Chapter 1313 Great Sage Zhang

Chaoge City.

This morning, a border report from Xiqi broke the peace of Chaoge City.

not long ago,

Hundreds of immortals came to Xiqi, and with their joining, Xiqi’s strength increased greatly in a short time.

Under this power, the surrounding princes gradually surrendered to Ji Fa and formed an alliance. The ministers speculated that it would not be long before Xiqi would be able to form a coalition of princes again to attack Chaoge.

The ministers who had enjoyed peaceful life for more than a decade, whether they were pro-war or pro-peace, were unwilling to lose this hard-earned life.

So he quickly submitted a report and had Wang Ming brought out of his seclusion.

"Your Majesty! Xiqi has received help from a large group of immortals and monsters. We must make arrangements as soon as possible. Their army will probably be at the gates of the city soon."

Wang Ming looked at the ministers in front of the palace with boredom, and said casually: "Oh! Then, do you have any countermeasures?"

Wang Ming knew Xiqi's plan very well. There was a split consciousness hidden in Jifa's belt.

Wang Ming does not take those independent cultivators and demon cultivators seriously at all. As long as they are not disciples of a saint, Wang Ming does not take them seriously at all.

Wang Ming's original form is the Golden Immortal. After cultivating his nebula body, he made up for his shortcoming of being unable to integrate with the world.

None of these casual cultivators have the combat power of a Daluo Jinxian level, and Wang Ming can destroy them as long as he is willing to wave his hand.

and,

The luck of those immortals and demon cultivators was not very good to begin with. All they needed to do was let Nie Feng and Shen Gongbao take turns talking to them, and they would all die.

"Why would so many immortals go to Xiqi to serve as officials?" someone asked in confusion.

Shen Gongbao said with arrogance in his eyes: "The achievements of those casual cultivators are destined to stop here. There is no possibility of further progress. Since there is no way to become an immortal, they are naturally willing to seek wealth and honor in the human world like Jiang Ziya."

"Thank you, Master, for clearing up my doubts."

Shen Gongbao nodded, then bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the independent cultivators from Ji Fa and his group were brought here by Yang Jian after he went to the Three Mountains and Five Peaks and the Four Seas and Eight Wastelands to persuade them.

What Yang Jian and his companions had not expected was that many people were not optimistic about Xiqi and turned to join the arms of the Great Shang. Recently, many independent cultivators have appeared under my command.

If the king needs independent cultivators, I am willing to immediately go find an expert and come to join our Great Shang. Then we will see whether Jiang Ziya's immortal army is more powerful or our Great Shang's immortal army is more powerful. "

Wang Ming nodded, then asked, "The Immortal Army?

What are the salaries of the immortals in the court now?"

Shen Gongbao paused, then said: "I took a doctor's salary from the immortal, as well as some precious minerals, medicinal materials, etc. from the national treasury."

Wang Ming looked at Shen Gongbao meaningfully. Shen Gongbao had been working for nothing for more than ten years. He was born in the Chan Sect and later joined the Jie Sect. He had no shortage of resources and skills. He served as an official in the Shang Dynasty more to repay Wang Ming for saving him and to compete with Jiang Ziya.

Wang Ming doesn't care about the number of immortals. In Wang Ming's opinion, the person with the highest combat power is Kong Xuan, who is the first after the saint.

Below the Quasi-Saint, there is Nie Feng's [Equally matched], Shen Gongbao's [Daoyou, please stay], and Bu Jingyun's [Fight and eliminate at the same time], which are useless no matter who comes.

If it really doesn't work, Wang Ming will change his identity and do it himself. He can barely withstand the Golden Immortal level.

Although he was only at the initial stage of the Golden Immortal Realm, if his opponent used negative buffs like [Equally Matched] and [Fellow Daoist, Please Stay], it would be useless even if the opponent was at the peak of the Golden Immortal Realm.

The most important thing is that not every immortal is willing to come to the mortal world to be an official.

Except for Jiang Ziya, all the immortals of the Chan sect under Jifa of Xiqi are working for love. The money and other things given by Jifa are of no value to them.

The independent cultivators and demon cultivators invited this time are basically those with no hope for a future, and naturally they will not refuse the money, fame and fortune in the human world.

but,

In Wang Ming's personal opinion, without the strength of Taiyi Jinxian, they can't be of any use in the battle. Using them as cannon fodder is not as useful as mortals.

When immortals kill other immortals, there will be no killing disaster. However, when immortals kill mortals, they will be contaminated with karma. Moreover, the more mortals there are, the stronger Emperor Xin's luck will be.

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Xiqi.

"King Zhou is indeed evil-hearted. Since the slaves were freed, we no longer have to be responsible for the food, clothing, shelter and transportation of those lowly slaves. We can even use their food, clothing, shelter and transportation to make them work voluntarily.

It means we have paid nothing." Ji Fa said in a good mood. Jiang Ziya nodded and said: "Yes, this has greatly eased the accumulated conflicts within us."

Duke of Zhou Ji Dan said: "Liberating slaves is not what I am most concerned about. After the slaves were liberated some time ago, there was a lot of chaos in the city, and the officials' trials and governance became difficult.

So I sent someone to find out how Chaoge dealt with it.

I didn’t expect a great sage to appear in Chaoge City.”

Ji Fa asked doubtfully, "Great Sage?"

Ji Dan nodded and said, "Yes! It was the great sage who created the classics, which detailed all the methods for governing the country and managing the people."

Jiang Ziya asked curiously, "I wonder what book this is? Can you lend it to me for a look?"

Ji Dan took out a book from his sleeve and handed it to Jiang Ziya.

Jifa also walked over and looked.

"What a talent! What a talent! The person who wrote [The Book of Lord Shang] is truly remarkable." Ji Fa praised.

"I think Han Feizi is better." Jiang Ziya said.

Ji Dan said: "These two strategies are from the hand of Zhang San, a disciple of the Legalist school."

Ji Fa said, "My brother, what is your intention in taking out this Legalist classic? Explain it clearly!"

Ji Dan bowed and said, "Brother Wang, between rule by man and rule by law, rule by law is simpler and less likely to cause chaos. Why don't we..."

Ji Fa knew what Ji Dan meant. He wanted him to copy the Legalist laws directly.

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Unknown caves and the like.

"Fairy!"

"dynasty!"

"Yun Chao!"

"The Immortal Dynasty! The Divine Dynasty!"

Wang Ming's original body muttered a few words, then Wang Ming closed his eyes, and the "Book of Changes" in his hand exuded an inexplicable Taoist charm.

All of Wang Ming’s actions are for merit!
Use merit as fuel to deduce the techniques and the way forward.

There are many ways to gain merit, such as repairing the sky, creating humans, establishing religions, creating reincarnation...

But Wang Ming can't do anything too high-end.

So Wang Ming settled for the next best thing and planned to seize the emperor's merits.

The emperor’s merits!

This is what Wang Ming is most familiar with, so it would not be too easy to get it again.

After capturing Emperor Xin's body, in the process of ruling Chaoge, it was difficult to carry out rule by man because of the lack of aristocratic families.

then,

When Wang Ming wrote the laws himself, and when Han Feizi and Shang Junshu were sent to the Jixia Academy as teaching materials, inexplicable changes occurred.

The power of merit appeared above the scroll.

However, the power of merit was very subtle, and everyone thought it was an illusion, until the rule of law was implemented throughout the city of Chaoge, and then a large amount of merit power was directly descended.

This moment allowed Wang Ming to find a way to gain merit.

Wang Ming immediately wrote another volume of "The Analects" in order to make another profit, but he found that the book had merits, but very little.

After thinking for a while, Wang Ming understood the reason. It was not enough to just write it down, he had to do it.

Only in this way will heaven and earth truly bestow merit.

(End of this chapter)