Conferred Gods: Start with a Phoenix clone

Chapter 1717 Duobao's Big Move
Yu Yuan is quite good at chopping people. When he swings a large blade, he kills anyone who gets in his way. It's not that he can't use his brain, it's just that it takes a lot of effort.

Seeing that the Holy Mother Jinling was in a dilemma, as her disciple, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and offer advice.

Unable to think of any good solution, he said with a pained expression, "Teacher, I have a humble suggestion: honor their positions and increase their salaries, wouldn't that be acceptable?"

The Holy Mother of Golden Spirit curled her lip, "If you haven't thought it through, you don't have to say anything."

I'm worried that Duobao, with his high position and power, might lead the Jie Sect down a path of no return with a single call to arms. And you still want to "respect his position"? How much more respect? Like the Chan Sect, give him the position of vice-leader?
Yu Yuan also knew that this method was not very suitable. In fact, this trick worked against Zhao Gongming. As soon as Zhao Gongming praised him, he lost his bearings. But how about dealing with Duobao?
Duobao may appear gentle, but in reality, he can stop at nothing to advance his own path. Even if you have a close friendship with him, he will turn on you in a heartbeat if you obstruct his path. Conversely, if you offend him, he will generally not take action unless there is a conflict over your path.

Yu Yuan put himself in Wen Zhong's shoes and wondered how Wen Zhong would handle such a situation.

"Teacher, why don't we shift the blame elsewhere?"

What is meant by "shifting the blame eastward"?

"The whereabouts of the Antarctic Immortal of the Chan Sect are unknown. It is said that he went to serve the Sage and the position of the Antarctic Longevity Emperor has been vacant for a long time. Perhaps we can use the excuse that it is not conducive to the stability of the Three Realms to recommend our senior uncle to take on the position of the Antarctic Longevity Emperor."

Yu Yuan's solution was simple: since we couldn't deal with Duobao either, neither through magic nor by following the rules, we should let someone who could handle him deal with him.

After a moment's thought, Jinling Shengmu decided that this method was worth trying. The Jie Sect had a large number of disciples in the Heavenly Court, so she could just find a minor character to test the waters.

Their main concern was that Duobao would bring disaster to the Jie Sect. As for whether Duobao could become a saint, the Golden Spirit Mother really didn't care. She had feelings of jealousy, but they were all within a controllable range.

While they were still discussing their plans, Daoist Duobao had already begun taking action.

I'm not pretending anymore, I'm coming clean!
After taking this crucial step, he abandoned his previous low-key style and began planning for the future with an unimaginable decisiveness.

This stage is impossible to hide, so let's just not hide it at all.

Before the Golden Spirit Mother could even test the waters, the Treasure-Taoist took the initiative.

It can only be said that they are all members of the Jie Sect, receiving the same education, living in the same environment, and having a high degree of consistency in their thinking.

Hu Lei is a disciple of the Holy Mother of Fire Spirit and a grand-disciple of Duobao.

This can't even be described as "each generation is worse than the last." Duobao is the best among his peers. Huoling Shengmu hasn't even learned a tenth of her teacher's skills, but she's still passable among her peers. As for Hu Lei, he was captured alive by Nangong Shi on the battlefield, which shows how weak he is. At that time, Nangong Shi was a mortal general.

Can you believe that a direct descendant of the Jie Sect was stunned by a mortal general in three moves and then captured alive?
No matter how incompetent Hu Lei is, he is a genuine fourth-generation disciple of the Jie Sect. Among the Jie Sect disciples who ascended to heaven to serve as officials, he can be considered a leader, neither too big nor too small.

Now this leader reported to Longji.

"Your Highness, the Three Realms of the Primordial World are now under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court. However, the celestial officials are of varying quality; some are mediocre, wasting their salaries and passing their time in vain."

Hu Lei, along with a group of disciples from the Jie Sect, submitted a petition that was over ten thousand words long. It listed more than a thousand "good-for-nothings," providing detailed information on their names, positions, and cultivation levels. What were these guys doing, consuming the Heavenly Court's spiritual resources and incense offerings? For the New Year?

The core message is simple: there are too many incompetent people in Heaven, and we hope to lay off some of them.

Longji picked up their memorials and examined them closely.

This memorial, written by Hu Lei but actually read as Duobao's, is very detailed, listing a large amount of data. It is not just empty talk, but also sharply points out the seriousness of the current overstaffing in the imperial court.

To be honest, it's very well written. There are too many celestial officials in Heaven, with each position having multiple roles; it's definitely time to streamline them.

Duobao isn't just someone who raises questions and then ignores them; he has solutions.

That is to send a large number of useless immortals down to the mortal world to become earth immortals in the prehistoric land.

Previously, Earth Immortal was just a realm, but now Duobao wants to turn Earth Immortal into a position.

As for "human immortals," can these even be considered immortals? They don't need to be kept; they should all be expelled from the list of immortals.

The minimum standard for an immortal should be a celestial being.

Aren't eight million hungry ghosts rampaging in the human world? It's a good time to expel these redundant officials from the celestial ranks and let them deal with the hungry ghosts.

Previously, immortals could not attack mortals, as the karmic consequences would be severe. Therefore, Gao Yan and his companions could only be reincarnated into the human world to deal with the reincarnated hungry ghosts as mortals.

Now that all the superfluous deities have been expelled, and earth immortals are no longer considered immortals, there will be no more scruples when dealing with hungry ghosts.

Longji certainly wouldn't agree to such a big thing on the spot. She used the excuse that the Jade Emperor was in seclusion to temporarily put aside the memorials from Hu Lei and other disciples of the Jie Sect.

Hu Lei and the other disciples of the Jie Sect knew that this matter would not be easy to pass, so they were not in a hurry. They bowed and left the Tongming Hall.

Longji is no longer the political novice he once was. Who doesn't know that the problem of redundant staff needs to be solved? Does Haotian not know, or does Phoenix not know?

The key issue is that the target range is too large, and acting too hastily can easily lead to problems.

She dispatched her trusted confidants to spread the word in Heaven that the Daoist Duobao of the Jie Sect wanted to dismiss excess celestial officials, to see how the immortals would react.

Whether this succeeds or fails, she won't be at the forefront. If Duobao wants to do it, then let Duobao do it.

Deng Chanyu already knew the reason why the ancestral ox, horse, and chicken came to Chechi Kingdom.

Chechi Kingdom is the place where Nuwa created the six domestic animals.

This time, Fuxi truly lived up to his reputation. Because of his love for his neighbor, he buried a stone tablet deep within the earth's veins in Chechi Kingdom. On it was a formula for ascending from demon to immortality, written by Dijun and Taiyi.

In this day and age, demons are almost universally hated, but during the time of the demon race's Heavenly Court, becoming a demon was no easy feat.

Fuxi hoped that the six domestic animals would study hard and then go to the Heavenly Court to obtain a position.

The progenitors, the ox, the horse, and the chicken, didn't work hard enough. They only practiced half of the magic techniques and went off to run around. As a result, they were captured and sent to the hungry ghost realm, where they remained for countless years.

Times have changed. The things left by Fuxi are not entirely useless, but they are not very useful. Even if you cultivate to the extreme, you will only become an ancestral bull demon. What use is that?

Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and the Jade Rabbit learned the importance of unity in their predicament. After several rounds of wits and courage, the Giant Spirit God finally killed the Primordial Bull, and Sun Wukong used a mechanism to kill the Primordial Horse.

(End of this chapter)