Upon hearing Yang Sheng mention his main mission, Han Yu's eyes lit up: "Then our missions can indeed be completed simultaneously. My mission is to help the descendants of the ancient Youxin Kingdom rebuild their country and also to overthrow the rule of the Liang Kingdom."
Then, Han Yu explained his mission to them.
The Liang Kingdom was originally the territory of the ancient Youxin Kingdom, but the Youxin Kingdom was destroyed by a demon, and its descendants scattered to all corners of the world.
In the past, when the founding emperor of the Liang Kingdom was establishing his kingdom, he actually received help from the descendants of the Youxin Kingdom.
Their request was simply for the Liang Kingdom to provide them with a prefecture so they could rebuild their kingdom, but they would only worship the ancestors of the Xin Kingdom and not participate in external affairs.
But the founding emperor of the Liang Kingdom was a powerful and ambitious figure. How could he tolerate others snoring beside him? How could he possibly allow a state within a state to exist?
Therefore, after the founding of the state, Emperor Taizu of Liang began to regret his decision and carried out a large-scale massacre of the descendants of the Youxin state.
However, the descendants of these ancient countries all possess various inherited supernatural abilities. The massacre by the founding emperor of Liang did not wipe them out completely. Some of them went underground and have been seeking revenge and restoration of their country ever since.
Han Yu's identity is that of the adopted son of the current prime minister. On the surface, he is a noble young master, but in reality, the prime minister was also supported by the Xin Kingdom. He is the person responsible for communication between the two sides and his status in the Xin Kingdom is not low.
Therefore, their main tasks at present are to kill the Grand Preceptor, overthrow the Liang Kingdom and kill the Emperor, and establish a new country. The three of them can carry out their tasks at the same time.
After all, without killing Jin Ding Zhenren, they would not be able to shake the rule of the Liang Kingdom.
Old Master Cui said with a hint of bitterness, "Hey, I, an old Taoist, was just a Taoist who was coerced by the Red Turban Army when I entered the cycle of reincarnation. But you, on the other hand, became the prime minister's son directly. This cycle of reincarnation is just too damn unfair."
Yang Sheng had the same feeling; Han Yu was like a pay-to-win player.
His status was always very low each time he entered the cycle of reincarnation, almost always a low-level person, and this time was no different; he was just a lowly ghostwriter.
But he turned out to be the son of a prime minister, enjoying a prestigious position and living a life of luxury with fine clothes and gourmet meals every day.
Han Yu chuckled and said, "How could there be anything unfair in the cycle of reincarnation? I just got a few insignificant little items from the Great Emperor of the North Pole Ziwei to slightly improve my status."
Neither Master Cui nor Yang Sheng said anything.
So it turns out they have powerful connections; that makes me even more jealous.
At this moment, Yang Sheng pointed to the Taoist priests selling incense on the street and asked, "What is the origin of these Taoist priests? Why are they selling incense from house to house here?"
Han Yu curled his lips and said, "They are all Taoists of the Yixian Sect under the command of that demon master Jin Ding Zhenren. More than ten years ago, when Jin Ding Zhenren completely took control of the Liang Kingdom's government, the Yixian Sect was established. All the people in Anqing Prefecture, whether you are a prince, nobleman or a wealthy merchant, need to buy incense from the Yixian Sect and put it in the incense burner in front of your door to worship. They also need to recite Jin Ding Zhenren's Dharma name."
If anyone refuses, their entire family is destroyed; the methods are extremely cruel.
It can be said that burning incense has become as common as eating and sleeping in Anqing Prefecture.
It's even more important than eating and sleeping.
You won't starve to death in a day or two even if you don't eat or sleep.
But if you don't burn incense for a day, you really won't see the sun rise the next day.
Yang Sheng asked curiously, "Are they doing this to make money? But if it's to make money, why would they even steal the poor's cornbread and pickled vegetables?"
Han Yu said with a slightly solemn expression, "I have also wondered about this. I have even discussed it with the people of Xin Kingdom. This should be a kind of evil technique practiced by the Golden Cauldron True Man, mainly for collecting incense and prayer power."
Incense is a mysterious thing; none of us have ever come into contact with it, but we do have some guesses about it.
Selling incense might be for making money, but more importantly, it's about getting the people of Anqing Prefecture to give up a part of their most precious possessions in exchange for incense, which then fulfills their wishes.
Regardless of wealth or status, for most ordinary people, the most important thing is, of course, money.
As for the total value of incense offerings, the amount of money involved is not important; rather, the extent to which this money occupies a place in people's lives will affect the amount of incense offerings.
Therefore, the rich would take more, and ordinary people would take less. Some poor people had no money, but as long as they contributed half a cornbread, the quality of their incense offering was the same as the incense offerings that the rich obtained by paying tens of taels of silver.
Old Master Cui frowned and said, "I have some experience with incense offerings. In the reincarnation worlds I have experienced before, there were some forces that did these things."
However, normally, incense is not collected in this way at all. Instead, people need to make offerings voluntarily, and a signpost is required to collect the incense.
Especially with things like Dao Beacons, it's wishful thinking for someone whose cultivation level isn't high enough to use themselves as a Dao Beacon.
Therefore, when religious sects want to absorb incense offerings, they will fabricate a deity and create a statue of him, so that this deity can serve as a beacon to absorb the power of incense offerings and prayers. The statue or the divine tablet serves as a container.
Only then can one slowly absorb and refine the incense.
This Golden Cauldron Immortal actually made the people of Anqing Prefecture chant his Taoist name. Does he think he's a god? Isn't he afraid of overdoing it?
This wasn't just absorbing the power of incense offerings; it was outright robbery.
Han Yu said, "In short, so many years have passed since this incident, but Jin Ding Zhenren is still alive and well, and his power is getting stronger and stronger. This can prove that there should be no problem with Jin Ding Zhenren's move."
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