The golden ocean covers the sky.

Pillars of light descended from the sky, covering everyone present except Emperor Ming.

Among them, the light around Xu Qing was the most powerful, and the light gathered into a ball, like a solid ball of light.

Xu Qing was still on guard against Emperor Ming, but when the merit was bestowed upon him by Heaven, he knew that everything was settled.

He immersed himself in his body.

Feel the merit flowing through your body.

Merit is a reward from heaven, but the function of merit is more of a protection.

If a person with great merit encounters a heavenly calamity, the calamity will automatically weaken;
If someone wants to murder a person with great merit, he will encounter many difficulties, and even if he succeeds in the end, he will be punished by heaven.

But for Xu Qing.

The merits of this moment also have another effect——

Ask for a title from heaven and earth!
Receive his position in the Immortal Class!

The talismans of the talisman school are divided into scripture talismans and treasure talismans.

The Sutra Talisman is the Dharma, and the Precious Talisman is the duty. Only when the Sutra Talisman and the Precious Talisman are integrated can it be a true Dharma Talisman.

Yuanfu Temple bestows talismans on disciples at the third level of the Qi Refining Realm, first granting them the Sutra talisman and then granting them the Treasure talisman.

What can I do when you go to Hongze Lake and walk along the river?

The Yuanfu Temple's altar was sealed by the imperial decree of Emperor Taizu of Dasheng, and before it was unsealed, it could no longer grant ordnance to its disciples.

For example, Li Ping'an, although he had already perfected the essence refining and advanced to the Qi refining stage, he was not given the ordination certificate.

There are only two ways for Xu Qing to condense the Treasure Scroll now. One is to wait for the sect altar to be unsealed, but it is not known when it will be unsealed yet. The other is to ask for rewards from heaven and earth with merits and achievements to condense the Treasure Scroll position.

Xu Qing's mind moved.

Most of the merit that entered his body flowed to the "Taishang Zhengyi Yuanming Hun Dun Chi Lu" in his dantian.

The brilliant light instantly enveloped the entire sutra.

Xu Qing's mind fell into the "Taishang Zhengyi Yuanming Chaos Red Talisman", and his sight passed through the small world of the human body and looked towards the end of the deep and distant sky, whose height was unknown.

"Disciple Jingdu, today I ask for a title from heaven and earth!"

The words fell.

The ruthless, asexual, impartial and personal will of heaven, which captivated everyone, descended into Xu Qing's dantian.

This will turned into a carving knife, using merit as ink, and carved out a precious talisman of divine office on the back of the "Taishang Zhengyi Yuanming Hun Dun Chi Lu" bit by bit -

The Yin-Yang General who conquers demons and monsters!
"The Great General of Yin and Yang who subdues demons and monsters?" Xu Qing whispered the title of this clergyman.

Judging from the name alone, this group of immortal priests is not ordinary.

It is hard to say what its specific rank is, but it is definitely not an ordinary eighth or ninth rank priesthood.

Normally, the sacred positions granted through the sect altar usually start from the lowest ninth rank, with very few being the eighth rank, and there are almost no higher ranks.

The precious talisman priesthood obtained by the disciples of the talisman sect through the clan altar is similar to the favored position bestowed upon the descendants of meritorious officials.

Thanks to the blessings left by the ancestors and the grace of heaven, future generations do not need to have any merits. They only need to join the mountain gate and practice virtue and success, then they can be included in the immortal class and be granted a divine position.

In this case, it is naturally impossible to give you a high priesthood at the beginning.

But Xu Qing is now seeking honor from Heaven based on his real achievements.

The granted precious talismans are not bound by this rule at all.

Even if Xu Qing wanted to spread this priesthood and gain worshippers, it would not be a problem at all.

"I didn't expect that Heaven would bestow so much merit this time." Xu Qing's mood became surprisingly good. "Besides, Heaven is too generous."

According to his achievements, it is actually more than enough to give him the title of "general".

However, the title bestowed by Heaven was "Grand General". The difference of just one word could result in a difference of several grades in rank.

But that's right.

After all, he is a member of our family with a good pedigree.

With a good background and real achievements, a higher title means nothing.

After the conferment of the Heavenly Imperial Decree was completed, Xu Qing's mind returned to his sea of ​​consciousness, where the phantoms of a group of founding civil and military officials were waiting for him.

"It's over, and it's time for us to leave." The first civil official bowed and said.

Other civil officials and military generals either bowed or clasped their fists.

"Don't you want to meet this emperor?"

All the founding civil and military officials shook their heads and said, "What's the point of seeing him? Our duty is to stop the tide and support the collapsing building. This time, the king is unjust. It would be bad for us to see him."

"Okay." Seeing that the founding civil and military officials had made up their minds, Xu Qing didn't say much.

"Thank you all for your help."

Xu Qing bowed to them respectfully.

"It's just a matter of duty."

Finished speaking.

The figures of the founding civil and military officials gradually disappeared and returned to the Wenwu Temple.

Xu Qing watched them leave.

Finally, the first supervisor of Dasheng, the famous Mr. Liu, left three words for Xu Qing:

"We left something for you that can help you."

"Your existence in Dasheng is an anomaly in this world."

"I hope that the ending destined for Dasheng will change because of you."

Left something for me? An anomaly? Dasheng's destined ending?

Xu Qing's eyes were deep and serious.

What do you mean?
Xu Qing's thoughts flowed through his body, and he found a kind of "Tian Gang" in his dantian. It was a "Tian Gang" of extremely high quality, comparable to the evil spirits of disaster and war.

Is this what Mr. Liu left for me?

He is indeed lacking a certain kind of Heavenly Power now.

Originally, with the help of the "Xiantian Hu Shi Ji Lian You Ke" passed down by his senior sister, he successfully broke through in refining the evil spirits of disaster and soldiers. If he wants to make another breakthrough, it may take quite some time.

But today, he benefited greatly from receiving the spiritual power of his ancestor and the power of a group of founding civil and military officials.

Just the feeling of being promoted all the way to the seventh realm is a priceless adventure. In the future, when he reaches a higher realm, he will face fewer obstacles than others.

Not to mention the transformation of his personal world by the two forces.

More feelings need to be experienced in detail later, but the final journey of the Qi Refining Realm has been completed. All that is left is to refine the last bit of Tiangang, and then you will be able to break into the fourth realm.

"It's true that those who survive a disaster will be blessed in the future. Anyone who gets this reward would be jealous." Xu Qing muttered.

Mentioning a wisp of the ancestor's spirit.

Xu Qing finally looked at the figure with empty eyes.

at this time.

The figure with empty eyes seemed to sense something and looked up at him. The emptiness in his eyes disappeared and gradually became more gentle.

"Well done."

Xu Qing felt that he had heard wrongly.

Isn’t it said that because of the arrangement of Taizu of Da Sheng, this strand of the ancestor’s spirit has no intelligence?
But when he looked again, even the trace of the master's spirit had completely disappeared.

The huge force was drained from his body, and Xu Qing's realm quickly dropped from the seventh realm to the peak of the third realm.

A huge feeling of emptiness filled every corner of my body.

Xu Qing formed an outer circular seal with his hands, "integrating all difficulties and being inaction".

The feeling of emptiness gradually subsided.

Xu Qing was planning to study what kind of blessing the "Yin Yang Demon Subduing General" would bring to him, but thinking that the matter of Emperor Ming had not been completely resolved, he put it aside for the time being and withdrew his mind from Dantian. When he opened his eyes.

The golden ocean that covered the sky has disappeared.

Xu Qing looked in the direction of Emperor Ming, only to see that everyone was surrounding him.

Emperor Ming was lying horizontally and floating in the air, with the Bai Ze flag piercing his chest. His body was disintegrating bit by bit, and the Sun and Moon Banner and the Umbrella of Ten Thousand People were spinning on his left and right sides.

"Your Majesty!" Master Chen from Yunshan Academy came before Emperor Ming.

"Master Chen," Emperor Ming watched the sea of ​​merit disappear in the sky, his eyes narrowed slightly, "I have failed this time, and I will leave it to you to decide how to deal with me next."

"But it might be a bit shameless to say that."

Emperor Ming smiled and said, "My body is irreversibly disintegrating. After a while, I will completely disappear from this world. You can't do anything with me even if you want to."

This statement came out.

Everyone fell silent.

The deputy supervisor had a particularly complicated expression on his face, and the words of the supervisor were still lingering in his ears: "Public concern outweighs personal concern."

What Emperor Ming did today.

It is true that public interest outweighs personal interest.

He wanted to create a wise and intelligent king who would put the country and the people first in everything he did.

Even if it means sacrificing the lives of the people in a city.

Just as Emperor Ming said at the beginning, if the Holy Emperor was really born successfully, the people and history books in the future would only praise Emperor Ming's great strategy and wisdom.

after all.

It's still a matter of winners and losers.

"Your Majesty, why is it so?" Master Chen couldn't help asking, "Even if there is no so-called Holy Emperor, your wisdom is enough to ensure the peace and prosperity of Dasheng for hundreds of years."

"Why has it come to this?" Emperor Ming shook his head and didn't want to discuss this topic any further.

"Your Majesty, I want to know what you saw when the destiny of the Fire Deity, the Fate of the Divine Fire, and the authority of the God of Fire were combined into one. Why did you lose your mind and become so crazy?" Tianpeng asked in a deep voice.

Compared to Emperor Ming's motives for doing this, he wanted to know more about the reasons why Emperor Ming fell into madness.

"What did I see?" Emperor Ming's eyes suddenly became clear. "I saw the sea of ​​suffering in all ages. It is the sea of ​​suffering in all ages gathered by all living beings in the heavens and the myriad worlds."

"Endless and extremely malicious."

“When I stood on this side of the Sea of ​​Bitterness, I knew that when the fate of the Fire Deity, the Fate of the Divine Fire, and the authority of the Fire God were combined, that power would have surpassed the upper limit of this world. So even if I eventually became a Holy Emperor, I would not be able to exist in this world.”

“Ironic, isn’t it?”

"My plan was successful after all, but this world cannot accommodate the existence of a Holy Emperor."

"It's not you who are stopping me, it's the world"

“In fact, when my consciousness transcends this world and stands on the other side of the sea of ​​suffering, if I choose to give up, nothing that happens afterwards will happen.”

"But I won't give up!"

"I was prepared to sacrifice the people of an entire city to become the Holy Emperor, but this is the outcome!"

"What did you do?" Tianpeng felt a little dry in the mouth.

Everyone also looked deeply at Emperor Ming, and an indescribable feeling permeated the place.

"Cross the sea." Emperor Ming said slowly.

"Cross the sea?" Everyone was shocked.

Those who can cross the sea of ​​suffering and reach the other shore are all famous and sacred beings in the heavens and all realms.

You, why?

"As long as I can get through the sea of ​​suffering, I can turn this world into my dojo. The so-called problem of the world not being able to accommodate me will no longer exist."

Xu Qing didn't know what to say.

Does it mean that the emperor was too reckless?

But the real Emperor Ming has been divided into three, especially this incarnation of the Holy Emperor, who is controlled by the consciousness reborn from the corpse of Emperor Ming, although he possesses all the memories of Emperor Ming.

But it is difficult to say that they are actually the same person.

The real Emperor Ming should have set certain restrictions in advance on the consciousness that was reborn from his corpse.

It is like the iron law engraved in the underlying logic of mechanical intelligence.

At that time, Emperor Ming chose to cross the sea, perhaps because he was unwilling to do so, or perhaps it was due to the real arrangement of Emperor Ming.

Taoist Qingshan sighed slightly: "Your Majesty, do you know that your one wrong thought may bring Dasheng to an irreparable end? Even the whole world may be swallowed by the sea of ​​suffering."

"I know." Emperor Ming nodded, "But so what?"

"So what?" Chen Boxian, the Imperial College's chief priest, rolled up his sleeves, looking angry. "The lives of countless people in Dasheng are of no value to you?"

"That's not what I meant." Emperor Ming's tone did not fluctuate because of Chen Boxian's anger. "It's just that you and I both know that although Dasheng still looks prosperous on the surface."

"But the dragon energy of the earth veins is getting weaker day by day."

"This decline will have no immediate impact and may last for hundreds or thousands of years, but one day, the great prosperity will fall apart because of it."

"It's a matter that will take hundreds or thousands of years, so why rush it now?" the deputy supervisor sighed.

"Do you think that the emergence of two divine fire lives in a row is not a manifestation of the great prosperity?" Emperor Ming looked directly at the deputy supervisor. "Good things will come after the worst, and good things will come after the best. As the deputy supervisor of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau, don't you understand this principle?"

"The two born with divine fire will bring Dasheng hundreds of years of prosperity, but then it will inevitably go downhill until it perishes."

"So, do you think it's still far?"

The deputy supervisor stopped talking.

Emperor Ming also closed his eyes and waited quietly for death.

After a long while, Tianpeng finally broke the silence and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for overstepping my bounds. Which prince should be made emperor?"

Everyone shifted their gaze because of Tianpeng's words.

Xu Qing looked around, looking for the figure of the "Qilin".

But everyone else had disappeared, including Taotie and the figure hidden in the mist.

It was beyond his expectation that Qilin was the prince of Dasheng.

However, Taizu of Dasheng only left three blank imperial edicts. The fact that Qilin was able to use one of them to seal the ancestral altar actually revealed clues about its relationship with Emperor Ming.

However, even though they had doubts at the time, they did not dare to speculate in this direction. In the end, they guessed that Qilin was working for Emperor Ming.

Qilin was born with the destiny of divine fire and was the most qualified person to succeed the position of Emperor Dasheng.

But Qilin is now a member of the evil sect.

No one present, including Xu Qing, would support Qilin ascending to the throne.

Emperor Ming opened his eyes and said, "My other two incarnations are still here. I will not appoint a new emperor for the time being. Let everything run smoothly until the new emperor appears."

"This"

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. Such an approach could indeed ensure a smooth transition of power.

But who among them could trust a man who would sacrifice an entire city's worth of civilians just to achieve a certain goal?
the other side.

The abbot of Bailong Temple, Master Luewu, was worried about the safety of his master, Master Mingyuan.

Leave early and come to Huangji Palace.

At this time, the old monk was sitting cross-legged on the ground, looking haggard and on the verge of death.

Master Liaowu was anxious when he saw this, and shouted loudly: "Master! Master!"

The old monk suddenly opened his eyes:

"Big devil!"

"Big devil!"

"Something has emerged from the sea of ​​suffering!" (End of this chapter)