Chapter 114: He Who Steals a Hook Is Executed, But Can One Who Steals a Country Be Punished?

Zhao Gongming's strength was far more powerful than she had imagined.

The Douluo World Heavenly Dao had schemed so much, so naturally, it did not want to perish.

The perishing of the World Heavenly Dao is a true perishing.

If the World Heavenly Dao perishes, the world will give birth to a new Heavenly Dao, but that new Heavenly Dao will no longer be the original Heavenly Dao.

The Douluo World Heavenly Dao consciousness was consuming the origin of the Douluo World at all costs, wanting to stop Zhao Gongming.

At this moment, the World Heavenly Dao withdrew all the origin from above the continent.

In an instant, the earth shook and the mountains swayed; it was truly a scene of the end of the world.

The world origin is the root of a world; the evolution of a world is, first and foremost, the evolution of its origin.

And likewise, once a world's origin is exhausted, this world will also head toward its end and eventually face Destruction.

Now, the Douluo Continent World Heavenly Dao consciousness was consuming the world origin without regard for any cost, which resulted in the depletion of this world's origin.

Almost instantly, the Douluo Continent was indeed a scene of an impending apocalypse.

Qian Renxue was furious in her heart; the Heavenly Dao of the Douluo World continent was, just like Tang San, shameless, despicable, and selfish.

However, Qian Renxue did not need to worry for too long, as the Douluo World Heavenly Dao was directly erased by Zhao Gongming.

All of its resistance was merely a mantis trying to stop a chariot.

The world origin it had just withdrawn returned to the world.

Zhao Gongming casually obliterated the Douluo World Heavenly Dao and then left directly.

Perhaps after a short while, this world will give birth to a new World Heavenly Dao.

The world has always been like this; it will not stop turning just because someone leaves.

Even the disappearance of the Heavenly Dao poses no problem at all.

Because the world will soon give birth to a new Heavenly Dao.

With the Heavenly Court descending to bestow blessings, once Qian Renxue had grown accustomed to her own strength, she immediately began to set about governing the entire continent.

And this world officially entered an era belonging to Qian Renxue, belonging to Spirit Hall.

Qian Renxue officially established the Spirit Empire, bringing the Heaven Dou Empire under the rule of the Spirit Empire.

In the first year of the Spirit Era, Qian Renxue officially ascended to the position of Emperor of the Spirit Empire.

This year, the Spirit Empire launched a war for the entire continent.

Of course, as far as humans on the continent were concerned, only one empire remained.

After the Spirit Empire was established, the number of Spirit Hall branches within the Spirit Empire grew rapidly.

Following the suggestions of the group members, Qian Renxue began to preach to the world.

She opened Spirit Hall branches in every corner of the Spirit Empire, ensuring that every commoner had the opportunity to awaken their Spirit.

At the same time, she gathered the wisdom of the masses and, combined with the situation of Spirit Hall, created a Spirit cultivation method that was easier to practice and had a higher upper limit.

Qian Renxue had once pondered whether she could have the Spirit Empire directly switch to a more powerful cultivation system.

For example, the Covering the Sky Method or the Eternal Method.

But after Qian Renxue carefully experimented, she found that for higher-level cultivation methods, it was fine for one or two people to practice them.

But if the entire continent's population were to switch to practicing other cultivation systems, it would be impossible.

The Douluo Continent was not yet sufficient to support everyone switching to other cultivation systems.

As the origin of the Douluo Continent became more powerful step by step, and the world evolved toward becoming more powerful step by step,

only then could the Douluo Continent fully switch to other cultivation systems.

On the Douluo Continent, the Spirit Master cultivation system had already developed for tens of thousands of years.

At least for now, this was the system most suitable for the development of the Douluo Continent.

What Qian Renxue ultimately did was to optimize the Spirit Master cultivation system while also teaching some Ancient Martial Arts and the like.

At the same time, Qian Renxue ordered the creation of Spirit Academies throughout the empire.

The Spirit Academies supported eighteen years of compulsory education.

Everyone within the Spirit Empire, as long as they were citizens of the Spirit Empire, could receive the empire's eighteen years of compulsory education.

The Spirit Academies not only taught knowledge of Spirit cultivation but also offered subjects in Ancient Martial Arts, science, and various other fields.

The purpose of the Spirit Academies was to let every citizen of the empire shine in the field most suitable for them.

Qian Renxue organized the Spirit Council, granting every citizen the right to vote and the right to be elected.

Citizens and the empire had a contractual relationship; citizens possessed their own rights and obligations, and the empire also had the obligation to protect every citizen of the empire and uphold every citizen's exercise of their legal rights.

In the fifth year of the Spirit Era, the Spirit Empire enjoyed political harmony, clean governance, and peace and prosperity for the nation.

Countless people took pride in being in the Spirit Empire and being people of the Spirit Empire.

Over the past five years, the Spirit Empire had launched countless propaganda and public opinion offensives against the Star Luo Empire.

In the second year of the Spirit Era, the advantages of the Spirit Empire's Spirit Master cultivation system became increasingly obvious, completely leaving behind those ancient Spirit Master practitioners of the Star Luo Empire.

Just when the Star Luo Empire was worried, the Spirit Empire took the initiative to sign a ten-year aid plan with the Star Luo Empire.

They provided aid to the Star Luo Empire's economy and various cultivation fields at all costs.

At first, the Star Luo Empire thought the Spirit Empire was a fool, but soon they tasted the bitter fruit.

Through the aid plan, the Spirit Empire infiltrated various fields of the Star Luo Empire's culture and economy, and even began to touch upon the politics of the Star Luo Empire.

At the same time, the Spirit Empire continuously promoted and shaped the image of the Spirit Empire as a Great Unity society, exporting the values of the Spirit Empire.

The Spirit Empire helped the Star Luo Empire build a large number of Spirit Academies, and what the Spirit Academies taught was the knowledge of the Spirit Empire and the values of the Spirit Empire.

Were the people being cultivated actually people of the Spirit Empire?

Or were they people of the Star Luo Empire?

No one knew; they only knew that these young people, in whom the Seed of democracy had been planted, were already dissatisfied with the decaying Star Luo Empire.

They demanded power, they demanded reform, they demanded to learn from the Spirit Empire, and to become fully Spirit Empire-ized.

And as these people stepped onto the political stage, they were also influencing the Star Luo Empire at every moment.

Unknowingly, the Star Luo Empire slowly transformed into the shape of the Spirit Empire.

After the second year of the Spirit Calendar, countless people began to sneak into the Spirit Empire.

After the fifth year of the Spirit Calendar, the smuggling of people from the Star Luo Empire into the Spirit Empire reached an unprecedented climax.

The Star Luo Empire issued various orders, but they had no way to stop it at all.

In the sixth year of the Spirit Calendar, the Star Luo Empire tore up the cooperation and aid plan with the Spirit Empire, drove away the people sent by the Spirit Empire to provide aid, and simultaneously promulgated the strictest plan to prohibit the public from sneaking across the border.

It seems that it was from this moment that the royal family of the Star Luo Empire finally perceived the conspiracy of the Spirit Empire.

On the surface, the Spirit Empire was providing aid to the Star Luo Empire.

But in reality, the Spirit Empire had already used this method to infiltrate every field of the Star Luo Empire's politics, economy, and culture.

In fact, the Spirit Empire wanted to use this method to control the Star Luo Empire.

This year, the Star Luo Empire issued a ban, which had a certain effect.

This greatly increased the confidence of the empire's royal family.

In the sixth year of the Spirit Calendar, the Star Luo Empire announced a policy of closing the country and completely sealed off its borders.

In order to resist the influence of the Spirit Empire, they prepared to quietly erase every trace of the Spirit Empire's existence, and every influence from the past.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

The Seed of democracy had long been planted, and at this moment, it grew into a towering tree.

In the seventh year of the Spirit Calendar, the Star Luo Empire erupted with massive protest marches, and a revolution spread silently throughout the entire empire.

The royal family of the Star Luo Empire adopted a policy of bloody suppression, yet the slaughter only made the entire country even more furious.

In the eighth year of the Spirit Calendar, the revolutionary alliance of the Star Luo Empire requested the help of the Spirit Empire to help them liberate the Star Luo Empire.

The Spirit Empire had no choice but to agree, dispatching a great army into the Star Luo Empire to rescue the people living in misery.

As the saying goes, they brought food and drink to welcome the royal army; the people of the Star Luo Empire, living under the brutal rule of the Star Luo royal family, all welcomed the arrival of the Spirit Empire.

Having experienced the period of the Spirit Empire's aid, and then looking at the current period of the Star Luo Empire's rule.

This contrast made the Star Luo Empire completely unable to accept the status quo.

Many people of the Star Luo Empire who had received instruction at the Spirit Academy hated even more that they were not people of the Spirit Empire, but people of the Star Luo Empire.

With the help of these people, the Spirit Empire finally had to helplessly accept the territory of the Star Luo Empire.

In the tenth year of the Spirit Calendar, the Spirit Empire completely unified the two empires.

An evolution, a peaceful evolution targeting the Star Luo Empire, finally came to a quiet end.

Qian Renxue could actually have adopted a simple and crude method, but she chose to adopt this method instead.

This was not just Qian Renxue's doing, but an experiment for all the members of the Heavens Chat Group.

He who steals a hook is executed, but can one who steals a country be executed?

The emperor of the Star Luo Empire would never imagine that the collapse of an empire was, in the eyes of others, merely an experiment.

Adopting the method of war can certainly pacify a country and conquer a continent quickly.

But in this process, it is inevitable that many people will die.

For the members in the group, after they joined the Heavenly Court.

Their status had already changed, which was that to a certain extent, they were ultimately the masters of the continent, the masters of the entire World.

Therefore, it is best to adopt a bloodless method to unify the entire continent.

Because everyone on this continent would eventually become their subjects.

That is why there was this grand scheme spanning several years, just to steal a country.

Qian Renxue unified the human empire and finally set her sights on the soul beasts.

Soul beasts are also a powerful force on this continent.

Over these years, the Spirit Empire has been constantly fighting against the soul beasts.

Because of the strengthening of the Spirit Hall's power and the opening of the Spirit Academy.

Therefore, the human side is now very powerful, suppressing the soul beasts, and is almost on the verge of completely wiping them out.

Combining the situations of other worlds, Qian Renxue finally developed the technology for farming soul beasts.

Heavens Chat Group.

Spirit Hall Pope Qian Renxue: "I have already brought the Star Luo Empire under my rule through the method of peaceful evolution."

Great Qin Ancestral Dragon Ying Zheng: "It is I who have been somewhat ignorant; even without war, one can destroy a country through the influence of economy and culture."

Ying Zheng sighed slightly; Ying Zheng is the First Emperor of the Ages.

His political methods are naturally masterful.

During the Warring States period, the Qin State also used vertical and horizontal alliances, and through such methods, finally unified the six states.

But this god-like and ghostly method is truly unheard of.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, there were also economic wars.

For example, the Qi State was an economically developed country.

And the Prime Minister of the Qi State at that time, Guan Zhong, once used economic warfare to target the Lu State and the Chu State.

But peaceful evolution is a method on a higher level than economic warfare.

It is to bring down a country from the fields of economy, culture, and politics.

Especially education, exporting one's own values, and educating the next generation of the hostile country.

Then the next generation that is taught, which country's people are they exactly?

For example, using the methods of the Qin State to educate a native-born person of the Qi State.

Then is this native-born person of the Qi State still a person of the Qi State?

This is the importance of education.

Great Worthy Teacher Zhang Jiao: "To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Thus, the highest form of warfare is to attack the enemy's strategy; the next is to attack their alliances; the next is to attack their soldiers; and the lowest is to attack their walled cities."

Great Worthy Teacher Zhang Jiao: "This poor Daoist can also be considered to have broadened his horizons."

Zhang Jiao could not help but exclaim aloud.

War has never been the primary means of acquisition.

Or rather, war is the lowest means of achieving victory.

This move by Qian Renxue of the Douluo Continent is truly formidable.

Of course, this time, this peaceful evolution targeting the Star Fall Empire by Qian Renxue.

Was mainly led and formulated by Su Xiaoxiao, while the other group members were only responsible for filling in the gaps and offering some suggestions.

When Zhang Jiao went to study in that World of Su Xiaoxiao, he naturally also paid attention to this phenomenon of peaceful evolution tactics.

But at that time, he only glanced at it casually and did not pay any attention to it at all.

Yet who would have thought that such a tactic could steal an entire nation?

Zhang Jiao could not help but marvel once again at the wisdom of the people of that era.

Spirit Hall Pope Qian Renxue: "For this success, I must thank the Administrator."

Diligently Working Su Xiaoxiao: "It's nothing, it's nothing, just a small effort."

Su Xiaoxiao had actually just offered a suggestion casually; she never expected.

That with the wisdom of all the members in the group, they could plot against a nation.

Qian Renxue successfully plotted against an empire on the Douluo Continent.

This provided all the members in the group with a successful experience, but at the same time, it also served as a reminder to them to guard against such tactics from their enemies.

Within the Liaozhai World.

Nie Xiaoqian saw one group member after another successfully achieving great things and joining the Heavenly Court.

Many group members had unified their entire Worlds and become the masters of their Worlds.

Nie Xiaoqian was naturally unwilling to fall behind and accelerated the actions of the Tiantidi Jiao.

And just at this moment, almost simultaneously, the Black Mountain Old Demon and Pudu Cihang sought out Nie Xiaoqian.

The Black Mountain Old Demon approached Nie Xiaoqian and spoke arrogantly, "Nie Xiaoqian, you have done well. Now, hand over the forces of your Tiantidi Jiao to this King, and this King will reward you well."

The Black Mountain Old Demon had originally thought Nie Xiaoqian was just playing around, but now that he looked, the forces of the Tiantidi Jiao had some merits.

Therefore, the Black Mountain Old Demon prepared to take over the forces of the Tiantidi Jiao directly.

Seeing the suddenly appearing Black Mountain Old Demon, Nie Xiaoqian only felt that this was a lunatic.

"Where did this thing come from? Asking me to hand over the Tiantidi Jiao forces to you, what kind of nonsense are you spouting?"

Nie Xiaoqian had never met the Black Mountain Old Demon, so how could she have expected that this Black Mountain Old Demon would suddenly pop up?

Hearing Nie Xiaoqian's words, the Black Mountain Old Demon was also furious.

The Black Mountain Old Demon had always been arrogant; he did not know how many little female ghosts like Nie Xiaoqian he had slapped to death.

But looking at it now, this little female ghost actually did not recognize him?

This made the Black Mountain Old Demon even angrier than Nie Xiaoqian offending him.

With coldness in his eyes, the Black Mountain Old Demon said, "You don't recognize this King?"

"Who exactly are you? Where did this lunatic come from?"

Nie Xiaoqian said with a touch of speechlessness, "This is not the place for you to go crazy."

"Good! Good! Good! Very good!"

The Black Mountain Old Demon laughed out of anger and said, "Nie Xiaoqian, oh Nie Xiaoqian, do you really think that because you killed the Shu Yao Laomu, your wings have become stiff?"

Hearing these words from the Black Mountain Old Demon, Nie Xiaoqian suddenly realized.

She said to the Black Mountain Old Demon, "You are the Black Mountain Old Demon?"

The Black Mountain Old Demon gave a cold laugh and said, "Since you know it is this King, hurry up and hand over your forces to this King?"

"What kind of bullshit are you talking about?"

Nie Xiaoqian said mockingly, "What kind of thing are you, wanting to take over the forces of the Tiantidi Jiao? Are you even worthy?"

Nie Xiaoqian had worked hard to save up this little bit of foundation, and the Black Mountain Old Demon wanted her to hand over everything with one sentence.

What kind of bullshit was the Black Mountain Old Demon talking?

The Black Mountain Old Demon was clearly stunned by these words from Nie Xiaoqian.

It was mainly because a tiny female ghost had never spoken to him like this before; he had never experienced it.

Before the Black Mountain Old Demon could speak, Pudu Cihang also walked out.

"Hahaha! Who would have thought that the famous Black Mountain Demon King would be scolded like this by a female ghost."

Pudu Cihang had come this time because he realized that this tiny Tiantidi Jiao of Nie Xiaoqian had actually threatened the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Pudu Cihang was aiming to seize the Dragon Qi of the Ming Dynasty in order to achieve his transformation into a dragon.

If the Ming Dynasty were overthrown, would there still be Dragon Qi?

Therefore, before he transformed into a dragon, this Ming Dynasty had to continue to exist properly.

Originally, Pudu Cihang did not want to make this trip at this time.

In his view, this was not just Xiaolongnü playing around.

But this "playing around" seemed to have almost overthrown the Ming Dynasty.

Only then did Pudu Cihang rush to Nie Xiaoqian's location, wanting to eliminate Nie Xiaoqian and the Tiantidi Jiao.

He just had not expected that this Black Mountain Old Demon would also appear.

Since Black Mountain Old Demon wants to cause trouble for Nie Xiaoqian, that could not be better.

Under such circumstances, there will be even less chance of any accidents.

In any case, Nie Xiaoqian must die today; otherwise, his path to dragon transformation will be interrupted.

Black Mountain Old Demon looked at Pudu Cihang; he naturally recognized this great demon, Pudu Cihang.

However, none of the demon kings or ghost kings knew what exactly Pudu Cihang was doing.

He had gone to a human Dynasty to serve as a State Preceptor.

Black Mountain Old Demon was naturally clear that Pudu Cihang's strength was not to be underestimated.

"Why have you come here?"

Black Mountain Old Demon asked vigilantly.

Pudu Cihang looked at Nie Xiaoqian and said, "Nowadays, the Tiantidi Jiao is sweeping across all regions, threatening the rule of our Ming Dynasty; as the State Preceptor of the Ming Dynasty, I naturally have to come and see."

Black Mountain Old Demon instantly understood Pudu Cihang's meaning.

Black Mountain Old Demon spoke up, "This king intends to take over the forces of the Tiantidi Jiao, and I will take Nie Xiaoqian away."

Nie Xiaoqian's constitution was still of some use to Black Mountain Old Demon.

(End of this chapter)