Chapter 232 The Last Ascendant Before the Heaven Collapses
Hong Shen never thought that he would see his father again.
The nightmare experience a hundred years ago made him lose all his relatives except his grandfather Hong Kang.
His parents died tragically at that time.
If Cui Heng had not appeared and rescued him, he would have become an orphan.
Therefore, Hong Shen never wanted to recall the incident a hundred years ago.
It was too painful and too sad.
But he never thought that today, a hundred years later, he would see his father again.
"My son greets my father!" Hong Shen knelt down in front of Hong Tao, without any dignity as an emperor.
"Good boy, get up." Hong Tao looked at his son, and he was full of emotion. He sighed, "In my memory, you were so young, but now you are the emperor."
He had died long ago, and only his remaining soul remained on the tablet of the Hong family. Although he was now canonized as a god by Cui Heng, his memory actually still stayed in the period of a hundred years ago.
Now seeing that Hong Shen has grown up, he feels a bit confused about time and space.
However, Hong Tao is no longer a mortal, but a god with divine power.
Whether it is strength or mind, he has reached a level comparable to that of a mysterious immortal, and can control his mentality very well.
This is also one of the special features of the execution of the Canonization of Gods.
Under normal circumstances, if ordinary people suddenly possess the power of the Xuanxian level, but do not have a matching mind, it is difficult to control this power.
But it is different for gods. Divine power and authority are brought by the position of god.
When being deified, the soul and cognition will be baptized by the power of the gods, and the mind will also be sublimated.
Therefore, they can directly control the power of the gods.
"Father, you are now..."
Hong Shen stood up and asked. He could feel that his father contained an extremely powerful power, which was countless times stronger than himself.
"I am now the City God appointed by the Immortal Venerable." Hong Tao bowed to Cui Heng, "If the Immortal Venerable had not used his great magical powers to deify my remaining soul, how could we have met again?"
"Thank you very much, Immortal Venerable!" Hong Shen bowed to Cui Heng to express his gratitude, and then asked with some doubt, "Immortal Venerable, what is this City God?"
"The City God is the god who guards the city, judges good and evil, and protects the people." Cui Heng explained with a smile, "This is a set of gods and spirits system I designed, and I want to implement it in Daxia."
As he said this, he raised his hand and Hong Shen immediately felt a lot of information emerging in his mind.
In just a moment, he understood what Cui Heng meant.
This is a set of gods and spirits system with the ancestors of the Hong family as the core, independent of the human court, and its main responsibility is to protect the peace of the people and judge good and evil. The chief god is the Taimiao
Ancestor God, who resides in the Taimiao in the capital.
The chief god commands the entire system of gods and spirits, and has the power to confer titles on the city gods. Under the Taimiao
Ancestor God, there are the capital city gods, county city gods, and county city gods, who are mainly the ancestors of the Hong family and deceased civil and military officials.
The city god can set up a government office within his jurisdiction and hold the power to confer titles on the gods. Under his command, there are one chief clerk, three judges, four day gods and four night gods, and seven black and white impermanence, cow-headed and horse-faced gods.
The gods are powerful and can keep a region safe. Even if there are warriors causing chaos, they will be suppressed by the city god or his gods.
Moreover, the gods are invisible and leave no trace.
They are most suitable for secretly monitoring the administration of officials.
If there are people who commit crimes and bully the people, the City God can send messengers to collect evidence. As long as there is sufficient evidence, the official can be handed over to the government
for investigation. If the government does not handle it, the local City God will investigate it personally, and will also arrest the government officials who did not handle the matter before, and put them together for trial.
The greedy nature of officials is curbed by the extremely powerful inspection and supervision ability of the gods.
This is the core of the entire system of gods.
The authority and power possessed by the gods can ensure that they have absolute strength to accomplish this.
However, the behavior of the gods will also be constrained by the rules of the gods.
If you dare to be partial, you will be stripped of your position on the spot and become a lonely ghost, or even directly die.
The whole system is closely linked and extremely meticulous.
"If this method can be implemented, the people of the world can be freed from suffering!" Hong Shen was full of praise for this and bowed to Cui Heng with great respect, "Hong Shen thanks the Immortal Venerable on behalf of the people of Daxia."
In fact, this method of using the spirit system as an administrative supervisor is a great damage to the power of the emperor, and it can be said to be a very direct reduction of the monarchy.
If it were a monarch with more selfish motives, even if he agreed to it because of Cui Heng's power, he might not necessarily agree in his heart.
Hong Shen is different. He is an emperor who has truly come out of suffering. He knows the hardships and difficulties of the people and has been in power for the people for so many years.
Now that he knows that there is such a spirit system that can benefit the people, he can't wait to implement it immediately.
"Don't rush. The premise of implementing this law is that there must be a City God Temple in each place. Otherwise, the City God has no fixed place to stay, and the people don't know what the City God is, so it is difficult for him to exert his power."
Cui Heng shook his head lightly, and then said, "Next, I will confer your ancestor Hong Yong as the ancestor god of the Taimiao and the master of the City God system. After the City God Temples in various places are built, he can be allowed to confer the City Gods of various places."
This is actually his real purpose, to let Hong Yong come back to life as a god and ask about Hong Fugui.
As for this City God system, it is just a system created temporarily after coming to the Great Xia Kingdom and seeing some things and feeling something in his heart.
Later, he will give Hong Yong the power to improve and optimize this pantheon, and strive to make this pantheon run smoothly, so that the people can live in peace for a longer time.
Hong Kang, Hong Tao, and Hong Shen thanked Cui Heng again.
They knew that this was a great fortune.
It can be said that as long as the ancestors of the Tai Temple are there, the incense of the Hong family will not be cut off, and this will be truly eternal.
Unless one day the gods are partial to themselves and abolish the throne.
"Immortal, do you want to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony to confer the title of the ancestor god of the Taimiao Temple? This will also allow us to announce the divine system to the world." Hong Shen asked.
"Yes." Cui Heng nodded gently, "However, you can do this on your own. When the time comes, you can let Hong Yong come with the ceremony. A true god has come, and he is the ancestor god of the Taimiao Temple. This is enough to announce it to the world."
He did not intend to participate in the tedious sacrifice.
It would be enough to confer the title of the god.
So, after saying this, Cui Heng started to act directly.
He raised his right hand and lightly grabbed the sky. In an instant, he gathered 30% of the luck of the entire Daxia, turning it into a purple-gold talisman. Then he flicked his finger, and the talisman immediately flew to the "spiritual tablet of ancestor Hong Yong" at the top of the shrine.
The essence of the City God system is to condense the country's luck into a position of god, so that the gods who are deified by this have various human rights.
This is also the important reason why the Taimiao ancestor god should be conferred to Hong Yong, the ancestor of the Hong family, and why the City God God should be mainly the Hong family.
The national luck of the feudal dynasty is closely related to the royal family.
If the national luck is concentrated on the royal family, the national luck will not change, and it will even be more stable. It can still prosper and the national strength will be strong.
But if the luck falls, it may not be the case.
Of course, with the current system of gods designed by Cui Heng, unless the Hong family themselves are partial to their own selfishness, the ownership of the position of god will be difficult to fall, and the national luck will always be in an upward state.
At this time, under the gaze of the three ancestors and grandchildren of the Hong family, could it be that the purple-gold talisman has been integrated into the "spiritual position of ancestor Hong Yong".
Immediately afterwards, an incomparable pressure spread from this tablet.
Hong Kang, Hong Tao, and Hong Shen all had an inexplicable palpitation.
Especially Hong Tao, the deified city god.
Just feeling this pressure made him feel like kneeling on the ground and worshiping.
At the same time, the sky above the imperial temple in the capital also gathered purple-gold light, and the bright moon and stars in the night sky seemed dim under this purple-gold light.
Layers of clouds surged, all flashing with mysterious and noble light, as if a purple-gold dragon was flying in the clouds under the night sky.
Countless civil officials, soldiers, and common people in the capital were awakened from their sleep by this mysterious light, but they were not confused or tired at all, but full of energy. They
felt that their condition was better than ever before, and even some people with long-term injuries were healed.
They walked out of their rooms one after another and looked up at the sky.
When they found that the strange phenomenon appeared in the direction of the Imperial Temple, everyone in the capital knelt down in the direction of the Imperial Temple. Auspicious signs from heaven
!
God bless Daxia!
At this moment, whether it was civil officials, soldiers, or ordinary people, they became extremely excited, their confidence in Daxia became more sufficient, and the overall cohesion was greatly improved.
At the same time, Cui Heng, who was being deified in the Imperial Temple, found that Daxia's national fortune was rising, and the increase was not small.
He knew in his heart that this was what the people wanted.
The auspicious signs brought about by the Conferred God made the people turn to Daxia, and Daxia's national fortune naturally grew.
The foundation of the state is still the people.
After a moment, the purple-gold light above the Taimiao gradually dissipated, and the surging clouds gradually calmed down.
Inside the Taimiao, a middle-aged man with a heroic appearance, tall and strong, and wearing armor walked out of the purple-gold light.
It was Hong Fugui's fourth son.
He was also the ancestor god of the Taimiao of Daxia Kingdom and the master of the City God system.
A god comparable to the Wuji Jinxian.
Hong Yong!
"Greetings to the ancestor! The immortal has infinite powers!"
When Hong Yong appeared, Hong Kang, Hong Tao, and Hong Shen, the three great grandchildren, immediately bowed and kowtowed.
This was their ancestor.
Hong Yong looked at these people, a little confused.
However, he looked at the surrounding arrangements and his own spirit tablet, and soon understood what was going on.
"No need to be polite." Hong Yong said to the three descendants.
At the same time as the deification, he had already accepted the baptism of the power of the god's throne, and his soul and mind were sublimated. The moment he walked out of the purple-gold light, he had completed the transformation from man to god.
This also made Hong Yong complete from his original state of soullessness, and recalled everything in his life, including the portrait that his father often looked at.
"Hong Yong greets Mr. Cui!" He knelt directly in front of Cui Heng with an extremely respectful attitude.
Not only because Cui Heng was the one who made him a god, but also because he was the gentleman that his father Hong Fugui had always missed.
"Do you recognize me?" Cui Heng looked at Hong Yong who was prostrating on the ground, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
Hong Yong's eyebrows and eyes were very similar to Hong Fugui's, just like an enlarged version of Hong Fugui at that time, they were really too similar.
And the title of Mr. Cui was also what Hong Fugui called him.
"Father painted a portrait of you by himself, and he often takes it out to look at it." Hong Yong explained, "Sir, your appearance and temperament have been deeply imprinted in my heart."
"He is thoughtful." Cui Heng sighed slightly, and then asked, "Did your parents tell you where they were going, and why your spirits were attached to the tablets?"
According to the content of Hong Fugui's letter, he was besieged by the Buddhist temple of the Great Immortal Gate in Tianxu Realm. When he was seriously injured and dying, his wife awakened her past life memory and drove a shuttle to take him away from Daozhou Star, wanting to go to Taihong Star for help.
But Taihong Star had disappeared out of thin air two thousand years ago and was no longer in its original location.
If Hong Fugui and his team went to the original location of Taihongxing, they would probably return empty-handed and would not be able to get any treatment.
However, Cui Heng also considered that Hong Fugui's wife might not have died and reincarnated two thousand years ago, but was reincarnated within the past two thousand years.
This means that the place they are going to is not the original location of Taihongxing.
"Mother said that she was going to Taihongxing to find grandpa to save my father."
Hong Yong recalled as he said, "Mother tried to tell me the location of Taihong Star, but my cultivation was not enough to memorize the star map. If I left the star map directly, I was worried that it would be obtained by the upper world.
"So mother didn't leave the star map here. However, she said that if I have the opportunity to set foot in the universe in the future, I can go to the core of the Nether Sea Star to have a look.
"There should be a transmission array there, which was set up by a great master who walked out of this starry sky long ago. She would leave a star map there for guidance."
Nether Sea Star?
Cui Heng was slightly stunned when he heard this. This is really far away.
Before this, he had a relatively detailed understanding of this star system by reading various classics.
There are a total of seven planets in the star system where Daozhou Star is located.
According to the distance from the core sun, Daozhou is the second, Tianzhu is the third, and Minghai is the sixth, and they are about to leave this star system.
"Did your mother describe the great master?" Cui Heng asked.
He had heard of this person many times, and had asked Li Cheng and others before, but did not get any useful information.
Hong Yong thought for a while and said, "My mother didn't say much, she only said that the great master was the last one to ascend before the collapse of the sky."
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