Chapter 267 Qingyang Peak
Why did all the wealthy and powerful families suddenly turn to the imperial court?
The reason is actually very simple, because their ancestors, the gods in heaven, gave oracles to every noble family, requiring all noble families to obey the imperial court.
Of course, these are not the only things written in the oracle. Their ancestors did not ask them to obey the imperial court unconditionally. There are also generous conditions offered by the imperial court.
Not only will the imperial court allow all the aristocratic families to return to the Ming Dynasty, but they will also return their original territories to them, promote them to higher positions, and reward them for their achievements in conquering Japan.
This is nothing, the most important thing is that the imperial court will help them become gods!
If it were the imperial court of the past, the aristocratic families would naturally not believe that the imperial court could help them become gods.
But now it is different, because the imperial court has invited more than a dozen True Lords and three Heavenly Lords.
With just a little guidance from these True Lords and Heavenly Lords , those top earthly immortals from the aristocratic families will quickly become gods!
It is indeed difficult to comprehend the Way of Heaven on your own, but it is different if there is someone teaching you constantly.
Just like Chen Jiu's side, seven True Lords including True Lord Wuyun had just arrived in their Jiuling Mountain, and it became much easier for everyone to comprehend the Way of Heaven.
With the teachings of more than ten True Lords or even three Heavenly Lords, it would be a natural thing for you to realize the Heavenly Dao that you have been comprehending for decades or even hundreds of years!
Chen Jiu looked at the oracle in his hand, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
He watched for a long time before he sighed and said, "Alas, these fence-sitters are really unreliable. I shouldn't have been so nice to them in the first place. I helped them clear the way and killed so many immortals and immortal ninjas. I also helped them conquer the territory of Yingzhou and helped them block the true god of Dongying. I really overeat!"
Patriarch Hongyun also sighed helplessly: "These people are really ungrateful wolves that can never be fed. No matter how much you feed them, it's useless. Once there is a greater benefit, they will immediately turn over without hesitation."
Chen Jiu said with some disdain: "A bigger benefit? Isn't it just becoming a god? It's easier for me to help them become gods. Fortunately, I didn't help them become gods. I should have let these guys fend for themselves in Japan a long time ago."
Patriarch Hongyun shook his head slightly and sighed, "Ah Jiu, it's useless to say these things now. You should quickly think about what to do. Many earth immortals from aristocratic families have already rushed to the capital after receiving the oracle. They seem to be afraid of missing this opportunity to become gods."
These guys just ran away without a word.
Fortunately, the Qingyang Zhang family is in Japan, otherwise he would still be kept in the dark.
Chen Jiu thought about it, and then said in a deep voice: "How many earthly immortals are there in other aristocratic families now?"
Patriarch Hongyun shook his head and sighed, "Alas, I never thought they would be like this. In the past few years, it has been too easy for them to become immortals because the spiritual energy in Yingzhou is already rich, and we have fifty bottles of immortal pills to exchange with them every month, which means six hundred bottles a year. It has been a few years, and there are more than three thousand bottles.
Even if one bottle of elixir cannot cultivate an earth immortal, two bottles are definitely enough. By this calculation, they have at least gained more than 1,500 earth immortals in the past few years. If they add in the ones they originally had, the number would probably be more than 2,000.
This is nothing, the key is the immortal weapons. Over the years, 300 immortal weapons have been exchanged for them every month. They have more than 20,000 immortal weapons in their hands!"
More than two thousand earthly immortals and more than twenty thousand immortal weapons?
Alas, this is really shooting oneself in the foot!
We dare not feed the ungrateful wolves, and it is considered good enough if we don’t kill them all. Now, we have fed a group of vicious wolves.
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiu couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
He had no choice. At that time, he did not have enough immortal herbs, elixirs and refining materials. If he did not exchange immortal pills and immortal artifacts for immortal herbs, elixirs and refining materials, he would not have so many immortal pills to cultivate so many true gods, let alone so many refining materials to refine so many immortal artifacts.
However, things are different now. He already has the means to earn magical herbs and medicines, refining materials, elixirs, and even divine weapons from the divine realm. Moreover, he has opened up the wood-based divine kingdoms of twenty-four True Lords. If his own wood-based divine kingdom is added, he will have no shortage of magical herbs and medicines.
As for the materials for refining equipment, you can just take the elixir to the divine realm to exchange them.
These guys, forget about getting an elixir from him or exchanging it for a magic weapon.
Thinking of this, Chen Jiu gritted his teeth and said, "Grandmaster, just stop selling them. I still have to prepare elixirs and magic tools for them every month, and I think it's too much trouble. I don't want their magic herbs and magic tools and refining materials anymore!"
ah?
Patriarch Hongyun couldn't help but be surprised and said, "The singing and selling has stopped? Then where can we earn the immortal herbs and refining materials?"
Oh, I forgot to tell Patriarch Hongyun.
Chen Jiu said succinctly: "Now we can exchange a large number of immortal pills from the God Realm with the divine pills and divine tools refined by the old cauldron. In the God Realm, immortal pills are like gold and silver in the mortal world. They can be used to buy anything. There are as many immortal herbs and refining materials as you want. We are not short of them at all."
So that's how it is.
Upon hearing this, Patriarch Hongyun could not help but sigh and said, "In fact, we should have stopped them long ago after we found the way to the God Realm. If we let them continue to develop like this, it would be terrible. Now their family has more than ten or twenty Earth Immortals. When their family has forty or fifty Earth Immortals, they will definitely not stay in Yingzhou peacefully anymore."
Now they will not stay peacefully in Yingzhou.
Chen Jiu thought about it, and then asked: "Ancestor, how many earthly immortals do you think these aristocratic families will leave behind to guard the territory of Yingzhou?"
Patriarch Hongyun estimated: "I estimate that each family will leave at most one or two earthly immortals to look after the territory of Yingzhou. After all, the Middle Earth is their homeland, and now they have the hope of becoming gods, so they will probably come back if they can.
What's even more annoying is that with our Qingyang Zhang clan guarding Yingzhou, they don't have to worry about the Japanese imperial court counterattacking, nor do they have to worry about the Japanese true gods coming to deal with them. They don't have to leave so many earth immortals stationed in Yingzhou at all."
Humph, is there such a good thing?
Upon hearing this, Chen Jiu couldn't help but ask, "Ancestor, how many earthly immortals do you have in the Qingyang Zhang clan?"
Patriarch Hongyun said without hesitation: "We now have more than 40 earthly immortals. Wanxia's parents, uncles, and grandfathers have all become immortals."
More than forty earthly immortals are also a considerable force.
Chen Jiu simply said: "Old Ancestor, why don't you give up the territory of Yingzhou and move all of it back. It just so happens that Sishui Pass needs earthly immortals to set up the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation. If you add dozens of earthly immortals to the formation, they will have no problem holding off one or two True Lords."
Hearing this, Patriarch Hongyun could not help but be surprised and said, "You don't want the territory of Yingzhou anymore? Then what about our business there? Now the 500,000 troops in Nanzhili still rely on the profits of our Yingzhou to support themselves."
This is actually not difficult. Food can be grown in the wood-type kingdoms of those True Lords, and gold, silver, copper, iron and the like can be refined by sending people to the gold-type kingdoms of those True Lords.
Chen Jiu thought about it, and then said decisively: "Don't worry about this, I will find a way."
Oh well.
Patriarch Hongyun simply asked: "Then where should we live? We have a large family and there are quite a few people. Those branches can live in the outer city, but it would not be a good idea for us to live in the outer city as well, right?
Wanxia is busy presiding over the Ten Thousand Immortals Array, so it would be better to let her parents move in and take care of her."
This is simple too.
Chen Jiu pointed directly at a high peak next to Linlang Peak and said, "You can live on that mountain. I can immediately order people to build a courtyard for you. Soon, that main peak will be called Qingyang Peak."
Uh, one Qingyang Country for one Qingyang Peak!
Did you lose money?
In fact, it’s not a loss. As long as you can follow Chen Jiu, there are plenty of benefits.
Upon hearing this, Patriarch Hongyun said without hesitation: "Okay, I will go to Yingzhou now and ask them to prepare. We will move back in the next two days."
By now, a large wave of relocation had already occurred in Yingzhou.
Those wealthy families were extremely excited when they received the oracle.
The imperial court actually let them return to Ming Dynasty, returned their original territories to them, promoted them and rewarded them for their achievements in conquering Japan!
They really didn't expect this.
They also didn't expect that the imperial court would help their earthly immortals become gods.
These are not the most important things to them.
The most important thing is that their ancestors gave them another oracle, and this time all the wealthy families received the oracle from their ancestors.
Originally they were thriving thanks to the protection of their ancestors. Now that they have lost their ancestors' protection, the imperial court can bully them at will!
They originally thought that their ancestors would no longer protect them, so they were afraid they could only stay in Yingzhou and figure out a way out on their own.
Who knew that suddenly the ancestor gave them another oracle, and every family had one.
This proves that their ancestors have begun to protect them again and they can once again thrive in the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, they all misunderstood. This was a trap, a huge trap dug for them by the Crown Prince Zhu Yijun.
It’s not that their ancestors remembered to protect them again, their ancestors had no choice but to listen to the words of Chilian Tianzun.
It was definitely not a good thing that Chi Lian Tianzun listened to the Crown Prince Zhu Yijun and asked them to return to Ming Dynasty and help them become gods.
There is no such great thing in the world, and there is no such great thing in the three realms.
There must be an ulterior motive behind helping them become gods.
Unfortunately, only the gods in heaven know all this, and they dare not tell their descendants, nor let them stay in Yingzhou and not come back.
Because all the gods in heaven know that one word from Chi Lian Tian Zun can really make them leave!
These people from wealthy and powerful families still thought that their ancestors had begun to protect them again, and that was why the royal court had to compromise.
They were naturally extremely excited.
Who would be willing to miss out on such a great opportunity as becoming a god? As long as there is even a slight chance, they will try their best to fight for it.
Therefore, the earthly immortals from the aristocratic and wealthy families swarmed away from Yingzhou like a swarm of carp crossing the river, and rushed desperately to the capital.
At this moment they were really like fish in water, and even the bat soldiers had no place to sit.
Chen Jiuke is not so kind. These guys clearly betrayed him and joined the imperial court, but he still let the bat soldiers pick them up?
Sorry, you guys can just swim around in the sea by yourselves.
Of course, this cannot stop the madness of the earthly immortals from the wealthy families.
Now they have the chance to become gods, they will swim back even if they have to.
What's more, most of them don't need to swim, the water-based earth immortals can make the boat fly with just a little effort.
Whether other earthly immortals take a ride on a boat or order others to steer the boat themselves, they all have to go back anyway.
As for the kindness that King Jiushan had shown them, they were too embarrassed to have forgotten it all.
Just as Patriarch Hongyun predicted, the number of earthly immortals in Yingzhou is decreasing, and in the end, only one or two useless earthly immortals are left in each vassal state.
The Zhang family of Qingyang did something even more outrageous. Not only did they withdraw all the earthly immortals, they also withdrew all their children and all the relatives and friends who followed them!
It turned out that there was no one from the Qingyang Zhang family in the Kyoto City of Japan and even in the Yamashiro Kingdom. The originally bustling Zhangjing City was suddenly deserted, just like the Kyoto City of Japan that they had just captured. Not even a single person could be seen.
At this time, Jiuling Mountain was extremely lively because Zhang Wanxia's whole family moved in, and Qingyang Peak next to Linlang Peak was immediately filled with laughter and joy.
Zhang Wanxia was very happy. She would rush home whenever she had free time. Sometimes she would even bring a few of her sisters with her to have fun.
Anyway, the situation in the capital is still a mess right now, so they don't have to worry about anyone coming over to break the formation. It's a good opportunity for her to relax.
