Chapter 499

"Then what about the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong?"

"Fellow Daoist, please rest assured. As long as the Great Emperor steps down and respects the Great Emperor Zi Xu as the co-lord of the Nine Heavens, the Great Emperor Zi Xu will not exterminate the divine beings of the South. In the future, in the Great View Temples, my Great Emperor will mostly stand in the same row as him and share the incense of the world. And in the human world, Lord Luo is a person who cherishes old feelings. The Zhen Zhen Jian Gong has made many contributions to the people of Qinzhou and did not directly help the King of Yue. Coupled with the fact that Lord Luo learned the lesson of the Guanxing Palace and understood the way of checks and balances, he will not let the Yanxia Palace that entered the capital become too big, and will leave the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong." Daoist Jiang said while holding the teacup, "The April Snow of the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong can probably bloom for many more years. It is the Xuan Tian Temple on Mount Qiyun that might have to go through a bitter time."

That's right—

The ancestral court of the Northern divine system is in the Yanxia Palace on Mount Mingzhou.

The first and last time Lin Jue participated in the Great Ritual, he went there with the third senior brother and junior sister, and the first time he saw the statue of the Divine Lord Fuchi was also there.

Since the North won and the Great Emperor Zi Xu entered the Nine Heavens, the Yanxia Palace will naturally move to the capital.

At most, they will change their name.

"Worldly affairs change so fast. I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, Lord Luo would become the emperor." Lin Jue sighed.

"Lord Luo will be a good emperor." Daoist Jiang said indifferently, as if Lord Luo's victory and the King of Yue's failure were in her heart

unable to stir up the slightest ripple, "If fellow Daoist wants to be a divine being, Lord Luo will definitely invite fellow Daoist into the major palaces and temples of the human world. Coupled with fellow Daoist's ability, it might be difficult to be the Lord Tianweng, but it is very easy to be a Great Emperor. Perhaps you can take over the position vacated by the Great Emperor Zi Xu."

"That is not my wish."

Lin Jue said, and suddenly remembered one thing, so he asked: "I heard that the human emperor cannot be a divine being?"

"It's just an unwritten rule." Daoist Jiang said.

"How so?"

"There are many reasons, complex and multifaceted. In fact, there were emperors who became divine beings in ancient times, and the number was not small. However, except for a few ancient emperors who made great contributions to the human world, such as the Great Emperor with the small head back then, most of the others were not great divine beings." Daoist Jiang said, "Later, as time went on, this rule slowly came into being."

"For example?"

Lin Jue picked up the fair cup and poured tea for her.

When he was at the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong, she poured tea for Lin Jue, but now that he was here, it was the other way around.

"In terms of merit, fellow Daoist, do you think the world has more sage and kind sides, or more dull and evil sides?"

Daoist Jiang finished speaking, but did not listen to his answer:

"Ordinary people have evil thoughts, but most of them do not have the ability or courage to realize them, and it is difficult to cause any evil consequences. But emperors are also people, and they are not sages. In a single thought, they can burn mountains and rivers. Therefore, looking at the history of monarchs, there are few whose merits outweigh their faults. Those mediocre emperors without merit or fault, if counted carefully, can actually exceed most emperors.

"If an emperor wants to become a divine being, how should his merits and faults be judged?

"Even a wise monarch through the ages has a body of grievances and sins, and there are times of indiscriminate killing, unjust killing, and wrong killing, and there are times when a mistake causes millions of people to suffer. If they become divine beings, the underworld should have many souls writing letters to complain.

"Even if the merits outweigh the faults, you have already enjoyed the offerings of the human world during your reign. Do you still want to be a divine being after death? Where in the world is there such a good thing?

"In terms of the divine Dao, incense should have been spontaneously done by the common people. Many divine beings are all outstanding in virtue and are conscientious and responsible, so they get a little incense offering. But emperors hold the power of the human world in their hands. If they want to use power to seek incense in the human world, there are really too many means, and the Nine Heavens is difficult to limit. How can this be considered fair?

"In terms of the human world, the change of dynasties is like the alternation of the four seasons, which is the law of heaven and earth. If the emperor is a divine being, how many emperors are willing to let the world continue to worship the monarchs of the previous dynasty?

"Besides, the world also has hearts. Although they worship gods, most of them are not willing to worship an emperor who once ruled them. They are more willing to worship a person whose status was not so high during his lifetime, but who spent his whole life seeking welfare for them, or who did good deeds but did not get the due reward during his lifetime, and those who made them feel 'sorry'. Emperors are not such people.

"Therefore, even if there were emperors who were divine beings in ancient times, by now, even those few famous ancient emperors, the incense is not prosperous anymore.

"This is also just a small part of the reason.

"Many reasons are mixed together. By the end, everyone slowly accepted this rule: human emperors cannot be divine beings. If they are forced to be divine beings, they can only be small gods, and the incense will wither very quickly. How many emperors are willing to fall to this point?"

Daoist Jiang took the teacup and said.

Now, when facing Lin Jue, she had a lot more to say.

Blowing a breath of tea fragrance, drinking a sip of clarity, and glancing sideways, she saw the painting she gave him hanging in the center of the pavilion, and her heart felt more comfortable, and every time she looked at it, she felt more comfortable.

"So that's how it is."

"Fellow Daoist is thinking, with Lord Luo's ability, merit, and prestige in the human world, if he doesn't become an emperor, he should at least be a Husheng Husheng Zhenjun, right?" Lin Jue didn't say much, but Daoist Jiang guessed what he was thinking.

"It's not a pity either." Lin Jue said, "The founding emperor of the human world, although short-lived, is not inferior to the Lord Tianweng in terms of power and influence on worldly affairs and the human world, and even on the Nine Heavens divine beings. Many things that True Lords cannot do, human emperors can do. Lord Luo has his own pursuits."

"That is exactly it."

"Then what about brother Qingxuan?"

"Now he is the master of the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong. It's hard to say that after he gets older, he might also be a 'True One'."

"Is he still safe?"

"They are all quite well. It's just that he was hungry and thin in prison." Daoist Jiang said, "Especially during the few days when the capital fell, the management of the imperial palace, the government office, and the prison was chaotic, and he was almost starved to death. Fortunately, he won the hearts of the people, and there were people who specifically came to send him food, so he survived."

"It's considered bitter and sweet."

"About the same."

Lin Jue vaguely heard a little—

Both the Great Emperor Yu Jian and the Great Emperor Zi Xu are relatively particular, and the confrontation does not seem to be fierce. It is more like the Great Emperor Yu Jian decided to bow his head and admit defeat after finding that he could not win, respecting the Great Emperor Zi Xu as the co-lord of the Nine Heavens. After that, it was probably the same as in the previous dynasty: he not only listened to the dispatch of the Lord Tianweng and promoted the thoughts of the Lord Tianweng, but also went back and forth in the dark, seeing moves and dismantling moves.

To put it bluntly, divine beings are, after all, based on virtue, and their moral level is generally relatively high. Coupled with the constraints of etiquette and law, and the existence of heavenly laws and heavenly venerables, even an ordinary small god, as long as they do not harm the human world, or seriously neglect their duties, or violate the death penalty in the heavenly laws, it is difficult for the Lord Tianweng to directly scatter them. Not to mention Great Emperor Great Powers like the Great Emperor Yu Jian.

They cannot fight openly, so they have to suppress in the dark.

And in Lin Jue's view, suppression is probably not easy either.

In recent years, the places where faith in the human world is most devout are

the North and the South.

The North is because there are too many demons and ghosts. The Great Emperor Zi Xu truly sends troops to the mortal realm to eliminate demons. Under such circumstances, how can the world not believe in him?

The South is related to trade.

In recent years, trade, water transport, and sea transport in the South have been prosperous. These industries are unstable, and the more unstable they are, the easier it is for people to pin their hopes on the protection of divine beings.

The faith of the Great Emperor Yu Jian is almost deeply bound to these industries.

Merchants will feel that their wealth is brought by the Great Emperor Yu Jian, and boatmen and sailors will first offer incense and ask for good or bad luck to the Great Emperor Yu Jian before setting sail. The Southern divine system is also good at management and has governed the South very well. In the midst of the chaos in the world, the demons and ghosts causing trouble in the South have always been the fewest. When merchants go out to run business and come back, compared with other places, they will have a feeling about this, and thus be more devout to the Great Emperor Yu Jian.

Regardless of how much of it is the role of the Great Emperor Yu Jian, many common people believe that it is the protection of the Great Emperor that makes their business smooth, makes them rich, and makes them live a good life.

Lin Jue himself comes from Huizhou and knows the devotion of the Southern people's faith.

Not to mention that there are explicit constraints on divine beings, making it impossible to directly interfere with human faith and extort incense. Even after an emperor like Lord Luo conquers the world, the difficulty of wanting to force the Southern common people to change their faith will probably be higher than his conquering the world. The turmoil caused by religious faith might allow this not-yet-formally-established

dynasty to enter into division and turmoil again.

Didn't the previous Lord Tianweng know that the two emperors of the North and South were the biggest threats to him? It's just that there was no way.

And the Southern divine beings played a very clever move, which is the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong that broke away from the Xuan Tian Temple on Mount Qiyun.

In the past struggles, the existence of the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong in Qinzhou provided the Great Emperor Yu Jian with the capital to fight against the previous Lord Tianweng. Even if he failed in the end, it played a big role.

As for the future...

The stance of the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong is relatively neutral, and the relationship is very strong. It not only has a friendship with Lord Luo, who is about to ascend the throne, and even once risked his life to eliminate demons together, which can be said to be a deep friendship, but also won the hearts of the people. Now in Qinzhou, from the common people to the clan families, many are regular visitors to the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong. Even if the emperors of heaven and earth change, the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong has a certain possibility of continuing to take root in Qinzhou.

As long as the Zhen Zhen Jian Gong is there, the Great Emperor Yu Jian has incense in Qinzhou. Not only that, when people from other places come to the capital and see that this Daoist temple is so prosperous, they will at least have more impressions of this Great Emperor. If they feel it is effective, they might even invite a statue or divine position back, passing the incense of the Great Emperor Yu Jian from the capital to other places.

"Don't talk about those!" Lin Jue said, pointing below, "Look, my two new disciples!"

"Just those two?"

Daoist Jiang had been paying attention to them for a long time.

"Exactly!"

"Has fellow Daoist formally taken disciples?"

"Not yet. But they have a connection with me and follow my heart, so it's a matter of time." Lin Jue said, "I just used the excuse that 'it's not that easy to worship me as a master' to let them plant trees and eliminate demons for me, and at the same time teach them some things first."

"Was fellow Daoist also 'calculated' by your master like this before?"

"That was not the case."

"They will slowly come to their senses in a few years."

"Haha! I also thought of this point, and then I told them that their master's master also treated me like this before..."

"Daoist Yunhe is hard to rest in the nine springs."

"Wrong! He will smile and stroke his beard!"

Then Lin Jue poured out his feelings and pleasures of being a master and teaching disciples to her. In this process, she mostly raised her cup to drink tea, listened quietly, and nodded in agreement from time to time.

The two people below were working hard to plant trees and recite the Yin-Yang Sutra, completely unaware of what this master who had not yet been worshipped was talking about in the pavilion above their heads.

The tea made their stomachs bloated, and the conversation was enjoyable, so they stood up while stretching.

It was the day of spring flowers blooming, plants and trees were sprouting leaves, and Lin Jue asked her to stay, taking her to stroll around Mount Feng, look at the design of the pavilion, look at the

scenery in the mountain, and personally picked immortal leaves to make immortal tofu to entertain her.

The broken peach blossoms flew into a river with the mountain wind, and in a trance, it looked exactly like the blooming place of Mount Yishan back then.

At the time of parting, Daoist Jiang reminded him:

"Fellow Daoist is naturally free and easy by nature, can get along well with people, can also make friends with demons and ghosts, and especially has a deep affection for Fuyao. I have told fellow Daoist before that divine beings are mostly pure, and Daoists also know that the Great Emperor Zi Xu started by subduing demons and eliminating evil, and is tough, upright, and hates evil like a foe. If there was a little weakness or indulgence in his personality, he would not be able to defeat my Great Emperor in this struggle. Now that he has succeeded the Lord Tianweng, it may not be a good thing for fellow Daoist. Especially since fellow Daoist is now famous in the human world, just in case, please give Fuyao more guidance and restraint in the future, so as not to be found a handle by him to use as an attack."

Lin Jue naturally nodded and agreed.