On the side of the gods, they don't want their disciples and priests to risk their lives and die in vain in the confrontation with demons, and they can't gain much incense faith.

And these incense Shinto monks are naturally happy to live in safety.

If you can't work hard, you don't work hard.

And so it goes.

Nominally, they are also an important new force arranged by the imperial court in the local state capital to fight against demons.

But in fact, they enjoyed the generous benefits and treatment given to cultivators by the imperial court.

But on the one hand, it is not contributing.

It is already good to have ten percent of the ability to use three points.

Some, ten percent of the strength, often only use one percent, all year round, may not be able to appear on the battlefield to confront the demons head-on.

But now.

Without the protection of the spiritual courtyard, if they want to continue to enjoy the benefits, they must do things obediently.

Even.

It's also easy to deal with if they don't do things.

The moment they left the spiritual monastery, the source of their incense divine power, there was no supply.

All the monks of the Incense Shinto Sect, their strength essentially comes from the deities they serve.

But if they leave the spiritual courtyard, the city god gods will naturally not give out their precious incense divine power and hand it over to these so-called subordinates who are no longer under their control.

And there is no incense given by the gods to supplement it.

Their incense power, used once, will be reduced once.

And so it goes.

"If they obey the orders of the imperial court, join the city defense battalion and the garrison, and do things honestly."

"The imperial court will naturally give the corresponding incense divine power in return."

"However, if they don't do things for the imperial court, then they may still be considered cultivators when they leave the spiritual courtyard, but as time goes by, the day will come when the little incense and divine power they have left will be exhausted."

And when that day comes.

These disciples and priests of the Spiritual Academy, who were once high, will also become the same as the mortals they once looked down on!

Therefore, more disciples and priests of the Spiritual Academy will still make the choice of honestly obeying orders, doing things for the court, doing things for the people, and suppressing demons.

I believe that in the near future, Jiangnan Prefecture and other state capitals under the command of Tianyue Shenjun will calm down a lot of demon disasters.

This is the second short-term gain brought by the killing of Cheng Di this time.

Besides.

This time, Gu Changsheng established the law of heaven and earth, in fact, in the short term, it would not have much impact on the gods.

Because.

The law of heaven and earth does not mean that after it is established, there will be a great avenue of heaven and earth to supervise what the gods do, and once there is something illegal, they will directly punish the gods.

It's not so exaggerated.

To put it bluntly, it is a law.

Just like Cheng Di, who was killed by Gu Changsheng this time.

If Gu Changsheng hadn't pulled Cheng Di out, or even, if Gu Changsheng hadn't gotten enough convincing evidence, for example, he had been found out of Wu Yi'an's remnant soul, and his criminal evidence records back then.

Even if Cheng Di was pointed out by Gu Changsheng as the culprit of the demon disaster in Nankang Mansion.

Nor can it be punished.

Because, without sufficient evidence, the crime cannot be established.

Other words.

Gu Changsheng's Heaven and Earth Law only cut off the right of these gods to escape punishment in the name of the gods after confessing their sins in the future.

At best, that is, relying on the method of almost sitting together, these gods will pay more costs when they do something, like Cheng Di of Nankang Chenghuang, who uses the people under his rule as the source of his belief in incense.

However, at the moment, this is also the limit of what Gu Changsheng can do.

If you want to go further, the best way is naturally like Tianyue

The gods of the six hundred state capitals under the command of the Divine Monarch are the same.

The three thousand state capitals of the Great Zhou Dynasty, its Zhengyin gods, and the disciples and priests under their command were all streamlined.

But this step is obviously not possible yet.

Because.

The gods still have considerable strength in their hands.

Especially the Five Great Divine Monarchs, the Divine Guards directly under their command.

Before he has enough confidence, he rashly makes such a heavy hand, which will only make Da Zhou, an old man who is already dying, unable to resist the medicine of the tiger and wolf.

Maybe there will be signs of a return to light at first.

But once it is urgent, the interior of the Great Zhou will definitely be disturbed by these gods, and I am afraid that there will be smoke everywhere, which will only give the demons in the north a chance to take advantage of.

"Still, one step at a time, steadily."

Gu Changsheng sighed.

Ultimately.

Why is there such a thing as a spiritual temple?

It was because at the beginning of the Great Zhou Dynasty, it couldn't cultivate enough cultivators.

Why can't it be cultivated?

Because, there is no money.

Poor and rich in martial arts.

However, martial arts is the easiest path to accomplish on the way to cultivation.

But the cultivation of a martial artist requires at least fifty taels of silver or even one hundred taels of silver to be able to enter the product.

And after entering the product, the cultivation of each product is basically multiplied by ten times the cost.

After reaching the third grade, the cost of each improvement in the cultivation of one grade is close to 10,000 gold or even 100,000 gold.

But, if you change to a monk of incense Shinto.

The imperial court only needs to allocate 10,000 taels of silver to a prefecture-level spiritual courtyard every year.

Even if it is a state-level spiritual courtyard, it only needs 100,000 taels of silver per year to maintain the balance.

And such a spiritual courtyard, the lowest, can provide for the imperial court, the lower three grades of incense Shinto practitioners, more than a hundred, and the middle three grades of incense Shinto practitioners, there are also more than ten.

If it's for Wu Xiu.

The money spent is at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

But.

Gu Changsheng felt.

"The Incense Shinto is not a reliable path after all."

"Cultivating martial artists, and practicing martial arts and literature for all people is the fundamental way!"

The reason is simple.

Just like the previous Cangxuan Dao people.

It looks like a human dog, looking like a behind-the-scenes boss, but in the end?

He has completely become Cheng Di, the Nankang City God, a chess piece in his hands.

There was not the slightest power to resist.

No matter how much such an incense Shinto monk cultivates, it is just a group of pigs and dogs that look fat and strong, but in fact, once they encounter wolves, they will scatter and flee.

And, more importantly.

"The monk of the incense Shinto, it doesn't seem to cost much to cultivate, but it's not."

Gu Changsheng synthesized the book in his hand and thought thoughtfully.

The book in his hand is a bit out of place in this era, it was compiled by a Confucian scholar who loved mathematics in the previous dynasty, and when he traveled to the state capital during the first month, he compiled it according to some visits from the people and his own understanding.

Not only did it record the cost of the martial artists' cultivation.

In addition, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Even the most mysterious Taoist practices are involved.