Chapter 887: The Shocked Ministers

Zhaoge.

Imperial Palace.

Zichen Hall.

"Seventeen years of planning, finally succeeded."

Yin Qi sighed.

There was both excitement and melancholy.

Seventeen years ago, he was reborn as Yin Qi.

To change his fate, he made many plans, and finally managed to drive the Sages out of the Honghuang.

He changed his own fate, and also changed the fate of the Great Shang.

From now on, the vast world would be his stage.

Although his idea of plotting to obtain the Pangu Banner fell through, there was no rush for this matter.

If there is a chance in the future, he will make a move then.

The most important thing next is to complete the Investiture of the Gods, and to completely incorporate the newly expanded territories into the Great Shang system.

Thinking of this, Yin Qi instructed the Immortal Spirit: "Immortal Spirit, edit a notice for an emergency Imperial Court meeting and send it to Shang Rong, Du Yuanxian... Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu... Bi Gan, Boyi... Zhang Shaokang, Ding Ce... and others."

"Understood, Master."

One hour later.

Shang Rong, Bi Gan, Wen Zhong, and others hurried over.

Especially Wen Zhong, Huang Feihu, and Zhang Shaokang; they all rushed back from outside.

Except for Zhang Shaokang, everyone had a grave expression.

The Great King called an emergency meeting; there was no need to guess that it was for the war of the Investiture of the Gods.

Although the economy of the Great Shang has been developing rapidly these years, it is indeed inferior to Xiqi in terms of Immortal Dao cultivators.

After all, Xiqi has the full support of Yuanshi Tianzun.

Now that there is no support from the experts of the Jie Sect, can the Great Shang withstand the military force of Xiqi?

"We subjects pay our respects to the Great King."

Shang Rong and the others bowed one after another.

The thirty-plus of them were the core high-level officials of the Great Shang Heavenly Dynasty.

"Rise."

"Thank you, Great King."

Yin Qi said in a deep voice: "Prime Minister, because of the battle of the Sages, what are the losses of our Great Shang?"

Shang Rong had a heavy expression as he reported: "According to the statistics of 'Yinshang Government', as of now, a total of over 53 million people have lost their lives, and 29 cities of various sizes and over 3,000 villages have been destroyed."

Fortunately, the current Great Shang is vast and sparsely populated.

More than eighty percent of the falling Chaos landed in deep mountains or plains; otherwise, the losses would have been even more disastrous.

Yin Qi said in a heavy voice: "The Cabinet must do a good job with the aftermath. In addition, the fallen Chaos have all evolved into Dongtian Fudi, or even Mijing; the Imperial Court must record them all, and no one is allowed to occupy them."

Shang Rong nodded: "Yes. Great King, how should we handle the follow-up? According to statistics, there are over 15,000 such Dongtian Fudi, with the larger ones being over ten thousand li in radius, and the smaller ones being several hundred li."

Yin Qi thought for a moment and said: "Dongtian Fudi under a thousand li can be sold to private individuals. For those over a thousand li, I will take out a batch to reward meritorious officials, and the rest will all serve as the Imperial Court's Plantation, used to plant Immortal Seeds."

Hearing this, the eyes of those present lit up.

Such Dongtian Fudi could completely serve as the foundation for a family.

Yin Qi looked around at the ministers and said solemnly: "The Sages have been driven out of the Honghuang by Hongjun Daozu, and the disciples of the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect have also been ordered not to participate in our war with Xiqi again; the opportunity for our Great Shang Heavenly Dynasty to rise has arrived."

Shang Rong, Wen Zhong, and others looked at Yin Qi in astonishment.

The rise of the Great Shang Heavenly Dynasty?

Great King, did you misspeak? It should be the survival of the Great Shang Heavenly Dynasty!

Yin Qi shook his head and smiled gently: "It seems that you all know nothing about the foundation of our Great Shang Heavenly Dynasty. Shaokang, show your cultivation level; give your colleagues a reassurance."

"Yes, Great King."

Hearing this, Zhang Shaokang released his aura.

To avoid causing chaos, the Golden Immortal aura he released only enveloped the Zichen Hall.

Boom!

Although he only released a tiny bit of Golden Immortal aura, most of the people almost knelt, their legs going weak.

Wen Zhong and the others even showed expressions of horror.

"Golden Immortal!"

"You are actually a Golden Immortal!" everyone blurted out, exclaiming in shock.

Zhang Shaokang hurriedly restrained his aura to avoid making all the ministers kneel.

He cupped his hands and said modestly: "Thanks to the Great King's favor, I was bestowed a Golden Immortal Pill and luckily achieved the Golden Immortal realm."

Boom!

Hearing Zhang Shaokang's admission, everyone felt their scalps tingle.

Especially Wen Zhong.

A Golden Immortal, this is a Golden Immortal.

The Great King actually possesses a peerless Divine Pill that helps people achieve the Golden Immortal realm.

"Golden Immortal, Zhang Shaokang is truly a Golden Immortal!"

"Great, that's great. With Zhang Shaokang here, one person is enough to sweep across Xiqi."

"Hahaha, Heaven bless our Great Shang."

Please... you.... add to your library....!

The assembled officials were endlessly excited, their previous worries swept away.

They even secretly harbored expectations in their hearts.

Perhaps one day in the future, they too would be bestowed with Golden Immortal Pills,

just as they had once been mortals who achieved their current Mysterious Immortal status through one Immortal Pill after another.

Yin Qi raised his hand to press down, and after the officials quieted, he said: "Zhang Shaokang, tell the ministers again what kind of military force the Martial Hall currently possesses, as well as the territory actually under your control."

Swish, swish!

Everyone looked in unison at Zhang Shaokang.

The Martial Hall was directly under the Great King; since the Great King said so, the Martial Hall's power was likely far beyond their imagination.

Zhang Shaokang's mouth curled upward as he bowed and said: "Fellow colleagues, thanks to the Great King's support, our Martial Hall now possesses over 630,000 cultivators at the Immortal Dao level or above, among whom there are over 2,500 Mysterious Immortals.

In addition, there are over 20,000 warships, including 200 Mysterious Immortal Class Warships.

To avoid the Sages discovering the details of our Martial Hall, I have followed the Great King's instructions all these years, and by establishing various nations and sects, we have expanded our territory to 1.2 billion li away."

Hiss, hiss!

Hearing these figures, Wen Zhong and the others kept gasping in cold air.

Terrifying!

It was simply too terrifying!

So this was the true foundation of our Great Shang Celestial Dynasty.

Yin Qi smiled slightly: "It is not just these; currently, I have over 200,000 more warships in my hands, including over 2,000 Mysterious Immortal Class Warships, and in addition, there are two Golden Immortal-level Warships."

"What, there are even Golden Immortal-level Warships!"

"Over 200,000 warships, this is just too terrifying."

"Above the Honghuang, won't our Yin Shang be invincible?"

Wen Zhong and the others exclaimed in shock.

Their scalps were not just tingling; they felt as if their skull caps were about to be blown off.

The Great King had hidden things too deeply!

All along, they had known that their Great King was unfathomable.

Previously, there was the Yang God National Teacher, and they could attribute the origins of the various warships and Pills to the National Teacher.

But the Yang God had long since fallen, and Yin Shang had not only failed to collapse but had developed even more rapidly; the Great King even possessed over 200,000 warships, including Golden Immortal-level ones.

Where did these warships actually come from?

And where did the resources needed to cultivate over 600,000 Immortal Dao cultivators come from?

Looking at the shocked expressions of the officials, Yin Qi only smiled.

In reality, the quantity he reported was only a very small portion of the inventory in his Inner Heaven and Earth.

He had only said this much because he was afraid of scaring them.

The true inventory included over a million warships, materials for five Golden Immortal warships, nine Seven-Turn Golden Pills, and sixteen portions of Twelfth-Tier Evolution Fluid.

As for other grades of Golden Core and Evolution Liquid, there were even more.

Through the Primordial Mall, he could scrape the resources of the entire Honghuang for his own use.

Even the Sages, the former Witch and Demon tribes, or the Long-Feng Qilin Sanzue, were far from being able to compare with him in terms of gathering resources; this was the terror of the industrial scissors gap.

Processing various raw materials into finished products could extract profits of dozens, or even hundreds of times over.

(End of this chapter)