Chapter 1055: Appealing to the Purple Heaven Palace

"The Great King is wise!"

After the shock, Shang Rong's countless emotions all condensed into a single sentence.

Originally, he had been worried that there were not enough personnel for the Departmental Continent-level regional officials, because according to Yin Qi's regulations, a Departmental Continent-level official required at least the cultivation of a Great Luo Golden Immortal or higher.

The Four Seas were easy to manage, amounting to only three hundred and sixty-five Departmental Continents.

But the Outer Starry Sky was vast and boundless, and the number of Departmental Continent-level officials—that is, Star Domain officials—needed was immense.

Now, the manpower was sufficient.

After the shock came excitement.

Because this meant that the forces belonging to the Cabinet would comprehensively surpass the Tianluo Hall, the Military, and even the Martial Hall, becoming the most powerful force within the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty.

Wen Zhong, Zhang Shaokang, and Yao Chen were also envious upon hearing this.

However, they also knew that since the Great King had handed these people over to the Cabinet, it would be useless for them to vie for them.

The present is not like the past.

In the past, when it was necessary to open up new territory, they naturally received various preferential treatments.

But now, the high-level officials of all major forces had fled to Chaos, and the subsequent unification war had no difficulty at all; in such a situation, there was naturally no need to increase their power.

It is easy to conquer a country, but difficult to defend it.

Next, to maintain the stability of the Primordial World, the Cabinet bore the heaviest and greatest responsibility.

………

Half a month later.

Having completed their preparations, the Great Shang Celestial Dynasty's nine great armies launched their attacks simultaneously.

The East Sea, North Sea, South Sea, and Western Sea basically surrendered upon hearing the news, because they had almost no enmity with the Human Race; they surrendered, and the Yin Shang army did not conduct any purges, accepting them all.

Of course, there was never a shortage of stubborn people in the world.

Facing the conquest of the Yin Shang army, many among the Sea Clan rose up to resist, but without exception, they were all slaughtered to the last.

The World Gates of the Dragon Realm, Phoenix Realm, and Qilin World were forcibly breached, and the Long-Feng Qilin Sanzue quickly split; some chose to surrender, while others chose to fight to the death.

Those who chose to surrender were basically born after the Dragon-Han Calamity.

They had no sense of the former glory of the Long-Feng Qilin Sanzue, having lived in the Middle Thousand World since birth, and had no psychological barriers to surrendering.

As for those who chose to resist, most were survivors of the Dragon-Han Calamity.

They had once enjoyed the glory of their race and were proud and arrogant, preferring to die in battle rather than lower their heads and surrender.

Likewise, they were mostly already in despair.

Without hope, there was no courage to continue living.

Regarding this group of people, the Yin Shang army naturally did not go soft, killing until blood flowed like a river and corpses piled up like mountains.

The Great Shang Celestial Dynasty accepted the surrender of the Four Seas Sea Clan and the Long-Feng Qilin Sanzue in their entirety, but for the Demon Race, it was not a matter of just wanting to surrender; even if Nuwa pleaded for them, it was useless.

Any race that had participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Human Race during the Witch-Demon period was basically exterminated in its entirety.

Many Demon Race members had participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Human Race back then, but compared to the entire Demon Race, this group was a minority, so the Yin Shang army was actually quite restrained while slaughtering in the Outer Starry Sky.

But the conquest of the Witch God Realm was a truly indiscriminate slaughter.

Great Shang did not accept surrender, because to this day, the Witch God Realm still kept hundreds of trillions of humans in captivity; they were like cattle and sheep, entirely food in the mouths of the Witch clan.

The Witch clan were also stubborn, preferring to die in battle rather than surrender.

Precisely because of this, after the Yin Shang army breached the Witch God Realm, they initiated a slaughter mode.

Everything seen, not a single Witch was left behind.

The Witch clan was also stubborn; knowing they were no match for the Yin Shang army, they still charged up screaming, and some even resorted to self-detonation, wanting to drag the Yin Shang army down with them.

It must be said that the actions of the Witch clan were truly tragic, but not a single member of the Yin Shang army felt any compassion.

They had rescued the humans of the Witch God Realm and knew of their misery.

……

Zichen Hall.

The sorrowful voice of Houtu rang in Yin Qi's ears: "Di Qi, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit; my Witch clan has already lost. Could you, for the sake of the Father God, leave my Witch clan a path to survival?"

Watching the slaughter in the Witch God Realm, Houtu's heart felt like it was being twisted by a knife. But she could not intervene.

Not to mention the Dao Ancestor's confinement order, Yin Qi himself was not someone she could handle.

She could only lower her pride to beg Yin Qi.

Yin Qi was not surprised and said indifferently: "Can the Witch clan submit?"

Houtu paused, but still said: "I will cede the Witch God Realm and move all the Witch clan to Wuzu Heaven; it will never affect your unification of the Primordial World."

Yin Qi smiled coldly: "What about the sins the Witch clan committed in the past? Your Witch clan used my Human Race as food; for millions of years, do you know how many humans have perished in the mouths of your Witch clan?"

"You take pride in the Pangu Bloodline, but the Great God Pangu would be ashamed of your Witch clan."

"The cause of the past, the fruit of today; no one can escape it."

After a long time, Houtu's bitter voice sounded: "Is there really no room for maneuver at all?"

Yin Qi said indifferently: "You can also try to intervene."

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Chaos Beyond the Heavens.

Wuzu Heaven.

Houtu closed her eyes in pain, and two lines of tears slid from the corners of her eyes.

She wanted to hate Yin Qi, but she could not bring herself to do so.

She was not an unreasonable person, and of course, she knew the sins of the Witch clan.

Having taken the Ten Thousand Races of the Honghuang as food, they have long been steeped in heavy sin.

In the past, when the Wu Clan was powerful, naturally no one dared to seek revenge.

But now, retribution has arrived.

In truth, she had once advised the other Witch Ancestors more than once, but unfortunately, all had failed.

Using the Ten Thousand Races as Blood Food is the fastest method of cultivation.

Fortunately, she had once foreseen that today might come, and therefore, after opening up Wuzu Heaven, she migrated quite a few members of the Wu Clan here.

Even if the Wu Clan in the Witch God Realm were completely wiped out, the Wu Clan would not necessarily go extinct.

The Wu Clan here, like her, are all clansmen who are unwilling to use the Ten Thousand Races as Blood Food, especially the Human Race as Blood Food; after all, in terms of appearance, there is not much difference between the Human Race and the Wu Clan.

Facing the slaughter of her clansmen in the Witch God Realm, she cannot intervene, nor does she dare to intervene, lest Yin Qi vent his anger upon her and come here to kill the Wu Clan of Wuzu Heaven as well.

………

Deep within Chaos.

Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Jieyin Daoren, and Zhunti Daoren finally reunited.

Previously, they had scattered and fled, fearing Yin Qi's pursuit, so they dared not stop at all, fleeing all the way to the depths of Chaos, and only stopped after seeing that Yin Qi had not caught up.

After half a month of searching for one another, they finally reunited once again.

The expressions of the four were all unsightly.

Zhunti Daoren said in a deep voice, "What shall we do next to deal with Yin Qi?"

If Yin Qi does not die, they can only wander in Chaos.

Yet, as dignified Saints and spokespersons of the Heavenly Dao, they do not even dare to return to the Primordial World; what a humiliation this is!

Yuanshi Tianzun was full of hatred: "At this point, the only thing to do is to seek an audience with our Teacher. Only if our Teacher takes action can Di Qi be suppressed and order restored."

Laozi sighed: "If our Teacher takes action, naturally everything will be easy to resolve. I only worry that our Teacher will not agree."

Jieyin Daoren gritted his teeth and said: "What our Teacher's attitude is, we will only know after going to Zixiao Palace. At that time, even if we have to beg, we must beg our Teacher to take action."

After all, we are our Teacher's disciples.

We, the Saints of the Mysterious Gate, have been driven out of the Primordial World by Yin Qi; can he really accept that with equanimity?"

"Very well, let us go to Zixiao Palace first."

In the end, the four reached a consensus. (End of chapter)