Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 782: Night Talk in the Deserted Mountain
"What a clever boy." When the Haotian Qi appeared vaguely in the heaven and earth and in the memories of many living beings, Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun in the Biyou Palace also smiled, then stretched out his hand and fixed the Haotian Qi.

It is not an easy task to make Haotian appear in this world. It is true that Daluo is omnipresent and spans time and space, but the prerequisite is that time and space, heaven and earth, maintain a unified state.

But the time and space between this generation and the generation where Haotian is located are unified and contradictory at the same time.

From the perspective of these saints, this is the eternal past.

There lies the immortal future.

However, there is a lack of a present that can serve as a connection between the past and the future.

After all, in a certain sense, the birth of Haotian was manifested by the saint using the current generation as a sacrifice - it was the saint who pushed the original reality into Guixu, which in turn enabled Haotian to move from nothingness to reality.

In other words, although Haotian is a Daluo, the foundation of Haotian's existence actually lies in this generation that has been buried in Guixu.

Therefore, even for a saint, it is not an easy task to make the miracle of Haotian appearing in the future manifest in the 'past'.

This is not only reversing time and space, but also forcibly twisting the essence of a great master - regardless of whether this move will have a good or bad impact on the master, once, during this twist, Haotian's essence and nature are affected by external forces and deviated, then all the price paid by the heaven and earth for this will be worth the loss.

The generation of Haotian and the future it represents is a true miracle that cannot be replicated - even if a saint can rotate time and space tens of millions of times and evolve the real and the unreal, he cannot replicate the miracle of Haotian's generation.

Because, Haotian's generation is a generation that touched the reality in the illusion and connected with those beings at the level of creation of the world.

The existence of the creation of the world, as well as the world where the creation of the world exists, are completely beyond the control of the saints!
Once you miss the opportunity of Haotian, even a saint will not be sure to trigger the existence of the creation of the world again in this endless chaos, thus opening up the opportunity to plunder the origin of heaven and earth.

Therefore, even saints dare not and cannot move when it comes to Haotian's affairs - even though this generation is their real "hometown", no one has ever thought of connecting Haotian's future to this generation.

Until this time.

At the cost of his own existence, Guangchengzi used the Heaven-Flipping Seal to connect Mount Buzhou, temporarily acting as the 'present', linking the past and future that could not be connected together, and then sent Ao Bing, the disciple of the Great Celestial Lord, from the future to the past.

No, it has been delivered to now.

Then, Ao Bing, without any teacher, mentioned the name of Haotian in front of the Human King in this world - with his own Azure Dragon Qi and in the name of master and disciple, he brought the name of Haotian to this generation.

Thus, in this past that did not belong to Haotian, there was the first anchor point belonging to Haotian.

At this time, what the saints need to do is to stabilize this first anchor point and stabilize the only remaining trace of Haotian so that it will not dissipate.

At the same time, it will not alarm others.

"I was still wondering how this kid was going to resolve the regrets of this generation and make it possible for the two generations to connect."

"I didn't expect that this kid had this idea."

"Smart, smart." Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun smiled, then looked at his disciple in front of him with disdain.

"If you can be so smart, why should I worry about you?" As he said this, the figure of Shangqing Lingbao Tianzun disappeared in the Biyou Palace. When his figure disappeared, Duobao Taoist and others only vaguely saw that there was an extra lamp in his hand.

……

At this time, Ao Bing was already walking around in the human world.

Zhao Gongming, also together.

"Fellow Daoist Qinglong, you have really found yourself a tough job." Zhao Gongming patted the mane on his horse's back - this horse was transformed from his mount, the black tiger.

What he was talking about was the imperial edict that Ao Bing had asked the King of Man for.

That is to say, it is something that happens in the human world to bring order to life and death.

There is also a dragon horse beside Ao Bing.

Although under the Human King's decree, humanity's suppression of Ao Bing was slightly loosened, allowing Ao Bing to use some of his magic power, the two of them were still dressed as mortals - the reason for doing so was very simple.

Before they set out, Emperor Xin notified all the princes in all directions and eight hundred towns of the order to ask Qinglong to decide life and death.

As soon as Ao Bing set out, he had already become a thorn in the eyes and flesh of the princes of the world.

The eight hundred princes in this human world did not think that the Human King was targeting them, but regarded this imperial edict as a hint from the Human King.

Hinting to them, it was the Heavenly Court that was at fault in this war and had lost its righteousness, so it specifically sent the Dragon Clan to the human world to pick on the faults of these princes. Otherwise, why would the Human King spread this edict to all directions - remember, everything must be done in secrecy!

If the King of Man really wanted to do this, he should have held back.

Therefore, Ao Bing and Zhao Gongming set out from Mengjin Ferry and headed north along the Yellow River. According to Ao Bing's plan, they wanted to go to Wuyi Mountain first - and then head west along the Yellow River.

But at this time, they had not yet reached the first prince, let alone Wuyi Mountain, but they had already encountered four ambushes in succession!

In addition, there are also overt and covert temptations from certain immortal sects in the human world.

Whose idea was it to test Ao Bing's life and death? Also, test the relationship between Ao Bing and Youming.

In this killing calamity that can produce a saint, the vigilance of those Daluo who aspire to become a saint between heaven and earth against the underworld has increased tenfold or even a hundredfold compared to before!

Under such circumstances, Ao Bing and Zhao Gongming had no choice but to disguise themselves as mortals and avoid the various immortal sects along the way.

Although this move would inevitably lead to being ambushed by the princes, it could at least avoid the temptations of those practitioners.

"But I don't think this is a hard job." Ao Bing led the dragon horse to the stream nearby and stopped, allowing the dragon horse to drink water and rest there.

"At least now, the Dragon Clan has been removed from the conflict between the gods and humans, and the Jiejiao disciples outside do not have to consider the positions of the Dragon Clan and Jiejiao."

"Fellow Daoist Gongming, you have to consider whether any Jiejiao disciples are involved in this matter of disturbing life and death."

"Buying life and selling life, this is really a good deal."

The vassal state adjacent to the Shang Dynasty's capital was called Hufang State.

Its territory is quite large and its strength is very strong.

The people of the country worship tigers. Along the way, the sounds of tiger roars can be heard one after another in the mountains and forests everywhere. Some nobles and generals in the country even enjoy raising tigers.

In the country of Hu Fang, it is not uncommon for tigers to eat people - but people from all walks of life in the country do not take it seriously, and simply think that those who are eaten by tigers cannot even do the most basic things like avoiding or controlling tigers, and are not worthy of being Hu Fang people.

Ao Bing and Zhao Gongming passed through cities and crossed mountains and rivers along the way. What they saw was that the resentment of the sudden deaths of mortals in the mountains and cities was everywhere.

There are also some souls that are bound by the environment of mountains and forests and cannot return to the underworld.

There are even some cities that have specially set up facilities to collect and restrain souls - but when someone dies and does not have time to return to the underworld, their souls will be collected in those facilities, and then their souls will become some special resources.

Or it is used to prepare medicinal materials, refine elixirs, or to sacrifice some vicious magic and spiritual treasures, etc. It can only be said that because the Netherworld was suppressed by the joint forces and could no longer show its saintliness in the world of the living, the people in the world of the living no longer have the most basic respect for life and death, souls, and the Netherworld.

"My religion has its own rules and regulations."

"My fellow disciples, even if you have been a little lax, you should not do such evil things." Zhao Gongming also sighed.

Although he had been traveling all the time among the many disciples of Jiejiao, he was still moving around in the human world because of the suppression of the immortal way by the human spirit. Even if he sometimes landed in the human world, his place of residence was either the mansions of princes and nobles, or the place where some cultivator practiced.

Therefore, in the past, although he traveled outside, he had never seen the real human world.

“No wonder the Daluo of each family do not like their disciples to set foot in the human world.”

"Not only because there are too many human affairs involved, but also because one has seen too many human affairs, which indeed has a huge impact on the understanding of practitioners."

If Zhao Gongming had not seen it with his own eyes, it would have been hard for him to believe that in this world, people could actually treat the souls of mortals, and even the spirits of practitioners, as items for trading - he could not believe that there would be people who would directly refine the souls and spirits of others to improve their own skills.

When he first encountered this, he could hardly calm himself down.

If Ao Bing had not persuaded him, he would have thrown out his Dinghai Pearl and killed all the nobles in the city and the nearby sects.

"Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Qinglong. If any of my disciples from Jiejiao are really involved in this, I will wipe out the entire sect on the spot without you having to say anything!" Zhao Gongming suppressed his nausea and said murderously, then his tone changed slightly.

"But Brother Qinglong - if my perception is correct, your murderous intent on this journey is much stronger than mine."

"Why haven't you taken any action against those bastards yet?"

"Because this is not what I want."

"The soul is something between the dead and the living."

"And what I have to take care of now are the matters concerning the living dead."

"This is the source of everything." Ao Bing pondered.

In his past, he had extremely rich experience - when dealing with things, the bigger the matter, the more you have to go to the source.

If you are triggered by changes other than the source, then no matter how much energy you have, you will be dragged into the various changes caused by that source and will find it difficult to extricate yourself.

It is just like a water hole. If it is not blocked, the water in the river will flow continuously. No matter who comes, it will be in vain and they will be trapped in the dilemma of using bottles to collect water, and they will never be able to consume the water from the river.

The use of souls by the human world is like the flowing water in the river - and the water eye of this river is the business of the living dead.

Because the living dead want to prolong their lives, living beings become their consumables, from the living to the dead, from souls to flesh and blood, all of which become various kinds of consumables.

"Compared to this, I am actually more curious about one thing now."

"Although the netherworld is quite suppressed, the order between life and death is only slightly disturbed. The souls of the dead will still return to the netherworld normally - only a few can stay in the human world."

"The spirits of those cultivators are fine, but what about the souls of mortals?"

"Under the shadow, the use of mortal souls has almost become a complete system."

"Fellow Daoist, how many souls are needed to form a system?"

"Most of the souls of the dead will return to the netherworld and will not be captured by humans - otherwise, the netherworld will inevitably riot."

"Where do all these souls come from?"

"A living person?" Zhao Gongming's eyes suddenly widened, and his hands couldn't help but tremble.

To gain the souls of living people - this could be said to be an unimaginable evil for a saint's disciple like him!

"It can only be a living person." Ao Bing calmly suppressed the murderous intent in his heart.

In the Book of Life and Death, the births and deaths of all mortals are counted - the vast majority of the dead will be reincarnated.

Once they stay in the human world for too long, even if the Queen Mother Hou Tu does not want to compete with others, she will definitely step into the human world for the sake of the overall situation.

Those great masters in the mortal world who suppress the underworld would not give the goddess Hou Tu an excuse to step out of the underworld.

Therefore, the dead returned to the underworld - even if there were some omissions, they would never be to this extent.

Therefore, those souls can only come from living people.

Only those who are not dead in the Book of Life and Death, their souls extracted can easily avoid the order between life and death and become a loophole for collecting souls.

"Souls can stay on a large scale, and the netherworld remains unmoved."

"That is to say, even if their souls are taken away, those whose souls are taken away are still 'alive', and will 'live' for a long time."

"Only in this way can they maintain the stability of their system."

"Fellow Daoist, even if we are immortals like you and me, if our souls are injured, we need to recuperate for a long time, let alone mortals?"

"But along the way, you and I have seen quite a few mortals. Daoist friend, where are the bodies of those mortals whose souls have been stripped, and what are they used for?"

"The living dead?" There was an expression of disbelief in Zhao Gongming's eyes.

The princes in the human world who seek to prolong their lives need consumables and people to test drugs - obviously, those 'living dead' whose souls have been stripped away are the perfect consumables and the best subjects for testing drugs!

"My fellow Daoist and I walked through the city without noticing the location of those living corpses whose souls had been stripped away."

"I guess those zombies are really not in the cities."

"Where do you think those zombies are, Fellow Daoist Gongming?"

“There are only two places to go.”

"First, it is the Tiger Kingdom."

"The second one is the White Tiger Taoist Sect." Zhao Gongming quickly gave the answer.

"So we have to go to the Tiger Kingdom first!"

"No, we're going to both places at the same time!" said Ao Bing.

(End of this chapter)