Chapter 72

Three thousand Taiyi Golden Immortals, this already exceeds the number of Taiyi Golden Immortals of the dragon clan at its most prosperous period; in other words, compared to you now and the ancient dragon clan, you only lack a group of top-tier powerhouses, while the numbers of middle and lower tiers and the size of territory have reached or even surpassed the dragon clan!

But since you have already made up your mind to counter violence with violence, to use military force to overthrow the opposing forces represented by the Sun Star Lord, those three thousand Taiyi Golden Immortals are still not enough.

Three thousand Daluo, you dare not even think, after all, becoming a Daluo Golden Immortal requires requisite talent, comprehension, and opportunity, none of which can be lacking, and also needs over a hundred epochs to pile up, only then can it be achieved; throughout the history of the Honghuang, the number of bona fide Daluo Golden Immortals with names is estimated to be only about this many……

But at the very least you need over a hundred Daluo, no matter what, because your opponents are roughly that number, possibly even more!

So you are not satisfied, continue force-feeding……

But you soon realize that, if we say that going from Golden Immortal to Taiyi Golden Immortal, under perfect conditions, can barely be considered catalyzable, then trying to catalyze a Taiyi Golden Immortal into a Daluo Golden Immortal is simply not realistic at all.

So…… the excuse just came up, didn't it!

Day after day, year after year.

At the end of the involution, the chiefs directly gave up, either shutting their doors to pretend to be blind, or directly resigning to the Heavenly Court; the Primordial Yang Mountain's land-seizing plan gradually took effect.

You first felt joy, then your hair stood on end with rage, and you slammed the table hard.

After a full three epochs passed, you finally, with unwavering loyalty, took over all the grassroots authority of the Four Wastelands and Four Seas!

Xuan Du: ……

What the local chiefs haven't done, the vanguards must do; what the chiefs have done, the vanguards must do even better!

The chiefs: You're involuting your @#*#@!

Of course, there were also heavenly officials and chiefs with high cultivation who, in anger, launched attacks on the human vanguards, attempting to defend their own small plot of land with force.

But this will only invite severe retaliation from the Primordial Yang Mountain side, with nearly three thousand Taiyi Golden Immortals constantly ready to strike; how could a bunch of local chiefs possibly stand against you? In the end, they could only lose both people and land……

You directly launched a rectification campaign, publicly exposing the essence of the old dragon clan's oppression to the entire populace, prompting the people to resist spontaneously.

Among the disciples of the sages, the strongest are only a few like Guang Chengzi and Duobao, a handful of Daluo Golden Immortals; if forced catalyzation were useful, the situation certainly wouldn't be what it is now.

Having settled the problem of cultivating top-tier strength and severely cracking down on internal issues, the temporarily well-governed Primordial Yang Mountain can finally expand again!

Although most of the merit resides in yourself, the rest of humanity doesn't have that much, but merit can be continuously farmed.

The great battle is imminent.

You really want to retort: What the heck? Are you really just going to watch me take over the management of the Primordial Wasteland? Too generous, why wasn't the previous side quest this generous!!!

Suppressing achievements and denying promotion is a kind of most malicious countermeasure, only that I haven't reacted to it yet……

This issue is very important; rashly going to war, setting aside whether we can win or not, just the moral aspect alone is a deal-breaker—once fighting starts, the label of rebel will be attached, and all the previously accumulated popular support could be lost……

We've been involuting so hard—what are we aiming for? Nothing but promotion! Now we're about to die from involution, where are the rewards from above?!

But you have consistently maintained unparalleled loyalty to the Heavenly Court, with not the slightest sign of disloyalty; every time a human vanguard assumes the post of local chief, you personally run a trip to the Heavenly Court to report and register, entering the immortal roster.

But even so, you still have a stone weighing on your heart, because you have already abandoned pure popular-seizure of power, shifting to a method that combines popular support and military force; you want to secure the throne of the Heavenly Emperor, so the opposing forces led by the Sun Star Lord must be crushed soundly!

"The Heavenly Court accumulates merit but does not promote—this would not be the doing of a sage Heavenly Emperor; it must be the result of treacherous villains deceiving the heavenly ears and advancing with slander!"

This letter is here to request your favor!

You directly selected a hundred of the highest-cultivation individuals from the three thousand Taiyi Golden Immortals, then appointed each as a frontline vanguard responsible for the human core regions of Primordial Yang Mountain, to do their utmost in providing various assistance to humanity.

Thus, the territory you have annexed keeps growing, gradually showing signs of covering the Primordial Wasteland!

But it's fine; you are the human chief, so you possess a tremendous natural advantage: merit!

One day, Xuan Du timidly brought a joint letter, signed by the veteran vanguard chiefs from all over, who resentfully wrote in the letter: "We clearly have great achievements, yet the Heavenly Court shows no intention of promoting us at all."

Still the same tried-and-true combination: assistance, reporting, and succeeding as chief—although simple, it's extremely effective!

In the Yao calendar, 370 ages, 2 periods, 3 cycles, under the personal leadership of the human chief Jin Bing, the Primordial Yang Mountain, having settled for a full epoch, began dispatching large numbers of vanguards outward.

Upon receiving the letter, you were first stunned, then suddenly realized: Has the Heavenly Court not been taking countermeasures against Primordial Yang Mountain? Actually, it has been doing so all along!

With this ongoing involution, the chiefs gradually find themselves unable to cope, their prestige and value being supplanted step by step by more excellent and more involuted human vanguards……

After a few quick rounds, the dragon tribe problem troubling Xuan Du basically subsided, leaving only a handful of diehard old-timers; their stubborn ideas can be left to time to change.

So Xuan Du still has to teach! Still has to fight! Educate them harshly!

Having completed these long-term arrangements to strengthen Primordial Yang Mountain's top-tier strength, you finally can shift focus to begin addressing the dragon tribe resurgence problem that previously troubled Xuan Du.

But even so, the opportunity you have been painfully waiting for still hasn't arrived……

But what pretext could you use to declare war on them?

But you didn't feel discouraged; instead, you continued to dispatch large numbers of vanguards, frantically infiltrating the outer regions, and upon reaching each new tribe, you wholeheartedly carried out poverty relief and illiteracy eradication.

In the Yao calendar, 373 ages, 5 periods, 8 cycles, the human chief of Primordial Yang Mountain, Jin Bing, launched a massive anti-Heavenly Court war under the banner of "Purge the Sovereign's Side", aiming to eliminate the treacherous villains flanking the Heavenly Emperor!

After a second round of force-feeding, having filled a full epoch, the progress of the human elites is pitifully little; they are still far from the mid-stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal, let alone Daluo Golden Immortal—at the very least, nearly a hundred epochs would be needed for anyone to break through……

The facts prove that, with the old dragon clan's main body already extinct, as long as Xuan Du's opening moves are a bit tougher and involve some maneuvering, it won't lead to greater contradictions.

Having understood this principle, your plan to mass-produce Daluo Golden Immortals directly collapsed midway……

Next, we move against Ao Guang and his faction, forcing Ao Guang to reluctantly sever ties with the old dragon clan's forces, then promote Ao Guang personally, suppress the remnants of the old dragon clan, punish the guilty, educate the innocent, and create division, strikes, and internal strife……

Given this approach, the time for these hundred Taiyi Golden Immortals to ascend to Daluo Golden Immortal will be greatly shortened……

Only then did you realize: if force-feeding worked, wouldn't the sages have already mass-produced Daluo Golden Immortals?

In short, we must never strike first!

One cycle, one period, one age……

Vanguards expanding from the Eastern Wasteland toward the Northern and Southern Wastelands and the Central Province usually find that three moves suffice, but after all, not every tribe's chief is a corrupt official, and given the reminder from the "Anti-Enfeoffment" incident, many chiefs have forcibly reformed themselves, which greatly affects your expansion plans.

Xuan Du: ……

The time has come; rise up today!!!

And just when you were about to break down, an opportunity both unexpected and yet reasonable finally emerged!

The involution has begun!

You hold great power yet never seek personal gain; after so many epochs, you remain a poor little true immortal, having devoted yourself body and soul to the billions of sentient beings of the Primordial Wasteland, just shy of dying in the effort—under such circumstances, many officials of the Heavenly Court were moved to tears: "Having such loyalty, we heavenly officials are truly ashamed!"

For this reason, you daily wear a worried frown, and whenever your mood sours, you start berating Xuan Du.

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(Today 8000 words, people are all numb...)

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(End of chapter)