Chapter 951: The Calculations of Fire Cloud Cave

When Su Fan learned these details from Dayu, he was extremely shocked at the time.

He had not expected that the War of Investiture would have so many secrets, and that there was even the Human Race pushing things from behind the scenes.

This was something Su Fan had never considered before; he had always assumed that this War of Investiture was due to the Heavenly Court, or perhaps instigated by the Buddhist Sect behind the scenes.

He had never thought that there was also the secret push of the Human Race involved.

They were even willing to sacrifice the Great Shang of that time just to make the Saints go to war.

Having come to this world, he knew more about the Great Shang; that Zhou Wang of later generations was a quite brilliant and martial emperor before the War of Investiture.

Otherwise, the previous emperor would not have chosen him; at that time, Zhou Wang was not the eldest prince.

Although there was no Confucianism governing the world before the Great Han, emperors still chose their successors based on being the eldest legitimate son.

That Zhou Wang could stand out was truly due to his grand talent and bold vision, and his own ability was extremely powerful; with his own strength, he forced the Eight Hundred Feudal Lords to submit to the Great Shang.

When Zhou Wang was alive, the strength of the Great Shang could be said to have reached its peak.

And according to the myths, Su Fan had never understood why a mere fox spirit could bewitch a Human King.

This was not very fantasy-like.

After all, the Zhou Wang of that time was already a Human King about to become a Human Emperor; for a mere fox spirit to bewitch a Human King was simply impossible.

A Human King is protected by the Purple Star Emperor Qi and is immune to all evil; furthermore, with the Qi of Luck of the Great Shang protecting him, no fox spirit could bewitch him.

Even if that fox spirit was chosen by Nuwa Niangniang, Su Fan did not believe she could bewitch Zhou Wang.

If that were really the case, then it would be too easy for those immortals and gods to target emperors.

This must have required a great price.

However, after learning those secret accounts from Dayu, Su Fan finally understood that all of this had the Human Race behind it; if Fire Cloud Cave had meddled, then it would be a different story.

So now Su Fan also understood why the Great Shang perished so quickly.

The Great Shang was defeated by the Western Zhou, yet Su Fan, who understood the situation, was very clear that the Western Zhou was a joke compared to the Great Shang at that time.

The Western Zhou was just one of the Eight Hundred Feudal Lords; its overall strength among the Eight Hundred Feudal Lords could only be considered middle, or even middle-to-low.

The Western Zhou had no strong experts at all; the only possibility was that Wen Wang could be considered not weak, yet at that time, if the Great Shang wanted him to come to the Great Shang, the latter would not dare to say a single word of refusal.

From this, one could see the power of the Great Shang.

As for the later Yang Jian and Leizhenzi, even if they joined, they actually had no chance of winning against the Great Shang.

Given the power of the Great Shang, unless all the immortals and gods participated in the war at that time, it would have been impossible to take down the Great Shang.

It could be said that the Great Shang's defeat was entirely intentional.

Understanding this, Su Fan could not help but admire the Human Race's Fire Cloud Cave; this ruthlessness alone was truly formidable.

The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were indeed worthy of being the strong leaders who led the Human Race to become the supreme power; sacrificing the Great Shang was indeed a heavy price, but the future was indeed good.

The Great Shang could be said to have been a dynasty that could fully belong to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, yet they sacrificed it just like that.

However, the current Earth Immortal World is indeed as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors calculated: the Three Teachings are in internal strife and fragmented; they are the masters of the Three Realms, but their control over the human world is very low; as for the Difu, it has always been a place that even Saints dare not provoke.

The current Human Race, without the suppression of the Heavenly Dao Saints, has a few more chances of winning in the future; the Heavenly Court and those immortals and gods alone no longer have such a great possibility of suppressing the Human Race.

In this way, the Human Race also has top-tier experts; the strength of Heavenly Sovereign Fuxi is such that in the current Earth Immortal World, few are his match.

The plan of the Human Race has already succeeded halfway.

Therefore, the sacrifice of the Great Shang was not unadvisable.

It is just unknown whether the Great Shang of that time knew about it, but for Su Fan, this makes no difference.

Regarding the plan of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of Fire Cloud Cave, Su Fan had no objections; if it were him, he would not have opposed it at the time, as it was a good thing for the Human Race.

Although the Great Shang has perished, the Human Race left some incense for the Great Shang at the time; the current Great Qin is not exactly an inheritor of the Great Shang's will.

The ancestors of the Great Qin were, in fact, people of the Great Shang.

Now that the Great Qin has unified the world, although it has changed its name, it is not impossible to call it the posthumous child of the Great Shang.

Therefore, the Fire Cloud Cave of that time was not so heartless and had considered many things, it was just that the bloodline of the Great Qin was not the royal bloodline of the Great Shang.

But for Fire Cloud Cave, this did not matter; after all, in the ancient times, there was no such thing as a "hereditary monarchy"; in their eyes, dynasties could exist, and any wise person, as long as they had the ability, could naturally become a Human King or even a Human Emperor.

Of course, Su Fan had no interest in human dynasties; power and such were of no use to him.

Of course, if he could be the Heavenly Emperor, he would not mind being one for a period of time; after all, the Heavenly Emperor is the master of the Three Realms, and even if it is in name only, it still possesses many resources.

He had no interest in power, but he had a great need for resources—cultivation resources.

Of course, he also knew that it was almost impossible for him to become the Heavenly Emperor.

The Heavenly Emperor also requires powerful strength; without sufficient strength, you don't even have the qualifications to be a puppet.

The Heavenly Emperor needs at least the strength of a Quasi-Saint.

Su Fan is still too far away from being a Quasi-Saint.

He is currently only at the Heavenly Immortal cultivation level, at the peak of the True Immortal realm; even if he unleashes all his power, he is at most a few levels away from some Golden Immortals.

The gap between him and a Quasi-Saint is still too vast.

As for the Merit he might obtain in the future, that is for the future.

The kalpa has not ended, so Merit will not descend.

As for this kalpa, it is clear that it has not fully begun yet.

The Human Race is using the power of the Great Qin to test the power and attitude of the Heavenly Court or the immortals and gods of the Three Realms.

Not all immortals and gods of the Three Realms are enemies of the Human Race.

Many Great Supernatural Beings do not care about the Human Race.

For example, that Zhenyuanzi Daxian does not care about the Qi of Luck of the Human Race at all; otherwise, given his life-saving grace to the Human Race back then, it would not have been impossible for him to establish a Great Sect among the Human Race.

Even if he could not do what the Three Teachings did, he could still replace the status of the Buddhist Sect among the Human Race.

In fact, the current Buddhist Sect has almost no influence on the Human Race in the Nanzhan Buzhou of Jiuzhou.

After all, the power of the Buddhist Sect is limited to the Xiniu Hezhou.

There is no influence from the Buddhist Sect in Jiuzhou.

Only when Journey to the West begins and the Buddhist Sect travels east will the Buddhist Sect have a certain influence, and later, the Buddhist Sect may even replace the Taoist Sect's status in the mortal world.