In the absence of the Emperor of Zhou, the magnates of the Great Shang Dynasty have begun to compete for dominance.

Among them, the competition between Wei Ziqi, who has been working closely before, as well as Mizi, Bigan, Prime Minister Shang Rong and others is more intense.

The first to be unlucky was undoubtedly Prime Minister Shang Rong.

Shang Rong's Minister of Rites and Music, although he was called the prime minister, did not have a high status, and if it were not for the Shang Dynasty's great importance to sacrifices, Shang Rong's status would be even lower.

And Shang Rong is a person who is unwilling to just serve as the minister of etiquette, so when the sage is brought to find him, Shang Rong agrees to cooperate with the sage.

At that time, Shang Rong was still dreaming: "Now the saints have promised to seek a higher position for me and introduce one of my heirs to the holy place of cultivation. It can be described as fame and fortune, who else will dare to mess with me in the future?"

The saint is indeed a great umbrella, and it has also become a good excuse for merchants to recruit subordinates.

With the help of the prestige of the saint, Shang Rong soon gathered some ministers and formed an extremely powerful force, which could even compete with the royal family.

However, as a minister, Shang Rong was involved in the king's affairs, especially what he did in the Nuwa Palace, which was no different from looking for death.

The saint has the blessing of the will of heaven and earth, and the laws of heaven, and is not afraid of the king's luck.

And Shang Rong is just an ordinary human race, but he wants to plot against the king, and finally he was attacked by luck, and was soon plotted by Wei Ziqi, Jizi, and Bigan, the three powerful royal families, and secretly executed him, claiming to persuade the king to die.

ambition eventually killed Shang Rong.

Regarding Shang Rong's death, the leading saint did not come forward, nor did he save him.

When the sage and the sage were chatting once, when talking about Shang Rong, he said: "As a small person, but he didn't realize it, he dared to borrow the reputation of the sage, and it was already his luck that I didn't make a move, and he still wanted me to save him, which is really beyond my strength." ”

Shang Rong's power collapsed in an instant, and the power of the Great Shang Dynasty was concentrated in the hands of Wei Ziqi, Jizi, and Bigan, the three powerful royal families.

Among them, Wei Ziqi is the elder brother of the king of Zhou, and Jizi and Bigan are the uncles of the king of Zhou, all of whom are extremely powerful people, among which Bigan is an important minister of the Yin Shang royal family, and the official worships the young master (prime minister), and faintly forms an opposition with Wei Ziqi and Jizi, which makes the political situation unstable.

Especially in the end, when Bigan found that he really couldn't fight Weizi Qi and Jizi, he sent someone to Zhou and asked Zhou Zaishang to attack Shang when Chaoge's defense was the weakest because of the attack on Dongyi.

This directly led to the beginning of the Great Zhou's campaign against the Great Shang.

And as a foreign country, of course, he couldn't escape, and finally died by gouging his heart and liver.

Originally, with the background of the Great Shang Dynasty, even if the king could not govern, it was not comparable to ordinary princes.

When the magnates of the Great Shang Dynasty began to compete for power and profit, a group of cultivators outside were also planning for the sealing of the gods.

The matter of sealing the gods will inevitably involve war, which is fundamentally not conducive to the stability and rule of the Great Shang, and will bring great turmoil to the Great Shang.

It can be said that under the domestic and external difficulties, the decline of the Great Shang Dynasty has become inevitable.

In the matter of plotting to seal the gods, in the end, almost all the forces in the Xuanhuang world were inevitably involved.

Whether it is active or passive, under the impetus of the Heavenly Dao, it is inevitable to enter it, but some people make a profit and someone is tricked.

Especially after Zhang Haotian successfully exited the customs, the general trend of heaven and earth changed dramatically, and in the end, the heavenly machine was confused, and even the saints who mastered the laws of heaven and earth could not see the changes in the general trend of heaven and earth.

In the past, the saints often pinched their fingers and knew the past and the future, and when they looked up, they could see the Xuanhuang world.

However, with the start of the War of the Gods, the Heavenly Dao of the entire Xuanhuang World was no longer so clear, and even the saints had to be contaminated with it.

When there was a change in the heavenly machine, the first person to discover this phenomenon was Jiuniang, who was extremely sensitive to the heavenly machine, and she discussed it with Zhang Haotian who was out of the customs for a long time.

And as a saint, Zhang Haotian sees farther, and even the saint who is the assistant of the Heavenly Dao has to be blinded, what does this mean.

Zhang Haotian said worriedly: "This catastrophe is not simple, not only the god tribulation, I'm afraid even the saints have to be cautious, it seems that this is intentional by the Heavenly Dao." ”

Not only Zhang Haotian realized this problem, but all the saints were aware of this problem, and even the true saints who had never asked about the world deliberately found Zhang Haotian: "Do you feel the change of the way of heaven? ”

"Killing machine?" Seeing the true saint say this, Zhang Haotian instantly understood, and secretly said in his heart: "Killing machine?

Although he thought so in his heart, Zhang Haotian said: "This shows that there are going to be great changes in this world, and I can't tell what the situation will be like in the future." You have always been mysterious, and there are very few disciples, which is not conducive to the Taoist tradition, so it is better to take this opportunity to accept more disciples, and it is estimated that it is impossible to find such a qualified disciple in the future. ”

The True Saint nodded and said, "Good!"

As the first saint of this heaven and earth, the supreme saint has a closeness to the way of heaven or a perception of the way of heaven that no one else can compare, and it can be said that he is the saint closest to the way of heaven.

This kind of perception or closeness does not mean that Zhang Haotian has the Six Laws, or that the Hongjun Sage has the Jade Disc of Creation, but that compared with other saints, the true sage has a natural affinity for the Heavenly Dao as if he is his own son, and has a deeper understanding, which is not enough for outsiders.

This is also the reason why the true saint can feel the murderous intent of the Heavenly Dao through the clues, but Zhang Haotian, who is the most advanced in his cultivation, has not been able to feel this kind of murderous intent.

In addition, because Zhang Haotian and the True Sage have experience in later generations, they think more than others.

In this battle of sealing gods, in their opinion, sealing gods is just a small function of it.

The changes in Taoism and sects caused by the gods, the reorganization of the order of heaven and earth, the separation of "gods" and "immortals", and the changes in aura may be the biggest changes in the battle of the gods.

Not to mention anything else, the current Xuanhuang World aura is becoming weaker and weaker, and it is much more difficult for cultivators to reach a higher level than for previous cultivators.

In the previous Xuanhuang World, not to mention the Great Luo Golden Immortal, it was not too difficult for ordinary cultivators to reach the Taiyi Rank.

A qualification like Dayu's can be called dull, and he has also reached the level of a golden immortal, and even ordinary human races can practice casually.

However, in recent years, there have been more and more people in the human race who cannot cultivate, and it has become more and more difficult for cultivators to break through the Taiyi Rank.

This cultivator's catastrophe cannot be said to mean that the Heavenly Dao wants to make up for the lack of heaven and earth aura with the life of a cultivator, and delay the change of aura between heaven and earth.

However, this also shows that the roots of the cultivators after this are destined to be inferior to the previous practitioners.

It's not that their qualifications are worse than before, but that their cultivation is much more difficult than before, and the starting point is different.

Zhang Haotian and the True Sage also set their sights on the interception of the Tongtian Sage.

Not to mention that the disciples of the sect are uneven, but many of them are extremely good, even if they can't be used as lineage disciples, they are enough as sect protectors and the like.

In this sense, the Interception Sect, which was the number one force in the Xuanhuang world, was in a predicament like the Great Shang Dynasty, and was in danger of collapse.