Da Zaojun

"This is the countenance of a sage king!"

"To relieve the suffering of my human race!"

Zhao Yongzhen was the first to step forward and bow down, tears streaming down his face: "Zhao Yongzhen, Prefect of Hongzhou, pays respects to Your Highness, the Prince of Han! The fate of the nation is now scattered, and demons have emerged. We still need Your Highness to come out of seclusion and restore the backbone of our human race!"

Song Wuji transmitted his voice, "Wasn't it agreed that it would be the Prefect of Hannan?"

"His Highness the Prince of Han may also concurrently serve as the Prefect of Hannan, the General Who Guards the South, the Grand Commander, and the Pillar of State."

Upon hearing this, Song Wuji gave the old man a deep look and said, "You've really caused me a lot of trouble."

But then the city god, the general, the prefect, and the six officials all knelt down and bowed in reverence: "We respectfully welcome His Highness the Prince of Han!"

[Benefiting the nation's resources, Royal Aura +1]

Song Wuji said, "Please rise quickly, everyone. To rebuild the traditions of the human world, we still need you all. Please don't catch a cold!"

"This is the City God's seal!"

"This is the prefect's official seal!"

"Please use the seal, Your Highness, Prince of Han!"

The two men knelt down and presented their seals of office. Song Wuji exclaimed with emotion, "With two such pillars of the state in the world, the world is at peace!"

He then accepted the seal with peace of mind.

Then, the two large seals transformed into two streams of light, which merged into one, forming the [Great Treasure Seal of the Central Pivot of Hongzhou in the Human Path].
This Hongzhou Humanity Seal aligns with the principles of Humanity's Great Prosperity and Humanity's Renewal.

It then evolved into the [Great Treasure of the Human Path Ganpo Realm Pivot Seal].

Ultimately, the fortune fell upon Song Wuji, and at the same time, the entire fortune of Hongzhou Prefecture was also bestowed upon Song Wuji.

Hongzhou Prefecture alone was actually a fifth-rank prefecture, but its population of 300,000 and the seven counties under its jurisdiction suffered heavy losses, with only one in ten of its million people surviving. Therefore, it only fell to a sixth-rank prefecture.

However, even with only a sixth-grade destiny, the blessing bestowed upon Song Wuji allowed him to possess sixth-grade strength ahead of schedule.

At the same time, it has many powers and wonderful uses. Hongzhou Prefecture itself also has three Demon Realm Tokens, which have all been gathered together.

The Humanity's Fortune Spiritual Abode was also moved from Taichang County to Hongzhou Prefecture. The Fortune Pool expanded, turning into a pond, and the Heavenly Net began to expand outward from Hongzhou as its center.

In an instant, countless demons, monsters, evil spirits, and malevolent ghosts were alarmed.

The seven-colored stone lotus on the Qi Luck Pool has blossomed into a third, twelve-petaled lotus, which is the third-grade Qi Luck Stone Lotus.

The stone lotus radiates light.

The luck was then drawn from the luck pool and fell from the lotus seedpod of the stone lotus.

But then we see that fortunes are beginning to stratify.

It is precisely the Five Virtues and Five Clouds.

The largest of the red ones is the red cloud of the fire element.

Secondly, those with a bluish-green color represent the Wood element and the Green Luck.

The next color is yellow, which represents the earth element and the yellow fortune.

There are actually quite a few examples of Metal Virtue White Luck and Water Virtue Dark Luck.

At the same time, Song Wuji can choose to bestow blessings again.

Song Wuji thought to himself, "Although I am associated with the element of fire, Hongzhou is inherently associated with water, so I should be granted the power of water magic."

He immediately bestowed upon the Xuanming True Dragon its [Xuanming Bloodline].

Although not supernatural, it has the ability to control water and waves.

This was exactly what Song Wuji had envisioned. Hongzhou was located near Poyang Lake, which was anciently known as Poyang Dahai and was connected to the Yangtze River, making it a suitable place to develop a navy.

When Xu Zhenjun slew the dragon, the land was filled with waterways and teeming with dragons. If these dragons all possessed secret realms, they could be easily subdued!
To forge a seventh-grade treasure ship, some dragon materials are needed.

Having control over water transport, troop transport, and grain transport all became convenient.

For a time, many people felt the transformation that the Xuanming bloodline brought to them.

However, some people's destinies are compatible with those of the Stove God. Song Wuji was directly granted fire and became the Stove God.

In addition, these people can also gain the abilities of ingesting food and controlling birds and beasts as talents, but these have been set by Song Wuji in the [Talent Tasks] and are no longer obtained for free.

People born in different cities will acquire the talents of that city, but to acquire talents from other cities, they need to complete some other tasks.

After all, as the types of talents increase in the future, Song Wuji cannot bestow them upon everyone; it would still consume his own luck, essence, spirit, and vital energy.

Therefore, Song Wuji added two rituals to the acquisition of the supernatural power of ingestion: [offering sugar to the Kitchen God] and [offering fire to the Kitchen God].

[Taming Birds and Beasts] can be obtained by completing certain tasks and achieving certain accomplishments.

In contrast, the people of Taichang and Jianxin need to obtain the [Xuanming Bloodline] and complete certain tasks in order to exchange for this talent.

But after the people were transformed, they were blessed with a surge of good fortune.

Immediately, Song Wuji activated his power: "Water and Fire in Harmony," which is both the power of the Kitchen God's fire virtue and the power of Xuanming's water virtue. He used the Water and Fire Treasure Fan to create a great deal of wind.

However, all the demons, evil spirits, and spies hiding in Hongzhou Prefecture were killed with a fan.

Those who had followed the unorthodox rituals of the original City God Temple now had their ritual power restored to the proper order.

Those who mutate due to the demonic poison have their demonic poison suppressed.

For those with weak constitutions, the body's vital energy is strengthened.

Even within a radius of three hundred miles, the atmosphere was perfectly harmonious, neither too hot nor too cold, with a gentle breeze.

Demons and evil spirits would feel extremely uncomfortable; the atmosphere was like poison gas, and the gentle breeze felt like a steel knife.

Even in the City God Temple, the hundreds of thousands of spirits that were originally there were cleansed by the water and fire, and gradually regained their senses.

Then Song Wuji said, "Now that I have taken over Hongzhou, I will make a name for myself as a new official."

"The first thing I'll do is to reshuffle your official positions and personnel."

"First is the City God. City God, you were originally a ghost or god. Now I appoint you to manage wealth. Are you willing? To manage wealth, you must pass three tests: the test of greed, the test of justice, and the test of good and evil."

"Song has a treasure basin with a money tree inside. You can refine it to complete the ritual of the God of Wealth."

"As for your position as City God, it will be taken over by City God Tian. And City God Tian's position as Taichang City God will be taken over by the local doctor, Li."

"If a suitable candidate is found in the future, he/she will be elected as the God of the Underworld."

"Prefect Zhao Yongzhen, you will also step down from your post and take charge of education and etiquette, and study the rituals of Confucianism and Legalism together with Lü Han."

"General E Yu, your position as general will be taken over by Li Guang. You will be responsible for training the Tiger Army and building a new army, namely the naval forces, naval rituals, and Luo Chuan, etc. You will be able to become the Grand Marshal of the Naval Forces in the future."

"Chen Xiufeng will be appointed as the Demon Hunting General and put in charge of the Demon Hunting Division. From now on, you will be in charge of searching the mountains to hunt demons, exploring secret realms and demon caves. At that time, the Weaver Girl will weave a demon hunting net for you, and those demon hunting archers and sharpshooters will be specially assigned to you."

"Those heavily armored soldiers should still be handed over to Li Guang."

“Master Bao, you will continue to manage logistics and supplies. Also, build a stove temple in Hongzhou Prefecture, one level higher than the stove office in Taichang County.”

"From now on, the head of the stove temple in a county, who will be in charge of the stove, will need to have the strength of an eighth-rank official."

"The head of the stove temple in a township or town needs to be of the ninth rank in strength to perform the stove sacrifice."

"The rest of the lesser ones are ordinary kitchen gods."

"Those who perform the Kitchen God Festival and those who manage the Kitchen God's affairs will be taught the methods of passing on the fire and gathering fuel. We hope that you can spread the Kitchen God's fire and the light of humanity to even more distant places!"

(End of this chapter)