Chapter 47

The Central Heavenly Lord was gone.

Li Xianzhi, in front of everyone, crushed the skull of the Central Heavenly Lord, sat upon the throne himself, and accepted everything that belonged to the Central Heavenly Lord.

Countless pieces of information flooded Li Xianzhi's entire mind. At this moment, Li Xianzhi finally truly understood what kind of product a god actually was.

A maintainer of the world's structure.

A node for the thoughts of living beings.

A guardian of the laws derived from the Dao.

As the Central Heavenly Lord, the true function was to integrate the many laws, guide the thoughts of the many living beings to be positive and forward-looking, thereby expanding the Yintu legal system and allowing the material world to progress toward the ultimate civilization. It was not to be like it was now, tightly imprisoning the thoughts of many living beings, letting them remain stagnant, forever lying in a bed of comfort shaped by the gods.

As for the gods beneath the Central Heavenly Lord, they were the veins within a complete legal system. They could serve as a main thread for the direction of the world's development at any time.

When gods have desires, Heaven and Earth are unstable.

This led to one disaster after another.

Having Nine Thousand Years Old and the others support Li Hongyu as Empress was also Li Xianzhi's intention. It was just that Nine Thousand Years Old and the others mistook him for the Central Heavenly Lord.

In Li Xianzhi's view, a world's legal system would never suddenly undergo a progressive leap or change. Only through the step-by-step advancement and the painstaking exploration of countless living beings could the entire civilization be pushed toward the ultimate ideal land.

The Hundred Trades Federation ruled by the Demon Lord might seem prosperous at present, but it actually hid many drawbacks. Once a major setback arrived, the entire society would collapse rapidly.

For example, if someone were to question the Demon Lord.

If someone stood up to resist the Demon Lord's rule, could the Demon Lord still discuss things with the rebel with a fair and impartial attitude?

Could he?

If he could, the Demon Lord might be overthrown by a new theory. If he could not, how would the Demon Lord conduct himself?

A Demon Lord who cannot represent fairness and justice—is he still a Demon Lord?

True fairness is never bestowed by someone. It is a system of rules created by the entire society operating on its own. Only when a society has its own autonomous operating rules can this world operate stably for a long time. Artificial correction, or suppression by great power, is absolutely not fairness.

Is your fairness fair to those who do not want fairness?

For example, the Three Mountains and Four Seas; they have accumulated for hundreds of years, but now they have become wage earners, just like everyone else. Do you think these people will agree with the Demon Lord's propositions in their bones?

They only fear the Demon Lord's power, praying to obtain new rights under the Demon Lord. But now, the Demon Lord has not given them these.

Turmoil is inevitable.

Look at the Great Chu Dynasty again; although it is somewhat turbulent now, with years of benevolent governance and the deeply rooted rituals and moral codes, as long as this period of turmoil passes, society will return to stability.

Li Xianzhi intended to use the Tianhuo Domain as a foundation, and the Life God's proposal as the main trunk, to make the entire imperial legal system more expansive, deriving a new type of legal system that allowed for self-replacement.

The Yintu should no longer remain mysterious.

"Have you all thought it through? If you descend to the mortal realm this time, there may be no return. You will no longer be eternal; you will be like the many living beings, constantly cycling through life and death."

Li Xianzhi looked at the six gods who were petitioning him, his eyes filled with a hint of praise.

These six gods were much more sensible and much cuter than the Central Heavenly Lord.

"We are willing to walk the mortal realm once. We govern the six paths of laws in the mortal realm, and for many years, we have been thinking about many problems, with many doubts in our hearts that we dared not speak of in the past. Now that the Law Master is wise and the Yintu Divine Realm is ruled clearly, it is the perfect time for us to continue exploring and improving."

The Lishen bowed heavily toward Li Xianzhi.

In the past, they were suppressed by the Central Heavenly Lord and could only follow the Central Heavenly Lord, not allowed to think too much or ponder too deeply.

It could be said that they lived very depressingly in such an environment. Everything was for the sake of the Yintu Divine Realm's eternal existence.

But having lived for countless years, they were not afraid of death.

They also wanted to explore the truth.

They also wanted to see the future. Like all living beings, they had curiosity. And as they transformed the information transmitted by the many living beings, they knew more, and naturally, they thought more.

The Lishen was a god who loved studying rituals and laws very much. The rituals the Lishen studied were not just the set of "ruler-ruler, minister-minister, father-father, son-son."

The Lishen was always thinking.

Why do living beings greet each other, and why do they autonomously derive so many strange actions during their interactions?

Rituals were not created by the Lishen.

If one were to speak the truth, the Lishen was actually born from the behavioral patterns created by living beings during their interactions.

Later, people defined these behaviors as rituals, and from then on, all rituals became a kind of restraint, a kind of performance.

For example, there are fake filial sons crying at funerals; it is still a ritual, but the Lishen does not like it.

The Lishen preferred the ancient times, when people were spontaneously sad, spontaneously worshipping, spontaneously dancing ugly movements, spontaneously believing that these actions could connect with Heaven.

Originating from the heart is the root of ritual.

The Lishen wanted to go and see, to see all the instinctive reactions in the daily interactions of living beings. That was the ritual he was looking for.

"May you all have a harvest."

Li Xianzhi waved his hand, the information wheel behind him rotated, and the bodies of the six gods gradually disintegrated. From all the information possessed by the six gods themselves, the core essence belonging to the six gods was extracted and cast into the mortal realm.

This world also has reincarnation.

However, it is not the reincarnation that people imagine.

All living beings and all things are actually a cluster of information. For example, a person: this person is 1.6 meters tall, has a high nose bridge, big eyes, is straightforward, healthy, is a scholar, has both parents... all these things constitute this person.

And when this person dies, their body rots, their spirit dissipates, and this information returns to the Yintu, entering the information wheel of the Central Heavenly Lord.

The information wheel will reorder this information, then recombine it; sometimes it will add some other information, sometimes it will delete some information, and then cast this information back into the mortal realm to form a new thing.

For example, in the previous life in the mortal realm, we always heard this sentence: "This person has high energy." The so-called high energy is actually that the information constituting this person is more than that of an ordinary person.

There is also "First fate, second luck, third study."

Fate is the innate combination of information, luck is the input of acquired information, and this study is the most important, because this is the method by which living beings can ingest more information for themselves.

Information is the root of living beings, the root of the legal system, and also the root of the world.

The main source of information actually comes from the many living beings in the material world. Living beings are in charge of creation, while gods are in charge of processing and transforming information. Because the new information created by living beings is not necessarily useful to the world, nor is it necessarily suitable for the world's laws. Gods will constantly eliminate and perfect this information to make it fit the existing Heavenly Dao laws.

The six gods descended to the mortal realm, and Li Xianzhi did not disturb them. The six gods all had their own destinies; whether they could break through the soil in this tribulation depended on their own good fortune.

Now the most important thing is Li Hongyu's enthronement ceremony.

Li Xianzhi intended to cultivate Li Hongyu into the new controller of this world. Because in the future, Li Xianzhi would inevitably have to go to other worlds to find his own physical body, and integrate the Yin and Yang realms of those worlds.

If a legal system wants to grow, it must learn from new things. Stones from other hills can polish the jade of this one; only by constantly merging can the new legal system become stronger and stronger.

Great Chu Dynasty, Heavenly Altar.

The Heavenly Fate Profound Fish, descending to give birth to Chu.

The Shenwu Dadi's own observation divine object was a flaming profound fish. It just happened to fit the character "fish" in Li Hongyu's name.

Nine Thousand Years Old and Li Qingxian made a big deal out of this. The people of the world would believe it whether they were convinced or not.

On the Heavenly Altar, Li Hongyu was dressed in a yellow robe, her face covered by the tassels of the imperial crown, looking majestic.

To the left and right, the civil and military officials stood in red and black, holding jade tablets. The Fate-Managing Ritual Official presided over the rituals and music, chanting loudly.

Li Hongyu held the heirloom jade seal passed down from the ancient Renhuang Ji, walking step by step, slowly to the center of the Heavenly Altar.

On the five-colored platform in the center of the Heavenly Altar, a divine decree lay quietly. As long as Li Hongyu stamped the jade seal on that decree, everything would be done.

Li Hongyu looked back, her face showing a hint of helplessness, but in the end, she stamped it down.

"Nier."

Li Hongyu was stunned.

Everyone was stunned.

"Father." After being stunned for a moment, Li Hongyu thought of the way she first met her father after he was resurrected.

Her father was also like this, grinning and calling her in such a rustic way.

Tears welled up in her eyes.

Li Hongyu had truly been tired these past ten years; the mortal realm was in turmoil, and she had been suffering day after day within it.

Countless nights she had thought of that mysterious father of hers, and how she wished everything could return to the way it was before.

Perhaps at this moment, everyone in the entire Great Chu Dynasty was like Li Hongyu.

Returning to the past, returning to those peaceful days of the past.

That smiling face appeared in the sky.

Li Xianzhi looked at the flustered Li Hongyu with a smile, his eyes filled with love.

"Nier, don't be afraid."

Li Xianzhi knew that Li Hongyu might be afraid, so he specifically appeared.

Tears streamed down like rain.

Li Hongyu missed her father, and she missed that mother who had appeared only for a fleeting moment.

"Father, when will you come back?"

This was the first time Li Hongyu had treated Li Xianzhi so gently since they met.

Li Xianzhi was overjoyed; it seemed that he had finally been accepted by this daughter.

"Soon, I shall return in ninety years."

Actually, Li Xianzhi wanted to return right now; to hell with the turmoil of Heaven and Earth, what could be more important than accompanying his good daughter? It was just that he had been meddlesome and acted as the unlikable Central Heavenly Lord; now, if he left the Yintu, the entire Yintu would collapse.

"You must stabilize the dynasty well, and build the world in your heart according to your own ideas; do whatever you want to do. Father knows that you are a kind and righteous daughter, and you will surely bring true light to this world."

"Tell Father, can you do all of this?"

Li Xianzhi looked at Li Hongyu encouragingly.

"Mm."

Li Hongyu nodded slowly. Under Li Xianzhi's encouragement, Li Hongyu gripped the heirloom jade seal in her hand firmly.

"I am the world."

"I am the world."

Li Hongyu's voice, wave after wave, spread throughout the entire Capital.

Coupled with the mysterious Central Heavenly Lord guarding behind Li Hongyu, everyone shouted "Long live."

Countless people prostrated at Li Hongyu's feet.

"Father, I will do it. This world is too chaotic; I want the world to be peaceful, and for all living beings to live and work in peace."

"Go and do it, Father believes in you."

Li Xianzhi slowly disappeared from the sky.

The entire Heavenly Altar was silent.

Long Zhanyi and his group had their mouths wide open. What exactly was the identity of the Pioneer Revolutionary?

How did they become the highest god of this world, the Central Heavenly Lord, in the blink of an eye?

Their hearts were full of questions.

Li Qingxian was smiling and stroking his beard, looking unfathomable. Another person with the same expression as Li Qingxian was Li Dongdong.

Both of them were overjoyed in their hearts.

If Li Xianzhi were in front of them, he might have scolded these two ignorant descendants again.

Why was the desire to cling to power always so persistent?

"Alright, there are still many things in the world today that need you officials to do. I hope you will all keep to your duties and stabilize the world for the new Empress."

Nine Thousand Years Old looked at the kneeling ministers, his words full of threats.

Li Hongyu was young, after all.

"We will naturally share the burdens for the new Empress."

Everyone at this moment had recognized Li Hongyu as their new backer; how could they resist?

Since the turmoil of Heaven and Earth ten years ago, the families behind them had suffered such blows. They hated the Demon Lord, and they also hated that bullshit Hundred Trades Federation across from Qingyang County.

Destroy them, take back their foundations.

This was what they wanted most in their hearts at this moment.

Various decrees of the dynasty were constantly issued from the imperial palace.

The most ruthless decree was the imperial examination.

This completely severed the previous model of mutual recommendation among the various great families.

Anyone who participated in the imperial examination and obtained merit, regardless of their background, would be provided with divine objects by the dynasty to practice cultivation free of charge.