front line.

This is the prehistoric world, and unlike later times, cheering and encouraging others can really bring about an increase in luck. After all, everyone has luck, and cheering and encouraging others is essentially using one's own luck to increase the other person's luck.

One person's luck is limited, but what about ten thousand people? It can be said that as long as there are more people cheering and encouraging, more luck will be gathered, and the increase will naturally be greater.

Among the captives this time, there are as many as 120,000 Void Refining Realm and over 300,000 Innate Realm, which adds up to more than 400,000 people. With all their luck gathered together, it is not a small number, equivalent to a Daluo Golden Immortal.

With their support, the pressure that Su City will face will undoubtedly be three times greater.

After all, these people were captives, and it would be too difficult for them to attack the city. But it would be too easy to ask them to cheer up the Shang soldiers who were besieging the city and provide them with luck and blessings.

There was no need for them to go to the battlefield. Just shouting slogans and donating a little blood and energy in the rear could bring a great blessing to the soldiers besieging the city. Ao Bing would naturally do this kind of effortless task.

After arranging the captives, Ao Bing did not return to the tent, but went to a deserted place and looked up above his head silently.

Ao Bing certainly knew what was above his head. It was a huge nine-dragon canopy, emitting brilliant golden light all over, sacred and majestic.

On the canopy, there is a dragon pattern, which is the transformation of the dragon clan's luck. In addition to the dragon pattern, there are patterns of firewood, auspicious clouds, starlight, coins, mountains and rivers.

The fire symbolizes the luck of the human race, the auspicious clouds symbolize the luck of the immortals, the starlight symbolizes the luck of the stars, the coins symbolize wealth, and the mountains and rivers symbolize the luck of the earth veins...

As for the golden light, it is the golden light of merit, which attracts all gods and wards off all evil.

This nine-dragon canopy was formed from Ao Bing's good fortune. Although it had no offensive power, it could protect him from all evil spells.

Even if the quasi-saint himself performed rituals and cast spells to harm him, it would not have any effect. Instead, his luck would backfire and his vitality would be seriously damaged.

At the same time, the Nine-Dragon Canopy rose up, which could protect him from the attack of the Golden Immortal.

“Is this a willpower?”

What Ao Bing was looking at, naturally, was not the Nine-Dragon Canopy, but the wisps of vital energy hanging down from the canopy.

At some point, the Nine Dragons Canopy above his head suddenly began to change, with vitality dripping down. At first it was just a strand, then it became more and more, a thousand strands, a hundred thousand strands, a million strands...

By now, billions of strands of vital energy were descending and enveloping his entire body, layer upon layer, evolving into infinite auras.

This vital energy was quite strange. It was transformed from wisps of spiritual thoughts. At first, Ao Bing thought it was some kind of innate vital energy, but slowly, he discovered that something was wrong.

This vital energy is not created by nature, but is derived from acquired factors. It is mixed with the seven emotions and six desires, or the distracting thoughts of all living beings.

After realizing this, Ao Bing was shocked to realize that this was not innate vital energy at all, but the power of will of all living beings transformed from their thoughts.

All sentient beings will have various thoughts from the moment they are born. These thoughts are transformed by the light of the spirit and they arise and disappear at the same time.

If these thoughts of sentient beings are placed with wishes for a powerful being, then they will gather together and turn into the power of sentient beings' wishes.

Thoughts arise and disappear at the same time, and cannot last forever. But wishes are different, because they have something to rely on, so they can be gathered together, become substantial, and exist for a very long time.

"It's those slaves in Su City!"

"These wishes come from the slaves in Su City. Originally, they were about to starve to death or be sacrificed."

"But I stepped forward to protect them. Not only did I prevent the nobles of Su City from harming their lives, I also provided them with enough fasting pills to survive."

"This is the grace of saving their lives, so they thanked me from the bottom of their hearts. And their thoughts of gratitude gathered together and became a wish power, which gathered on me."

After carefully sensing for a while, Ao Bing knew the origin of the wishes of these sentient beings. They were provided by the slaves in Su City.

As for why it was not provided by the people of Longzhou, the reason is very simple. Only mortals can provide the power of vows, but monks cannot.

Restraining one's own thoughts is the foundation of spiritual practice. Therefore, any cultivator can restrain his own thoughts and prevent them from leaking out.

Thoughts are mental power. When thoughts leak out, mental power leaks out. If you cannot control your thoughts and your mental power keeps leaking out, then you are not practicing Taoism at all.

After ten years of practice, your cultivation level has not improved at all, right?

Therefore, only mortals who cannot control their spiritual power can provide the power of will, but monks cannot.

Under Ao Bing's governance, Longzhou has made everyone a cultivator. There are no mortals at all, so naturally they will not provide him with any power of vows.

But the slaves in Su City are different, because there are too many of them, tens of billions. If all of them became monks, the resources required would be enough to bring down the entire country of Su.

Therefore, very few slaves became monks, and most of them were mortals, unable to escape birth, aging, sickness and death.

No, there is only life and death, no illness or old age.

They were just slaves, so how could they have a chance to live to old age? Once their status declined, they would be directly taken out and sacrificed to avoid wasting resources.

The same goes for those who are sick, so as to avoid wasting herbs.

Because the slaves in Su City are mortals, after receiving help from Ao Bing, their heartfelt gratitude will turn into wishes that flow to Ao Bing.

"God's will!"

"Sure enough, what I thought before was correct. If we want to come up with a way to improve the status of slaves, we have to attack the Yousu Kingdom."

After carefully studying these vows, Ao Bing suddenly said in surprise, "He has thought of a way to improve the status of slaves, and it is related to these vows."

The power of will is transformed from spiritual thoughts, and spiritual thoughts are mental power. After being refined, they can strengthen the soul.

Of course, because the vows contain the believers' distracting thoughts, they cannot be refined directly. They need to be purified first and the impurities removed before they can be used.

But no matter what, vows are an extremely valuable resource for spiritual practice.

Don't think that the power of will is spiritual power, and that it can only strengthen the spirit. If there is the refining of qi into spirit, there will naturally be the refining of spirit into qi.

After the willpower is purified, it can be restored to the innate pure qi, which can be refined to strengthen one's own vitality. The innate pure qi can also be refined into nectar, which can strengthen qi and blood after refining.

It can be said that the power of will is omnipotent, just like merit. After refining, it can directly improve cultivation, or improve the soul, or strengthen the vitality, or temper the body.

Of course, it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that vows are the same as merits.

It can only be said that the effects are somewhat similar, but the power of wish is still not as good as merit, and it can be regarded as a weakened version of merit. After all, merit can directly improve the realm, but the power of wish cannot.

But even if the effect is similar to that of merit, it is very rare. You know, among all the treasures in the prehistoric world, how many have effects similar to merit?

The fact that wish power can be called a weakened version of merit is the greatest affirmation of its value. Moreover, the difficulty of obtaining wish power is much lower than merit.

"No wonder the incense and Shintoism are so prosperous in later generations. There is a reason for this."

At this moment, Ao Bing suddenly thought of the scene where the incense and fire were popular in later generations. Incense is the power of will, or more precisely, the power of will that has been stored by special means, and contains fewer impurities.

Resources are scarce in later generations, but willpower can be said to be an inexhaustible resource. As long as the strong people between heaven and earth are not blind, they will naturally attach great importance to it and develop it vigorously.

Willpower can replace spiritual energy and become a necessity for monks. There is a reason why it became so popular in later generations.

At the same time, it is precisely because of its value that it has the ability to improve the status of slaves. This is exactly what Ao Bing values.

Only mortals can generate willpower, and in the ancient times, more than 99% of the slaves were mortals.

Why did the princes despise slaves, not care about their life or death, and sacrifice them whenever they wanted?
The main reason is that the value that slaves bring to them is limited. And compared to letting the slaves continue to live, sacrificing them obviously creates more value.

People are always profit-seeking. Since sacrificing slaves brings greater value, the nobles and princes, that is, the slave owners, will naturally not hesitate and will not show any mercy when sacrificing slaves.

But now, as long as Ao Bing can develop the value of willpower, everything will be different. Willpower, which can only be produced by mortals, can replace spiritual energy and even have a better effect.

After the slave owners knew this, they would not be as decisive as before when sacrificing slaves. They would think about whether sacrificing slaves would bring more benefits, or keeping them and allowing them to continuously create willpower.

When the benefits of keeping slaves far outweighed the benefits of sacrificing slaves, the princes would feel heartbroken when they sacrificed slaves again.

Then they would try to convince themselves not to sacrifice slaves anymore.

Use the power of will to increase the value of slaves. When their value increases, their status may not increase by much, but it will definitely become more important, and they will become the high-quality wealth of the slave owners.

If it is not necessary, sacrifice should not be made easily.

Therefore, Ao Bing's method may not actually improve the status of slaves much, but it can definitely reduce the frequency and number of slaves being sacrificed.

Just achieving this step is actually already good enough. It is a great achievement both for humanity and for the fortune of the human race, and can bring huge benefits to Ao Bing.

"We have a solution. Next, we need to study the secret method of purifying the power of will, and then reveal the effect of the power of will."

"There is no shortage of monks in this world who want to gain something without working for it. Especially among the nobles, there are a lot of people who want to gain something without working for it."

"After knowing that the power of vows can improve their cultivation, they will definitely not be able to resist the temptation of the power of vows and will definitely try every possible way to obtain the power of vows."

"And the more the willpower comes from the heart, the purer the willpower it produces. After refining, the better the effect. Therefore, in order to obtain pure willpower, they must be kind to the slaves..."

After having an idea, countless inspirations suddenly appeared in Ao Bing's mind, giving him many more ideas about the next path to take.

It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning, but once you have a good start, the rest will be much easier. This is the case with studying the power of vows, or the matter of incense and gods.

Ao Bing knew that it was difficult to create a cult of incense and worship, and that many aspects and factors needed to be taken into account.

But he has the memories of later generations, and using the experience of later generations as a reference can help him avoid many detours.

Moreover, cultivation is about turning the impossible into the possible. As long as you have an idea, you can turn it into reality. What is scary is not having an idea.

Isn't it just the way of incense and fire? Ao Bing felt that with his luck, it would not be difficult to figure it out. If it really doesn't work, he can still ask his master for advice.

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Here, Ao Bing had an idea and began to study the incense and fire. On the other hand, the situation in Su City was getting worse.

Previously, due to the arrival of the demon reinforcements, the morale in the city, which had been low, suddenly soared.

But before they could be happy for long, they saw Emperor Xin's personal guards suddenly rush out and kill most of the demon army that came to support them, slaughtering them all.

Now, the morale of the Sucheng defenders, which had just risen, collapsed directly.

After being trapped for so long, the soldiers defending the city were already under great pressure, relying entirely on the unwarranted reinforcements. Now that the reinforcements had arrived, they were defeated, and the blow to morale can be imagined.

Although morale collapsed, no one ran away, which was a sign of high quality. If it were somewhere else, they would have surrendered long ago, and they would not have stayed at their posts.

The morale of the defending generals and soldiers was low, and the nobles in the inner city were not feeling well either. They had never expected that the demon clan reinforcements would be so useless, and they were slaughtered by the other side in just the first battle.

They had originally hoped to turn the tide with the help of the demon tribe reinforcements, but this was the result? If they had known that the demon tribe reinforcements were so weak, they would have surrendered long ago and would never have struggled to hold on until now.

If they surrendered before the demon tribe reinforcements arrived, there would be room for negotiation. But now the demon tribe reinforcements not only arrived, but were also slaughtered. Even if they wanted to surrender, the other side might not accept it.

When the nobles in the city thought of this, they hated the demons even more. If you had said earlier that you were such a waste, who would dare to follow you to rebel against the merchants?

Now, it doesn’t matter that the demon race is trash, but they have caused them to suffer, and are about to be reduced from noble aristocrats to lowly slaves.

Whenever they thought of this, they felt uncomfortable all over and wished they could die directly rather than suffer such humiliation. But after living a life of luxury for so long, they could not make up their minds to die.

Therefore, they are now panicking and anxious. They want to surrender, but they are worried that Ao Bing will not accept it. They want to escape, but they are worried that they will be caught while escaping, which will be a more miserable fate.

This anxiety, which had no way of being vented, made the nobles in the city extremely violent and easily angry.

Today, Lord Su summoned the nobles in the city to ask for advice as usual, and a master from the fox clan came.

With his arrival, the nobles present had a vent for their pent-up anger, and they all vented their anger towards him:
"Can the demon race come down to the bottom?"

"You can't even defeat the soldiers of the Shang Dynasty, and yet you still want to overthrow the rule of the human race and return to the ranks of the overlords of the world. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if you tell others about it?"

"It was you, Youhu, who said that the demon tribe would fully support Yousu. That's why we believed your lies, refused to pay tribute to the Shang Dynasty, and became its enemy."

"But now, the full support of the demon tribe is only 100,000 demon soldiers?"

"Let's not talk about the Demon Saint, what about the Demon God?"

"My country of Su is about to be destroyed. Is it not too much for the demon clan to send a few demon gods to help?"

"But where are their figures?"

"Youhu, what is the attitude of the demon tribe? Give us a definite answer. If no demon god comes to help, then all of you should burn your essence and fight Ao Bing outside to give us a chance to escape."

"This is not a threat. If you can't see the demon god, then you will use your lives to fight for our chance of survival."

The nobles of Su City were really furious. After seeing the master of the Fox Clan, they didn't show any courtesy to him and scolded him one after another.

Their words, in summary, meant one thing: Either Youhu asked the demon god to rescue them, or Youhu sacrificed himself to buy them time to escape.

Although the Shang Dynasty was strong, it was not without enemies. The barbarians in all directions could take them in, especially the Dongyi tribe, whose strength was second only to that of the Shang Dynasty. As long as they fled there, they would be safe.

"Don't rush!"

"Don't worry, everyone. Just listen to me."

Even though he was scolded by so many people, the fox clan master did not get angry. Instead, he was patient and asked everyone to be quiet with a warm smile on his face.

"you say!"

When everyone heard what he said, they guessed what solution he was going to say, so they all shut their mouths and prepared to listen to his solution.

If it can satisfy everyone, then everyone will be happy. If not, then we have no choice but to follow their way and sacrifice the fox in exchange for their safety.

"At this point, Sucheng can no longer be defended. I didn't expect that the attack from Dashang would be so fierce. They didn't give us any time to react. They went straight to Huanglong and cut off all our chances of survival."

A master from the fox tribe said with some depression.

It had been so long since the incident, and they had reviewed it countless times, and had already figured out Ao Bing's plan. It was very simple, but very effective, and it struck directly at the dragon's lair and destroyed it.

This move is undoubtedly risky. If it fails, the entire army will be wiped out.

But now it was useless to say all this, because Ao Bing succeeded. They were the ones who failed. All their years of planning went to waste, all their hard work went down the drain, and even their own safety could not be guaranteed.

"so what?"

"What do you think? Do you want us to live and die with Su City?"

One noble asked in a cold tone, "Su City can no longer be defended. At this point, everyone can see it. What they want to hear is not something that everyone knows."

"Haha, you guys are joking. You are all rare talents, how can you fall with Sucheng? I have already made an agreement with the demon tribe, and a demon god will rescue us and send us outside Jiuzhou."

"However, even if we want to leave, we can't let the merchant army outside have an easy time. We might as well blow up Su City and teach them a lesson."

A master from the fox tribe laughed and told him his plan.

(End of this chapter)