Chapter 341 Money Can Sell God
Above the boundless, grayish wilderness of the underworld, two figures, one in red and one in white, Guan Guan and Zhou Tieyi, were walking freely in the corrupt sandstorm of the underworld.

"So what do you think is behind his failure this time?"

Guan Guan turned to look at Zhou Tieyi and asked.

Zhou Tieyi smiled self-deprecatingly, "Maybe I shouldn't have done so well this time."

Guan Guan heard some other information in Zhou Tieyi's words and asked tentatively, "Does the departure of the White Emperor's corpse from the military tomb have anything to do with you?"

Zhou Tieyi did not answer.

He reviewed the entire incident and found two omissions.

The first is that the Phantom Priest still made a test even though he knew it was impossible to achieve decisive success. He probably wanted to know how much strength the Emperor of Daxia could exert at this moment.

In this way, even if he failed, he would be able to estimate the strongest combat power of the Emperor of Great Xia after he entered the third rank. This was an opportunity to test him.

Second, the means of the Great Xia royal family are definitely not just the Tiger Talisman and the Queen Mother who can make the corpse of the White Emperor move. The Great Xia royal family itself has hidden power.

Zhou Tieyi is very sure of this.

The simplest guess is that this is the reason for the existence of their Zhou family.

Since the Zhou family's bloodline can turn people into the living dead and keep them alive for a long time, and there is the specific case of the mute old man, it makes sense that the Great Xia Emperor left behind the bloodline of the nine ancient gods in the Zhou family.

What if the emperors of Daxia throughout the dynasties were not truly dead, and they were simply transformed into "emperor corpses" by the Zhou family using their bloodline magic?

How much combat power can these 'emperor corpses' retain? Is there any way to revive them?
Anyway, if you think from the perspective of Taizu of Daxia, knowing that immortality is impossible, transforming into a living dead and waiting for a chance to live forever is also a method. This also perfectly explains why successive emperors of Daxia knew that the Zhou family was the bloodline of the Emperor of Life and Death and might trigger the revival of the Emperor of Life and Death, but still tolerated the Zhou family.

Because the Zhou family is their backup plan for longevity!
But these "emperor corpses" definitely have their own wills. They are the backup of the Great Xia royal family, but not the backup of the current Great Xia Emperor. That is why the Great Xia Emperor wants to train the Queen Mother, hoping that she will be powerful enough to help him resist unnecessary temptations until he completes his cultivation.

Of course, if Zhou Tieyi had allowed the Phantom Priest to successfully force the Emperor of Daxia to take action, he would not have been able to gain so many political benefits afterwards. The new variables that would have arisen would not have been conducive to his use of Tianjing as a base for the development of the steam revolution.

He wants some changes to happen, but he also wants them to be controllable.

In this way, he can guide the transformation of the times and break the existing system, but he can cultivate the power at the grassroots level instead of directly creating a chaotic world where practitioners are supreme.

On this point, his interests are different from those of Priest Huan and the Emperor of Daxia.

Zhou Tieyi turned to ask Guan Guan another question, "By the way, during this Taihang Mountain operation, I'm afraid that when you were joining forces, there were more than just people who wanted to revive that first-class god whose name was not even left behind, right?"

Guan Guan pointed to the sky and said, "I have already given you a hint."

Zhou Tieyi nodded.

Indeed, Guan Guan has already given a hint, and falling from the dream into the underworld is the hint.

The changes in the Tomb of Soldiers, if the power of the Emperor of Life and Death among the Nine Ancient Gods was not taken away by the Emperor of Great Xia, then it was taken away by the Divine Way.

It is not even ruled out that the Emperor of Great Xia deliberately allowed Shinto to obtain the power of the Emperor of Life and Death.

Because before him, the Zhou family’s biggest enemy was the Emperor of Life and Death!

The Zhou family's power comes from the Emperor of Life and Death, but they are the founding nobles of Daxia. So to the Emperor of Life and Death's subordinates, they are true traitors, the kind of people who deserve to be cut into pieces even more than their enemies.

He can be called a traitor.

The revival of the Emperor of Life and Death would certainly be easier if there was a direct descendant of the Zhou family as the divine fetus. This is why the Hades Snake, which was the manifestation of Zhou Tiege's bloodline, has been looking at Zhou Tieyi and Zhou Tiege with greedy eyes.

Originally, Zhou Tieyi guessed that the Emperor of Great Xia would take away that part of the Emperor of Life and Death's power as a backup to restrain himself.

Now it seems that the Emperor of Great Xia only needs to acquiesce in this matter and allow the Emperor of Life and Death to gain more power, then the Emperor of Life and Death's subordinates will take the initiative to cause trouble for the Zhou family. In this process, the Emperor of Great Xia can kill someone with a borrowed knife without having to do anything, and the Zhou family will not be able to blame him for anything.

The changes in the Taixu Illusion Realm have proved that within the Shinto, the leader of the Life and Death Emperor's forces has greatly increased in strength, even forcing the Illusion Priest to voluntarily give up part of the Divine Court.

This kind of concession definitely comes at a price. For example, the action in Taihang Mountains this time was almost certainly led by the forces of the Emperor of Life and Death.

This point can also be supported from another perspective.

The authority of the mountain god extends to the authority of the underworld!
This is what Zhou Tieyi has always wanted to do. Conversely, for the gods of the underworld, they can also use the authority of the mountains to allow their own underworld authority to interfere with the world of the living!

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After exchanging the known information with Guan Guan, Zhou Tieyi roughly understood the situation he would face. In the real world, he had to deal with the affairs of the aristocratic families and the grassroots miners. In terms of cultivation, he had to deal with the Taihang Gods and the Emperor of Life and Death. And this time, he did not have the support of the Great Xia Emperor and the Queen of Heaven behind him.

Of course, he can also find new supporters, like this Mohist giant.

After returning to the real world, Zhou Tieyi first hid in the white jade chessboard and used the space inside the chessboard to offer sacrifice, so that others would not be able to locate the place of sacrifice.

While waiting for Taixu Illusion Realm to transmit back the things he purchased, Zhou Tieyi's consciousness entered the wild world.

In a few days, the tribe did not change much.

Under the influence of Zhou Tieyi's power, the people of the original Zhupolong tribe not only did not feel that their lives had become worse, but instead found that their lives had become better, even the slave warriors felt the same way.

The first is the hunting range. In the past, the people of the Zhupolong tribe only knew how to fish and hunt on the plains. At most, they hunted outside the forest. The forest was a dangerous area that could not be entered.

With Zhou Tieyi's help, the entire Xishan mountain range, including a large amount of virgin forest, except for the part controlled by the banyan tree, is within the tribe's hunting range.

Not only did the hunting range expand, Zhou Tieyi also brought planting technology, making wheat a food and increasing their food variety.

Even because this food was discovered and planted by Zhou Tieyi, and was also the sacrifice accepted by Zhou Tieyi during the ceremony, wheat is extremely expensive and rare in the tribe. The people of the tribe are even willing to exchange large amounts of meat for wheat.

This brings us to another change in the tribe. A few days ago, Wu Mu, following Zhou Tieyi's orders, introduced a copper coin called "Yanhuang's Treasure" in the tribe. This "money" was directly given to hunting warriors as their reward for hunting, and these warriors could use the "money" to buy most of the things they saw in the tribe.

Food, slaves, utensils, and even divine favor.

Yes, Zhou Tieyi, the tribal god, accepts devout offerings from his people.

But he is not the kind of god who takes money for free. At least at this stage, if you offer enough sacrifices, you can directly exchange them for a nominal godhood, that is, Shinto talismans, totem power, and even martial arts guidance.

With Zhou Tieyi taking the lead in promoting it, the money in the tribe flowed rapidly. In this process, the people of the tribe also discovered the advantages of money: it was easy to store and calculate prices.

Zhou Tieyi's spirit descended into the tribe. This time, he did not summon Wu Mu first, but looked at the copper coins placed on his altar. After the transaction, these copper coins had lost their initial heat, but because the transaction time was short, they were still brand new.

But the rules have been formed and stabilized within the tribe.

Zhou Tieyi could easily sense this.

An illusory Tianyi jade disc rose behind his head. Inside the jade disc, the divine talisman took the shape of Hao Ren, except that Hao Ren was now wearing a gold and red robe with fortune and luck patterns and copper coin patterns.

Hao Ren, who was far away in Tianjing time and space, subconsciously looked up. He could feel that his power was being called away, and the source was the Shinto talisman in his body. Hao Ren was not worried about this change, because the last time Zhou Tieyi summoned him through the Shinto talisman, he said that he would temporarily borrow his power for a day or two so that he would not be in a combat state.

While handling affairs at the Railway Chamber of Commerce in Tianjing, Hao Ren naturally did not have to worry about being in a combat state.

In the wild world, Zhou Tieyi used the Tianyi Jade Disc to summon Hao Ren's power, and he also gained some of Hao Ren's business abilities. This is the method of the Tianyi Taoist lineage of using talismans to control gods.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed, and several black and white dream-eating tapirs fell out from the illusory dream. As soon as these dream-eating tapirs fell out, they immediately surrounded Zhou Tieyi like little piglets.

In the past, the dream-eating tapir did not have so many human dreams to enjoy, and Zhou Tieyi himself possessed the authority of [Mirage] and [Drive Beasts], so he naturally had a kind of control over the dream-eating tapir similar to that of a sect leader. Zhou Tieyi was even willing to turn the dream-eating tapir into his own follower in the future.

"What about the things you were asked to collect?"

Zhou Tieyi asked.

Several dream-eating tapirs immediately spewed out dreams in three colors: red, yellow, and green.

These three colors mixed together give people an extremely chaotic feeling.

These are the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance in human hearts.

There are three key points in the copper smell refined by the business path.

The people's luck, metal, and the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance.

The fortune of the people generally comes from the copper coins that have been traded in the human world for a long time. These copper coins automatically carry the fortune of the people.

Although the pile of copper coins in front of Zhou Tieyi has already started to be traded, it cannot be said to contain the luck of the people because the time is not long enough.

But Zhou Tieyi has a better way.

He stretched out his hand and grabbed, and wisps of bright yellow luck like green smoke floated down and covered the pile of copper coins in front of Zhou Tieyi. This was the national destiny that Zhou Tieyi condensed by fusing the tribes with [State and Country]. Although it was not as good as the national destiny of Da Xia, they were essentially the same in many aspects, except for the difference in strength. Now using it to replace the people's luck would instead enhance the power of the smell of copper.

Then he stretched out his hand and waved, and the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance collected by the dream-eating tapir, combined with his mirage, also covered the pile of copper coins.

The three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance were also taken directly from Zhou Tieyi's dreams and enhanced with the authority of [Mirage].

He pointed again, and the red and white, constantly rotating [Red Emperor Flame] rose up. The Tianyi Jade Disc hanging behind his head bloomed with moon-like light, making Hao Ren's divine body appear even taller, almost covering the entire altar.

The Red Emperor Flame can gather the rules of heaven and earth. Zhou Tieyi wants to completely gather the rules of copper in Hao Ren's business practice onto the copper coins in front of him.

In an instant, everyone in the tribe who was trading with copper coins felt something in their hearts. They looked in the direction of the altar. They could feel Zhou Tieyi's divine presence. This was normal for the entire tribe. Many people subconsciously sang the Cangmang song taught by Wu Mu to please Zhou Tieyi.

And these songs converged with faith, forming a series of illusory pictures in which the tribal people were trading with copper coins. At this time, the illusory pictures had texture and formed a new priesthood [Transaction].

This divine position was formed and, with the help of the [Red Emperor Flame], fell onto one of the copper coins. This is the 'mother coin' of all copper coins. It is perfectly round with a square hole in the middle. Four Chinese characters "Yanhuang Tongbao" are written on the front, up, down, left and right. On the back are two constantly changing dragon seals [Transaction].

Zhou Tieyi reached out and grasped the newly forged artifact. In an instant, he understood the function of this artifact.

First, [Confuse the Mind]. Even if this artifact is not traded, just showing it to other people is enough to confuse people and trigger the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance.

The second [Transaction] consumes luck and forcibly obtains temporary ownership of an object. The greater the value of the object obtained, the more luck is consumed. Combined with [Confuse the Mind], it can confuse the spirituality of the weapon.

The third one is [Yi Suan], which predicts the good or bad luck of future events, but it is limited to good or bad luck and there will be no more additional information.

Fourth [Living Beings], cover yourself with the luck of the people to help you hide your breath.

The fifth [Zi-qian] can forge an identical Zi-qian, which can be traded to the other party through Zi-qian, thus reducing the cost of consuming the above luck method.

This is a real artifact. When Zhou Tieyi held it in his hand, he made a judgment about it.

While Zhou Tieyi was holding the artifact and thinking, Wu Mu rushed over from the tribal library. He knelt at the foot of the steps and said respectfully, "God."

Zhou Tieyi pointed to the pile of copper coins in front of him that were already covered with rules. After the recent sacrifice, the brand new feeling of these copper coins completely disappeared. The coins were bronze in color and glowed faintly. Each one looked simple and full of beauty.

Even when Wu Mu lowered his head and accidentally saw the afterglow of the copper coins, he still had the urge to put the copper coins in his own hands.

The moment this thought came to his mind, Wu Mu was horrified. How could he regard things offered to God as his own?
Zhou Tieyi knew the changes in Wu Mu's expression very well. He chuckled and said, "It's not your fault. Money can make people sell out gods. Take this money and go to those tribes in the plains and find those who like money. I believe they will sell their gods for a good price."

(End of this chapter)