Chapter 367: My Heart in the Past, the Road Is Not Far Away (4k)
The night battle between the pagodas of the White Horse Temple ended with the battle between the "Heavenly Monk" and the "Xie Wei" to the great consumption of the true yuan, unwilling to lose both, showing Zhao Qing's advantage in martial arts guidance and micro-manipulation, however, it was only the initial prologue of the reincarnation world.
Clearly understand that they have not broken into the realm of heaven and man, even if they are masters of the great grandmaster level, they can be surrounded and killed by thousands of elite soldiers and a few ordinary grandmasters, and the two sides invariably began to form their own powerful forces after the war, and did not try to start a second solo battle.
For the "Heavenly Monk" controlled by Fu Cailin and indirectly guided and commanded by Zhao Qing, his basic plate is naturally the Taoist sect where he was originally born, as well as the newly joined Buddhism, and the followers of these two families; For the "Xie Wei" incarnated by Cangxuan and Shi Zhixuan, it is the prototype of the two factions and six paths of the Demon Gate.
With the help of the reputation of the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism in the imperial court is far better than that of the Demon Gate, the good mass base, and the "heavenly monks" who know the direction of the original historical development, they have obtained a large number of collaborators by using various vertical and horizontal means and secret control methods, and the overall power has expanded rapidly in the court and the people;
In just over ten years, it suppressed Confucianism and became the mainstream of the Eastern Han Dynasty, or the original Confucianism was almost hollowed out into a skin used by its own school to cover up, and in the name of the imperial court and the righteous way, it propagated the evil of the demon gate, and organized a purge against the latter again and again.
However, although after the failure of the whitewashing and several struggles, "Xie Wei" in the Han Dynasty region has been cut off from the source of new members of his power, and can not stay for the time being, he soon made the decision to lead the Demon Gate to other places to develop, and moved into Mobei, the Western Regions and other places.
In the reincarnation of the first life, "Xie Wei" taught a total of eight disciples of the Great Grandmaster and above, and developed hundreds of thousands of Hu and Han people into loyal followers of the Demon Gate, and had a much larger controlled population than this, which can be said to far exceed the level of the original history of the Demon Gate;
It's a pity that the enemy he faced was because of the Xinhan, which gradually occupied the Eurasian continent and North Africa after obtaining a large amount of advanced technology, and his strength far surpassed the former.
A hundred years later, the "Xie Wei", who had suffered a great loss due to the resistance to the siege, and the "heavenly monks", who were overly diligent in government affairs after receiving the Zen throne for many years, died one after another, which had a certain impact on the two major forces.
On the side of the Demon Gate, because Xie Wei had established a strict organizational system through various hardships, he first let his righteous son Xie Bo temporarily take the position of the evil emperor, so that the situation remained stable, and then found Xie Wei's reincarnation through the method of spiritual sympathy in a short period of time;
However, on the side of the new Han Dynasty, the hidden dangers that were inevitably left behind due to the rapid expansion broke out in a series immediately after the death of the heavenly monks, and the rebellions of Kushan, Anxi, and Rome continued, and the old ministers in the country were no longer loyal to the old master, and in an instant, they changed from invincible giants to dangerous sick numbers.
The reason why a considerable number of people are reluctant to welcome back the reincarnation of the "Heavenly Monk" and do not want Su Hui to continue to serve as the supreme ruler of the empire after his return is mainly because Fu Cailin's level of governance is limited.
Even if Zhao Qing can guide him and transmit him countless guidance information, his human head can't hold too much unfamiliar knowledge at one time, and he can't fully understand it, just like running a limited memory and can't use an oversized program, it is naturally impossible to achieve the most perfect situation.
And it is a virtual world of reincarnation, Zhao Qing can't understand the likes and dislikes of various people like the outside world with the method of mind reading, and he has also weakened a lot in the level of guidance, and there is no essential gap with others, and it is difficult to have a particularly magical effect.
One side had a poor base at the beginning, and the other side had low political literacy, not as proficient in various strategies as Shi Zhixuan, and it was also balanced in terms of data, and it was not biased towards either side, which was a basically fair struggle.
It was in this context that the second life of both sides officially began.
When the "Heavenly Monk" finally regained the throne and began to quell the rebellion after all kinds of tribulations, the Demon Gate where "Xie Wei" was located also got a chance to breathe, and through the way of uniting with the former enemy, its strength swelled rapidly like a snowball, and developed into a major power in the world, almost on the same level as the New Han Dynasty.
However, due to the vast land and deep roots of the new Han Dynasty, although both sides have always attached great importance to the cultivation of talents, and the level of centralization and cohesion of the Demon Gate seems to be superior, after the former's domestic and foreign rebellions were quelled, it was still significantly left behind in terms of the speed of overall strength development.
And in this life, Cang Xuan used the "Soul Splitting Reshaping Technique" he created for the first time, using the demon seed as a medium to copy and complete the three souls of heaven, earth and man that were scattered after the death of Xie Wei in the first life, from the original one evil emperor to a full three, and the high-end combat power has increased significantly, gradually revealing the momentum of catching up;
After all, a person of Xie Wei's level is already the existence of one in a billion, and his talent and wisdom are like a godsend, and he can revitalize the Demon Gate with his own strength, which is far from being able to compare with the talents cultivated in the ordinary sense of the rules, and suddenly there are two more, which can completely close the gap between the two sides.
And as the situation in the reincarnation world becomes more and more complex and changeable, because this is a spiritual illusion established with the help of the information center of the God of War Temple, and the time is accelerated millions of times, Zhao Qing and Cangxuan cannot grasp all the changes, more just lay out the overall situation in advance and let the "chess pieces" develop on their own.
"Cangxuan's secret method of splitting the soul and replicating a new individual can be compared to the semi-reserved replication process of DNA, I don't know whether he intentionally or unintentionally, it is actually a wonderful means to imitate the replication process of natural life."
"This secret method separates the three souls of heaven, earth and man, which are the core of the three souls and seven souls, and then uses the specialized demon seed as a tool such as 'DNA polymerase', combined with the rule that the qi of life and death between heaven and earth can naturally produce new souls, and gradually completes a single soul division to the state of the three souls."
"Next, the three souls that are integrated into one will be implanted into the newborn embryo, and continue to give birth to the seven spirits of corpse dog, Fu Ya, Sparrow Yin, Swallowing Thief, non-poisonous, defilthy and stinky lungs, and finally form a complete human life."
"Under the semi-reserved replication of the three souls of fetal light, cool spirit, and ghost spirit, the three souls and seven spirits of the newborn 'clone' may have slight variations due to the difference in the quality of the qi of life and death, but on the whole, it is basically the same as the original copied person."
"This process is similar to the mutation caused by semi-preserved replication of DNA, which is negligible, and the final result of three 'replicas' is much closer than the relationship of identical twins, in fact, it is not much different from ordinary reincarnation, but the number has become more."
Sensing the strange changes that occurred in Shi Zhixuan's body, Zhao Qing finally knew the reason why the "Heavenly Demon" took the initiative to invite him to start a spiritual battle, and he thought in his heart:
"Such a creative soul secret method has broken my previous fixed view of the demon seed, and completely subverted the perception of 'I am still me' after reincarnation, even if I have seen it dozens of times in just a few days, it is still amazing......
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Although it is located in the dark lake area thousands of feet underground, due to the subsidence and change of yin and yang qi, a peculiar phenomenon of tide rise and flow naturally sprouts here, and each rise and fall is separated by three hours, and then it is re-interpreted.
When the tide first rises, the deep surface of the lake is filled with rolling waves. They rushed from the darkness in the distance, and their roar reverberated between the lakes and caves, echoing like thunder.
The water level of the lake rises rapidly, creating layers of pale green ripples, jumping on the surface of the lake, like the heartbeat of the earth, rhythmic, rhythmic, reverberating in this ancient underground world.
However, as time passed, the tide began to slowly recede, the lake gradually shrank, and the large stone turtle that was submerged in the water at high tide also revealed its true face, and in the sound of running water, you can vaguely sense the location of the Xunkata going to the waterway.
No matter how the surrounding environment changes, Zhao Qing and Cangxuan seem to be beyond the mortal world, sitting cross-legged on both sides of the big stone turtle, as if they are integrated into the heaven and earth, allowing the chaos of the world to intrude on them in the slightest, simultaneously interpreting the reincarnation of the spiritual world again and again.
Another hundred years have passed, and we have entered the era of the third generation, because of the grand occasion of the talents of the Demon Gate, and the bottom line of squeezing the potential of the population is set very low, although Xinhan still maintains a leading position in technology, but the unipolar hegemony that was invincible in the world at the beginning has been severely challenged.
In the early years of the Fourth Dynasty, the Demon Gate sent seven fleets under the direct command of the Splinter from its base in the Americas, and first severely damaged the ocean trade routes of the Shinhan Dynasty, triggering a global world war between the two countries, which lasted for fifty or sixty years before an armistice was signed, forming a bipolar Cold War pattern.
Since then, although Zhao Qing has commanded Fu Cailin to develop an extremely brilliant martial arts civilization, and implemented the policy of unified learning and martial arts training for the whole people, supplemented by an endless stream of related technologies, Xinhan has entered the era of "true qi punk" in which science and technology and martial arts are combined.
However, the rulers of the Demon Gate are amazingly powerful, secretly sending a large number of spies to steal the results of research and development, and because of its high degree of centralization, the speed of forced promotion of new technologies is faster, and it is not weaker at all, but it has formed a situation where imitators come from behind.
In this process, Cangxuan seems to have turned into an absolutely rational machine that will not make any mistakes, developing the demonic way's desperation, self-interest to the extreme, and treating everything in the reincarnation world as a string of virtual data;
At the right moment, she decisively resorted to brainwashing and control, forced sacrifice, treachery and other schemes, and gradually suppressed Zhao Qing's side, who still paid attention to faithfulness, by relying on the flexible and changing "bottom line", which made her feel the extreme aggrieved feeling of Shi Zhixuan at the beginning, and for the first time she felt frustrated in her heart.
I have to say that although Zhao Qing had already taken precautions against the ability to compete with the people in the Demon Gate who had a very low moral bottom line, he still suffered a big loss, and it took a considerable period of time to reluctantly establish a network to counter the enemy's various schemes in Xinhan and stop the decline for more than a hundred years.
Of course, what really surprised her was Cangxuan's adaptation to the new environment, which was not at all like an old antique from the Western Han Dynasty, but had an outrageous ability to accept, allowing him to accurately deal with the counteroffensive that broke out after he accumulated a wave of new technologies.
After several lifetimes, Zhao Qing, who had not been able to find the slightest flaw in her opponent for a long time, was ready to fail, but just when the river was declining and the situation was about to collapse, she finally found the major flaw exposed by Cangxuan and the Demon Gate:
Since the fifth and sixth generations, Xie Wei's soul splits have grown to hundreds of them, although they are the same in terms of talent, cultivation, and combat power, on the surface, they also adopt a method similar to the parliamentary system, jointly making decisions on national affairs, and they are all the highest status rulers of the Demon Gate;
However, in the final analysis, they are not the same person, each has their own thoughts, and they do not want to be completely a part of the collective, and they are disgusted with being controlled by others, especially being sent to perform sacrificial tasks, which makes it difficult for them to endure the instructions given by Cangxuan.
On the contrary, Fu Cailin's reincarnation can be said to be completely under Zhao Qing's orders, this is because he knows that he is not good at managing the big forces, and he can get some guidance on the way of the sword in his free time, his mentality is much more relaxed, and he has no thoughts of resisting.
And when Zhao Qing tried to design a series of bait, wanting to make Xie Wei's clones strife with each other, Cangxuan, who had been expressionless all along, suddenly sighed and said the first sentence after the two of them sat here for a few days:
"Even if we achieve full equality in talent, resources, and status, isn't such a group still the most perfect...... Alas, my spiritual strength to maintain them is about to be exhausted, and I can't hold it anymore, so it's better to admit defeat as soon as possible. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Cang Xuan stretched out his finger and flicked a few flicks on Shi Zhixuan, who was lying on the steps in a comatose state, waking him up from the spiritual reincarnation and taking the initiative to end this special "idea" duel.
Why did you just give up? Zhao Qing's mind moved slightly, and he sensed that although Cangxuan's remaining spiritual power was much less than that of himself, who had almost doubled due to his cultivation of body and spirit, it was enough to continue to support at least the next whole day's spiritual evolution.
Just being aware of a flaw, while replicating the internal strife, it is not impossible to maintain consistency with the outside world, how can he directly ignore the good situation on the side of the Demon Gate, and admit defeat so quickly?
As if seeing through her inner thoughts, Heavenly Demon Cangxuan smiled slightly, no longer had the same indifferent posture as before, and explained indifferently: "Miss Zhao Qing, in addition to the method of 'Soul Splitting Remodeling', what I have done can actually be regarded as another side of you, when the demonic thoughts in my heart develop to the extreme. ”
"Speaking of which, you have always relied on your extraordinary personal talents to govern the entire country in an orderly manner, which seems to keep things on the right path forever, plus you have a clear bottom line, you can be said to be a model of 'rule of the holy king'."
"However, this time, when your talent is limited by the carrier, you are forced to interfere in political affairs in an inefficient way, and you can't use your ability, do you feel a sense of restraint that you have never felt before?"
Talent is limited, ability but can't play? Zhao Qing had a lot of thoughts in his heart, realizing that he had previously thought that Cangxuan was going to engage in a "battle of ideas" with him, but he was probably misleading the other party, and he actually had no idea of revising Anguo's policies.
On the contrary, the content derived from Cangxuan is actually to check and fill in the gaps for himself, and to try out the problems that may be hidden in it in an extreme way, so that he can try to improve, and give a warning to himself who is faintly showing a bit of "expansion" tendency.
Although innate understanding is an inseparable part of the individual, it still belongs to the category of external objects relative to the most fundamental and pure "true self", so it is necessary to maintain a normal mind at all times and not rely too much on it in the heart.
"When did the distance between me and ordinary people become so far away?" Zhao Qing looked at his past in his heart, and couldn't help but wake up and sigh of loss.
There is a saying in "The Mean": "The Tao is not far from people, people are far away from people for the Tao, and they cannot be the Tao", "Zhuangzi Zhibei Tour" says that "the Tao is drowning in", and Xinxue believes that "the people's daily use is the Tao".
Ignoring the existence of these "Dao", losing the original sincerity, analyzing things in great detail, treating "Dao, Morality, Reason, and Law" as a string of data, and taking the perception of "sitting and forgetting" and "truthfulness" as tasks that need to be solved, this is really an infinite obstacle that stops in front of the Dao!
…… (End of chapter)