Chapter 176: Drawing The Bow Against Heaven, Shifting The Source Of Disaster
As Xuan Chong stepped forward in conquest to the Supreme Heaven, vast amounts of Spiritual Energy fell from the Nine Heavens, pouring into Lelang City.
The entire city’s people, in the grand dream of “Son of Heaven Drunk,” continued to maintain production.
In the northern workshops of the city, Five Elements Spiritual Energy transformed into Firewood, Wooden Rods, Iron Material, and other items.
These items appeared out of thin air in these workshops; the Artisans took the Materials from the workshops to craft Bow and Arrows one by one, preparing Fire Oil. Some time-consuming processes, such as the painting step requiring months of shade drying; however, in the dream, one only needed to place the workpiece in the Treasury, close the door, then open it, and the workpiece was instantly done.
The reason the troops Xuan Chong brought could continuously generate armaments was due to the entire city’s people acting as “Cattle and Horses” in their dreams.
Of course, “Cattle and Horses” was a joke. “Son of Heaven Drunk” must distribute to the virtuous; exclusive enjoyment would lead to the exhaustion of the Five Virtues. What is virtue? Naturally, “more labor, more virtue,” and the work in the dream was not without reward. The more these city people produced in the dream, the more Spiritual Energy they gained; this Spiritual Energy ensured no illness or disaster, and increased lifespan.
Just after Xuan Chong’s Corps completed the final battle on the seventh layer. All the people in the grand dream in the city suddenly heard the sound of gongs, put down their work, and went out one after another, then followed the night watchman’s guidance to gather in front of the City God Temple.
In front of the City God Temple’s Plaza, the statue of Wu Hanluan originally crafted by Xuan Chong came to life, walking down from the Winged Tiger still as a stone statue under its crotch (the Winged Tiger wasn’t dead yet, unable to use Incense and Fire wish power), and with each step, it grew one zhang taller, ultimately standing before the people like a giant spirit god.
Wu Hanluan, who had died and been resurrected in the dream of the numerous people, said to these bewildered people: “I was harmed by assassins! The assassins were sent by Corrupt Ministers in the court; my soul is about to return to the Mountains and Rivers. My nephew Wu Fei, courtesy name Yuan Chang, possesses all of loyalty, filial piety, propriety, righteousness, integrity, shame, and fraternity, suitable for great responsibility, and can succeed my position.”
Amid this proclamation, all the people of Lelang City awoke. After leaving their homes, they began exchanging their dream experiences one after another.
Citizen 1: “Hey, Marshal Wu just sent me a dream!”
Citizen 2: “Yeah, you saw it too?!”
Citizen 3: “I thought it was just me, hey, there are Corrupt Ministers in the court, did you hear that?”
Other citizens also seemed ignited, discussing animatedly.
Hot-tempered citizen: “That Wang Baldy, still slandering outside, saying it’s our Marshal’s virtue decline that caused the plague, turns out it’s deliberate framing!”
Citizens: “Thanks to our General Yuan Chang, who directly charged into the Underworld and rescued the Old Marshal.”
While discussing, thunderous rumbling sounded from the sky, the people of Lelang City, and even all of Zhenzhou, looked up at the sky one after another, as a colorful cloud descended from the heavens.
…Nine Heavens above…
The seventh layer has ended, Xuan Chong raised the Lotus Seed high; at this moment, all surrounding illusions were broken, after walking out of the Prison Cell, they saw the Prison Cell was actually on a huge platform, the platform entirely composed of Mountain Rock.
This ground platform was carrying everyone descending towards the great earth.
During the descent, Xuan Chong looked up at the four directions, able to feel that the huge Pustule below Lelang City was now beginning to dissipate.
These Pustules were points projected by the Evil Moon above attempting to absorb planetary matter, gathered together.
At this time in the Green Area of the Evil Moon, the projection of the Chaos Green Lotus had fully descended; the blue beam completed the information cracking of the green Evil Moon, directly landing in the most “fertile” rich place. Terrifying blue light burst in the Garden, the fertile nutrients collected by the Lord of Rot encountered this unreasonable Chaos Green Lotus host, directly decomposed into the purest Spiritual Energy.
Throughout the Supreme Heaven, the bankrupt wails of the Lord of Rot echoed. As for this surging Spiritual Energy, it naturally flowed back to the Xi Ren Realm along the traces left by Xuan Chong’s Lotus Seed. Speaking of which, back then Xuan Chong was very curious why he could freeload attribute values from the System on Wu Qing!
Now at Bai Renfeng’s place, endless Spiritual Energy released in his Dantian, infinite refills, and this refill consumption wasn’t from the System’s inventory.
Returning to the present, the Evil Moon’s influence on the Mountains and Rivers still exists.
Xuan Chong keenly saw that these original “instabilities” below Lelang City now began flowing along the Mountains and Rivers veins to places around Chong Land.
Note: All instabilities come from emotions in the Human Realm. After Wu Fei pacified the plague in Lelang City and resolved the root of Despair, the “doubts” and “guesses about conspiracies” in the entire Chong Land’s Human Realm flowed to the previous instigating problematic side!
Just as Xuan Chong’s previous life’s communication studies, when a certain faction’s propagators deliberately exaggerated the severity of a problem.
And when the severity of this problem is thoroughly investigated, and the named relevant parties prove innocent, people’s attention won’t disappear, but transfer to that “initiating party.”
Da Yao’s Immortal Sects found the problem in Chong Land in this incident, to some extent participated in unearthing and amplifying the problem. After “Despair” arose everywhere, Wu Hanluan ultimately lost control of the Golden Dou and played with fire leading to self-destruction.
Now that Wu Hanluan’s mess is turned over, the “Despair” emotional problem of Chong Land’s people is fundamentally resolved.
But for half the Under Heaven related to this matter, “doubts” swarm up, these “doubts” swirling back along the previous “solemn vows.”
Previously, the Immortal Families solemnly attributed the plague and evil to Chong Land’s Wu Hanluan for virtue loss to a small half of the Under Heaven.
Next, this charge of “virtue loss” won’t disappear, but will transfer! Because the atmosphere of “holding accountable” has already appeared.
Xuan Chong currently doesn’t understand the specific connection between the Evil Moon’s power and human emotions in the Human Realm.
Otherwise, with Xuan Chong’s “petty-mindedness” and extremely low modern person bottom line, he would inevitably stir up trouble.
The System deliberately doesn’t explain the correlation between “Evil Moon descending evil upon the world” and “Human Realm’s joys and sorrows.” It’s because the “Teacher” understands this “student’s” personality, extremely prone to over-striking revenge.
The System performed information shielding, but with Xuan Chong’s intelligence, seeing the huge “instability” flowing along the Mountains towards those remote but Rosy Clouds radiating areas in Da Yao World, he still realized the connection.
In a sudden realization, Xuan Chong now understood why the surrounding Immortal Families set up formations from the beginning.
Xuan Chong: They are not clean either. All Spiritual Mountains have been polluted by the Evil Moon. So this group of Immortals tried to make Lelang Commandery’s problem severe, to take the tribulation for them.
If Spiritual Mountains take tribulation, they would be drawn to the Evil Moon above. The Immortals, by sealing Mountains and Rivers, intensified Chong Land’s problem. Ultimately waiting for the entire Lelang City or even Chong Land to fall into the demonic domain and ascend to the upper Evil Moon.
This way, the Evil Moon eats one city, and temporarily won’t eat the Spiritual Mountains.
Current situation Xuan Chong temporarily unaware of: Human Despair and hope are relative; when the masses place Despair on a certain object, they leave hope to another. So Immortal Sects very utilitarianly operate “designate a certain force to represent irredeemable Despair” so they themselves can represent hope! This is so-called stealing Auspicious Qi.
This is like Xuan Chong’s previous life lighthouse logic: the lighthouse is very bad, but as long as proving other certain forces worse, the lighthouse as enemy and able to defeat them, everyone will pin hope on the lighthouse.
The Evil Moon relies on emotional power to devour the Human World; the Immortal Path people now very clear in Yao Calculation, as long as ensuring the Under Heaven has positive emotions towards them, the Spiritual Mountains can avoid tribulation.
Xuan Chong unaware of the above details, but now simply understands that Immortal Sects are trying to use him to block disaster. This understanding isn’t wrong either.
Xuan Chong’s temper exploded: “For this kind of natural disaster, not guiding it to sparsely populated places, but making densely populated areas bear it, what the fuck kind of logic is this.”
Xuan Chong gradually affirmed: “Immortal Sects have natural interest opposition and conflict with me.”
Thus Xuan Chong, while still high up, shot arrows towards the ten directions of these Immortal Families’ “Rosy Clouds locations” (various Sects).
Arrows flew out from the Nine Heavens, under the dual effects of Spiritual Energy and Killing Intent, flying straight towards those Mountains and Rivers places.
And the Soldiers watching Xuan Chong inexplicably drawing bow and shooting “orders” into the sky were also discussing animatedly.
Soldier A: “What’s over there?”
A sharp-eyed Soldier B: “Seems like there’s a halo.”
Although mortal bodies are turbid, having experienced the previous battle, all contacted Lotus Seeds; relatively speaking, their eyes easily retain innate supernatural powers like clairvoyance and immunity to poisons.
Soldier: “Probably some Strange Beast in the sky, they say our general when conquering in the Southern Region, chewed dragon meat.”
…Mortal World immortal intent…
Amid the Soldiers’ animated discussion, Bai Renfeng silently gazed at the colorful cloud above Xuan Chong’s head. Under the shelter of such colorful cloud, he felt a special Supernatural Power bathing him; this Supernatural Power Bai Renfeng couldn’t test any effect, only dispelling some dust barriers.
Bai Renfeng’s cultivation time is short, he doesn’t know this reverse journey netted him Merit that many Mountains and Rivers gods couldn’t accumulate in millennia.
The current many Mountains and Rivers gods facing the Evil Moon’s Corrosion and devouring power, bitterly enduring not to be taken; besides relying on the Human Realm Killing Intent endorsement from monarchs and famous ministers for protection, it’s relying on “Merit power” to ward off such contamination.
For Cultivators, the scale of Merit Bai Renfeng now obtained, if many Elders knew in advance, they would definitely go themselves.
However, “Merit” is something one can encounter but not seek. Especially utilitarian actions often go against Merit.
Bai Renfeng wasn’t seeking anything, but following his Dao Heart. Against others’ utilitarian hearts, seeking self-clarity.
Bai Renfeng didn’t pay much attention to Merit; at this time watching Xuan Chong “pointing at Mountains and Rivers,” he couldn’t help recalling records in ancient books, “clarity aptitude, good at listening to sounds, able to discern principles, know past and future, all things clear!”
Bai Renfeng silently thought: “Back then the Sect didn’t take him in, truly a pity.”
The cultivation world summarized many aptitudes, but not all aptitudes suit cultivating immortality; but among aptitudes not suiting immortality cultivation, there are no lack of top aptitudes, such as the characteristics of clarity aptitude: good at listening to sounds, able to discern principles, know past and future, all things clear!
Four thousand years ago, when “Cheng Dynasty” dominated Under Heaven, there was such an aptitude person who entered Yu Qiong Gate of the Chan Faction.
This youth after entry, aptitude strangely poor, endured in Yu Qiong Gate to seventy years old.
Although he could identify all laws, his Cultivation hard to advance an inch, all laws hard to enter heart. Yu Qiong Gate as the then number one Orthodox Sect, entrants all excellent Spiritual Roots, seeing this Junior Brother in the Sect, puzzledly asked the Sect why not persuade this Junior Brother to return home.
The then Void Returning Realm Sect Master smiled.
Immediately after, Under Heaven in Great Chaos, Son of Heaven lost virtue, Yao Country as Vassal Lord began adding king title, conquering and pacifying Under Heaven; it was this disciple who went down the mountain, successfully aiding the monarch, ultimately achieving the once-in-thousands-years dynasty change.
This Yu Qiong Gate disciple as Chan Faction’s prominent figure, erected the enshrinement platform in Qi Land, completed the enfeoffment of eight thousand five hundred sixty-three orthodox gods, reestablishing the Human Son of Heaven’s command order over Human World Mountains and Rivers deities.
This is the characteristic of clarity aptitude: “heart does not worship all laws, but all laws in heart.”
Now Xuan Chong gazing at the Spiritual Mountains occupied by various Sects, holding bow in hand, shooting arrows one by one.
When Bai Renfeng saw Xuan Chong aiming the Arrowhead at “Qinghua Sect,” he hurriedly said: “General, stay your hand.”
Xuan Chong paused slightly, after hearing Bai Renfeng’s narration, sighed: “Then forget it, but need to tell you, even if I don’t shoot, your mountain gates will still fly high towards the Evil Moon.”
Bai Renfeng stunned then helplessly said: “Thank you General for informing.”
Xuan Chong said to him: “Eight hundred li west of Lelang City there is a new mountain gate, I can enfeoff it to you.”
…Immortal Path trembles…
The moment Chong Land’s great formation collapsed, all Spiritual Mountains emitted mournful cries.
As if the Spiritual Mountains were locked by something. Bamboo Tokens flew over, under Heaven and Earth witness, the karma (grudge) between Xuan Chong and Immortal Sects established.
Of course, the priority backlash places not at Sect Spiritual Mountains. But at those Feng Shui great formation sites.
In a certain main formation in Chong Land, the originally ethereal immortal qi formation base suddenly cracked massively, cracks filled with eerie demonic qi.
Yu Jian Sect Cultivator, observing with magic mirror saw the sudden demonic abyss underground, cursing at Qinghua Sect’s Sword Sect Faction: “Sword maniacs, look at the good deed your Sect’s scum did!”
Half-skeleton half-rotten flesh living things crawled out from the dark cracks, then pounced on those Sect disciples not yet escaped, skeletons directly embedding into those disciples, then these skinned controlled disciples eerily began slaughtering other Sects.
The many Immortal Families participating in blocking Chong Land now like squatting by Manure Pit to shit, but cannon crackers exploded shit all over face unlucky bastards.
After many Immortal Sect disciples retreated wretchedly dozens of li, discovered cracks spreading towards their mountain gates, horrified glimpsing the demons dancing wildly deep in cracks.
Seeing these rampant Demonic Evils, at this time they finally remembered the common people Under Heaven. Many Immortal Families gazing at Monsters crawling towards them from the abyss.
A previous sealing mountains and waters Wu Yun Sect disciple activated body protecting spiritual light, facing these locked-on Demonic Evils, loudly with fear: “Cannot let such evil things appear in Human World, otherwise common people Under Heaven in peril!”
Unbeknownst to them, when they sealed entire Chong Land, these evil things randomly refreshed from village wells at night.
One month ago when Chong Land was most chaotic, after Xuan Chong dispatched Troops to sweep once, “Demons and Monsters” still endlessly appeared, no Immortal Sect disciples came to help.
Now these guys randomly refresh and gather at various Immortal Sects’ mountain gate bases, for these Immortal Sects, demonic disaster this time comes for them.
At Linjian Sect here, Sect Master sensed demonic tide gradually approaching mountain gate, expression changed. Immediately righteous, requesting ancestor master leave a backup.
This Sect Master ignoring opposition from fellow Senior Brothers, immediately returned to Sect depths, preparing to draw the Sect-suppressing “Slay Immortal” evil sword to meet the tribulation.
…Play stage and viewing stage, two places inverted…
Colorful cloud landed west of Chong Land, Xuan Chong then led conquering Troops back to Lelang City, sitting on tall horse holding Wu Lu paraded all the way to Prince’s Mansion.
This Wu Lu not at all stage-frightened, head held high accepting gazes of Lelang City people.
Until at City Lord Mansion, when Xuan Chong to discuss serious matters with Advisors, used stubble to deliberately poke his cheek. Then he bounced away from Xuan Chong, but still unwilling to leave.
Gongshu Wang took out a small wooden cart toy, then Wu Lu happily drove the cart to play aside.
Xuan Chong looking at this child, as if seeing a trace of his youthful self, but again completely different; then rationally traced back memory, confirmed it was youthful Wu Fei, not young Xuan Chong, he now is Xuan Chong in Wu Fei identity.
Xuan Chong re-realizing he is a Transmigrator, looking at Stars in the sky.
Xuan Chong: “My initial personality consciousness didn’t grow up in this world, I’ve always been playing historical roles in this world, no matter how well played, still not a person of this world, alas!”
Xuan Chong sighed, positioned the family affection here. “Can acknowledge, but cannot invest.”
Yao San Niang a hundred steps away, oh, now called Wu Yao Shi. Now facing “Wu Fei”‘s rational gaze, inexplicably panicked.
When everyone foolish, Yao San Niang was high above as immortal auntie, this time making various Immortal Sects unlucky by transferring that “Evil Moon attraction,” was her in Lelang City flipping clouds and rain.
But at Xuan Chong’s place, she unconsciously showed little daughter state, Wu Yao Shi contacted Xuan Chong most, always tried to “preach Dao” to Xuan Chong without success, as Cultivator repeatedly fell downwind in “rational debates,” this is unprecedented suppression since her Dao achievement.
Fools won’t know truth, because before truth clear, they forget. But Xuan Chong though not “particularly shrewd,” every step advances towards truth.
Back then Xuan Chong saw at a glance: Yao San Niang seems impure motives. And to this day such vigilance still not dissipated.
Now Yao San Niang saw Xuan Chong’s absolute rational light, knowing today’s Xuan Chong still carries that ruthless clarity, though glad for family affection, but anytime will sober up; and once sober, looking at Wu Lu, or even herself, all like scrutinizing “Yellow Springs sand and soil” to the detail of how many grains of millet weight.
Of course it’s relying on such clarity that Xuan Chong stepped out from the “rotten Evil Moon” Space that can distort Reality.
Under Xuan Chong’s gaze, Mosquitoes no longer suddenly enlarge, Bricks and Tiles no longer sprout eyes, Swords no longer roar, book characters no longer dance.
This time after “Wu Fei” returned, Yao San Niang found herself completely unable to shake this person beside.
…Husband and Wife…
Twenty days later, Xuan Chong held clothing tomb funeral for Wu Hanluan. Wu Yao Shi accompanied throughout, but didn’t get “principal wife” accompanying status, only holding son could slightly closer, carefully accompanied Xuan Chong whole day.
Xuan Chong here receiving various Squad Leaders! Donghua Commandery camp, Longyou Commandery camp, Water, Zhu Prefecture etc. these places’ former Wu Hanluan old subordinates, after receiving Wu Yuanchang’s invitation for Old Marshal’s funeral, all rushed over! Undoubtedly bringing capable people to prospect qi!
Xuan Chong’s original intent just this, his family already cleaned up, inviting them over to know how to divide the positions he reserved! —Although all Wu Hanluan’s subordinates, but now to consolidate Bases, divide power, need to see various sides’ standings.
Xiang Yu when enfeoffing kings after conquering Under Heaven, committed this mistake. When should enfeoff didn’t, when shouldn’t randomly did. The kings he enfeoffed, basically all rebelled against him later.
Especially Ying Bu. Should Xiang King reward Ying Bu? Yes, but should be during Qin extermination process, then Ying Bu would unhesitatingly stand with Xiang Yu; but when consolidating Bases then reward, Ying Bu later hesitatingly stood with Liu Bang, not minding Xiang Yu’s king enfeoffment grace.
Xuan Chong experience: Promote capable when “can control,” when cannot control absolutely don’t release power.
Donghua Commandery camp’s Commander Li Zhao after seeing Xuan Chong in camp, unhesitatingly said: “Old Marshal now immortal passed, we willing to serve General (Wu Fei) as Lord.”
Xuan Chong looking at this very tactful guy, nodded, as for not tactful ones, are the two camp heads in State and Zhu Prefecture. And in Xuan Chong’s heart, after stabilizing more, uniting and arranging with Donghua Commandery Longyou Commandery people, then change that Zhu’s military chief.
Xuan Chong very clear what bureaucrats in Water and Zhu Prefecture two places thinking, nothing more than wanting Wu Hengyu back to succeed.
But possible? Nothing more than feeling Wu Fei not close enough, their rankings under Wu Fei lower than under Wu Hengyu as head. Just they forgot “who is the eldest,” as Minority they fundamentally unable to change, to live better, need to be sensible.
About how to control two places’ military chiefs. Of course start from their subordinates. These two have only eight hundred under them, old soldiers retire with welfare all firmly gripped by Xuan Chong.
Replacing them like shaving hair. Currently Xuan Chong not directly moving them, need to separate them from those supporting his Factions!
If Xuan Chong without greeting below directly removes them, other Factions will feel afraid, Worry being one-word removed by Xuan Chong too.
Accurately, need supporting external Generals proactively propose to strike these two idiots (after cutting ties), until two places’ Wu Family Army ordinary Soldiers also estranged from these two, then he can act.
This similar to Xuan Chong previous life international, Da Mao leading team smaller and smaller, too habit of proactively going down to punish little brothers, making little brothers all afraid big brother casually acts.
As for Orient side after his business grew having other little brothers chasing, strictly follows “as long as clowns don’t fire first shot, absolutely no heavy hand” process,
When needing to discipline kids often make another little brother act.
This gives little brothers enough security, team grows larger.
