Chapter 313 People change, and Hai Rui also becomes greedy!
"Too deceiving!"
Looking at the arrogant Yan Shifan above the sky, the middle-aged white-haired man had a gloomy face. He was about to mobilize all the spiritual power in his body and fight to the death with all his strength.
"Dean, wait a minute!" But at this moment, a cry suddenly came from below.
Several elders from the "Tianshui Academy" rose into the sky, came in front of the middle-aged man, and stood between him and Yan Shifan.
"Are you going to surrender?" The middle-aged man's face suddenly turned cold when he saw the leaders of several families in the academy.
However, facing the shouting, the faces of the patriarchs of several academy families standing in the middle froze, and then the old man with a short white beard, who was in the lead, sighed and stepped forward to speak.
"Master, please forgive me for not dragging the entire family into a battle that has no chance of winning!"
"That's right," a middle-aged man in a purple robe beside him nodded and said, "The opponent's cultivation is at the Void Refining Stage. Even if we fight with all the people in the academy, we can't win."
"Besides, since the other party dared to openly destroy the academy, it means that the power behind them is beyond our imagination."
"To be precise, it is possible that one of the four major academies is behind the other party."
"Besides, let's just talk about this area of the Immortal Cultivation World in Houhai. How many academies, big and small, are there in this sea area?"
"If every academy is destroyed by the forces under its command, the four major academies will have to intervene, and they will not be able to handle it."
"In recent years, there have been quite a few small and medium-sized academies destroyed by major top forces. My Tianshui Academy is no exception."
"Master, face the reality!"
Several family patriarchs of Tianshui Academy took turns to persuade the president of Tianshui Academy, whose face became increasingly gloomy.
On the other side, Yan Shifan was not in a hurry to urge them to make a decision, but just waited quietly.
According to the original idea, these people in the academy should all be killed to prevent them from revealing the existence of the Ming Dynasty to the four major academies!
Although just as the patriarchs of these academies said, even if Tianshui Academy was destroyed, it is estimated that the four major academies, or those large academies would not take action if they knew about it, but what if something unexpected happened?
Even though Arcturus is a world of immortal cultivation ruled by Confucianism and academies, there is no such thing as one academy, big or small, being subordinate to another.
Of course, there are also subordinate relationships.
However, if we consider things from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, there are a lot of things to consider.
Because Daming knew clearly that his future enemies would be all the forces on Arcturus, including the four major academies.
Therefore, before starting the uprising, all actions must be done to avoid the sight of the four major academies as much as possible.
You must not attract any attention from the other party in the early stage.
Otherwise, it would be equivalent to installing a surveillance system on the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming Dynasty's power grows and expands, it will sooner or later be noticed by the four major academies.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty would have to face the other side.
Once a force develops to a certain size, its actions and behaviors can no longer represent itself.
At that time, the Ming Dynasty faced two choices: either to submit to a higher-level force or to go to war directly.
Surrender is of course impossible.
But if we go to war directly, we will never win.
Therefore, in fact, killing all the people in Tianshui Academy is the most correct choice.
However, there are many immortal cultivation forces on this island, and there is no wall that is impenetrable. What happened today will spread sooner or later. Although Daming’s behavior will not be targeted by those top forces, it will always leave an impression on them.
This has nothing to do with whether or not the Tianshu Academy is destroyed.
Secondly, since killing or not killing doesn’t matter, the natural thing is to maximize benefits.
After all, everything is based on interests, which is the tradition of the Ming Dynasty.
How can Tianshui Academy, the dominant academy that rules this island, provide benefits to the Ming Dynasty?
It’s very simple, just become the Ming Dynasty’s cultivation feedback machine!
It is only necessary to let all the cultivators of Tianshui Academy reach a certain level, and those with extraordinary destiny voluntarily hand over their destiny and swear a blood oath to the heaven. In this way, the cultivation gained by the destiny objects they have polished will be sent to the destiny plateau.
Then it was absorbed by the destiny of the Ming Dynasty officials!
In this way, it is equivalent to the natal plateau, with a group of people who continuously supply their cultivation.
Rather than wasting it by killing these people, it would be more cost-effective to subdue them and make them the Ming Dynasty's captive cultivation machines.
“You bunch of people…” After hearing the words of the clan leaders of the various families in the academy, the dean of Tianshui Academy, who was already seriously injured, was now gasping for breath, with a gloomy look on his face.
"Brother, the Dean!" Suddenly at this moment, a shrill cry came from below.
Hearing this voice, the dean of Tianshui Academy turned around suddenly and looked towards the ruins below.
On the ruins, there stood a beautiful woman in a red dress.
"Brother, stop resisting," the beautiful woman saw the dean turn around, tears on her face, and said angrily:
"If other academies are willing to help, what are they waiting for now?"
"Even if you don't consider yourself, please consider your disciples, Shuang'er, Lei'er and the others!"
The shrill cries made the dean of Tianshui Academy feel like he was struck by lightning. He staggered back several steps in the air, looked at the seriously injured disciples in the ruins below, and then looked at the academy family standing in front of him.
"Heh..." Suddenly, the dean of Tianshui Academy laughed, with an indescribable sadness in his expression.
At this time, the patriarchs of the academy families standing in front of him also looked unhappy.
For a moment, they didn't dare to look at the dean.
Yan Shifan, who was standing on the head of his natal creature, had a blank expression on his face when he saw this, and he didn't feel much in his heart.
This is the world where the strong prey on the weak. The weak must always be prepared to be swallowed up by the strong.
A world without law, no wonder!
"Tianshui Academy is willing to surrender and even surrender my life, but I have one condition," Tianshui Dean took a deep breath and said, "You, Daming, must guarantee that the disciples of my Tianshui Academy will not be harmed in any way!"
"Otherwise, even if we fight to the death, we will not let you off easily!"
Hearing that the dean was still thinking about the entire academy at this time, the patriarchs of all the families in the academy looked ashamed.
"Of course. Our Ming Dynasty is here to conquer, not to kill."
Since the other party had already decided to surrender and had no intention of killing him, Yan Shifan was naturally happy to give him peace of mind. After all, the Tianshui Dean was very powerful.
If a powerful cultivator in the Void Refinement Stage plants his life force into a plateau, the amount of cultivation he contributes to the plateau every year would be enormous.
Furthermore, once the opponent is completely subdued in the future, the Ming Dynasty will have one more master in the Void Refinement Stage.
After all, the world was conquered through fighting, and it is not impossible to accept surrendered generals in the process. When Taizu and Chengzu conquered the world, didn't they also recruit many surrendered generals? The future of the Ming Dynasty is to conquer the heavens and the worlds, so it should be inclusive of all races.
Moreover, once the other party sees the effect of his natal field feeding back his cultivation, are you still afraid that he won't be loyal to him?
After all, the ultimate goal of those who cultivate immortality is to improve their cultivation until they ascend to immortality. You can't be at odds with anything, but you can't be at odds with cultivation and immortality, right?
Everything that follows is easy.
In Tianshui Academy, everyone from the dean to the clan leaders swore a blood oath to the Heavenly Dao and handed over their lives.
With the authority of the natal plateau granted by Jiajing, Yan Shifan can collect the natal chart of everyone on their behalf.
After experiencing such a miraculous operation as his life object leaving his body but still maintaining a connection with it, the top leaders of Tianshui Academy became more and more wary of this mysterious force called Daming.
Of course, what they didn’t know was that the main reason why Jiajing could take their life objects was that the entire island had now become a part of Jiajing’s life object.
And these creatures are naturally Jiajing's natal objects. In this way, from a certain perspective, the natal and natal plateaus are actually interconnected, so there will be no impact.
To put it bluntly, it's the same principle whether it's placed in their natal plateau or in their own sea of consciousness.
Afterwards, under the arrangement of Yan Shifan and other people from the Cabinet's Silijian, a sectarian family meeting was quickly held with Tianshui Academy as the leader, the purpose of which was naturally to establish rules.
Faced with this super power called "Da Ming Xian Zong", it took only more than half a year to defeat many sects and families. Even the Tianshui Academy that ruled this place was no match for it. Naturally, other forces did not dare to resist.
Moreover, the Ming Dynasty only asked them to surrender their lives and swear a blood oath not to betray the will of heaven. As for other matters such as sectarian and family power, the Ming Dynasty did not violate them at all, nor did it make excessive demands. Facing such a powerful force, what else could they resist?
Naturally, whatever the Ming Dynasty says is what happens.
Try to behave better, maybe the Ming Dynasty will return their lives to them in the future.
Besides, the world of cultivating immortals, especially the sects and families like theirs living on the islands, have no sense of security.
Now that we have the protection of a hegemonic force, it is no exaggeration to say that it is a blessing in disguise.
"The Tianshui Academy has been resolved. From today on, our Ming Dynasty has completely established a foothold in the world of immortal cultivation!"
On the cliff behind the Tianshui Academy.
Yan Song, Yan Shifan, Xu Jie and Hai Rui stood side by side.
"But this is far from enough. This is just the beginning..." Hai Rui said after taking a deep breath.
Hearing Hai Rui say this, Yan Shifan couldn't help but look at him in surprise. He didn't expect that Hai Rui, who had always been upright and incorruptible and could not tolerate any grain of sand in his eyes, could be so greedy?
What's the matter, Hai Rui, you think that swallowing up a territory comparable to half of the Ming Dynasty's world is not enough? You want to continue? Why didn't I see that you, Hai Rui, are such a person before?
Well, as expected, people do change!
"Haha, Gangfeng's words are a little unexpected to me." After hearing Hai Rui's words, Yan Song couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't you think that what I, the Ming Dynasty, have done here in the past six months is too dishonest?"
Xu Jie couldn't help but look at Hai Rui.
Well, actually what Yan Song said was right. Even he felt uncomfortable with what they had done over the past six months.
Xu Jie, who prided himself on being a clean person, felt that this world where the strong were respected and the weak were the prey of the strong was too barbaric.
He always made sure to have a legitimate reason for doing things, but in just over half a year he felt like a stranger to himself.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Hai Rui took a breath of the sea breeze that was filled with spiritual energy, looked at Yan Song and the other two, and said, "Could it be that in the eyes of Lord Yan, am I, Hai Rui, such a pedantic person?"
After asking a question in return, Hai Rui paused for a moment and said:
"If Hai Rui were asked to give a conscientious evaluation of what we have done in the world of immortal cultivation over the past six months," Hai Rui counted with his hands and said, "There are only eight words!"
Under the gaze of the crowd, Hai Rui looked at the endless sea in front of him and said in a sonorous voice:
"I eat your salary and share your worries!"
"There is a war between the Ming Dynasty and the world of immortal cultivation!"
"There is no right or wrong in war, only interests. Moreover, this real world of cultivation, after all, is nothing more than the petty and outdated family system."
"For example, the academy of the Supreme Being, the core system is just a few families in power, even the dean is from the same family."
"The family is full of petty intrigues. How can we expect them to govern this vast and magnificent world of immortal cultivation?"
"A world without law is doomed to be dark."
"And the emergence of Daming is to tear apart the darkness of this world of immortal cultivation and restore an eternal blue sky to this world of immortal cultivation!"
After these words were spoken, even Yan Shifan, who was always eloquent, felt uncomfortable.
Yes, that's right, it was dazzling. He felt that Hai Rui's whole body was shining when he said this.
After hearing what Hai Rui said, Yan Song and Xu Jie looked at each other and then looked away, but did not express any further opinions.
If the person who said this was someone else, they would certainly think the same as Yan Shifan and feel that it was hypocritical. But since the person who said this was Hai Rui, there was nothing to question.
Because they knew that if Hai Rui could say that, he would actually put it into practice.
From now on, under the bright blue sky of this world of immortal cultivation, there will be a sword like Hai Gangfeng hanging over the heads of all living beings.
As long as this sword exists, in the world of immortal cultivation under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, even if it inevitably decays and begins to breed darkness, all races in the heavens and on earth will still have grievances to redress and complaints to be told.
And this is the meaning of Hai Rui's existence!
However, Yan Song and Xu Jie were such old foxes that they understood the deeper meaning behind Hai Rui's words.
After all, the essence is that it is a war. There is no right or wrong in war, only interests, so there is no need to talk about anything else.
They will experience even more darkness in the future.
Only after completely pacifying the world of immortal cultivation, would the Ming Dynasty have the qualifications to slowly whitewash the situation.
"Next, we just need to manage this island well, connect the two worlds, and digest the harvest this time with peace of mind. This island has resources comparable to half of the Ming world, which is enough to take the Ming world's strength to a higher level."
Xu Jie stroked his beard with his hand, looked into the distance, and spoke softly.
"Chirp, chirp..." In the distance, magical birds were flying. Under the cliff, waves were lapping against the shore. Four people stood there quietly.
The previously planned two-front war, that between the outer world and the world of immortal cultivation, has now been completed. What the Ming Dynasty needs to do next is to digest the rich fruits of the war between the two worlds.
These naturally require the responsibility of the Cabinet and the Imperial Household Department.
At this time, Jiajing returned to the southern continent, the Great Wilderness, and the Daming Immortal Sect again.
Just because this time, the Daming Immortal Sect was in danger!
There are strong men from major sects in the Central Plains who are also loyal to Li Changqing. They break into the place where the leader is in seclusion and want to see the leader of the Ming Dynasty.
His eldest disciple Xu Shixing had no choice but to send an urgent message!
"..."
(End of this chapter)
