Chapter 1081

These spirit-communing copper coins kept splitting and merging, shifting through countless patterns.

At last, they finally took shape.

Yuan Shoucheng slowly spoke, glanced at them, and could not help but knit his brow, murmuring,

"Eh? Strange—how could it be there?"

"Where?"

Though Wu Zhao was curious, she did not directly ask back.

Instead, Jin Guang was eager to know where the Blue Demon was and could not help but ask.

"The Great Song Dynasty, the eastern coastal region…"

Yuan Shoucheng said slowly.

Great Qin, Xianyanggong, Lan Chi Palace.

Having just finished viewing the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers Ranking, the assembled ministers in the hall were all lost in rapture.

After a long while, the Daoist Tianzong representative Chi Songzi slowly came back to his senses, exchanged a complicated glance with Renzongzhang Sect Xiaoyaozi.

In each other's eyes, both saw endless bitter smiles.

Indeed!

Daoist Tianzong and Ren Sect each put out a secret art and a secret treasure.

Coupled with Tianzong's genius Xiaomeng, they had only just barely pushed Xiaomeng onto the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking.

Yet your Yin-Yang family—how fine, as if you had done nothing at all.

You simply conjured up some Descender of the Nine Songs, let his divine soul awaken and return, and just like that turned Da Siming into a Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking-level expert with no side effects whatsoever?

And that's not all—that Yin-Yang Fire Phoenix Seal bestowed by the Heavenly Dao, what an outrageous divine art it is!

By joining yin and yang with a person, at the very most one can still reach the Divine Grade?

Looking across all of Great Qin, are there any Divine Grade treasures, divine weapons, or techniques?

Clearly the Yin-Yang family is only a branch of the Daoists, yet how did they overtake on a curve and actually run ahead of the Daoists themselves?

Chi Songzi and Xiaoyaozi were both utterly bitter, feeling they had no face to stand in this Lan Chi Palace.

In contrast, the Yin-Yang family representative Moon Goddess, though her face was veiled by a light gauze and her expression behind it could not be seen—

From the look between her brows, everyone knew this Moon Goddess was extremely delighted at this moment.

"Mm! I did not expect Lord Donghuang Taiyi to finally have done something decent this time; I am greatly pleased.

Pass down an edict: elevate Lord Donghuang Taiyi to National Protector Master, to share weal and woe with the realm.

Yin-Yang family's Moon Goddess, Star Soul, and the Five Ministers' Elders—all elevated to National Protector Worshiper."

Hearing Ying Zheng was the most magnanimous of all the lords of the Nine Provinces.

This time Lord Donghuang Taiyi led the Yin-Yang family to present Da Siming, a Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking-level expert whose looks and skill were both outstanding.

Moreover, according to what the Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers Ranking said, Lord Donghuang Taiyi's plan was clearly still being steadily pushed forward.

In the future, experts of the Yin-Yang family would only emerge in endless succession.

In his joy, he actually enfeoffed Lord Donghuang Taiyi as National Protector Master to share weal and woe with the realm.

Moon Goddess, Star Soul, and the Five Ministers' Elders were directly promoted to National Protector Worshiper!

One must know that even the National Protector Worshipers of dynasties like Great Song and Great Ming all required at least the strength of the Heavenly Being Realm.

Although these Yin-Yang family Dharma Protectors and Elders were quite strong, apart from Da Siming, not a single one had entered above the Heavenly Being Realm.

Only Lord Donghuang Taiyi had merely brushed the tail of the Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking.

Yet who would have thought Hearing Ying Zheng was so generous, directly breaking the rules.

He had already promoted Moon Goddess and the others to National Protector Worshiper ahead of time.

One must know that National Protector Worshiper is not merely a title that sounds nicer than Imperial Clan Worshiper.

The benefits received, and the tilt of cultivation resources, were also very real.

Moon Goddess had already been holding her head high and chest out, looking proud and lofty.

Hearing Hearing Ying Zheng's reward now, she was overjoyed, ecstatic, and bowed down,

"Our Emperor's boundless grace is truly higher than the heavens.

Moon Goddess, on behalf of Lord Donghuang, kowtows to thank our Emperor for Heaven's grace."

Saying so, Moon Goddess actually bent her knees and knelt, performing the great rite of three kneelings and nine kowtows.

Great Qin did not favor the rite of kneeling—enough to see how moved Moon Goddess was.

"Enough, rise!"

Hearing Ying Zheng was also immensely pleased; after accepting Moon Goddess's great rite, he slowly said,

"You must tell Lord Donghuang that Great Qin still lacks experts, very much so.

Have those of the Nine Songs awaken and return as quickly as possible."

One Da Siming awakening meant one Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking-level expert.

If all the Nine Songs experts awakened, wouldn't that be nine Heavenly Dao Golden Ranking-level experts?

With this, Great Qin's strength would firmly outshine all the great powers under heaven.

Even the Yin-Yue Dynasty, one feared, would still be far behind Great Qin by a good margin.

Moon Goddess outwardly accepted the order, but inwardly could not help but smile bitterly.

The so-called Nine Songs, Nine Songs, were precisely the Nine Songs among the Songs of Chu of the people of Southern Chu.

The Nine Songs comprised nine pieces, namely: Lord Donghuang, Lord Yunzhong, Da Siming, Shao Siming, East Lord, River Earl, Mountain Spirit, Lady Xiang, Xiang Jun, State Sacrifice, and Ritual Soul—eleven pieces in all.

Each poem corresponded to one Descender.

If the eleven Descenders corresponding to the eleven pieces all returned and awakened, the Yin-Yang family would greatly prosper.

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Yet the current Dongjun Yanfei had defected from Great Qin.

At the Great Qin border, she was taken away by Yan Lingji, one of the Four Seasons Protectors of the Qinglong Society.

In truth, the current Jiuge is incomplete!

Lord Donghuang Taiyi, pressed by the increasingly dire situation, had paid any price to accelerate the awakening of Da Siming.

But with Jiuge incomplete, awakening a few more was no simple matter.

Only such words could hardly be spoken to Qin Huang Ying Zheng.

Even less could they truly be said at the Lanchi Palace, with all the civil and military officials and the Hundred Schools of Thought present.

If complaints were truly voiced, one moment the dragon-heart would still be greatly pleased, and the next it would be the thunder of sovereign grace.

The Moon Goddess could only smile bitterly in her heart, while keeping a composed expression on her face.

"This Liang Wang Zhu Wen of Great Tang's Jiangnan is indeed a remarkable figure.

Facing Great Song, he expanded his territory by a hundred li, to say nothing of it.

He even secretly established the Youming Sect, further plotting rebellion against Great Tang.

This man truly has no small ambitions!"

Having finished the matter of Da Siming, Li Si, taking the occasion of this Heavenly Dao Hundred Flowers Ranking, began to offer his commentary.

The first item he mentioned was precisely the matter of Great Tang's Liang Wang Zhu Wen's disloyal intentions.

The several great imperial courts of the present Nine Provinces—even the weaker ones like Great Qing and Great Song—had in truth not been founded so easily.

Zhu Wen's wolfish ambition: he had only just gained a footing in Great Tang, yet already plotted rebellion to overthrow Great Tang.

As soon as Li Si spoke, Wei Liaozi could no longer sit still, and immediately stepped forward to say,

"Zhu Wen is nothing more than a fool's dream.

How could he know that for our several great imperial courts to have established their states, they endured how many trials.

Great Tang has just defeated Great Yuan once; it is precisely when the nation's fortune is rising day by day, at its zenith.

With Zhu Wen's rebellion now, once Great Tang makes up its mind, it can be destroyed in a day."

Wei Liaozi's words seemed somewhat like a show of support and might for Great Tang.

In truth, Wei Liaozi was thinking of Fusu, who was currently on a mission to Great Tang, wishing to promote the trend of a Qintangjie Alliance.

Although Wei Liaozi was not one of Fusu's supporters, he also approved of the Qintangjie Alliance.

Therefore he worried that scheming people might take advantage of Zhu Wen's intention to throw Great Tang into chaos, and urge the Great Qin court to add insult to injury against Great Tang.

If it were so, once Great Tang learned of Great Qin's actions,

this alliance would certainly fall through.