"This is……"
For the first time, surprise appeared on Zi Shou's face, which had always been calm and unceremonious.
The expressions of the wizards changed drastically, and they were frightened.
This has never happened before. During the sacrifice, divine thunder descended from the sky and killed the wizard. Could it be a sign of God's dissatisfaction with the new king?
For a moment, this thought came to everyone's mind.
"The bold wizard was disrespectful to God and had a dishonest heart, which led to God's punishment!"
Zi Shou reacted very quickly, took one step forward, pointed his fingertips at the injured priest nearby, and a red light circled like a flying swallow, piercing through the heads of more than a dozen wizards before returning.
He put all the blame on the wizard, which was considered a step.
Of course, it is unknown what other monarchs think in their hearts.
Those who had previously had disloyal intentions became even more convinced that Dashang's destiny was no longer there. Those who were originally loyal were also wavering, and there was a crack in their loyalty.
Even Zishou's brothers had thoughts that they shouldn't have.
From ancient times to the present, the burial of late kings has never happened
Soon, the ceremony continued.
As the late king's coffin entered the underground palace, it was filled with the last handful of earth.
boom!
The wind suddenly rose and turned into a group of monsters with wide robes and large sleeves and tattoos on their faces.
The clouds gathered into a road that reached the sky. There were boys in white on both sides of the road. There were also many strange people and strangers from the heaven and earth who looked around. They all looked terrifying and said nothing.
boom!
Black smoke rose from the top of the mountain and quickly spread across the sky. Under the black clouds was the late emperor riding a double-headed Kuilong bronze chariot, his face covered with white cloth, followed by a crowd of green-grey-skinned ministers.
The funeral ends as the dragon chariot heads to the end of the underworld.
From now on is the age of Zishou.
Zi Shou has been practicing for many years and has been the crown prince for almost a thousand years. It is estimated that he will have to suppress the world for another two thousand years.
Returning to the palace, Tang Ping and his entourage were sitting in the side hall, and the monarchs were received and rewarded one by one.
And the entourage also started to eat.
Most of these followers are not followers. They are basically valued people who can be brought to this occasion.
Tang Ping noticed the two followers of Western Zhou Dynasty.
One is older, the other is young and ignorant.
There are many similarities between the two people's eyebrows and Ji Chang's.
This should be a relative of Ji Chang, most likely his son.
The elder is the eldest son Ji Kao?
Who is the other person? Ji Fa?
Tang Ping also felt that he was a bit unlike Ji Fa. According to the historical process, Ji Fa should have emerged at this time. Even if his own strength was not as good as the human immortal, it was at least similar to Ji Chang.
The two people in front of them were just in the realm of dining under the clouds.
"Bo Yi Kao, will Boy Kao die today?"
Tang Ping thought to himself that this should be impossible.
Human sacrifices and other things for funerals had been distributed to the various countries many days ago.
On such an important occasion, it is illegal to offer more or less sacrifices.
Generally, anyone required for sacrifices will be notified in advance. In the case of Xiong Ba, it was usually because of Zi Shou's intimidation or intentional beating.
After all, this kind of behavior of killing someone's eldest son for sacrifice is an insult no matter in which era.
Therefore, on this occasion, the king will not suddenly kill anyone, otherwise it will be the king himself who is embarrassed.
The next day, Xiong Yang and others came out.
The group came to the open space outside the city, boarded the chariot and returned to the original road.
"What did Zishou say?"
"He made some grand remarks, told us to guard the border, support big merchants, and rewarded us with some wealth."
Xiong Yang naturally looked down upon this. Since the incident of thunder at the funeral, Xiong Yang no longer had any fear of the Shang Dynasty.
Destiny really does exist.
A dynasty without the blessing of destiny, no matter how powerful it is, will not get the support of the world.
Now I go back to develop myself and wait for the heroes to compete.
Xiong Yang firmly believes that destiny will eventually be on his side.
Because they have the best culture, the Chu culture that everyone agrees with, even if the Chu Kingdom is destroyed, there will be a group of outstanding people in later generations who will restore the country under the banner.
This alone is enough to surpass most vassal states. Some vassal states have only passively integrated into the local civilization. The connection between the people is very weak, and even the king can only rely on his own people to run the government.
This kind of country is extremely easy to annex, and will not even be restored to the country under the banner of interested people in the future.
The best thing about Chu State is its county system that matches Shinto.
The county system makes it easier to concentrate power. Now the new land acquired by the kingdom is basically counties, and other forces' territories will not be expanded.
As long as the divine soil expands to the territory of the underworld, it can be combined with the divine way to exert stronger strength.
Yunxiao Tiangong.
Zi Shou looked through the white clouds at the carriages of the princes from all directions driving back.
A fire flashed in his eyes, a fire of ambition.
The princes cannot be trusted. Except for the princes in the Heluo area, all the princes in other places have different intentions and want to escape from the control of the central government even if they have some strength.
In other words, most princes are like this.
As long as the Central Dynasty shows any signs of weakness, these guys will be disobedient.
From Shang Tang to the previous kings, there was no generation that did not fight wars.
"This king will end this fate."
Zi Shou secretly made up his mind to curb the power of all parties in his lifetime and leave to his descendants an eternal dynasty that would last forever.
Just as he was thinking about it, a black mist gathered in the sky and formed an iron-faced ghost.
"Emperor Yi had forewarned that the Ghost Kingdom in the east, the Di tribe in the north, and the Shu Kingdom in the southwest rebelled."
These barbarians finally couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to take advantage of the transition of power in the Shang Kingdom to rebel.
Zi Shou sneered and said, "Tell the three armies of heaven, ghosts, and men to assemble, and I will lead the expedition in person!"
"yes!"
Just after he ascended the throne, there was a funeral. These barbarians probably thought they were weak and wanted to take a bite.
"The direction of Shu is mainly to defend, and the same is true for the north. Let's start with the nearest ghost country."
The Eastern countries have never been able to be included in the territory. They are more or less colluding with Haidai, so it is very difficult to win.
The late king only wanted to curb their westward expansion and did not think about destroying the country. This was too difficult.
It's not like I haven't defeated the ghost country before, and even made it surrender, but in the end it rebelled again.
But Zi Shou obviously did not have this kind of character.
"Bite off this hard bone first."
He doesn't care about face. It doesn't matter if he takes over the ghost country, even if he rebels again. Zi Shou is afraid that the ghost country won't rebel, and if it doesn't rebel, he will go to great lengths to force him to rebel, and then kill him.
Without a few more kills, can An break the ghost country's backbone?
The army went out to war.
one year later.
Zi received the formation and killed thirty-eight monks from the Sea Sword Kingdom. He personally led an army to attack the capital of the Ghost Kingdom and captured the Ghost King alive.
The Ghost King surrendered and was granted the title of Ghost Marquis.
Five years later, the ghost king rebelled again and Zishou was killed again.
Ten years later.
Five rebels and five towns were slaughtered until rivers of blood flowed.
Even so, Zi Shou did not kill Gui Hou every time he caught him, but let him go back.
The capital of the ghost country.
The blood clouds covered the sun, and the gloomy wind blew.
The black bird chariot broke through the blood clouds, and the sky light illuminated the earth, dispelling the gloomy coldness of the ghost country.
There is a heroic-looking man on the black bird chariot headed by him. He is wearing a red dragon mask, which is the magic dragon armor of the Shang Dynasty. He is holding a bronze halberd from Shou Mountain.
Dozens of men in white surrounded him and attacked, using sky fire, yellow smoke, and flying swords.
Further afield, there are two-headed ghosts, green-faced ghosts, red-haired ghosts, starving ghosts and other ghost country generals.
Zi Shou was motionless when suddenly his halberd swept across him.
boom!
The golden light spread across thousands of feet, and all ghosts and enemies within a thousand feet died.
"Evil King, I will never let you go even if I die."
Suddenly, the leader of the men in white looked at Zi Shou with hatred, bit his fingertips, took out a blank jade pendant, and wrote a tattoo.
Whoosh!
The pale light flew towards Zi Shou at such a fast speed that there was no flight path at all.
boom!
Zi Shou subconsciously flashed, and a big hole appeared in his shoulder, passing through the shoulder blade.
After issuing this move, the leader of the men in white died suddenly.
Zi was frightened and doubtful, but he still held back: "Go down."
Everyone descended on the city.
At the top of the city is a nobleman who is one foot tall, has normal skin color, and has only one eye.
This is the ghost king.
The Ghost Kingdom is also called the Yimu Kingdom. The Yimu people are nobles who are born with ghosts and gods and drive the ghosts and gods to fight.
This place is both the underworld and the upper world.
Zi Shou slowly fell down, his divine light disappeared, and he smiled at the Ghost King and said, "That's right, you can actually hurt me. Do you have any trump cards?"
Ghost King Jiang Wei smiled bitterly. He didn't know that he had been tricked until now.
It wasn't that Zi Shou was stupid and allowed himself to cause trouble again and again. It turned out that Zi Shou did it on purpose. If not, how could the ghost country's strength be weakened?
The ghost country's population is only 50% of its original size, more than half of its masters have died, and its influence has plummeted.
Even now, we still can’t clearly see Zi Shou’s true purpose, so wouldn’t he be the ghost king in vain?
"Then are you convinced?"
"Micro surrender."
The Ghost King kowtowed and was formally incorporated into the Yin and Shang system.
"Okay, I will officially make you Dong Bohou and give you a task to increase the power of the four tribes. You don't have to kill them all. If someone voluntarily surrenders, I can reward you. From now on, you will be the leader of the princes on the East Road."
Anyway, Dongfang has never set foot in Dashang. No matter how generous the reward is, it is still someone else's thing.
"The leader of the princes..."
Gui Hou was shocked in his heart, was he trying to expand for himself? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you will bow to it as soon as you say it, and you will be very loyal.
Zi was laughed at and said nothing.
In the future, we are not afraid that the ghost prince will become bigger and become a disaster. Instead of dividing our troops to attack, it is better to wait for the ghost country to be well managed and focus on the ghost country.
Use the ghost country to restrain the eastern princes, restrain the ghost country yourself, and conquer this place step by step.
At this time, Zi Shou looked at Gui Hou again and made a new discovery.
"Huh? You were not good at cultivation before, why are you so close to becoming a human immortal now?"
Previously, Guihou was considered a master, and his cultivation level in Yuyou was considered advanced, but he was still far out of reach of human immortals.
Today, several years later, this guy is about to break through.
"If we can't break through, that's all."
"any solution?"
Under Zi Shou's repeated questioning, Gui Hou finally told the truth.
There is a secret art in the ghost country. This secret skill is created based on the characteristics of demons, and it is called "The Method of Transforming Demons into Things".
This method can enhance your cultivation by swallowing ghosts.
Note that this is not for practice, otherwise it will be almost the same as human sacrifice.
This is a direct increase in cultivation.
"Can it only be a ghost?"
"Yes, and there are still ghosts with cultivation level. The physical ones cannot be used. They must be killed first and then absorbed. The higher the quality, the better. After cultivating to a certain level, low-level ghosts cannot improve their cultivation level."
At this stage like the Ghost Marquis, if you want to break through to human immortality, you must be at least a wandering ghost.
How could there be so many wandering ghosts in the world to cause trouble for him.
"Pass it to the lonely test."
Zi Shou's eyes flickered, looking in the direction of Chao Ge.
Over the past 40,000 years, Dashang has produced thirty generations of kings, including himself, and Chaoge has a total of twenty-nine imperial tombs.
Except for the first six ancestors who went to misty and unknown places, it is said that they served the Emperor of Heaven.
Other kings ascended to heaven after death, and after being baptized by stars to preserve their strength, their final destination was the underworld.
After so many years, many late emperors have long since exhausted their yin life, and then turned into emperor souls through secret methods. The emperor souls have no consciousness and can only wake up and protect Chaoge when Chaoge is attacked.
More than twenty former emperors guard Chaoge. This is a sacred city that will never fall.
"The emperor's soul is not a soul? If you keep it, it will cost people to sacrifice every year. Chaoge can't be broken anyway, so why not help me get to the next level."
Zi Shou thought to himself.
As the number of emperors increased, it is not an exaggeration to say that there was a huge amount of sacrifices during festivals every year, which even caused a huge burden.
Doing this yourself can be regarded as reducing the burden on the country.
Moreover, if we break through the Earth Immortal in the future, we will be able to recreate the Great Shang and dominate the world, which is no more valuable than a few ghosts.
Thinking of this, Zishou finally made up his mind.
Be sure to do this.
A few years later, Zi was conquered in the south and in the north, hundreds of small countries were newly attached, and the limelight was unprecedented.
His behavior of being good at conferring titles and not performing regular sacrifices was also criticized by royal loyalists as a person who disrespected his ancestors.
In fact, it was because Zishou knew it was useless and the imperial mausoleum had no soul, so why did he still offer sacrifices to it?
If a sharp-eyed wizard saw the truth, wouldn't it ruin his reputation?
Compared with the truth, Zi Shou still felt that it was nothing to be said a few words, at least he would wait until he broke through to the Earth Immortal.
Zi Shou's strong performance also earned him the title of Emperor Xin.
Palace of the King of Chu.
Xiong Yang couldn't help but sigh and said: "Di Xin is too strong, his martial arts are even more outstanding than those of the previous generation."
Tang Ping was also among them.
Since Emperor Xin came to the throne, Tang Ping has paid more and more attention to Dashang's intelligence.
"Don't worry, have you sent someone to contact Zhou Guo?" Tang Ping asked.
"Sent, not to mention the purpose, just trade. Speaking of which, the Zhou Kingdom is so remote, and it fights with Xirong every day, is there any benefit to cooperating with them?"
Xiong Yang was puzzled.
"You'll know later."
Tang Ping smiled and said nothing.
In the future, Ji Chang will meet a strange man who will help him solve the troubles in Xirong and even get support from various Western ministries.
This is the time to rise.
It is necessary to establish a good relationship in advance. The Zhou Dynasty was destined to be Shang Dynasty, and Chu State was not the protagonist in this era.
This is a sign that dates back thousands of years.
People are determined that people can no longer stand the cruel Dashi.
The real excitement is yet to come.
So during this period, they just need to live together.
Shinto will not expand to this extent anytime soon.
A few years later.
Wushan.
Epiphyllum, as a distinctive flower, has been widely cultivated.
Even on Wushan Mountain, there are many flowers growing in twos and threes.
Tang Ping knew it was time to make a deal.
(End of chapter)
