I am the Lord of the Underworld

Chapter 150 Heavenly Demon Transformation, Zhou Dynasty Yin Shang

"This is……"

For the first time, Zishou, who had always been calm and unsteady, showed surprise on his face.

The faces of the wizards changed greatly, panicked.

There has never been such a situation. During the sacrifice, the thunder fell from the sky, and the wizard was killed by a thunderbolt. Could it indicate that the heavens are dissatisfied with the new king?

For a while, this thought arose in everyone's mind.

"A daring wizard who disrespected the heavens and was dishonest in heart, which led to the punishments from the heavens!"

Zishou reacted very quickly, stepped out with one step, pointed his fingertips at the injured priest nearby, and a red light circled like a flying swallow, piercing through the heads of more than a dozen wizards before returning.

He put all the blame on the wizard, which is considered a step.

Of course, what other monarchs think in their hearts is unknown.

Those who had been dissatisfied before were even more convinced that Da Shang's destiny was not there, and those who were originally loyal were also a little vacillating, and there was a crack in their loyalty.

Even Zishou's brothers had thoughts that they shouldn't have.

From ancient times to the present, the burial of the first king has never appeared
Soon, the ceremony continued.

As the coffin of the former king entered the underground palace, it was filled with the last handful of soil.

boom!
A gust of wind suddenly blew up, and the wind transformed into a group of spirits with long sleeves and tattoos on their faces.

Clouds converged into a sky-reaching avenue, and there were white-clothed boys on both sides of the road, and many visions of heaven and earth turned into all kinds of strange people and strangers to watch, all of them looked terrifying and did not say a word.

boom!
Black smoke rose from the top of the mountain and quickly spread across the sky. Under the black cloud was the late emperor riding on a double-headed Kuilong bronze chariot with his face covered by a white cloth, followed by a group of dark-grey-skinned courtiers.

As the dragon chariot heads to the end of the underworld, the funeral ends.

After that is the age of Zishou.

Zishou has practiced for many years and has been the prince for almost a thousand years. It is estimated that he will have to suppress the world for 2000 years.

Back in the palace, Tang Ping and his followers sat in the side hall, and the monarchs were received and rewarded one by one.

And the entourage also began to eat.

Most of these attendants are not followers, and they are basically valued people who can be brought to this occasion.

Tang Ping noticed the two followers of Western Zhou.

One is older, the other is young and immature, ignorant.

The eyebrows and eyes of the two have many similarities with Ji Chang.

This should be Ji Chang's relative, most likely his son.

The older man is the eldest son Ji Kao?
Who is the other person?Ji Fa?

Tang Ping also felt that he was not quite like Ji Fa. According to the historical process, Ji Fa should have emerged at this time. Even if his own strength was not as good as that of a human being, he was at least similar to Ji Chang.

The two people in front of them are also in the state of eating clouds.

"Bo Yi Kao, will Bo Yi Kao die today?"

Tang Ping thought, this should not be possible.

The human sacrifices and other things used for funerals were distributed to the various countries a few days ago.

On such an important occasion, it is illegal to sacrifice more or less.

Generally, anyone who needs to be sacrificed will be notified in advance. In the case of Xiongba back then, it was usually Zishou's downfall, or intentional beating.

After all, this kind of act of killing someone's eldest son to sacrifice for a disagreement is an insult no matter what era it is.

So now on this occasion, there will be no sudden murder by the king, otherwise the shame will be the king himself.

The next day, Xiong Yang and others came out.

A group of people came to the open space outside the city, boarded the chariot and returned to the original road.

"What did Zishou say?"

"I said something on the scene, told us to guard the frontier, support the big merchants, and rewarded some goods."

Naturally, Xiong Yang didn't like this. Ever since the incident of the lightning strike at the funeral, Xiong Yang no longer had any awe in the face of the Shang Dynasty.

This thing of destiny really exists.

A dynasty without the favor of destiny, no matter how powerful it is, will not win the support of the world.

Now go back and develop yourself, just waiting for the crowd to compete.

Xiong Yang firmly believes that the destiny will be on his side in the end.

Because they have the best culture, the Chu culture that everyone agrees with, even if the Chu state is destroyed, there will be a group of outstanding people who will return to the country under the banner of the future.

This alone is enough to surpass most of the vassal states. Some vassal states are only passively integrated into the local civilization. The connection between the people of the country is very weak, and even the monarch can only rely on his own people to manage the government.

This kind of country is extremely easy to annex, and it will not even be restored under the banner of a caring person in the future.

The most outstanding place in Chu State is the prefecture and county system that matches Shinto.

The system of prefectures and counties makes it easier to concentrate power. Now the newly acquired land of the kingdom is basically counties, and the territory of other forces will not be expanded.

As long as the sacred soil expands to the territory of the underworld, it can be combined with the divine way to exert stronger strength.

Yunxiao Tiangong.

Through the white clouds, Zishou watched the chariots of the princes of the four directions drive back.

A fire flashed in his eyes, a fire of ambition.

The princes are not trustworthy. Except for the princes in the Heluo area, the princes in other places have different intentions, and they want to break away from the control of the center if they have a little strength.

Or most of the princes are like this.

As long as the central dynasty shows any signs of weakness, these guys will be disobedient.

From Shang Tang to the first kings, there is no generation that does not fight.

"This king will end this fate."

Zishou secretly made up his mind that he must rein in the power of all parties in his lifetime, and leave an eternal dynasty of eternal peace to future generations.

Just as he was thinking, a black mist gathered in the sky, forming an iron-faced ghost.

"Emperor Yi has a premonition, the ghost country in the east, the Di tribe in the north, and the Shu country in the southwest are rebelling."

These barbarians finally couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to take advantage of the change of power in the Shang country to rebel.

Zishou sneered, and said, "Order the heavenly ghosts and the three armies to gather together and march alone!"

"Yes!"

He had just ascended the throne, and there was another funeral. These barbarians probably thought they were weak and wanted to come and eat.

"The direction of Shu is based on defense, and the same is true in the north. Let's take the nearest ghost country first."

The eastern countries have not been able to be included in the territory. They have more or less colluded with Haidai, and it is very difficult to win.

The former kings only wanted to curb their westward expansion, and did not think about destroying the country, which was too difficult.

It's not like he hasn't defeated the ghost country before, and even made it bow his head and proclaim himself a vassal, but in the end he rebelled again.

And Zishou obviously didn't have this kind of character.

"Chew this hard bone first."

He doesn't care about the face, it doesn't matter if he wins the ghost country, even if he rebels again, Zi Shou is afraid that the ghost country will not rebel, if he doesn't rebel, he will try his best to force him to rebel, and then kill him again.

Don't kill a few more rounds, can An Neng break the backbone of the ghost country?

The army went out.

one year later.

Zishou arrayed 38 monks from the Haijian Kingdom, and personally led an army to break through the capital of the Ghost Kingdom and captured the Ghost King alive.

The ghost king surrendered and was granted the title of Ghost Marquis.

Five years later, the ghost king rebelled again, and Zishou was killed again.

After ten years.

Five rebels and five towns, blood flowed like rivers.

Even so, Zishou didn't kill Guihou every time he caught him, but let him go back.

The capital of ghost country.

The blood cloud covered the sun, and the wind was blowing.

The mysterious bird chariot broke through the blood cloud, and the sky shone on the earth, dispelling the eerie coldness of the ghost country.

On the leading Xuanniao chariot was a man with a handsome appearance. He was wearing a crimson dragon mask.

Dozens of white-clothed men attacked him, Tianhuo, Huangyan, and Feijian.

A little farther away, there are two-headed ghosts, blue-faced ghosts, red-haired ghosts, starving ghosts and other generals of the ghost kingdom.

Zishou remained motionless, and suddenly the halberd swept across.

boom!
The golden light is thousands of feet, and all the ghosts and enemies in the radius are dead.

"Evil king, I will never let you go even if I die."

Suddenly, the leader of the men in white looked at Zishou with resentment, then bit his fingertips, took out a blank jade pendant, and wrote a tattoo.

Whoosh!
The pale light flew towards Zishou at such a high speed that there was no flight path at all.

boom!
Subconsciously, Zishou flashed a big hole in his shoulder, passing through his shoulder blade.

After issuing this move, the leader of the man in white died suddenly.

The son was startled and uncertain, but he held back: "Go down."

Everyone landed on the top of the city.

The head of the city is a nobleman with a height of one foot, a normal complexion, and only one eye.

This is the ghost king.

The country of ghosts is also known as the country of one eye, and the people of one eye are nobles, who are born with ghosts and gods, and drive ghosts and gods to fight.

This place is both the underworld and the underworld.

Zi Shou fell slowly, the light on his body disappeared, and he smiled at the ghost king, "That's right, you can actually hurt me, do you still have a hole card?"

Ghost King Jiang Wei smiled wryly. He didn't know that he was being tricked until now.

It's not that Zishou is stupid, letting himself make trouble every time, it turns out that Zishou did it on purpose, if not, how can the strength of the ghost kingdom be weakened?
The population of the ghost country is only [-]% of the original population, more than half of the masters have died, and the influence has plummeted.

Even now, he still can't see Zishou's real purpose clearly, so isn't he the king of ghosts for nothing?

"Then are you convinced?"

"Wei surrendered."

The ghost king kowtowed and was formally included in the Yin Shang system.

"Okay, Gu officially entitles you to be Dong Bohou, and I will give you a task to increase the strength of the Sifang tribes. It is not necessary to kill them all. If someone volunteers to take refuge, Gu can reward you. After you, you will be the leader of the princes of the East Road."

Anyway, Dongfang has never set foot in Dashang's side, no matter how generous the reward is, it is someone else's property.

"The chief of the princes..."

Guihou was shocked in his heart, is this trying to expand for himself?This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and he bows to him after saying it, with full loyalty.

Zishou laughed and said nothing.

In the future, I am not afraid that the ghosts will grow bigger and become a disaster. Instead of dividing up the army to attack, it is better to wait for the ghost country to run well and focus on the ghost country.

Constrain the princes of the East with the ghost country, restrain the ghost country by yourself, and conquer this place step by step.

At this time, Zishou looked at Guihou again, but made a new discovery.

"Huh? You were not good at cultivation before, how come you are about to break through to Human Immortal now?"

Guihou was considered a master before, and his cultivation base was advanced in Aoyou, but he was still far from being a human being.

Today, several years later, this guy is almost breaking through.

"I can't break through, that's all."

"any solution?"

Under repeated questioning by Zishou, Guihou finally told the truth.

There is a unique art in the lineage of Guiguo, which is created according to the characteristics of demons, and it is called "The Method of Transforming Heavenly Demons into Objects".

This method can enhance cultivation by devouring ghosts.

Note that this is not for cultivation, otherwise it is almost the same as the method of human sacrifice.

This is a direct increase in cultivation.

"Can it only be ghosts?"

"Yes, and there are still ghosts with cultivation bases. Those with physical bodies are not good. They must be killed first and then absorbed. The higher the quality, the better. After cultivation to a certain level, low-level ghosts cannot improve their cultivation bases."

At the stage of Guihou, if you want to break through the immortal, at least you have to be a ghost of the roaming level.

How can there be so many wandering ghosts in the world to bring him disaster.

"Pass it to the orphan to try."

Zishou's eyes flickered, looking in the direction of Chaoge.

Over the past 4 years, Dashang has produced 29 generations of kings including himself, and Chaoge has a total of [-] imperial tombs.

Except for the first six ancestors who went to misty and unknown places, it is said that they served the Emperor of Heaven.

Other kings ascended to heaven after death, and after undergoing the baptism of stars to preserve their strength, their final destination is the underworld.

After so many years, many former emperors have already exhausted their yin life, and then turned into emperor souls through secret methods. The emperor souls have no consciousness and can only wake up to protect Chaoge when Chaoge is attacked.

More than 20 former emperors guard Chaoge, this is a city of gods that will never fall.

"Isn't the emperor's soul a soul? Keeping it still costs people every year to sacrifice. Anyway, Chaoge can't be breached, so it's better to help me to a higher level."

Zishou thought to himself.

With more and more emperors, every year when it comes to festivals, the amount of sacrifices is simply too large, and it even causes a huge burden.

Doing this by yourself can be regarded as reducing the burden on the country.

And if he breaks through to the Earth Immortal in the future, he can be regarded as a great merchant who will rebuild the world and rule the world, which is no more valuable than a few ghosts.

Thinking of this, Zishou finally made up his mind.

Definitely do it.

A few years later, Zishou went south and north to fight, and hundreds of small countries were newly attached, and the limelight was like no other.

And he was good at conferring titles and seldom offering sacrifices, and he was also criticized by loyal royal officials for disrespecting ancestors.

In fact, Zishou knew that it was useless, and the emperor's mausoleum had no soul, so why did he still offer sacrifices to this thing.

If a sharp-eyed wizard saw the truth, wouldn't it ruin his reputation?

Compared with the truth, Zishou still feels that it is nothing to be said a few words, at least he will say it after he breaks through the earth immortal.

And Zishou's strong record also earned him the title of Emperor Xin.

Palace of the King of Chu.

Xiong Yang couldn't help sighing, and said: "Di Xin is too strong, even more outstanding than the previous generation's martial arts."

Tang Ping was among them.

Since Emperor Xin ascended the throne, Tang Ping paid more and more attention to the information of Da Shang.

"No hurry, have you sent someone to contact Zhou Guo?" Tang Ping asked.

"Sent, not to mention the purpose, it's just for business. After all, Zhou is so remote, and it fights with Xirong every day. Is there any benefit to cooperate with them?"

Xiong Yang was puzzled.

"You'll find out later."

Tang Ping smiled without saying a word.

In the future, Ji Chang will meet a strange person, who will help him solve Xirong's troubles, and even get the support of various western ministries.

This is the time to rise.

It is necessary to build a good relationship in advance. The Shang Dynasty in Zhou Dynasty is the destiny, and Chu State is not the protagonist in this era.

This is a sign that has been around for thousands of years.

People are determined, and people can't stand the cruel big business anymore.

The real excitement is yet to come.

So during this time period, they only need to live together.

Shinto will not expand to this extent in a short while.

years later.

Wushan.

As a distinctive flower, epiphyllum has been widely planted.

Even on Wushan Mountain, there are many flowers growing in twos and threes.

Tang Ping knew it was time to make a conclusion.

(End of this chapter)