Ten years ago.

He Yi went to sea with his father, Xu Ming and others, and after killing the evil ghosts in the silent sea, Xu Ming led a cultivator into the court and recommended him as the emperor's teacher.

Xu Ming himself was canonized as a national teacher by the emperor, and then began to build the "Tongtian Altar".

It is said that this altar contains a circle of heaven, which can use the aura of heaven and earth to open the road to heaven.

Its function is to summon other monks in another Xiuzhen Continent directly through the formation.

In the past ten years, Xu Fangshi took advantage of the power of this altar to successively transfer the monks from the cultivation realm to the secular realm, a total of nine, plus the cultivator who originally came with the ship, a total of ten, known as the "Holy Immortal".

Except for the cultivator who originally came with the ship to sit in the palace and teach the Son of Heaven the method of cultivating the truth, the other nine were sent to Kyushu to serve as the state pastor and cultivate their own power in an attempt to achieve the goal of controlling the entire secular world.

These ten people are————

Emperor: Pang Shizhi.

Chōshū pastor: Ji Xiao.

Wenzhou Mu: Zhao Wuyong.

Liaozhou Mu: Li Zhaolan.

Yanzhou Mu: Fu Zhenyi.

Qingzhou Mu: Fu Moth.

Chuanzhou Mu: Ruan Cang.

Tibetan pastor: Gao Wen.

Zhongzhou Mu: Tsing Yi Chen.

Rongzhou Mu: Yuan Zhen.

Gongliangju slowly said the names of these people, and his face was quite solemn.

He Yi sat in front of the desk, nodded slightly, and repeated the names of these state pastors, silently remembering them in his heart.

It has been more than a month since the capture of the plain, and He Yi has been busy pacifying the army and civilians.

Today, I was finally able to spare some free time, so I naturally wanted to call Gongliangju over and listen to him talk about what has happened in the secular world in the past ten years.

"Tibetan Mu Gaowen, Zhongzhou Mu Qing Yichen, Rongzhou Mu Yuan Zhen ......"

He Yi was stunned suddenly, and said in his heart, aren't these people the cultivators who were attacked and killed by Yuan Yi's predecessors when they were encircling and suppressing snow beasts?

I remember that before using the Red Dragon Bi to summon the fire dragon, Na Yuanzhen also called himself the state pastor, and then the thousands of elite monks who were summoned by the formation, also called Na Yuanzhen the state pastor, and the same is true of Tsing Yi Chen, not only the state pastor, but also the title of "Juzhen Palace Master" more than several others.

He Yi counted the names of these ten people and found that among the nine state pastors, six of them actually participated in the battle to kill the snow beasts.

That is to say, in today's Kyushu under heaven, there are already six states that are leaderless, and choosing to raise troops at this time is indeed an excellent opportunity.

Ten years, nine people were summoned by the Heavenly Sacrifice to the Heavens. Excluding the time spent on building the Tongtian Altar in the first year, nine years and nine ranks, if this is calculated, the Tongtian Altar can only summon one "Holy Immortal" a year.

In this battle of snow beasts, six of the nine "holy immortals" were killed. In other words, it will take them a full six years to recover.

Doesn't this give yourself a very favorable space for development?

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He Yi flipped through a book called "History of Kyushu" in his hand, and some of the things recorded in it were slightly different from what Gongliangju said.

A lot of things are covered up, and a lot of things are embellished.

Obviously, this is also the work of those state pastors.

After the nine state ministers took office, they each dismissed the original taishou in each city in the state, and then replaced them with their own cronies to serve as taishou. However, the cronies appointed by these state ministers were not cultivators, but ordinary mortals, and the order forbade that once a mortal became an official, he must not touch the cultivation method, otherwise it would be a serious crime and would be executed immediately. Gongliangju continued.

"Oh, why is that?" he wondered.

Before this, he had also heard Pei Dong say that "cultivators cannot be officials", but because there were a lot of trivial matters, He Yi had been busy all the time, and did not take time to inquire in detail.

It stands to reason that since you are a close person, you should be carefully trained.

Combining grace and power, with clear rewards and punishments, is the way to gather people's hearts, so why is it forbidden to practice?

"There are two reasons for this. One of them: Every time the altar is opened, it needs to consume a large amount of spiritual property, so the amount of spiritual property that the Kyushu state pastor needs to hand over every year is extremely large, although there are a lot of them collected from all over the country every year, but if you have more hands, you will lose a few points. They still understand this truth. Second: even if they are cronies, they will not fully trust. This is a common problem for all cultivators, because ———— spiritual property. ”

Gong Liangju said a new word.

The so-called "spiritual property" refers to the spiritual objects of heaven and earth such as the snow beast Xuanming and the seven-colored demon flower, which contain a huge and pure aura, which is extremely helpful for the cultivation of cultivators.

If it is refined into an elixir, the effect is even better, and it is the lowest grade elixir, and the aura contained in it is also worthy of the result of years of penance by cultivators.

"Within Kyushu, spiritual products are abundant, such as the Northern Wilderness Snow Plain and the forbidden places like Wuganzhou, which are even more abundant. The nine state pastors were afraid that once the city guards cultivated, they would take the opportunity to privately swallow the spiritual property, so they explicitly forbade their cultivation. ”

"I see. He Yi suddenly realized.

There are some things, He Yi can also guess a few points, just based on what he has seen and heard during the time he has been released from prison, he has already touched the character of a cultivator.

Selfishness, greed, distrust, insecurity.

And now that there is a method of cultivation in the world, although the various regions outside the territory are extremely dangerous, they hide very rich spiritual products.

Danger and opportunity coexist. Thus, there is a world of opportunity.

It is an opportunity to take the Qilin Jade Fruit I Ching to wash the marrow by chance, and to obtain the Demon Slaying Sword and the Book ————of Xia Yu by chance.

This produced a problem that caused headaches for all cultivators———— the explosion of spiritual power.

An inferior monk, even the most inferior one, is very likely to obtain a large amount of spiritual property through chance.

This has led to the cultivation of the inferior monks to advance by leaps and bounds, and their strength has increased greatly in a short period of time, if they are extremely lucky, they can meet opportunities in a row, and they can continuously obtain spiritual products, then even if they surpass the so-called "Ten Holy Immortals" in a short period of time, it is not impossible.

This brought great pressure to the ten cultivators who came from the Xiuzhen Continent.

In the secular world at this stage, the higher the official position, the greater the power, the more resources, and the more opportunities to obtain spiritual property.

In order to consolidate their position and prevent accidents, those "holy immortals" also put them into the law, and explicitly forbade the officials in each city to practice privately.

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"Most of the spiritual properties looted from all over the world are used to open the altar of Tongtian, and over the years, as more and more spiritual properties have gathered in the imperial city, the number of times the altar has been opened is also very likely to increase with the increase in the number of spiritual properties, so this year, it is likely to be opened twice in a row. Gongliangju continued.

The looting of spiritual property has cost the people and money, and caused resentment among the people.

Those cultivators were insatiable, not only were they not satisfied with the spiritual properties in Kyushu, but they even tried in vain to extend their arms to the Northern Wilderness Snow Plain, as well as the legendary "Wu Ganzhou".

It was precisely because of this incident that the 14th Army of Beirong, which had once shocked the north, was wiped out in a few days after raising troops to enter Wuqizhou.

This incident became a fuse, and it also caused the prestige of the imperial city to plummet.

Later, people from all over the country rose up one after another, led by Ji Tongchen, the sect leader of the Martial Sect who was extremely famous and had many disciples, gathered all the Jianghu factions in the entire world, the heroes of the green forest, a total of more than 600,000 people, and launched a huge attack on the imperial city.

But the result of the struggle was that both sides of the war were secular people, and there were countless casualties.

And the real root of evil———— those "Holy Immortals" from the Xiuzhen Continent, but they were like carefree people who were out of the way, coldly watching this life-and-death war.

Only used the nearly 100,000 so-called "disciples" who came to purge the rebels, and a bloody battle was launched outside the imperial city.

600,000 against 100,000, the battle lasted for twenty-six days, the corpses piled up outside the imperial city into one mountain after another, and the blood stained the countryside into a red ground that stretched for hundreds of miles.

With Gongliangju's narration, this old incident gradually presented a flat pattern in He Yi's mind.

He worked hard to expand the pattern into a form, imagining himself as part of the rebels.

Black clouds overwhelmed the city, and the war burned the sky.

On the endless Pingchuan, countless people and horses fought bloodily, and the "Holy Immortals" floating above the nine heavens in the sky condescended to overlook the four fields, looking at the scene of the battle on the battlefield with a playful face.

The expression was like that of a playful child, teasing two crickets in the golden cup, biting and killing each other.

What does it matter to me the life of a plaything!

He Yi couldn't help but shudder, and quickly broke free from his imagination, feeling afraid for a while.