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Chapter 209 The underworld is hidden, meet the God Lord

After Yan Luo retreated and stood firm, the two counties of Yicheng and Tianlin couldn't wait for reinforcements and declared their fall one after another.

The county magistrates and tyrants of these two counties tried to retain a certain independent status by various means.

However, the two generals Zhou Ping and Huang Jingtong, who had received Zhou Bai's order a long time ago, ignored them at all and bulldozed the military camp outside the county town all the way.

Then, 500 people besieged the county town that could use thousands of troops, without showing any timidity, and even forced the city to dare not act rashly.

The actual combat power displayed by this guard horse, as well as the overwhelming momentum of the Anbei Dudufu's mansion, made Tianlin county magistrate recognize the facts and give up stubborn resistance.

However, there is something wrong in Yicheng County. The real power is not the county magistrate and county lieutenant, but the Fang family, a local century-old county Hao family.

In troubled times, strong soldiers and strong horses rule the roost, which is vividly demonstrated in Yicheng County.

As early as the end of the Xiangxing Dynasty, the Fang family had already grasped the real power in Yicheng County, and the official county government was reduced to a mouthpiece.

It's not that the county government and even the state government didn't want to rectify it, but in recent years, there have been constant internal and external troubles, and when there is no actual evidence, how can they do anything to the other party's family at will.

It's not that I'm afraid of a county tycoon, but I'm afraid of touching the interests of the local tycoons, the entire class.

There are no idiots in real bureaucrats. At the end of the dynasty, they just want to fill in a few fences.

Due to this situation, very few of the top three Jinshi were willing to come here to work, so that they procrastinated until Yan Luo chose to separatize Ruinan, calling himself Jiedu, and everything was over.

The Fang family entered the county seat openly and aboveboard, and the head of the family and senior officials moved into the county government office to formally implement the rule of the Fang family regime.

However, the Fang family has been trapped in one place for a long time. In the final analysis, there are limitations and lack of background.

The contemporary patriarch is impetuous and aggressive, unable to see the general trend clearly, and unwilling to part with the temptation to separate his territory, he listens to Yan Luo's letter and decides to stick to it.

Unexpectedly, after just resisting for two days, the old man suffered heavy losses, especially the officers with bright armor, who were often targeted by martial arts masters, and it was rare for them to survive two waves of siege.

Where has such a fierce offensive been seen inside and outside Yicheng, the wind direction changed rapidly, and other families who had been oppressed by the Fang family for a long time, under the tandem of Xuanyiwei, broke the city and surrendered.

On July [-]th, the battle report reached Zhou Bai.

Knowing that the two flanking counties were in his hands, and the north of Ruinan was under his control, he did not procrastinate, and immediately announced that the Raiding of Ruinan had entered the next stage, capturing the location of Ruinan's Jiedu Mansion.

In fact, Zhou Bai chose the time to attack Ruinan very cleverly. July is when the wheat is ripe, and late July to early August is the critical stage of Dingzhou's summer harvest.

The wheat has not yet been harvested, but the official warehouses in various places are almost empty. Especially the natural disasters in the past two years have exhausted the savings of every household. The ordinary people in Ruinan County are basically looking forward to the summer harvest.

At this time, the soldiers besieged Ruinan City, and they didn't even need Anbei's army to make a big move. They just had to besiege quietly and not let a grain of rice enter the city.

In this regard, Yan Luo either went out to fight in the city and repelled the Anbei Army, or he could only suppress the riots of the hungry people internally and lose the support of the people.

Combined with Xuan Yiwei's information, all the staff members calculated the food reserves in Ruinan City. Under the condition of reducing the supply of non-combatant personnel, it was only enough to feed 20 people in the city for a month.

The Chinese army specially issued a military order to Lou Jinpeng, telling him to cover the [-]-mile fields near Ruinan County City, so that Ruinan City would not be allowed to harvest wheat in advance.

In addition, before departure, Zhou Bai met with the divine master clone at the Shuiyang City God Temple.

July [-]th happened to be the Ghost Festival of the Ghost Festival. Zhou Bai still vividly remembered the scene of ghosts walking at night and causing chaos in the world.

He has checked the historical materials of the mortal world, and also used Tianjue's authority to check some information on the Tiandish. It turns out that the Tianyuan Realm, like the Blue Star where Zhou Bai resides, has similar legends.

According to legend, on the day of Ghost Festival, the ghost gate of the underworld is opened, and ghosts from the underworld will return to the world for a short time through the ghost gate.

The ghosts with descendants and descendants to worship, naturally go home to collect incense as offerings, while the lonely souls without owners can only wander around, wandering in any place where people can go, begging for some corner incense.

Therefore, whether ordinary people have good intentions or want to prevent them from causing harm to the world, when they burn incense to their ancestors, they will burn an extra pile for the lonely ghosts to use.

However, this legend was just a legend in Blue Star, and there was no proof, but in the Tianyuan world, this legend was proved by the heavenly court.

In ancient times and even in ancient times, the development of the Heavenly Court reached its peak, and it overwhelmed many surrounding worlds, making it a lower realm, just like a giant power in the heavens.

At that time, in the Tianyuan Immortal Court, no one in the Qingxu world could touch porcelain. The so-called expedition fleet did not dare to set foot in the radiation range of Tianyuan civilization.

It's just that things must be reversed at extremes, and this law is perfect for Tianting.

Formulate the rules of heaven, manage 33 days, manage the mortal world, and manage the subordinate lower realms...

There was nothing left to worry about, so the Heavenly Officials and Immortals turned their attention to Netherland.

In the eyes of the bosses, Netherland can just be used as an extension of the influence of heaven, because Netherland exists in every world that can give birth to supernatural beings.

The sages and heavenly emperors all left the field, observing the rules of the underworld, and laying the foundation for the establishment of the underworld.

Under the personal insight of these bigwigs, the rules of the underworld have been stripped away, and based on this, it is logical to seal the gods of the underworld who control the rules of the underworld.

With the emergence of the underworld system, the heavenly court sealed off the gods of the yin officials, and these yin official gods have the power to restrain ghosts. With the backing of the behemoth of the heavenly court, it didn't take long for the underworld to become a climate.

Hundreds of thousands of Yin soldiers and ghost messengers run rampant in the heavens and the underworld, and the prestige of the ten palaces of Yama and the four great judges is even comparable to the emperor of heaven in the surrounding world.

In ancient times, the underworld had already established a complete yin-yang order system in the Tianyuan mortal world and dozens of worlds.

During the Ghost Festival, ghosts are allowed to pass through the ghost gate and return to the world in an orderly manner. This is the tradition that started at this time.

The rhetoric from the heaven and the underworld is to appease the ghosts who have not been able to reincarnate for a long time, let them meet their relatives, and at the same time give them a chance to get incense.

But what it actually is, is that the Underworld wants to show its powerful strength and further expand its "territory" in the Netherland of the Outer Domain.

It doesn't matter how many ghosts are released to the human world. You can see if there are ghosts who dare to violate the laws of the underworld and cause trouble in the world. This is the self-confidence of the underworld.

After the establishment of the Ghost Festival, the influence of the underworld reached its peak. Even the unfathomable reincarnation can control part of the power, and reincarnation becomes "artificial" control.

The heavens and myriad worlds know everything, and many worlds even actively support the underworld to rule over the underworld.

However, extreme things will be reversed, prosperity will decline, and the power of the underworld will end here.

When the government's control and exploration of Netherland reached a limit, it seemed that it had touched some taboo and encountered a catastrophe.

Overnight, the samsara channel controlled by the underworld collapsed, and the Yin gods of the underworld such as Yan Luo and Judge disappeared collectively.

The rest of the middle and lower underworld yin officials were also affected. They lost the blessing of the power of the rules of the underworld, and they were no stronger than some ghost kings and ghosts.

The same is true for Yin soldiers and ghost messengers. They are no longer those with the privilege of longevity who lead the Yin post. Like other ghosts, they will not enter reincarnation, and their souls and bodies will also perish.

One hundred thousand ghost soldiers and ghost soldiers seem to be a lot, but after losing the special power to restrain ghosts, they are just a slightly stronger ghost army in the vast and boundless land of the underworld, which cannot form an effective deterrent.

The underworld system without strong support cannot be maintained, it can be said that it disappeared overnight, and no one knows what taboo was violated.

It's just that the Heavenly Court was implicated by the collapse of the underworld, and its momentum has plummeted since then.

Looking through his memory, Zhou Bai only saw some fragments of some hidden records in Jinting Jingjing Pavilion.

In order to facilitate the balance of yin and yang and communicate with the underworld, the underworld has opened up many channels, and the gate of ghosts is an important means.

After the collapse of the underworld, the ghost gate could not be closed, and countless passages lost control, forming cracks of various sizes.

The ghosts from the underworld of the heavens, like cats smelling fish, frantically rushed into the underworld belonging to the Tianyuan world, and then followed the gates of ghosts and cracks everywhere to the human world.

The opposite of yang is yin, a living person represents vitality, and a soul can only represent death.

The upper echelons of the Heavenly Court know very well what disasters will happen if ghosts that rely entirely on instinct and have no restrictions break into the human world.

Immediately, the heavenly court mobilized the heavenly officials and 33 heavenly gods, and it can be said that the sky was full of stars falling into the mortal world.

Among them, even the gods and Buddhas of the West Heaven, who have a very low sense of existence, also followed the lower realm to plug the leak, plugging the leak that pierced the sky, the collapse of the underworld.

In the end, the Heavenly Court also lived up to its prestige at the time. After paying a heavy price comparable to the establishment of the Heavenly Court, the ghost gates opened by the underworld were blocked, and countless cracks were temporarily filled.

The foundation of the Tianyuan Continent was finally preserved, and it did not become a part of the heavens and the underworld.

However, the collapse of the underworld has seriously weakened the strength of the Heavenly Court. You must know that the ten temples of Yama are all existences of at least the semi-holy level.

Then, in the actions to deal with the aftermath of the collapse of the underworld, the loss of the heavenly court was even greater, and the sphere of influence continued to shrink as a result.

The affiliated worlds have become independent one after another, and the Heavenly Court is still unable to blame them. When they are weakest, their influence does not even go out of Tianyuan.

During that time, it was also known as the dark age, and the position of the emperor of heaven had changed during the dark age, and he was the supreme power under Da Luo Daozu.

It can even be said that the number of Dao ancestors appearing less and less is not a sequela of the collapse of the underworld.

It wasn't until the so-called modern times that the Heavenly Court regained some of its vitality, and barely returned to the top of the world of the heavens, which was regarded as the strongest part.

If the Dao ancestor hadn't disappeared for thousands of years, and the Qingxu world took advantage of this to invade, maybe the heavenly court would also start to expand outwards and take back the former younger brother.

The underworld is gone, but some of the ghost system of the underworld has been forcibly preserved by the power of human nature, such as the city god, who usually sits in the local underworld.

It is also because of the existence of city gods in various places that the "temporary" cracks left by ancient times have been preserved intact, and there have been no major problems.

Why do you say that Zhou Bai wants to meet the God Lord avatar before the Hungry Ghost Festival? He is really worried about this Hungry Ghost Festival.

You must know that most of the area except Bei'an County is still in a state of war between the two worlds. Maybe Qingxu will use the Netherland again to stage a night walk of a hundred ghosts.

Bei'an's Shinto system has just been integrated, and Ruinan's Shinto system has also been invaded by the God Lord. Zhou Bai must know exactly what the Shenting system is like.

If it is a negligence, if the demon causes any trouble, it will be a big trouble for the Anbei Dudufu's rule in the new land of Ruinan County.

Shuiyang City God Temple.

After the Anbei Army entered the city, although they were still taking good care of them and there was no shortage of incense, Zhou Bai felt something was wrong as soon as he entered the city.

The cracks in the beams, the cobwebs that grew quickly after cleaning, the gilt paint leather that fell off the golden body of the statue, plus the dim moonlight and the gloomy atmosphere all indicated that the owner of the room was not in good condition.

Zhou Bai waved his hand lightly, all the gates of the temple were automatically closed in the absence of wind, and the guards outside were also very sensible, and they all retreated and guarded outside the temple.

The night wind blew gently, the candles flickered, and a god with a face covered in red light appeared beside Zhou Bai.

Needless to say, the one who came was the Divine Lord, and he scattered the light from his face, revealing a familiar appearance.

Of course, it is the same, but in fact, in order to avoid being accidentally taken over by the pot, the face of the God Lord clone is more like the appearance of Zhou Bai's soul before crossing.

Apart from his detached and majestic temperament, he is really an ordinary mortal, nothing special.

The divine master just waited and watched for a while, and immediately put it on Zhou Bai's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Tsk tsk, I haven't seen you for a long time, this is luck."

"Don't you know? The luck retained by the Heavenly Monument of Luck, and the general trend of expansion after the invasion of Ruinan." Zhou Bai was not at all uncomfortable, but chatted like an old friend.

This is the avatar, the two are one, and there is no need to hide any secrets.

The divine master thought for a while, and asked: "Winning Ruinan is definitely not enough, but should there be an uncle country structure? I have read the information of Tianya Pavilion, the royal family's movements, as long as they support the powerful central government, maybe it will be true." Even a county was closed."

Zhou Bai nodded slightly, and explained: "A county can only be a baron or a viscount. It is nothing more than the difference between a small county and a large county. Anyone who has the fate of Qianlong and aspires to fight for the dragon will definitely not start from this."

"The initial national status will affect part of the luck pattern. The earl has been a noble nobleman since ancient times. At least starting from the earl country will not hinder the potential."

"Dingzhou is not as prosperous as the big and prosperous states in the south of the Yangtze River in the central region. It is a little bit overstepping to be called a king, but its weight is so great that it is not a problem to be called a prince. As for the title of uncle, the two counties are a little weaker, let's say the three counties."

Obviously, Zhou Boming didn't mention Jianguo at all on the surface, but he had already made plans in his heart.

"Okay, as long as you have success, let me talk about Shenting."

The altar master sniffed the incense, and ate the fruit offerings on the shrine and said, "It's still in its infancy. Even if you give me a certain authority over luck, it's still difficult to seal all the gods in place."

"The current county town god of Bei'an is represented by Chao Qu, and has not yet been seated. You may need to take down Ruinan and make a big sacrifice. There are also three county town gods that are in place, and they are all located in counties with cracks in the underworld, so you You can rest assured."

"Eleven entry-level land gods, all distributed in important grain-producing areas, two 630 heroic soldiers, 23 priests and generals..."

"As for Ruinan, I spared the life of the Shuiyang City God. Firstly, it is to suppress the cracks in the underworld here. Secondly, it is humane for him to accept Tian Mingxianghuo to do things. After all, the God of Incense and Fire..."

(End of this chapter)