Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

The Immortal Envoys of the Xinheng Dynasty are a very interesting group. Wang Luo paid special attention to them when he was reading the materials.

First of all, the so-called Immortal Envoys are also called Dao Seeds of the World in the Xinheng Dynasty. They are directly managed by the national teacher and blessed by the immortal officials. They can touch the immortal power through their mortal bodies and possess magical powers that are very different from the Xinheng Immortal Dao.

The dying man in the lake before his death identified Wang Luo as an Immortal Envoy and entrusted him with the precious jade in his mouth. This is because Wang Luo has both the Immortal Alliance's Yiqing Yuanying and the Red Infant transformed by the Wild Poison. Although the realm of power is not so extraordinary, the only one who can have the strengths of both the Immortal and the Wilderness is the Immortal Envoy in the Xinheng Dynasty.

The value of the Immortal Envoys is of course not just the excellence of individual strength. The key is that these Dao Seeds who have the strengths of both families can often play a vital role in the evolution of the dynasty's immortal way. A few geniuses' flash of inspiration can surpass a hundred years of cultivation by ordinary people. Similar cases are not uncommon in the cultivation of the way of cultivation, and the immortal envoys can often become the best among them, promoting the cultivation progress of the entire dynasty with their own strength...

But in essence, the so-called blessing of the immortal officials is just a cruel human experiment. Every once in a while, the imperial master of the dynasty will select a group of "Dao seeds" with outstanding talents and bones from the country and hand them over to the immortal officials of the heavenly court for training. The immortal officials will infect these Dao seeds with various kinds of wild poisons, causing most of the Dao seeds to die on the spot. The few lucky people who survived became the best observation objects. The immortal officials will deduce and optimize the Xinheng immortal way according to the distortion of these people's transformation of the wild. After that, the deduction methods of these immortal officials can naturally be promoted to the entire Xinheng.

Yes, the development of Xinheng's immortal way is not based on the so-called enlightenment of the world's Dao seeds-in most cases, the light of inspiration in the minds of the immortal envoys is just the release of the memories sealed by the immortal officials when the time is right.

The progress of the entire Xinheng Immortal Path actually depends to a large extent on the "enlightenment" of the Heavenly Court Immortal Officials. Throughout the hundreds of years of history of the dynasty, several times the Immortal Path reforms that affected the entire territory and caused the national strength to soar were essentially driven from top to bottom by the Immortal Officials and the National Masters.

This is certainly not because the Heavenly Court Immortal Officials have the heart to actively participate in the world and help all living beings, it is purely a helpless move. But because a prosperous mortal civilization is vital to the Heavenly Court.

The Heavenly Court established a large test field in Mingzhou. The apparent intention was to analyze the powerful secrets of the Immortal Alliance from the proliferation of mortal civilization and target it - at least that's what the seven surrendered immortal officials said. But the truth is probably not so. Perhaps the immortal officials lost important memories about the Heavenly Court after surrendering, or perhaps these low-grade immortal officials have never been qualified to know the true intentions of the Heavenly Court...

At least in Wang Luo's view, the Heavenly Court's support for mortal civilization in Mingzhou is probably more to compete for the definition of mortals. Which side of the heaven can better represent the mortal beings? The way of heaven is ethereal and ruthless, so why does it lock on the Immortal Alliance? Speaking of mortals, the left side of the heaven also has mortals. Even in a place full of desolate poison, the immortals can still open up a piece of pure paradise for mortals, nurturing vigorous vitality... Then, if the mortal civilization of the left side of the heaven can develop more prosperous than the right side of the heaven, why does the way of heaven continue to favor the Immortal Alliance?

This question constitutes the theoretical cornerstone of the heaven's thousand-year plan. The more prosperous the Xinheng Dynasty is, the more difficult it will be for the Immortal Alliance to play its proud great law. Without the protection of the great law, the Immortal Alliance's many killer moves to resist the heaven will become a tree without roots.

Whether it is the bow of the Heavenly Venerable or the great barrier of the Eight Directions Dinghuang, the great law is needed as the underlying support. Otherwise, the former will lose the Taixu Fantasy Realm, a place to live and nurture, and will eventually gradually decay. The latter will simply have no foundation for existence.

But how easy is it to destroy the great law? The rules designed by Lu Zhiyao during the Battle of Dinghuang were almost flawless. Even the powerful immortals in the Heavenly Court often seemed to be throwing an axe at the sky when facing the Great Law.

However, it is very feasible to use Mingzhou as a substitute for Taojiang in the Great Law of the Immortal Alliance. It can even be said that from the perspective of paper deduction, this matter is absolutely inevitable!

It is true that during the years of Tiandao Huahuang, Mingzhou's mortal civilization suffered a heavy blow, and there was almost only a dying fire left... But at that time, there were wars everywhere on the left and right of the sky, and there was almost no real paradise. In the early years of the establishment of the Immortal Alliance, even the territory was torn apart, and it often had to face the surging offensive of the wilderness tide, and had to spend a lot of energy to deal with the border defense. In comparison, Mingzhou, which had a complete territory at the beginning and was protected by the Heavenly Court without external enemies, had certain strategic advantages.

In addition, in the Battle of Dinghuang, the Heavenly Court won the right to define above the level of God Transformation. This not only means that Mingzhou can continuously breed powerful people who have reached the level of transformation of spirits or even ascended to immortality. It also means that they have an unparalleled advantage in the theory of immortality.

When a practitioner of the combined body or Mahayana level deduces the skills and tests the skills on the spot, the effect played by many low-level practitioners is often difficult to make up for by the number of people - a few low-grade immortal officials deduce the immortal way, which can drive the progress of the immortal arts of the entire Xinheng Dynasty. This is the key.

With such a unique advantage, the Mingzhou civilization planned by the Heavenly Court, even if the territory is small and the population is not as large as that of the Immortal Alliance, is likely to develop faster and better, and eventually seize the orthodoxy of the mortal world without the knowledge of the Immortal Alliance, causing the Great Law to collapse naturally.

This strategic idea is of course very good, even genius, but in practice, the Heavenly Court has been struggling for a thousand years.

Because even with so many advantages, Mingzhou's mortal civilization still cannot develop as well as the Immortal Alliance - let alone compete with the Immortal Alliance, they can't even exist independently for a long time. In the first three hundred years, the civilizations that the Heavenly Court worked hard to build collapsed one after another. The frequent changes of dynasties were like passing locusts in the Taixu scroll. No matter how hard the immortal officials tried to select talented people from the mortal civilization, teach them earnestly, and even occasionally use some confusing immortal methods... they could never stabilize the country.

Either it was party strife and civil strife, or the people rebelled, or the tyrant's bad politics led to the overall collapse... In short, every once in a while, there would be a fierce battle that affected the entire territory, and every time the fierce battle, the little vitality that Mingzhou had finally recovered would be completely lost. In the early years, when the Heaven Court did not strictly control the communication between immortals and mortals, there was even a bad precedent where an immortal official personally stood up for one side, which almost led to the outbreak of an immortal war.

Later, more than a hundred years later, the upper-grade golden immortals in the Heaven Court learned from their mistakes and decided not to trust mortals anymore. Instead, they used the unprecedented power of the immortals to strengthen grassroots governance. They mobilized a large number of lower-grade immortal officials to go down to the grassroots level and enter the mortal court to manage the government like ordinary officials. These immortal officials may have their own calculations in private and have many contradictions with each other. But they are bound by the immortal law. At least on the issue of the Heaven Court's major plan, no one dares to act rashly and sacrifice the public for personal gain. In this way, the chaos can be corrected and the mortal civilization of Mingzhou can quickly return to the right track...

However, this hundred years can be called the darkest hundred years in Mingzhou. It is true that there is no possibility of civil strife in the dynasty with the support of immortal officials. Even under the help of the immortals, talented and righteous people in the country have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. The country soon showed a prosperous scene, and the pain caused by the civil strife in the past few hundred years was soon healed... If this momentum continues, it seems that competing with the Immortal Alliance is no longer a delusion.

But in the end, when the first hundred-year plan began to be settled, a result that shocked and even despaired everyone appeared.

The civilization forcibly supported by the immortals is strong, but it has lost the attribute of "mortal world" and can't arouse the interest of the Great Law of the Immortal Alliance at all. The immortals have been busy for a hundred years, but the impact on the Great Law is not as good as those years when Mingzhou was in war and civil strife!

So, the immortals had to face a difficult choice: what to do next?

One option is to continue to develop along the existing route. No matter whether it represents the mortal world or the heaven, a strong national strength is never a bad thing. If you can really build a civilization stronger than the Immortal Alliance, why not?

But the problem with this plan is that if the only goal is to overwhelm the Immortal Alliance in terms of power, then there is no need for the Heavenly Court to support the mortal civilization... Throwing a large number of precious immortal officials into the mortal world to waste time is not a costly luxury? Although those immortal officials are not of high rank, if they can be patient and practice hard for hundreds of years, their strength will be greatly improved, and the improvement will be far higher than the progress of mortal civilization. However, it is precisely because the Heavenly Court cannot defeat its opponents by brute force that there are troubles later, so a country with strong power alone is of no value to the Heavenly Court.

Moreover, no one can be sure that this model of micro-manipulation by the immortals themselves can still maintain high efficiency in the next hundred years. In fact, when the settlement period of the first hundred years arrived, facing the ironic result, many immortal officials were quite relieved, and even secretly pleased-how can the dignified immortals of the Heavenly Court work for mortals?

Even though they were constrained by the immortal law and could not resist, the difference in efficiency between those who were willing to do something and those who were not was obvious.

The second plan was much simpler and more brutal: since the old plan could no longer be continued, they would simply delete it and start over.

Yes, in order to rectify the chaos and rebuild a "mortal" civilization, the Heavenly Court must abandon the Huahuang Dynasty that had been cultivated for a hundred years and start all over again.

In the end, the second plan was approved by the Lord of the Heavenly Court.

Thus, an unprecedented catastrophe broke out on the land of Mingzhou. After the catastrophe, the people of Mingzhou were devastated, and nine out of ten houses were empty. The survivors had lived for several generations, but they had not yet gotten rid of their fear of the Heavenly Court. And the Heavenly Court's millennium plan fell to the bottom at one time.

It was under such historical conditions that the Xinheng Dynasty was carefully supported by the immortals of the Heavenly Court. This time, the immortals carefully iterated their tactics and chose the simplest and most effective copycat method: in simple terms, they no longer attempted to start anew and create a mortal civilization superior to the Immortal Alliance. Instead, they followed the Immortal Alliance in every aspect. Whatever the Immortal Alliance did, the New Heng Dynasty would learn to do. Even if some things could not be fully referenced due to various conditions, they would refer to them as much as possible. Unless it was absolutely necessary, they would never create something original... At the same time, the immortals were firmly restrained and strictly kept their distance from the mortal civilization. They only communicated and guided the country through the national teacher. And provided some help when necessary.

As for the actual effect of this set of tactics, it is not known for the time being - those heavenly officials who surrendered and submitted have forgotten the results of the most recent assessment when they returned to heaven. In fact, their understanding of the previous dynasty is mostly from the historical records of the Xinheng Dynasty - but in any case, before Xinheng, there was no stable regime that lasted for hundreds of years on the land of Mingzhou. And every few decades, the heavenly court would send new immortal officials to the Xinheng Dynasty to take turns and work silently in the dark.

This stable pattern that has lasted for hundreds of years naturally created a high status for the heavenly court, as well as the people and things related to the heavenly court, in the Xinheng Dynasty.

Although the national teacher Zhang Jincheng does not take on any daily affairs, he has the right to make decisions on any state affairs - if he insists on his own way, he can even abolish and establish things. The world's Taoists who are directly under the national teacher also have extremely high privileges in the Xinheng Dynasty. Although they cannot communicate directly with the immortal officials, they can communicate directly with the national teacher, and the national teacher often has great trust in the immortal envoys. Therefore, in most cases, the authority of the Immortal Envoy in the country is almost absolute.

In fact, this is also the situation deliberately created by the successive national masters.

Because the power of one person is extremely limited. The position of the national master is often like a castle in the air. On the surface, his power almost surpasses the emperor, but in most cases, this power only has deterrence - once the abuse of power leads to the collapse of the government, the punishment of the immortal officials is almost instantaneous! And the power with only deterrence can only be respected by people at most, but it is difficult to get people's recognition. So from a very early time, the national master of Xinheng has been deliberately decentralizing power... training immortal envoys, and then widely dispersing them to various places in Xinheng, and quickly spreading his own influence, which is infinitely powerful but limited to the small court, to the whole territory, and then from the whole territory back to the court.

As a result, a truly stable power structure came into being.

At this time, Wang Luo played such a running dog who consolidated the power of the national master.

And the great power shared by this running dog was soon confirmed.

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Across the continuous mountains on the southwest shore of Crazy Lake, there is a small town at the foot of the mountain.

The population of the city is only a few thousand, and it is far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, as if it is a paradise. Even the city lord has no bureaucratic airs, and he laughs and scolds with peddlers in the market all day long... However, now, this casual city lord, dressed in full costume, kneeled in front of Wang Luo trembling, with cold sweat on his back.

"Greetings, greetings to the Immortal Envoy, your subordinate, Xiahou Ying, is willing to obey your orders!"