"Exalted Immortal, I would like to ask if there is still a place for immortals and gods in the sky, so that little gods can sit there?"
The ghost asked cautiously.
Jiang Sheng recalled the scene he had just seen: the vast world, filled with ghosts and gods, swallowing incense and holding candles to stay awake
There are no immortals in the world anymore.
And heaven?
After a hundred thousand years, if there really is someone in the world who has the power to master heaven and earth, what else will be left in the sky with that thin layer of spiritual energy?
What's more, Jiang Sheng clearly remembered the scene when his clone was sent in. The thin spiritual energy, the dim stars, and even the sun and moon had lost their former glory.
Jiang Sheng clearly remembered the chronological history of mountains and rivers he saw in the Daozang Pavilion of the Penglai Dao Sect after he obtained the Void Refining Dao Fruit.
One Yuanhui, 129,600 years ago, the long years gave birth to such a catastrophe that the world was turned upside down, and countless immortals and gods perished in the Yuanhui catastrophe. Only then did the current pattern of the mountain and river world come into being. The current merger of the three realms.
This is true in the mountains and rivers world, but what about the mountains and seas?
"There is a cloud in the chronology of mountains and seas. One hundred thousand years ago, the battle between immortals and gods shattered the heaven and earth. A king came out and the heaven and earth were connected, bringing peace to the world."
Thinking of the sparse sky and empty stars in the mountain and sea world today, a hundred thousand years have been too long, so much so that the heaven and earth have been worn away, the immortals and gods have fallen, and even what happened in the past has become a vague sentence.
Jiang Sheng sighed softly, if there were immortals in the sky, how could he send this clone in so easily.
Looking at the ghosts and gods beside him, Jiang Sheng said: "There are no gods or gods in the sky for a long time."
The ghosts and gods were startled for a moment, then laughed: "I guess so."
Jiang Sheng smiled and waved his hand, and some ideas scattered around, illuminating the house: "God, why don't you tell me about yourself?"
The ghost was stunned for a moment, and then told Jiang Sheng his story frankly: his name was Gao Yan, and he was a direct descendant of the Gao family. The Gao family was also a famous family of ghosts and gods in the Yu Dynasty. There were countless righteous gods who were officially conferred by the Yu Dynasty in the past dynasties.
Each generation of emperors in the Yu Dynasty would confer a group of ghosts and gods who would follow him. These ghosts and gods would follow the emperor into the Netherworld and establish a kingdom in the Netherworld.
The emperor is the ghost emperor, and the ghosts and gods who follow the emperor become subjects of the Netherworld Kingdom, and continue to follow their emperor just like they do in the human world.
However, only the ghosts and gods consecrated by the emperor himself are qualified to enter the netherworld and enjoy the incense and immortality of the human world.
The emperors of the Yu Dynasty only conferred only two or three batches of ghosts and gods in their lifetime, and they usually only conferred one batch each at the beginning of their accession to the throne and before being buried in the mausoleum.
As a family of ghosts and gods in the Yu Dynasty, the Gao family was not eligible for every generation to be granted the title of Emperor Yu.
For example, in this generation of Emperor Yu, no one from the Gao family was granted the title of vassal, but the Gao family had many ancestors in the underground. For example, the previous Emperor Yu made a ghost and god from the Gao family his vassal, allowing him to follow him underground.
Although Gao Yan is a direct descendant of the Gao family, he has successfully cultivated to the realm of Nascent Soul, and with the help of his family, he held incense sacrifices and became a god.
But there is no shortage of ghosts and gods like Gao Yan in the Gao family. Gao Yan also knows that according to his connections and resources in the family, being able to become a ghost and god residing in the divine card is already the limit.
The chances of going further are slim.
The ghosts and gods of the Gao family seem to have a high status and are worshiped with incense day and night, but they are really willing to risk their lives when encountering trouble.
For example, once a war breaks out underground, the ancestors of the Gao family will send a group of Gao family ghosts and gods to help in the war. But aiding in the war is easy to say, but once they die underground, they will really be wiped out.
The ancestors of the Gao family, those ghosts and gods who followed the Yu emperors and went underground to serve as ghost ministers, in order to preserve their status, made the children of the Gao family pay a lot of price.
For example, large-scale incense sacrifices, and even livestock and human sacrifices, the Gao family's massive resources were squandered, but they could barely maintain their own immortality.
There were countless ghost families like the Gao family in the Yu Dynasty.
But all the ghost and god families had no intention of resisting the Yu Dynasty or the previous Yu emperors.
Ghosts and gods need to be conferred by dynasty's luck. Only those who are conferred by dynasty are the true gods, otherwise those rural fox gods will not last long.
And the dynasty can make you the righteous god, or it can depose you.
Emperor Yu in the past dynasties consecrated many ghosts and gods, and also deposed many ghosts and gods.
Once he is deposed, without the incense offerings and sacrifices of the four seasons, he will immediately be brought back to his original form.
What's more, even in the underworld, ghosts and gods are driven by the Yu Emperors of the past dynasties. Once Emperor Yu deposes a family of ghosts and gods underground, that family's power on earth will also be affected.
Under various restrictions, all the aristocratic families in the Yu Dynasty were just vassals of Emperor Yu. They could not escape even if they were allowed to drive by Emperor Yu.
In fact, it would be great if he could really go underground and become a ghost minister of the Ghost Emperor, but the problem is that Gao Yan is not qualified to become a ghost minister. After enjoying the glory and wealth in his life, and enjoying the glory of being a direct descendant of the Gao family, , his destiny is to become a ghost in the magic card, and he will be trapped in that small magic card all his life, guarding the Gao family, waiting for the dispatch of the ancestors of the underground Gao family, and being ready to dedicate himself at any time.
Gao Yan was unwilling to do this, so he followed Gao Bai to Jinhua County.
Once he arrives in Jinhua County, Gao Bai will build a temple for Gao Yan. Then Gao Yan will not be limited to a small god card, and he will not have to crowd into one temple with so many ghosts and gods like in the Gao family.
Gao Yan will have his own temple and his own statue. He can act according to the statue, or he can turn the temple into his own palace, with his own independent incense and sacrifices. For Gao Yan, that has endless temptation, at least He doesn't have to worry anymore.
Gao Yan and Gao Bai actually used each other, and combinations like this were very common among the ghosts and gods in the entire Yu Dynasty.
Gao Yan's original idea was to cooperate with Gao Bai and become a local city god in Jinhua County, dominating and dominating.
But after meeting Jiang Sheng, Gao Yan had a new idea. If there were immortals and gods in the world, it would be a good choice to stay with them forever.
Jiang Sheng realized one thing through Gao Yan's narration. The method of cultivation in the world of mountains and seas did not end at Yuanying, but moved towards the path of ghosts and gods.
The huge dynasties that occupy incense and belief in the world have also become ghost dynasties underground.
The emperors in the world are ghost emperors underground, and the generals, ministers and generals in the world are ghost ministers and generals underground, achieving true immortality.
It's just that they are immortal, what about the future of the mountain and sea world?
Jiang Sheng didn't care how greedy these people were for immortality, and he didn't care whether the common people in Shanhai Realm could survive. He didn't even care if the monks in Shanhai Realm had their way forward cut off.
Jiang Sheng needs the Shanhai Realm to exist and pull it out from the depths of chaos.
This is related to the Penglai Dao Sect's sect's grand plan, Jiang Sheng's own luck, merit, and even his future path.
Recalling the incense and candles everywhere and the ghosts and gods he had just seen in the sky, Jiang Sheng realized that the real master of the mountain and sea world was not the human world, but the underground.
In the past, immortals and gods were the most respected people in the world of mountains and seas, but in this era, ghosts and gods were the most respected people in the world of mountains and seas.
"Netherworld."
Jiang Sheng thought, and then looked at Gao Yan: "Gao Yan, do you want to live forever?" Gao Yan looked at Jiang Sheng hesitantly. Gao Yan was not a fool. He could stand out from the direct descendants of the Gao family and become a ghost. Yan's wisdom, but his resources can only go so far.
Gao Yan and Jiang Sheng had just talked so much, Gao Yan had already realized that the immortal in front of him might not be a creature from the mountain and sea realm.
Gao Yan had to be wary of a foreign immortal god: "Exalted Immortal, I have no secrets here."
But Jiang Sheng smiled and said: "Oh? No secret?"
"But haven't you already told me everything you know?"
Gao Yan suddenly realized why he fell in love with Jiang Sheng at first sight just now, and what made him tell Jiang Sheng everything he knew without reservation?
Is it really because Jiang Sheng saved Jinhua County?
But what does that have to do with him?
At this time, Gao Yan looked at the immortal in front of him. Under the pure and majestic inspiration, Gao Yan seemed to see a figure that was so huge that it reached the sky and the earth.
The figure was entwined with wind, thunder, water and fire, and endless heavenly flowers intertwined into feathers. The figure's eyes were green-gold, and a brilliant blue wheel hung behind its head. On both sides of the blue wheel, there was a golden wheel. One purple and two halos are looming.
"Gao Yan, you have to know that I have to choose you."
"You said, if Gao Bai knew that I could make him a god and immortal, what would he do?"
Jiang Sheng said softly, twisting his left hand lightly, and pinched the strands of spiritual energy into a green lotus.
Gao Yan hesitated for a moment and then bowed down:
"Little god, I am willing to be driven by the immortal"
Beyond the boundaries of mountains and seas.
In the deep and dim chaos, a bone boat millions of miles long floated quietly above the mountains and seas, with energy storage organs hanging behind it that emitted bright spiritual brilliance like stars.
Jiang Sheng and Immortal Xiangyu were sitting cross-legged on the bone boat, playing chess.
The chess pieces are made of jade minerals dug out from the belly of wild beasts. They are one of the few things Jiang Sheng and Xiangyu have to kill time.
As the game between the two sides deepened, Jiang Sheng said softly: "This is what I know about the situation in the Shanhai Realm. What does the Immortal Lord think?"
Immortal Lord Xiangyu asked while making his move: "My little friend, are you planning to do something in the underworld of the mountains and seas?"
Jiang Sheng nodded. He and Xiangyu Immortal Lord are grasshoppers on the same rope. There is no need to hide this: "To be honest with you, Immortal Lord, I do intend to go to the Netherworld of the Mountain and Sea Realm to have a look."
"For one hundred thousand years, God knows how many ghosts and gods there are in the underworld of the mountains and seas."
"These ghosts and gods are like human dynasties, each occupying one side. After so many years, I am afraid they have already become a behemoth that lingers in the netherworld."
"I even suspect that the thin spiritual energy and lack of vitality in the world of mountains and seas is caused by too many ghosts and gods."
"Countless ghosts and gods are lingering in the underworld and the human world. They are immortal, swallowing the wisdom and incense of heaven and earth, and occupying the origin of the mountain and sea world. It is no wonder that the mountain and sea world has become like this."
"The world of mountains and seas has been stuck in the depths of chaos for too long, and there are too many ghosts and gods"
Immortal Lord Xiangyu smiled and said: "There will be a catastrophe in the Yuan Dynasty, which will affect the world. When the tribulation starts, the world will be turned upside down, and the gods will fall like rain."
"If you go by what you said, little friend, there are still 29,600 years until the next Yuanhui catastrophe. By then, another catastrophe will occur in the world of mountains and seas."
Jiang Sheng nodded: "I have personally suppressed the mud dragon, and I have some guesses about the origin of the mud dragon."
"Whether it is the so-called mud dragon or the earth dragon mentioned in the book, they are all formed by the accumulation of filth in the world. And looking at the chronology of mountains and seas, whether the earth dragon turns over or the mud dragon walks like a dragon, it is just the Yu Dynasty. In the southeast, the number is increasing and becoming more and more frequent.”
"This is enough to show that the tribulation energy has already penetrated deeply into the human world and even the underworld. If the next Yuanhui catastrophe breaks out, with the current fragile appearance of the Shanhai Realm, I am very worried that the Shanhai Realm will directly fall apart."
Immortal Lord Xiangyu realized Jiang Sheng's thoughts and couldn't help but become serious: "Little friend, don't tell me that you are planning to trigger this disaster!"
Jiang Sheng shook his head: "I just want the calamity in the mountain and sea realm to break out in advance, so that some calamities can be wiped out, and some time can be delayed. As long as the mountain and sea realm can be brought back to the central realm of the universe, as long as the mountain and sea realm can be reunited with the three realms, Together, this epochal catastrophe affecting the world of mountains and seas can be eliminated without a trace.”
"Immortal Lord, I don't need this merit and luck. I have the entire Penglai Dao Sect behind me, and even the Heavenly Lord favors me."
"Without this opportunity, I will have more opportunities in the future, enough for me to realize Chunyang."
"But what about you, Immortal Lord? How many chances do you have with this remnant soul of yours?"
Immortal Lord Xiangyu was silent.
As Jiang Sheng said, he can't compare with Jiang Sheng.
Jiang Sheng is the proud son of Penglai Taoist Sect, a Chunyang seedling favored by Chunyang Taoist Lords, and a Taoist who can stand alongside Chunyang Taoist Lords in the future. He has far more opportunities than himself.
After thinking about it, Immortal Xiangyu asked: "Little friend, tell me, what do you think?"
Jiang Sheng smiled and said: "Immortal Lord, my idea is very simple. I will build a temple for the Immortal Lord in the world, shape a golden body, and use the power of incense to reshape the body of the Immortal Lord."
"Then the Immortal Lord entered the Netherworld Legislative System, and I opened a dojo in the human world. With the power of the Immortal Lord and I, we may not be able to compete for the luck of the mountains and seas. As long as we can win some of the luck of the mountains and seas, the rest can be done. Much easier to do.”
"Furthermore, if the Immortal Lord can really establish a Netherworld Division in the Mountain and Sea Realm and gain some luck, the Mountain and Sea Realm will return to the chaotic world in the future, and the Immortal Lord will also have a foothold."
Xiangyu Xianjun no longer hesitated: "Just do what I said!"
The next day, the boundary between mountains and sea was southeast.
Outside Jinhua County, Lingyou Prefecture in the Yu Dynasty, a large number of craftsmen began to build temples.
Although the spiritual energy in the world of mountains and seas is thin, there is no shortage of monks. Building a temple requires years and months of work for ordinary people, but it is much simpler for monks.
Jinhua County Magistrate Gao Bai personally supervised the construction process of the temple, and at the same time explained to Jiang Sheng the scale of the temple and the incense offerings with the drawings.
"Shangxian, once this temple is completed, it will definitely be the largest temple in the entire Jinhua County and even in several surrounding counties. It can accommodate more than ten immortals and gods, have more than a hundred worshippers, and can accommodate thousands of people to worship and offer incense."
Jiang Sheng listened to Gao Bai's explanation and looked at the temple that was beginning to take shape in front of him, his eyes full of smiles.
"Ghosts and gods of the mountains and seas, Pindao will come to see you soon." (End of Chapter)