Chapter 218: Mountain God of Qingqiu Mountain

The East Sea Coast.

Led by the Light Pantheon System, the Star God Lineage, and the Mountain and Sea God System, supported by seventy-two large pantheon systems and thousands of small-to-medium pantheon systems, they fully support the Shang Dynasty.

After more than a thousand years of war, the Shang Dynasty has already occupied ninety-five percent of the East Sea Coast.

Thousands of imperial dynasty forces on the East Sea Coast have all surrendered and been incorporated into the Shang Dynasty.

Only the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty remains, lingering on.

And this Taixuan Imperial Dynasty is precisely the dark piece secretly planted by the Mysterious Gate on the East Sea Coast.

Originally, they intended to use this to delay the Shang Dynasty's unification of the East Sea Coast, but who would have thought that a dark piece of the Divine Court would also emerge in the Shouyang Mountain region, and its threat to the Mysterious Gate's Zhou Dynasty is far greater than the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty's threat to the Shang Dynasty.

At the beginning, because of the element of surprise, the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty was still able to occupy eighteen percent of the East Sea Coast.

But now?

Facing the pressure from the Shang Dynasty, the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty retreated along the entire front after less than three hundred years of contact.

This forced them to contract their battle lines and consolidate into one.

To this day, the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty supported by the Mysterious Gate has relied on dangerous passes and elite troops to stubbornly hold a junction point between the East Sea Coast and the Shouyang Mountain region for hundreds of years.

Between the East Sea Coast and Shouyang Mountain, there is a famous mountain named Qingqiu Mountain.

On the mountain, there is a deity named Qingqiu Mountain God Bailing.

Bailing is the Second Elder of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, holding the divine office of a Fourth-Rank Mountain God under the Mountain God Department of the Earth Deity Divine Court.

Her superior is the Third-Rank Mountain God, Taibai Mountain God Shangyuanzi.

At the same time, Qingqiu Mountain God Bailing has jurisdiction over four Fifth-Rank Mountain Gods, thirty-six Sixth-Rank Mountain Gods, one hundred and eight Seventh-Rank Mountain Gods, and even thousands to tens of thousands of Eighth and Ninth-Rank Mountain Gods.

Apart from the majority who are Loose Cultivators of virtuous background, the rest are basically Nine-Tailed Fox Clan members who attained the Rice through quiet cultivation.

Although the divine offices of the Earth Deity Divine Court and the official positions of the Human World Dynasty both use a nine-rank official system, there is still a great difference between the two.

The divine offices of the Earth Deity Divine Court each carry divine power corresponding to the rank, and one can also absorb Incense Qi to enhance one's divine power, or even one's divine office.

While the official positions of the Human World Dynasty's court each possess their own official power at every rank.

The biggest difference from the Earth Deity divine offices is that they cannot increase their cultivation or official power by absorbing incense wishes.

For officials of the Human World Dynasty, each rank is fixed once appointed.

If one wishes to obtain a promotion, one must gain the appreciation of the Lord of the Imperial Dynasty; as the official position is promoted, the power corresponding to that official position will also increase.

Therefore.

The increase in the divine power of Earth Deities relies on incense wishes.

Of course, before being appointed as a deity, one's original cultivation can naturally still be improved, and one can also advance on both fronts.

Take Qingqiu Mountain God Bailing for example.

She was originally a Demon God of the Daluo Golden Immortal Realm, but after joining the Earth Deity Divine Court, she is also a Fourth-Rank Mountain God (equivalent to the True God Realm/True Immortal Realm), and the official positions of the Human World Dynasty are the same.

The increase in the power of their official positions relies on the power of the Imperial Dynasty's Qi Luck bestowed by the Lord of the Imperial Dynasty.

The more Qi Luck power, the higher the official rank.

Of course, when humans are appointed as officials of the Imperial Dynasty, their original Martial Rice cultivation can also continue to be practiced, and they can also achieve the same dual advancement as the Earth Deities.

Therefore.

Do not think that because Qingqiu Mountain God Bailing is merely a Fourth-Rank Earth Deity Mountain God (True God), she is a weakling who can be bullied at will.

She still possesses the cultivation of a mid-stage Daluo Golden Immortal! If someone ignorant offends her, not to mention whether they will suffer her retaliation, the Earth Deity Divine Court behind her will certainly not let it go.

But unfortunately, someone really did inadvertently offend the Qingqiu lineage.

For example, the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty.

Taixuan Imperial Dynasty, Taixuan Palace, Yuanhe Hall.

The Yin Clan Imperial Clan descends from Yin Yuan, an advisory official to the Shun Emperor during the Five Emperors period.

And Yin Yuan himself came from the Yin Clan Tribe.

When the Yu Emperor's imperial dynasty model emerged, their Yin Clan Tribe was the second batch of tribes to establish an imperial dynasty... Long after the Shun Emperor attained the Human Emperor Fruit Position, he resigned from his post in the Human Race's Chendu and returned to the Yin Clan Tribe on the East Sea Coast.

After lying dormant for several epochs, in the third epoch after the Yu Emperor established the Great Xia Dynasty, they gathered hundreds of small tribes and finally established the Yin Clan's Taixuan Imperial Dynasty.

Due to the national conditions of the imperial dynasty and its proximity to the Shouyang Mountain region, the cultivation system of the folk practitioners in the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty, besides the Human Race's own Human Martial Rice system, is primarily based on the Mysterious Gate Immortal Rice, supplemented by the Eight Hundred Side Sects.

Originally, there were many imperial dynasties like the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty on the East Sea Coast.

Long before the de-humanization of the Human Emperor began, the God Race had already made it clear to the Shang Dynasty.

But because of negligence, they mistakenly thought the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty was just an ordinary imperial dynasty, which led to the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty rising up and becoming a thorn in the Shang Dynasty's unification of the East Sea Coast.

Fortunately, the Shang Dynasty had the support of many God Races, as if they were cheating, and in just a thousand years, they managed to occupy ninety-five percent of the vast East Sea Coast.

If it were not for the fact that the Mysterious Gate's power was concentrated in the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty, while the Shang Dynasty's power was dispersed due to the expansion of territory.

With the Imperial Dynasty Qi Luck power accumulated by the Shang Dynasty over these thousand years, they would have long since cleared the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty off the chessboard.

However, that is as far as it goes.

Now.

With the support of many God Races, the Shang Dynasty has finally stabilized the situation in most of the East Sea Coast and can spare the effort to gather its main forces to suppress the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty in one fell swoop.

This is no joke.

With the support of many God Races, plus the increasingly powerful Imperial Dynasty Qi Luck of the Shang Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty, having freed up its hands, can absolutely easily suppress the Yin Clan's Taixuan Imperial Dynasty.

However, the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty did not sit still and wait for death.

Several years ago, they dispatched several small teams to survey the terrain in places like Qingqiu Mountain, Taihe Mountain, and Suolong Pass.

They wanted to find a few dangerous passes to establish outposts, forming a triangular defensive formation to guard the Taixuan Imperial Dynasty.

Qingqiu Fox Realm.

Since the Witch-Demon War, the many Demon Clans of Honghuang have scattered, like loose sand.

After the rise of the Human Race's imperial dynasties, only the Demon Clan forces in places rarely visited by humans and with dangerous terrain were able to survive.

The Qingqiu Fox Clan is one of them.

The Qingqiu Fox Clan is skilled at scheming; as early as when the Demon Clan and the Wu Clan both suffered heavy losses, they secretly and low-key went into hiding for over a hundred great eons.

It was not until the establishment of the Earth Deity Divine Court and the rise of the Earth Deity gods that they took the initiative to send Hu Bailing, who was kind-hearted, innocent, and possessed merit, to Mount Tai to seek the Mount Tai Great Emperor.

After being taught by several in the Supreme God Realm, Hu Bailing eventually became a Mountain God under the Mountain God Department of the Earth Deity Divine Court in the capacity of the Second Elder of the Fox Clan.

It just so happened that Qingqiu Mountain was a vacant deity Shenshan, and with Hu Bailing's cultivation as a Daluo Golden Immortal, she easily became the Mountain God of Qingqiu Mountain.

From then on, the Qingqiu Mountain Divine Domain and the Qingqiu Fox Realm, where the Qingqiu Fox Clan Patriarch Hu Yuanling resided, formed a pincer position.

The Jackal Demon Clan, originally the mortal enemy of the Qingqiu Fox Clan, could no longer pose a threat to the Qingqiu Fox Clan.

This day.

Hu Bailing came to the Qingqiu Fox Realm to visit her sister Hu Yuanling, when she suddenly received a divine sense message from her subordinate, a sixth-rank Jiuhuang Mountain Mountain God named Hu Yu'er.

Behold.

Inside a garden with green hills and clear waters, two beautiful women, one in white and one in yellow—one dignified and noble, the other fox-like and graceful—were chatting and smiling together in a pavilion.

Suddenly, the dignified and noble woman dressed in white frowned slightly.

Seeing this, the woman in yellow asked in soft surprise: "What is it?"

"Sister, it is getting late, and I still have matters in my Divine Domain, so I will not accompany you any longer!"

Hu Bailing shook her head to indicate it was nothing, then smiled faintly.

Upon hearing this, Hu Yuanling was stunned and asked in surprise: "You just arrived, and you are leaving already? Will you not go to see Grandmother?"

"No need, I will come back another day when I have time!"

"Very well, I understand." Hu Yuanling frowned slightly, but still nodded gently and said nothing more.

After Hu Bailing left, Hu Yuanling beckoned and called over a fox girl.

"Patriarch!" The fox girl bowed slightly and then said respectfully.

"Go ask Hu Lanlan if anything important has happened in the Qingqiu Divine Domain recently!"

"Understood!" Having said that, the fox girl immediately transformed, turning into a three-tailed white fox, and flew swiftly toward the gate of the Qingqiu Cave Heaven.

(End of this chapter)