Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

Chapter 480 Running Dog
The Immortal Envoys of the New Heng Dynasty are a very interesting group. When Wang Luo was flipping through the information, he paid close attention to it with great interest.

First of all, the so-called Immortal Envoy was also called the Taoist Seed of the World in the New Heng Dynasty. They are under the direct management of the Imperial Master, and at the same time receive blessings from the Immortal Officials. They are able to touch the immortal power through their mortal bodies, and possess magical powers that are completely different from those of the New Hengxian Dao.

The man in the lake who was dying before believed that Wang Luo was an immortal messenger before he died and entrusted him with the precious jade in his mouth. The reason was that Wang Luo had both the Immortal Alliance's Yiqing Nascent Soul and the desolate poison in his body. Red baby. Although the realm of power is not that extraordinary, in the eyes of the New Heng Dynasty, the only person who can possess the best of both worlds is the Immortal Envoy.

The value of the Immortal Envoy is, of course, not just the excellence of individual strength. The key lies in the fact that these Taoists who are the head of two families can often play a vital role in the evolution of the Immortal Tao in the dynasty. The flash of inspiration of a few geniuses is better than the hard work of mortals for hundreds of years. Similar cases are never uncommon in the practice of spiritual practice, and the immortal messengers can often become the best among them, single-handedly promoting the progress of the entire dynasty's practice...

But in essence, the so-called Immortal Official's blessing is just a cruel human experiment. Every once in a while, the current imperial master will select a group of "Tao seeds" with outstanding talents and bones from the country, and hand them over to the heavenly officials for training. Immortal officials will infect these Tao species with all kinds of wild poisons, causing most of them to die on the spot. The few lucky enough to survive have become the best objects of observation. The immortal officials will deduce and optimize the new eternal immortal path based on the deformation and deformation of these people. After that, these Immortal Official deduction methods can be naturally extended to the entire Xinheng territory.

Yes, Xinheng's development of the immortal path does not rely on the so-called enlightenment of the world's Tao seeds - in most cases, the spiritual light in the minds of the immortal envoys blooms, but when the time is ripe, the memories sealed by the immortal officials are obtained. Just release.

The progress of the entire Xinheng Immortal Way actually relies to a large extent on the "insights" of the immortal officials of the Heavenly Court. Throughout the hundreds of years of the dynasty's history, there have been several Immortal Way innovations that have affected the entire territory and skyrocketed the national power. It was due to the top-down promotion of the Immortal Officials and Imperial Masters.

This is of course not because the immortal officials in heaven have the intention to actively participate in the world and help all living beings, it is simply a helpless act. But because a prosperous mortal civilization is crucial to heaven.

The apparent intention of Heavenly Court to establish a huge testing ground in Mingzhou is to analyze the powerful secrets of the Immortal Alliance from the reproduction of mortal civilization and target it - at least this is what the seven surrendered Immortal officials told them. But the truth is most likely not the case. Perhaps the immortal officials lost important memories about Heaven after surrendering, or perhaps these low-level immortal officials were never qualified to know the true intentions of Heaven...

At least in Wang Luo's view, Heaven's support of mortal civilization in Mingzhou may be more to compete for the right to define mortals. Between the left and right of heaven, which side is more representative of all sentient beings in the world? The way of heaven is vague and ruthless, so why should it target the Xianmeng family? Speaking of mortals, Tianzhizuo also has mortals. Even in a desolate and poisonous place, the immortals can still carve out a pure paradise for mortals and breed vigorous vitality... Then, if the mortal civilization of Tianzhizuo , can develop more prosperously than Tianzhiyou, why does Tiandao continue to be in love with the Immortal Alliance?

Whether it is the Heavenly Lord drawing the bow, or the great enchantment of setting the wilderness in all directions, the Great Law is needed as the underlying support. Otherwise, the former will lose the place of shelter and nourishment in Taixu Illusionary Realm, and eventually gradually enter decay. The latter will simply have no basis for existence.

In addition, in the Battle of Dinghuang, Tianting won the right to define those above the level of gods. This not only means that Mingzhou can continuously breed powerful people above the level of gods, or even immortals. It also means that they also have incomparable advantages in the theory of immortality.

With such a unique advantage, the Mingzhou civilization planned by Tianting, even if its territory is small and its population is not as large as that of the Immortal League, is likely to develop faster and better. In the end, the people of the Immortal League will unknowingly take over. The descent of orthodoxy into the mortal world caused the natural collapse of the Great Law.

This question forms the theoretical cornerstone of Heaven’s thousand-year plan. The more prosperous the New Heng Dynasty becomes, the harder it will be for the great laws that the Immortal Alliance is proud of to be brought into play. Without the protection of the Great Law, many of the deadly moves that the Immortal Alliance relies on to resist the Heavenly Court become rootless trees.

Because even with so many advantages, Mingzhou's mortal civilization still cannot develop as well as the Immortal Alliance - let alone compete with the Immortal Alliance, they cannot even exist independently and stably for a long time. In the first three hundred years or so, the civilizations that Heaven had worked so hard to build fell one after another. The frequent changes of dynasties are child's play, just like the passing locusts in the scroll of Taixu. No matter how hard the immortal officials try to select capable men and wise men from the mortal civilization, teach them earnestly, and even occasionally use some immortal methods to confuse the gods... they can never stabilize the country.

But how easy is it to break the great law? The rules designed by Lu Zhiyao during the Battle of Dinghuang were almost flawless. Even if they are as powerful as the immortals in heaven, when faced with the Great Law, they often seem to be throwing an ax at the sky.

When a combined or Mahayana-level practitioner deduces the skills and tests the techniques on the spot, the effectiveness is often beyond what many low-level practitioners can make up for with quantity - a few low-level immortal officials can deduce the immortal way. This is also the key to driving the advancement of immortality in the entire New Heng Dynasty.

However, it is very feasible to use Mingzhou to replace Taojiang with Li Li, which is the great law of the Immortal League. Even saying that, but judging from the paper deduction, this matter is absolutely inevitable!
It is true that during the years of Tiandao's transformation, Mingzhou's mortal civilization suffered heavy losses, and almost only the dying fire was left... But at that time, there was smoke everywhere in the sky, and there was almost no real paradise. In the early years of the establishment of the Immortal Alliance, even the territory was It is fragmented and often has to face the raging offensive of the barbaric tide. It has to expend a lot of energy to deal with border defense. In comparison, a Mingzhou that has a complete territory from the beginning, and is protected by heaven and has no external enemies, has a certain strategic advantage.

This strategic idea is of course very good, even genius. However, in practice, Heavenly Court has been struggling for a thousand years.

Either party strife and civil strife, or civil rebellion, or a tyrant's bad governance leading to the overall collapse... In short, every once in a while, there must be a fierce battle that affects the entire territory, and every fierce battle will allow Mingzhou to recover a little bit with great difficulty. The vitality is completely lost. In the early years, when the Heavenly Court's restrictions on communication between immortals and mortals were not strict, there were even bad precedents where immortal officials personally stepped in to support a certain party, which ultimately almost led to the outbreak of an immortal war.

More than a hundred years later, the top-grade golden immortals in the heaven learned from the pain and decided not to trust mortals anymore. Instead, they used the unprecedented power of the immortals to strengthen grassroots governance. They mobilized a large number of low-grade immortal officials to sink to the grassroots and settle in mortals. During the imperial court, he managed the affairs of the court like ordinary officials. These immortal officials may have their own concerns in private, and they may also have conflicts with each other. However, bound by the Immortal Law, at least on the issue of heavenly affairs, no one dares to make mistakes easily and abandon public affairs for private purposes. In this way, we can put things right out of chaos and bring Mingzhou's mortal civilization back on track quickly...

However, this century can be called the darkest century in Mingzhou. It is true that there is no possibility of civil strife in the dynasty under the control of immortal officials. Even with the encouragement of the immortals, capable and righteous people in the country have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The country soon showed a prosperous scene, and the pain caused by the civil strife in the past hundreds of years was quickly healed... If this momentum continues, it seems that competing with the Immortal Alliance is no longer a fantasy.

But as a result, just when the first centenary plan began to be settled, a result emerged that shocked everyone and even made them despair. The civilization that was forcibly supported by the immortals was strong and strong, but it had lost its "mortal" attributes and could not arouse the interest of the great laws of the Immortal Alliance at all. The immortals have been busy for hundreds of years, but their impact on the Great Law is not as good as those years when Mingzhou was raging with war and civil strife!
As a result, the immortals had to face a difficult choice: what to do next?
One plan is to continue to develop according to the existing route. Whether it represents the mortal world or the heaven, in short, a strong national power will not be a bad thing. If we can really build a civilization that is stronger than the Immortal Alliance, why not do it?

But the problem with this plan is: if you only pursue the power to overwhelm the Immortal Alliance, then there is no need for heaven to support mortal civilization... Throwing a large number of precious immortal officials into the mortal world to waste time is not a costly luxury. ? Although those immortal officials are not of high rank, if they can endure and practice hard for hundreds of years, their strength will be greatly improved, and the improvement rate will be much higher than the progress of mortal civilization. However, it is precisely because Tianting cannot defeat its opponents with brute force that there is trouble later. Therefore, a country that is simply powerful is of no value to Tianting.

What's more, no one can be sure that this model of micro-management by the immortals themselves will still be efficient in the next hundred or hundreds of years. In fact, when the first hundred-year settlement period came, many immortal officials felt relieved and even secretly happy when faced with the ironic result - a dignified immortal in heaven had to work for mortals, why? ?
Even if he is bound by the fairy law and has no way to resist, the difference in efficiency between those who are willing to do things and those who are not willing to deal with it is clear at a glance.

The second plan is much simpler and cruder: since the old plan is no longer sustainable, just delete it and start over.

Yes, if you want to bring order to the chaos and re-establish a "mortal" civilization, Heaven must abandon the dynasty that has been cultivated for hundreds of years and tear everything down and start over.

In the end, the second plan was approved by the Lord of Heaven.

As a result, an unprecedented disaster broke out on the land of Mingzhou. After the catastrophe, all life in Mingzhou was devastated, and all ten houses were empty. The surviving people had multiplied and lived for several generations, but they were still unable to lose their fear of heaven. And Heavenly Court's thousand-year plan suddenly hit rock bottom.

It was under such historical conditions that the New Heng Dynasty was carefully supported by the immortals in heaven. This time, the immortals carefully iterated on their playing methods and chose the simplest and most effective copycat method: to put it simply, they no longer tried to start over from scratch and create a mortal civilization that was superior to the Immortal Alliance. Instead, they are following the Immortal Alliance in every aspect. Whatever the Immortal League does, the New Heng Dynasty will learn to do. Even if some things are limited by various conditions and cannot be fully referenced, then you can refer to it one more point, and you will never make random originals unless it is absolutely necessary... At the same time, the Immortal People are tightly restrained and strictly maintain a distance from mortal civilization, and only complete basic communication and guidance through national teachers. And provide some support when necessary.

As for the actual effect of this set of tactics, it is still unknown - those heavenly officials who surrendered have forgotten the results of the latest assessment for returning to heaven. In fact, most of their understanding of the previous dynasty comes from the historical records of the New Heng Dynasty - but in any case, before Xin Heng, there was no stable dynasty in Mingzhou that lasted for hundreds of years. regime. And every few decades, Heavenly Court would send new immortal officials to take turns in the New Heng Dynasty, working silently in secret.

This stable pattern that lasted for hundreds of years naturally created Heavenly Court, as well as people and things related to Heavenly Court, which had a lofty status in the New Heng Dynasty.

Although Zhang Jincheng, the state counselor, does not take on any daily general affairs, he has the right to dictate any state affairs - if he insists on his own way, he can even abolish or establish the state. And the Taoist people in the world who are directly affiliated with the National Master also have extremely high privileges in the New Heng Dynasty. Although they cannot communicate directly with the Immortal Officials, they can communicate directly with the Imperial Preceptors, and the Imperial Preceptors often have great trust in the Immortal Envoys. Therefore, in most cases, the authority of the Immortal Envoy in the country is almost absolute.

In fact, this was a situation deliberately created by successive national advisors.

Because the centralized power of one person is extremely limited. The position of the Imperial Preceptor is often like a castle in the air. On the surface, his power almost surpasses that of the emperor. But in most cases, this power only has a deterrent effect - once the abuse of power leads to the collapse of the government, the punishment of the Immortal Official is almost instantaneous. It’s here! The power that only has the power of deterrence can at most be respected by people, but it is difficult for them to recognize it. Therefore, from a very early stage, Xinheng's Imperial Preceptors have been deliberately decentralizing power...cultivating immortal envoys, and then widely dispersing them throughout Xinheng's territory, limiting their influence to the small imperial court despite their infinite power. The power quickly spread to the entire territory, and then was transmitted back to the court in the reverse direction from the entire territory.

As a result, a truly stable power structure emerged.

At this time, Wang Luo played the role of a lackey who consolidated power for the imperial master.

The great power this lackey had gained was quickly confirmed.

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Across the mountains on the southwest bank of Crazy Lake, there is a small town located at the foot of the mountain.

The city's population is only a few thousand, and it feels like a paradise far away from the hustle and bustle of the world. Even the city lord has no bureaucratic airs. He spends all day laughing and scolding the merchants and lackeys in the market place... But now, this casual city lord is fully dressed, kneeling in front of Wang Luo tremblingly, with cold sweat pouring down his back.

"See, I've met your Excellency the Immortal Fu Shi. I'm a lower official. I'm a lower official Xia Houying. I'm willing to listen to your orders!"

(End of this chapter)