Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 624: Cihang Makes a Great Vow

Upon hearing that Jiang Ziya had broken through Chuanyun Pass with an unstoppable force, King Zhou was nervous for a while. He was nervous, anxious, and irritable. He rarely started practicing martial arts again, and even thought about moving the capital to the north of the yellow river again, so that he could use the natural barrier of the river to resist the Zhou army. After waiting for more than ten days, he was overjoyed when he saw Jiang Ziya's head.

"With the blessing of our ancestors, I Hualong will be a truly good general. Fortunately for the Shang Dynasty!" he announced with high spirits.

Fei Zhong, You Hun and other ministers also shouted: "Lucky is the Shang Dynasty!"

All the elite troops of the Zhou State were wiped out, Jiang Ziya was also dead, and all the major worries were gone. King Zhou stopped practicing martial arts, threw away his sword, and continued to watch the dance of the Goddess of Luo River.

Jiang Ziya died in battle, and the Yu family father and son recaptured Chuanyun Pass, but the city was severely damaged and the smallpox virus did not distinguish between friend and foe. Even Yu De, the instigator, would fall ill if he was unfortunately infected. Chuanyun Pass could not withstand the next attack from the Zhou State, so Yu Hualong completely destroyed the city and led his troops back to Tongguan.

Longxuhu was halfway through the journey when the smallpox virus attacked him and he fainted.

The Zhou Kingdom had no idea about Jiang Ziya's situation, and many of the Golden Immortals of the Xianjiao were still dealing with the troubles left by the Chaos Bell.

Jifa lay on the couch, like an old man with a candle in the wind.

His killing was too severe. The process of Kunpeng forging the Chaos Bell also contained some of Di Jun's methods of using human blood to refine the Witch-Slaying Sword. When Jifa used this magic weapon, the backlash was much greater than expected.

If he were the ruler of the world, he might be able to hold on.

Unfortunately, Heaven no longer wants the human race to have a human king or a common ruler. The title of Son of Heaven has not officially appeared yet, but all preparations have been almost completed.

The land of China is now divided into four countries: Han, Shang, Zhou and Qi. Ji Fa's statement that he occupies a quarter of the destiny of the human race is an exaggeration.

The consequences of killing civilians were too great, and the humanitarian luck to resist the consequences was relatively small, so he could not bear it.

His foundation in cultivation was on the verge of collapse, and all the hard work of the past few years had gone to waste. If he couldn't stabilize his foundation, at his current age of 30+30, he might die one day.

The purpose of the Way of Heaven is "not to exist for Yao, not to die for Jie".

"Heaven and earth are unkind and treat all things as straw dogs." In the eyes of heaven, Ji Fa is no different from ordinary farmers. The one who really said "rise Zhou and destroy Shang" was Yuanshi Tianzun. For the sake of Yuanshi Tianzun's face, the saints acknowledged that it was heaven's will for Zhou. Zhou could rise, but there was no necessary connection between Zhou's rise and Ji Fa. It didn't matter even if Ji Fa died, because he still had dozens of younger brothers behind him!
The one who is going to protect Ji Fa now is Guangchengzi.

Guangchengzi prepared to go to the Tushita Palace in person to seek the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir to repair Jifa's Taoist foundation that was damaged by the backlash.

Tongtian Sect Master would personally come to ask for the Nine-Turn Golden Pill for Qiongxiao and Bixiao. Yuanshi Tianzun would definitely not do that. Guangchengzi's face is definitely not as good as that of a saint. He can only try his luck with a try-it-out mentality.

He walked out of Sishui Pass and was about to ride the cloud when he saw Taoist Cihang sitting cross-legged beside the blood-red land, chanting scriptures and praying for the dead.

Guangchengzi came to the side of Taoist Cihang, remained silent, and looked at the land under his feet.

This place used to be a fertile land with villages, markets, cities, and crisscrossing fields. The villagers worked from sunrise to sunset, but now all of them no longer exist.

The Chaos Bell's strike reduced all buildings to dust, flattened mountains, rerouted rivers, and nearly shattered earth veins. Over 600,000 people died at Jiepai Pass, and over 100,000 at Chuanyun Pass. Even three thousand years from now, even the countryside outside the cities would still be inhabited.

During the Shang Dynasty, people in cities were called "countrymen" and people in the countryside were called "wild people". Now, more than 700,000 countrymen have died, and the number of wild people killed is countless. More than one million wronged souls have gathered in the Jiepai Pass area.

Ordinary soldiers did not dare to go through this way at all. They had to go south or north for more than a hundred miles, and then cross mountains and rivers before they could reach Chuanyun Pass.

This is also the reason why Jiang Ziya could only lead 30,000 soldiers on the eastern expedition even though the Zhou Kingdom had hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Supply was too difficult, and if he brought too many soldiers, they would starve to death on the way.

Millions of wronged souls refused to leave and gathered at the original location of the Boundary Pass, shouting to the sky and the earth, their resentment lingering for a long time.

Han Rong did not have any outstanding performance in the original Battle of the Gods. The reason why he held Sishui Pass the longest was entirely because at that time Shang was strong and Zhou was weak. The Shang side adopted the tactic of adding fuel to the fire, sending wave after wave of enemies to attack. Lao Jiang was exhausted and fought against wave after wave, which led to more than ten years of fierce battles with the Zhou State.

Han Rong's performance during his lifetime was mediocre, and after his death he was named "Wolf Star". Just looking at the name, you can tell that he was not an important character.

Now, it is such an insignificant little character that has stumped the Eleven Golden Immortals of the Xianjiao Sect.

Every day at the hours of Chen and Shen, Han Rong's wronged spirit would shout like a madman in the wilderness, "Heaven is unfair! I refuse to accept it! I refuse to accept it!"

His face was the clearest, and behind him followed a large number of wronged souls, including elderly men and young children, more than 100,000 elite soldiers of the Merchants, blacksmiths, farmers, and peddlers.

Han Rong turned into a kind of symbol, crying out for justice for himself every day. The resentment accumulated by millions of lives was extremely deep and heavy. The heavy hostility had been affecting the spiritual platforms of the immortals of the Chan sect. They had to spend several hours every day chanting scriptures, while saving the souls of the dead and preserving their own Taoist fruits, so as not to let the resentment affect their own cultivation.

Now all the immortals are trapped in this vortex of calamity. Go in? They dare not go in. Leave? The consequences will be even greater.

The Investiture of the Gods wanted to take away Han Rong, Qiu Yin and other people on the list, but they were even tougher than Wen Zhong who had just died in battle, and could not be taken away at all. The ghost officials from the underworld did not dare to come and capture "people". Millions of wronged souls were mixed together. Even if the ghost officials were extremely restrained about the ghosts, they did not dare to take action because there were simply too many wronged souls.

Unable to collect or catch it, the situation came to a standstill.

Guangchengzi asked Taoist Cihang, "Brother, you have been thinking hard here these days. I believe you have come to some realization, right?"

Both of them are Daluo Jinxian, and in the team of Twelve Golden Immortals, they are considered to be the strongest. The difference is that Cihang has just entered Daluo, while Guangchengzi has been in this realm for a long time.

Taoist Cihang said, "I wish to emulate the sages of the past and make a great vow, to 'be answered wherever prayers are sought, and to serve as a boat to save those in the sea of ​​suffering.' I only hope that all living beings will chant my name, be freed from all suffering and troubles, and reach the other shore."

Guang Chengzi's eyes were somewhat sharp: "This is not the method of my teaching."

Then his tone softened slightly: "There are thousands of paths to enlightenment. Junior brother, why don't you wait a little longer?"

Taoist Cihang nodded calmly: "Brother, what you said is very true. There are thousands of paths to enlightenment, but my path is right here."

(End of this chapter)