An evolutionary game starting from Suolongjing.

Chapter 720: A magnificent return

The next day.

The news that Zhang Ke was returning to the Shang and Zhou world spread from the Wushan Palace and the other three palaces to the outside world, and spread to every corner of the world through the network of earth veins.

Once the news was confirmed, it immediately caused an uproar in the world!

Countless people took to the streets cheering, every house was decorated with lights and colors, and all kinds of shops were offering discounts or free items. Even the government offices that were usually busy were now closed to allow officials to join in this clear and grand carnival.

What is even more shocking is that, except for Wushan, in almost every city and village, there are a large number of women who collect food and gold and silver from their homes. After much consideration and hesitation, they only keep a small part, and pack up the rest and give them to their men or elders, saying something to them with longing and nagging.

At the same time, the entrances and exits of cities and towns that usually had the most traffic were now filled with horse-drawn carriages, ox-drawn carts, or vehicles pulled by rare wild animals, waiting for the villagers to put their packed food and valuables in the vehicles. After the elders had counted the number of people, the large and small teams began their long journey.

There is nothing much to say about this, it is very straightforward.

These people simply wanted to set off early and rush to Wushan Royal City to meet Zhang Ke and take a look at the Human King they had been thinking about.

Different from the past.

The world of the Shang and Zhou dynasties was not a world inherited from the Nine Provinces.

To be precise, it was originally like this, but after the authority of this world was transferred to Zhang Ke, everything changed.

Today, this world is mainly composed of the original Sanmiao Jiuzhou branch, which was once condemned to the Four Sins, displaced and oppressed everywhere until it was almost wiped out and later renamed Shaoyou tribe.

They were created out of thin air by the game according to the wild template. Although they have memories and inheritance, the cause and effect are tied to Zhang Ke alone. The Diyou tribe is separated from the Shaoyou tribe by the East China Sea.

And more than half a year ago, after just going through a new round of world integration, it now occupies the southern end of the Shang and Zhou world. Together with the Shaoyou tribe, it squeezes the original southern barbarians into the gap and dares not make a sound in the later Nine Provinces.

In addition, there are the princes who betrayed the Western Zhou Dynasty and turned to the light, the Western Zhou emperor who was unable to stand on his own but had to survive because the three parties were too lazy to pay attention to him, and the two factions either combined or acted separately. After they came from the void and outer realms to conquer, they were integrated into the heaven and earth and were inspired by the world, giving birth to all kinds of barbarians, rude and rude foreign gods, and outsiders.

There is no need to mention the demons, monsters, elves and aquatic creatures that are native to Kyushu and left over from the wilderness!

As the most important branches between heaven and earth, they are either the Diyou tribe, which is connected by causal blood and is almost shaped like a test tube embryo, or the Shaoyou tribe, which considers themselves as descendants and calls their ancestors by their names. It would be fine if Zhang Ke did not come back, but as long as he came back and did it so openly and announced the itinerary to heaven and earth, they would have to come.

There may be a sense of ritual, but more of it is pure emotion from the heart.

After all, if Emperor You hadn't existed, the Sanmiao tribe would have been destroyed in the Ten Thousand Mountains soon, and the wandering tribesmen would eventually be integrated into various villages, waiting for thousands of years. Perhaps some capable descendants who remembered their ancestors would be able to revive the Sanmiao, but the Sanmiao at that time would be unable to trace back to the famous Jiuli in ancient times.

And with the growing strength of the Central Plains and the renewal of dynasties, no matter how many villages there are in the Shiwandashan area and how many human tribes with different bloodlines there are, they will all be uniformly called Miao and Man in the end.

Even in later generations, even though the Miao people claimed to be the direct descendants of the Jiuli people and had orthodox blood, they were just remnants after countless storms and changes. Not to mention the barriers and deviations in blood, it is unknown how much spiritual identity remained.

Such a future is destined to decline, as well as the Diyou tribe that should not have existed, and even those who were once princes and the common people and poor families under the emperor.

If it weren't for Emperor You's appearance, how could they have lived in this beautiful and harmonious world that was almost like a utopia for the human race.

With the endless wars and divisions in Kyushu's history, the joke of later generations that poverty has no end for three generations is a cold and cruel reality for them.
Today, after only a few decades and two generations of inheritance, the world has changed so much that even some elderly people can't help but sigh:

As all the evil monsters were killed and wiped out, and as the human race in the Shang and Zhou dynasties grew stronger and stronger, their territories expanded, and the remote villages and towns that were originally located in the mountains were gradually transformed into large and small cities. Many of the once uninhabited forests now had villages settled in them, and the living territories of wild monsters were gradually and steadily decreasing.

But despite the reduction, in the later generations when Jiuzhou had not yet been integrated into the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the power of industrialization had not yet spread to the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the people here still maintained their primitive farming routines and lifestyles.

And because of the world's foundation and level, the abundance of various fruits and rice means that the human race in the Shang and Zhou dynasties does not need to endlessly reclaim wasteland.

After all, there were no princes in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, no tax oppression from landlords, and no greedy collection of land by aristocratic families. As for man-made droughts and famines, they were even less likely.

Even though the Shang and Zhou dynasties are now ruled by queens, the new king from later generations has not returned to his own territory for decades, and may not show up openly for more than a hundred years.

But if you really dare to do that, he will not be stingy with his knife and axe and let you see why he has such a bad nickname!

And as for the fact that you are a human, so what?
In the Eastern Han Dynasty in the neighboring world, all the noble families were burned down. Although he did not do it personally, he was the one who pushed them behind the scenes. And in the world before him, when the nine provinces were divided into different historical eras, were there not enough human beings who died in fire and flood?

Perhaps Emperor You has grown a lot now, and is no longer as cruel and murderous as he was before.

Perhaps compared to other kings and emperors, You's love for the human race is more direct and partial.

But when you are not a human being, or you have lost basic empathy for your own kind, and treat others like pigs and dogs just because of their status and position, don't blame Emperor You for treating you like pigs and dogs and slaughtering your entire family!
In this case, without external pressure and the need to forcibly increase per-acre yield, the people will naturally be happy to plant fewer acres of land.

They only need to cultivate enough food for their family or the village, and leave a little to sell. The original forests, swamps and other plots of land can be used to grow medicinal herbs, collect firewood, hunt wild animals and catch fish to supplement their family wealth.

Moreover, although the crops grown by humans are nourished by heaven and earth and have become spiritual objects with their own functions, they are not as effective as those natural treasures that grow from the nodes of the earth's veins and the accumulation of spiritual energy!
As long as you pay a little attention to ethics when picking, you can have a steady supply. The excess money can slowly change your family's life and make it prosperous while being stored!

Although this is tiring, it is a life with both work and leisure, and it is more hopeful. If you are not greedy or an ungrateful person, you should take action.

Of course, their actions are not like that either.

Because of the world background of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the fact that the two tribes were based on tribes rather than dynasties, they had a large number of magic skills and the advanced version was shared directly to the villages, so a large number of practicing talents were born.

Life was extended, and the physical condition was always maintained at a fixed point. Without the worries that troubled ordinary people in other worlds, the human race in the Shang and Zhou worlds naturally had to learn to find something for themselves to do.

Joining the Royal Guard is one of the many options, with the widest acceptance and never a shortage of manpower.

Like other gods and immortals, one has to pass the assessment of reputation, examine merits, test knowledge and ability, and so on before one can get a chance to hold an official position; in addition, other ways to give back to one's own tribe also have various restrictions, but personal guards are different. First of all, to select a personal guard, you only need enough military force!

As long as you are reckless, not afraid of death, and know how to follow orders, you can be a personal guard. As for being granted a title of nobility or a general, that is a matter for later. Anyway, it is not something a large soldier needs to consider.

As a personal guard, you can pass layers of selection and go to the vanguard camp, follow the team to fight in foreign lands, wipe out the barbarians, gather the mountains and rivers to feed the foundation of the world; even if you cannot become an elite, you can still patrol and inspect various places in the world, slay demons and protect the tribesmen (although, in the past few decades, except for the fierce battlefields opened up in foreign lands, there are very few blind demons in your own world).

But if there is nothing to do in the world, you can become a guardian in various temples!

Due to the large number of vacancies in the heavenly and underworld offices, they had to lower the conditions and expand enrollment.

The souls who originally could only serve as messengers or guardians due to lack of merit, fame or knowledge have now found full-time jobs.

Never mind that most of them are land gods, but even those from the ninth rank are proper land gods who are protected by heaven and earth, and enjoy monthly immortal salaries, as well as promotions based on merit. Even though there are few great gods and immortals, with such a large number of them, who can guarantee that not one of them will be able to achieve success immediately?
And who can ensure that it is not you who defeats countless opponents and is promoted step by step?

As a result, a large number of low-level soldiers and generals were transferred to fill the vacancies of the earth gods, and the soldiers and generals under the temples of the gods and immortals were left vacant. As a result, for gods like the City God, except for the state city gods, there were not many candidates for dispatch in the temples of the county and prefecture city gods. Even the most basic job of soul-collecting was replaced by the Ox-Headed Horse-Face and the Shackle General. It is conceivable to what extent the number of immortal gods of medium and low status or even no status in Jiuzhou is lacking now!
If the task is not completed, the annual assessment evaluation will not be very good, which will delay the movement of position and the road to advancement.

But the lack of immortals and gods is a hard defect. Even the simplest ghost messenger is not something that ordinary people can handle. The disciples of the Sanshan Taoist sect look down on the small ghost messenger, and the immortals and gods of the unorthodox sects who have insufficient lifespan and are desperate because of their past bad deeds dare not trust them.

As a result, the earth level fell into greater and greater difficulties, and at this time, the emergence of the Shang and Zhou human race filled this gap.

Although there is a huge gap between their merits and reputations, their moral character is guaranteed, they have people backing them up, their magical powers are righteous, they are powerful, and they have a large number of people!
In this way, soon, the reputation of Emperor You's personal guards spread rapidly from the big temples in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and quickly dispersed from big to small. Now, after many years, even those remote land temples that are barely enough for the ninth-rank land god to have two tall and strong personal guards with magical powers to protect him!

And since the spread and popularization of the personal guards, the safety of the land gods has been guaranteed, among other things!

In those desolate lands, the mountain gods no longer have to worry about being imprisoned and deprived of their thrones by roaming monsters and demons.

Moreover, instead of having to worry about being ambushed, those demons and monsters have to worry about their own lives!

Those personal guards may not be as powerful as the heavenly soldiers and generals, or have more men and more generals, but the power of each of them to control the heaven and earth, as well as the ultimate weakened version of fire disaster, are enough to cause the demons with weak connections to suffer great losses, or even lose their lives.

As for those following behind, there was naturally no need to confront the bodyguards head-on.

After all, if he had offended the personal guards, he would inevitably be investigated by the Heaven and the Underworld. Even if he had overcome these two difficulties, there was no guarantee that Emperor You would get a sudden impulse one day and rush directly to the gate of the cave!
Although this matter is as outrageous as if the one who came to slay demons and monsters was not the immortal god of the Thunder Department but the Lord Haotian himself.

But unfortunately, Emperor You never plays by the rules. When he encounters resentment and complaints, he really does it himself, and in the process he will even kill rabbits by taking advantage of the situation and flood the entire world with fire.

Regardless of whether the environment was damaged during the process, all the demons, whether they deserved to die or not, have died.
In this way, the safety of the newly appointed gods of the land was guaranteed, and the guards of the Shang and Zhou dynasties who were not qualified to fight in foreign lands due to their lack of strength and large numbers also found things to do. In addition, in some remote areas where there were no immortals or gods to suppress them, the Taoist disciples who went to eliminate evil now had new reliable helpers to summon.

Three birds with one stone!
Not to mention that as a personal guard, not only will you receive a generous salary from your family, but you will also receive benefits from other places.

The points you gain from fighting in foreign lands can be exchanged for resources in Wushan Royal City; being a guardian for immortals and gods, and being a god can give you various benefits from heaven and hell. The former can be promoted all the way until they are granted a title of nobility and become a general and lead a foreign battlefield!
While changing one's allegiance, one can also take up a position in the royal city. Not only can one see Princess Yao Ji on a daily basis, but one can also get close to their king on some important occasions!

The latter is a guarantee. Even though the guards working under the gods are considered to be laborers of different generations, in fact, the merits and demerits accumulated in the process will be counted by the day and night wandering gods and the judges.

It's good that nothing happened. If the guards died in an accident, their true spirits would have the opportunity to be deified without taking any test based on the merits accumulated during this period.

When you are given a new life, you are also directly enlisted. You can continue to move up to heaven and hell, or you can return to the world of Shang and Zhou. It is very flexible!

That being the case, after decades of evolution, the process within the Royal Guards has gradually become one in which new recruits guard their own territory, are responsible for the protection of the royal palace and cities, and patrol various locations. If the annual limit is met, or if the strength is sufficient and the merits accumulated, they can go to the royal palace and eventually be transferred to serve under the newly appointed immortals and gods.

At this point, a dividing line is created. One can either pursue military career, accumulating merits and gaining promotions in the pantheon of gods in heaven and hell; or, when one's merits are accumulated enough to secure the position of a true god, one can return to Wushan and join the vanguard camp in the foreign lands.

Whether it is a human or a god, the process is clear and unambiguous!
And it is precisely because of the various overt and covert benefits that the personal guards have that the human race in the Shang and Zhou dynasties is particularly good at fighting, and the number of personal guards has expanded from the original millions to the current hundreds of millions.

Of course, this number seems large, but in fact, it is just a drop in the bucket for the outer world, which has a planet or several dimensions, or for Jiuzhou, which once had countless worlds.

It can be considered to have accelerated the progress of both sides a little, but it was only a little bit and it did not have the final say!

But even so, for the human race, this is a life they never dared to dream of before, and facing the human king who brought all this, how can they not respect and yearn for him from the bottom of their hearts?
At the same time that the human race in the Shang and Zhou dynasties was gathering in Wushan in various ways, the various spirits and monsters that had been living in harmony and mutual benefit with the human race were quietly packing up their bags and heading for the ravines and wilderness to seek refuge.

In the relatively peaceful palace, accompanied by a breeze, a figure suddenly appeared behind Yao Ji, who was working at the table.

Under the girl's surprised and slightly reproachful eyes, Zhang Ke sat down behind her and found his home harbor with his hands as if he were familiar with it. The familiar fragrance like orchids in the deep valley lingered in his nose, and the light smell made him take a deep breath of comfort.

came back!
Finally back!
He was really not good at sitting and chatting with a group of billionaires, even if it was a banquet with food and drinks in a nearly family-like manner, even though all those present were his elders except Emperor Shun who could only sit at the table in a wheelchair, and even though he had announced his arrival to the entire wilderness with a single sword not long ago.

But facing this group of old men who were very cunning and never let anything slip in their words, Zhang Ke still felt his scalp tingling.

Although they were just chatting, eight pairs of eyes never left Zhang Ke from beginning to end, and the things they talked about made him quite uncomfortable.

What is the wild pattern, the direction of the human race, and the current situation of the void
Although Zhang Ke is now qualified to comment on these things, and his opinion is crucial to the outcome of either party, but who has ever considered that before this he was just a thug who fought his way to the throne of the Human King purely with his fists, and had not undergone any conventional training like that of a crown prince.

The result was naturally not very good. Zhang Ke, who had shown great prowess on the battlefield, was "forced" to be assigned many courses in his future after his shortcomings were revealed.

Including but not limited to one year every three years must be spent watching the side of the human kings, and one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors will be rotated every three years. This is not only to learn different styles but also to avoid contracting certain serious problems after working under one person for a long time!
Yes, that's right, I'm referring to you, Xuanyuan, Xia, and Yu, the two grandparents!

Compared with the cultural courses he was not good at, the more troublesome thing was that no matter what happened to him afterwards, he was not allowed to engage in any violent behavior or verbal threats during the observation period and had to observe the course to the end.

If you have no patience and just act according to your own impulse, how can you become successful?
Thinking of the cold and headache-inducing future, Zhang Ke couldn't help but bury himself deeper in his arms.

This world is cold and ruthless, only this pair of arms can warm people's hearts a little
(End of this chapter)