Chapter 393: The Law of Disrespect

The nameless one among the nine ancient gods!
A second-rank god asked tentatively, "Why does he, or they, never attend the God Assembly?"

This is the biggest confusion for the other gods except the eight priests. If this anonymous person is really the savior of the entire Shinto, why has he never appeared? They have been hiding in the dark for tens of thousands of years. What are they hiding, or what are they planning!
Guan Guan replied, "I don't remember that our Nine Ancient Gods have been united since ancient times."

The second-rank deity who had just asked the question looked thoughtful, and the other gods also reacted one after another.

The reason why the human race can have three saints at the same time, besides the fact that they are of the same ethnicity, is largely because they have to face the powerful enemy of Shinto.

After that, when a saint was born among the human race, even when a saint emperor was born, there had never been two saints born at the same time. It can be inferred that if the current emperor of Daxia became a saint, he would probably not allow others to become saints.

Now let's get back to the Shinto itself. The Shinto in the ancient, barbarian and ancient times fought against each other and formed blood feuds with each other. For example, the Phoenix Ancestor once killed the six sons of Canglong with his own hands. This is a hatred that even the gods cannot resolve.

If we go by the maxim just spoken by the Phantom Priest, this nameless person is the oldest person who can soar into the sky above the Sun and Moon. It is even because of his ascent to the realm of the Sun and Moon that later generations were able to figure out how to ascend to the realm of the Sun and Moon.

Then even if Wuming developed Shinto from the perspective of the greatest righteousness, he should have become the lord of all gods, instead of being like an invisible man, watching the other eight gods after the nine ancient gods ascend to the realm of the sun and the moon one by one and fight each other. Finally, when everyone couldn't stand it anymore, Yuanshi Tiandi convened a meeting of gods and established the first contract of the gods.

The secrets left over from the three ancient eras made everyone confused, and the incident at Pingjin Ferry was shrouded in mystery. At this time, even Canglong and the Thunder God were not in a hurry to take action. They looked at the mirage in the middle. Although they could not reflect the changes in the underground cave with a vision of a hundred miles, they could at least see some changes on the river surface.

From the surging rivers at the beginning to the dragon veins being freed now, the gods have actually guessed what the other preparations that the phantom priest mentioned were.

Naturally, it is the fallen god of Qi River and Huai River.

Even though they are both dead, dead bodies are still useful. It would be great if we could figure out the purpose of the unknown person through these two gods.

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In the underground cave, white mist rose, dark rivers surged, and Baili merged with dragon veins. After the initial rough collision with Yuantong, he found that his current strength was still superior to Yuantong, but he did not dare to fight. He picked up the Baolian flag and swam outwards. As his huge body was about to completely leave the underground cave, the entire dragon cave also lost its support.

This is like the most critical domino falling. Now the land veins of Pingjindu have been eroded by rivers and guarded by the vein-fixing pillars, and are in the most tenuous balance. Now the dragon veins have completely escaped and turned into a dragon, pushing towards this tenuous balance again.

In the thick fog, one can see an undulating ground wave spreading from the Pingjin ferry to Cuiyun Bridge. The soil is blown up, and the wedge formed by the seven vein-fixing pillars is pushed back by an even more violent force. Even the blood and qi cloud of more than ten acres cannot suppress it.

"Get back!"

In the underground cave, the soil condensed into a pair of golden hands, which grabbed the dragon's tail that was about to escape at the critical moment. Yuan Tong's eyes were round and he shouted angrily. At this moment, a shining official seal emerged from his mouth, with a tiger button and the four words "Xiluo Pacification" engraved below. The righteous energy burst out from Yuan Tong's mouth and merged with the surrounding heaven and earth.

This caused Yuan Tong's aura, which was already at the third level, to surge again, making his body feel as if it was completely integrated with the earth, breaking through a hundred feet.

And this change in appearance is only a small part of the change in power.

At each of the ground vein nodes, the ground veins that broke through the seal of the vein-fixing pillars stopped raging and instead found a direction. Under the soil and rocks, the dark yellow ground veins began to flow in a reflected pattern, rushing towards the body of Yuan Tong, which had completely merged with the earth.

In an instant, veins of earth with a dark yellow glow spread out behind the tall mountain giant ape. These veins were like the roots of trees, which could quickly absorb the power of the earth and replenish the consumption of the ape's energy.

The three pillars of light formed by the righteous energy of Pingjin Ferry divided the inside and outside of heaven and earth, dividing Pingjin Ferry for dozens of miles into a "small country", allowing Confucianists who seek to pacify the people to thoroughly master the ancestral energy of heaven and earth here.

The fifth Confucian quality of "pacifying the people" is to replace the will of heaven with one's own heart! A method of divine descent that is close to safety.

It is undoubtedly powerful, but this method also has huge limitations.

The first is the territory.

An Min needs to divide a territory, such as Yao Qin's Huxin Academy and Lu Shanqing's Lulin Academy. Without the territory, even a third-rank official cannot replace the will of heaven with his own.

The second is that within an area, only one person can use the power of public opinion to pacify the people, and it is impossible to lend public opinion to two people at the same time.

In the Pingjindu area, the person most suitable to implement the law of pacifying the people is naturally the Pingjindu County Magistrate. However, even though Pingjindu has a dense population due to water transportation and is even comparable to the prefects of some desolate provinces, the magistrate who guards this place is only a Confucian of the fifth rank. Even with the help of three Confucian of the third rank, the power he can exert is limited.

At this time, Sha Youcheng proposed another method, which was to use the method of "pacifying the people". The righteous spirit was attracted by the method of pacifying the people and gathered in one place. Yao Qin in the county magistrate's office looked at Sha Youcheng next to him with a complicated look. At this time, Sha Youcheng's breath was very low, as if he was an ordinary person.

"You could have told us in advance."

Sha Youcheng chuckled, "How dare I tell you such a disrespectful method."

While paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, Yao Qin said in a measured tone, "Then why do you dare now?"

Sha Youcheng sighed and said, "First, it is my duty and the orthodoxy, so I do this. Second, if Confucianism cannot tolerate a heretic like me, Zhou Hou can now."

His methods were indeed heretical.

The core of the beast taming method is to use humans to tam beasts, but Sha Youcheng and Yuan Tong are like brothers. When they were in danger, in order to enable Yuan Tong to improve his strength as quickly as possible, Sha Youcheng even thought about letting Yuan Tong switch to practicing Shinto.

If strange beasts want to practice some method, Shintoism is the first choice. Sha Youcheng is a member of the God-Slaying Department and has the most contact with Shintoism. Over the years, he has also figured out something, that is, there are many similarities between Shintoism and Confucianism's methods of practice.

But Shintoism is not tolerated in the world, but Confucianism is.

However, the most difficult point of Confucianism is how to let Yuantong become an official!
Although the Confucian dream is to enable animals to practice benevolence and righteousness and to enable animals to explain benevolence and righteousness, the so-called core ideals are mostly setting an impossible goal.

Before this goal was achieved, no Confucian school in the world dared to propose letting beasts govern the people.

Just like what Zhou's mother said to Zhou Tieyi, the Confucian scholars could not accept it, so after the military strategists turned to Confucianism, they would stop at the third rank. Similarly, the Confucian scholars could not accept that animals were controlling people, so even if Yuantong studied Confucianism and practiced benevolence and righteousness, it was only human charity and he would never be able to get past the step of 'pacifying the people'.

The people of no county would allow the Lord above their heads to be a beast, even if this beast practices the Taoism of a saint!

If the people are uneasy, then there is no way to keep them safe!
So Sha Youcheng made a bolder decision.

The method of taming beasts that he originally practiced was to tame beasts with the help of humans, with humans using the power of the beasts. But if he practiced it the other way around, the beasts would also be able to use the power of humans.

Therefore, since he was in charge of the Pacification Office, Yuan Tong was able to pacify the people through the identity of "pacification".

And he really succeeded in this step. Yuantong successfully pacified the people and established a new Taoist tradition, which pushed him to mature and achieve the third level.

However, this method deceives both the emperor and the Confucian scholars. Sha Youcheng will never expose himself until he sees an opportunity to resolve the problem.

In the underground dragon cave, Baili was grabbed by the tail by Yuantong in the state of unity between heaven and man. He turned back in panic and said, "Let me go! I didn't kill any of your people! I just want to live!"

When Yuantong saw Baili’s panicked and distorted expression, his heart softened a little.

Because when he was first known to humans as a giant mountain ape, the situation was very similar to Baili's in front of him.

However, the state of unity between man and nature quickly calmed him down, and he snorted in a cold voice.

If this dragon vein and dragon were allowed to leave, not to mention whether the subsequent ground vein vibrations would cause harm to the people who had just escaped to the middle of the mountain, just the gap in the dragon cave would not be filled, and the entire river channel would be changed, which would destroy at least a quarter of the city of Pingjindu.

Just when Yuan Tong and Bai Li were at a stalemate, the Phantom Priest activated his backup plan, "Peng Tong, Ai Jun, if you don't come back now, when will you come back!"

At this time, because Baili had been forcibly merging with the dragon vein, he fell into semi-madness. When he heard the voice, he lost consciousness for a moment, and even the huge dragon body that was a hundred feet long was dragged back half by Yuantong.

But the next moment, an even more violent force emerged from Baili, ancient and dark, carrying endless resentment. For a moment, the entire Qishui and Huaihe rivers were affected by it. The power of the rivers, which was already extremely vast, set off a raging wave again, slapping the two banks frantically and ruthlessly swallowing up all objects around.

The people of Pingjindu who had just escaped to a slightly higher place immediately evacuated to a higher and farther place under the command. In this process, panic and fear emerged. This is the natural fear of human beings for river floods, and this is also one of the helps for the return of the gods. The image is created by humans for gods, and gods can also obtain human power through the image, even if this image is evil. Therefore, most of the resurrected gods will start a killing spree in the first time. It is much easier to exist as an evil god than as a good god. As long as they can be resurrected from the dead, it doesn't matter if they are extremely evil.

(End of this chapter)