Whether it is in the center of the heavenly court or in the new policy at the grassroots level, Houtu advocates the unity of power and responsibility, and the responsibility is assigned to the people, mainly because during the Emperor Jun period, although most of the monks served in the Heavenly Court, they were perfunctory and responded to the story, because there were often many immortals and priests in each yamen, so in the middle and late stages of the emperor's reign, there was a situation where a few people worked hard and most people lived in chaos.

In this case, Di Jun did not interfere, because his ruling philosophy is that if the law does not prohibit it, it will not be corrected, but in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of the Heavenly Court priesthood, Di Jun increased the benefits of those clergy monks who worked hard and gave heavy rewards.

As a result, the clergy monks in the heavenly court were divided into two categories, and most of the clergy monks mainly lived in the heavenly court. The other part of the clergy worked hard to gain merit and welfare.

Therefore, the Honghuang monks were also gradually divided into two factions, the Entering School and the Birth School.

The patriarch of the Joining the World Sect practiced like this, because of the benefits of the Heavenly Court and the convenience of power, the Joining Sect often formed a huge sect and family in later generations.

On the other hand, the rebirth school is more concerned with individual practice and becomes a powerful casual practice.

Of course, that's an afterthought.

The reign of Houtu is to change the situation of the floating people in the heavenly court during the Emperor Jun period. Of course, for those monks who were forced to enter the heavenly court because they were reluctant to go out, Houtu was also very sensible and allowed to come and go freely.

Those who are willing to enter the Heavenly Court to serve must work seriously and enjoy the benefits of the Heavenly Court and the merits brought by the priesthood. If you don't want to join the Heavenly Court, Houtu will not be reluctant, but you must not be an enemy of the Heavenly Court, especially you must not harm the Heavenly Court clergy monks.

As soon as the policy of Houtu was promulgated, the clerical monks of the heavenly court were gone.

First, it is true that many monks prefer to retreat and practice rather than manage general affairs, and secondly, Houtu took over, which made many demon monks dissatisfied, and they withdrew from the heavenly court, with great thoughts of embarrassing Houtu.

Houtu didn't care, in his opinion, those monks who occupied the position of the heavenly court but did not do anything would be useless to stay, but after the reduction of the priesthood in the heavenly court, each priest would be able to obtain more merit. Moreover, because Houtu became the Jade Emperor, the Wu clan entered the Heavenly Court in large numbers, and also replenished some manpower for the Heavenly Court.

Of course, most of those monks who went to work were in the Taiyi realm and below, and the high-level monks such as Da Luo Zhun Sheng basically did not leave their posts.

Because of the high status of Da Luo and the quasi-saints, even if they serve in the Heavenly Court, they are also the noble positions of the second and third grades, and even if they have general affairs, they can be handed over to their juniors to take care of.

Moreover, the high-ranking monks of the demon clan stayed in the heavenly court, also to check and balance the Houtu, so as not to formulate some heavenly rules that were not conducive to the demon clan.

Of course, there are also strong people of the demon clan who are not satisfied with the Houtu, such as the four newly promoted demons of the demon clan, the four newly promoted quasi-saints of the demon clan, Qiqi, gluttony, and Chaos, who resigned from the priesthood of the heavenly court.

Among the four people, Qi Qi is just independent, although he does not obey the Heavenly Court, but he is not an enemy of the Heavenly Court, but the three quasi-saints of Han Qi, Tao Tao and Chaos led nearly dozens of Demon Clan Da Luo, directly raised the banner against the Wu Clan Heavenly Court, and became the enemy of the Heavenly Court.

This is the first time since the establishment of Heavenly Court that there have been clear-cut forces opposing Heavenly Court.

Faced with this situation, Houtu first convened the quasi-saints of the demon clan to consult.

The quasi-saints of the demon clan said that the behavior of the three people and their subordinates was their spontaneous behavior, and it had nothing to do with the demon clan, and the demon clan did not support their actions.

Houtu knew that this was deliberate by the demon clan, and the demon clan deliberately released Qiqi and the other four people, just to block Houtu, and more importantly, to distract her energy, so that she could not control the desolate world with peace of mind, and if she couldn't govern the desolation with peace of mind, Houtu would not be able to obtain a lot of merit and break through the mixed element.

After thinking about it for a long time, Houtu decided to crusade against the three quasi-saints and maintain the authority of Heavenly Court.

Although the demon clan did not object on the surface, they pulled the hind legs of the back soil behind their backs.

Because Fu Xi destroyed the foundation of Yuan Shi's wisdom avenue, he knew that he would not be able to escape Yuan Shi's revenge, so he decided to take advantage of the time to serve as the behind-the-scenes military advisor against Houtu and Wu Heavenly Court this time.

Under the command of Fu Xi, some demon clan Daluo directly declared that they were all in the same vein as the demon clan and could not bear to kill each other with the same clan, so they refused to be recruited by Houtu, but secretly they continued to deliver pills, magic weapons and other materials to the three quasi-saint forces.

There are also demon clan Da Luo, on the surface, obey the dispatch of Houtu, send a large army to conquer, but in fact, the work is not effective, and there are often hundreds of thousands of elite demon troops attacking, but they can't fight for a long time, but in fact, the defenders only have a few little demons, and some people even secretly send military information, revealing the deployment of the Wu army.

Houtu has long been mentally prepared for this, so most of the demon clan troops are only responsible for some scraps, and the task of conquering the three saints mainly relies on the power of the Wu clan.

However, the demon clan has the intention to embarrass Houtu, and the means are becoming more and more excessive.

On several occasions, some of the armies of the Three Saints such as Tao Tao were about to be killed by the Wu Clan, when the Demon Clan's army suddenly joined the battle, and then "forced down" the enemy, and when the crisis was resolved, the army surrendered and rebelled, so that the Wu Clan's efforts came to naught.

After the marshal of the Wu army, Wu Zhurong, the ancestor of fire, was tossed several times, he had to force the demon army not to participate in the war.

However, when the Wu clan gained the upper hand again, some Da Luo of the demon clan directly rebelled in front of the battle, joined the command of the Three Saints, and raided the Wu army, causing heavy losses to the Wu clan.

Some Wu generals were angry, and once refused to surrender and kill prisoners, which was found by the demon clan to find an excuse, in the name of the virtue of heaven's good life, forcing Houtu to allow the demon clan to send a supervising envoy in the Wu army, strictly check military discipline, and punish the Wu clan who violated the rules of heaven and heaven. For this reason, even two great witches were forced to be executed by Houtu in the name of violating the rules of heaven by the demon clan.

Finally, no matter how stupid the Wu clan is, the so-called three quasi-saints of the rebellious demon clan are actually puppets deliberately sent by the demon clan to fight in the ring with the Wu clan, and fighting with the three saints is actually fighting against the entire demon clan.

But the Wu clan has been difficult to ride the tiger, so they have to continue to draw troops to fight with the three saints, and the strength that the Wu clan has accumulated for many years has been slowly consumed, and the demon clan has actually paid a lot of price. By the time the rebellion of the three saints of the demon clan was quelled, there were more than 200 Daluo people who had fallen because of the war, and there were countless people below Daluo.

During the war, the hatred between the two clans grew deeper, laying the foundation for the eventual Lich Raid.

Therefore, later generations generally believed that the war between Tao Tao and several other quasi-saints and the Wu Heavenly Court lasted for hundreds of eons, which opened the prelude to the Lich Tribulation.

In fact, in this pre-order war between the witch clan and the demon clan, the most tragic thing is the weak human race, the two sides of the war, especially the gluttonous three saints, requisitioned a large number of human races to build fortifications for them, and countless human races died in the war.

Because the Lich Tribulation made the demon clan lose its status as the protagonist of heaven and earth, and became a supporting role in the wilderness, the demon clan who did not know the truth in later generations, and hated the four quasi-saints of the demon clan such as gluttony who caused the Lich Tribulation, so the people and demon clans of later generations called the poor and strange, gluttonous, chaotic, and Han Qi as the four fierce beasts of ancient times.

On Kunlun Mountain, the three Qings sit side by side.

Tongtian, who was watching the war, saw countless living beings being slaughtered, and couldn't bear it, so he said to Yuan Shi: "Second brother, otherwise, you will come forward to stop this war." ”

Yuan Shi shook his head and said, "Third brother, look at the desolate world, how many creatures are there?"

Tongtian was stunned for a moment, didn't know what he meant, and said: "Now the number of desolate creatures is incalculable, at least trillions of people. ”

Yuan Shi said: "Yes, there are so many living beings in the flood wilderness, then, every moment, are there many living beings who die at the end of their lives? Or because the three saints of the demon clan rebelled against the heavenly court, there are many living beings who died in the war?"

Tongtian was stunned and said, "Ordinary beasts and human races only have a lifespan of a few decades, and a low-level cultivator of the Qi Realm has a lifespan of only a few hundred years at most, so calculated, at any moment, the number of living beings who die is at least a thousand times that of those who die in the flames of war." ”

"So what's the difference between Shou Yuan dying of exhaustion and dying in war?" asked Yuan Shi.

Tongtian didn't speak, he was asked by Yuan Shi, since they are all dead, what is the difference between dying in war and dying?

At this moment, Tongtian was a little confused, and he fell into deep thought.

Tongtian's thinking is three thousand years, and Yuan Shi and Taishang did not disturb Tongtian, and they were also thinking about each other.

"No, there is a difference. Tongtian finally figured it out: "At the end of life, this kind of death is happy, there is no regret, and dying in the war is not the wish of the living beings themselves, we people who practice the Dao should benefit the common people, so that they can avoid disasters and live happily, instead of disasters befall them." ”

After Tongtian finished speaking, he stood up and bowed respectfully to Yuan Shi: "Second brother Xie, little brother finally understands." ”

Tongtian's figure dissipated, leaving only one sentence: "The eldest brother, the second brother, and the younger brother want to enter the WTO, save the common people, and help the common people in the world intercept that ray of life." ”

Looking at the figure that dissipated through the sky, Yuan Shi secretly said to himself: "Third brother, you are imposing your ideas on the people of heaven and earth, but is it necessary to be happy when you die at the end of your life? There are so many living beings in the world, with different thoughts and different pursuits, and the living beings who die in war may not be happy, and the living beings who die in war may not be miserable, what is their happiness? Maybe they themselves don't know, but what we have to do is to explain the truth to them, so that they can understand what they really need!"

Taishang looked at Yuan Shi and did not speak, in his opinion, Yuan Shi's words are certainly reasonable, but the trip to heaven is not wrong, in fact, both of them are following their own Dao concept, as long as they can strengthen their Dao heart and do not violate (Wuwei) Dao. And God has the virtue of a good life, the war of the two Lich monks has caused countless ordinary human races to suffer disasters, it is really pitiful, for the human race, it is better to save it.

The war between the Wu Clan and the Four Fierce Ancients was much smaller in scale than the War of Gods and Demons and the Dragon and Phoenix Tribulation, but because of the appearance of the Terrans and the Beasts, the number of creatures affected by the war far exceeded the previous two wars.

In the face of so many creatures affected by the war, the Sanqing had their own and different ideas, and these different ideas also planted the cause and effect for the founder, exposition, and interception of the three religions of the Sanqing.