Da Zaojun

After leaving the secret realm of the Maritime Trade Office, Song Wuji returned to Hongzhou Prefecture and released the Mingzun Ferry Golden Ship.

The golden ship grew larger as it faced the wind, transforming into a four-masted vessel.

Although it is not as massive as the five-story Azure Dragon King Ship we saw before, it is still a magical treasure.

This magical artifact can accommodate 1,200 people for long-term voyages. Its interior is a self-contained world, which is not the Yin Dragon Palace secret realm transformed from the Azure Dragon King's ship, but rather a kind of mobile blessed land.

After examining it for a while, Song Wuji discovered that there was a void world inside, which was round in the sky and square in the earth. This void world was about thirty miles in circumference and could receive the light of the sun, moon and stars from the outside world.

Song Wuji then inquired about Master Xu Jia.

Master Xu Jia glanced at the treasure ship and said, "This is not a creation of the mortal realm, but a treasure of the Heavenly Court's navy."

"The Heavenly Court Navy, or more accurately the Heavenly River Navy, is in charge of the star river routes. It has the Void Treasure Ship and the Void Divine Ship. The Void Treasure Ship is a magic weapon, while the Void Divine Ship is a spiritual treasure."

"The Heavenly Court uses this to inspect the Milky Way, numerous star rivers and realms, and maintain its dominant position in the myriad worlds."

"Later, the Buddhist sect imitated this and forged the Golden Ship for Crossing the World, also known as the Divine Ship of the Other Shore, which claimed to be able to transcend to the other shore and ascend to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss."

"This treasure ship is essentially the wreckage of a great treasure ship in the void. It has lost the power to traverse the void, but it was forged using the Buddhist method of making a golden ship for saving the world."

"The Heavenly Court's Void Treasure Ship contains a blessed land spanning a thousand miles, which can draw upon the primordial energy of the void to sustain itself."

"The Void God Ship contains a cave world spanning tens of thousands of miles, which can be considered a realm of its own."

"Back then, the Heavenly River Navy used these treasure ships to cross the universe and patrol the stars on behalf of Heaven."

"After the fall of the Heavenly Palace, it is unknown whether the Heavenly River Navy still exists. If there is no one, you can try to launch a Void God Ship."

"There are many models of Void God Ships, named according to the sword manual, such as Tai'a Ship, Yuantu Ship, Zhuxian Ship, Ziying Ship, Qingsuo Ship... Each God Ship has a ship god. If you can gain the recognition of one of the ship gods, you must be quite good."

"However, the Tianhe Navy is directly under the command of the True Martial Emperor, and has Marshal Tianpeng as the Grand Marshal, General Tianyou, General Jiusha Yuantong, and others as deputy marshals."

"These fierce gods all have a background. Although they have lost their divine positions, they are not destined to perish... They are capable fighters and have Void God Ships protecting them. Perhaps they have not been greatly affected by the fall of the Heavenly Court."

Song Wuji dared not even think about the Void Divine Ship, a powerful artifact. If he really had those things, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to defend it. Those demons and monsters were not without their own demonic giants, towering demons, and if the various demon kings from Journey to the West or the various demons and monsters from ancient myths and legends were to escape, even if Master Xu were to be in charge, it might not be effective.

"So it's a celestial artifact. I was wondering why. But the celestial technology is outdated. Why is it still this kind of mast and banner boat? It's only thirty-three zhang long when it's fully extended, not even a hundred zhang."

"But the Ming Cult is quite capable. How did they manage to acquire the Heavenly Court's Void Treasure Ship?"

"Could this 'Mingzun' actually be an alternate account of some powerful figure in the Heavenly Court?"

Master Xu Jia said, "This Mingzun is very capable. Not only does he integrate Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism, but he also venerates a Ye Tianzun, who is even more Western than Buddhism and Western religions."

Master Xu Jia said, "It's a pity that I can't write another 'Laozi Huaye Jing'."

"You reminded me."

Song Wuji said, "The myths of the Heavenly Court are, after all, our own myths. What about those red-haired demons and Kunlun slaves from across the ocean?"

"Who knows?" Master Xu Jia said, "Those great gods cultivate for hundreds of millions of kalpas. Each kalpa is a cycle of the formation, existence, decay, emptiness, and final kalpa of a world." "Without attaining the Taiyi realm, it is difficult to escape the kalpas, and the cycle repeats itself endlessly."

"Perhaps we are also considered by these Taiyi and Daluo to be people of the secret realm?"

Xu Jia said, "Don't worry about those illusions. They have no meaning for you or me now. Improving your strength and restoring the human way is your destiny."

Song Wuji thought about it and agreed: "Why should I care about the Heavenly Court? I'll just build my own Human Court and Earthly Court."

Immediately, a notice was posted online seeking information on shipbuilding, repairing treasure ships, and recruiting sailors, first mates, captains, and other crew members...

However, no one had time to take on this task at the moment, because the millions of people who survived, especially the large clans, had all dug out their family genealogies and wanted to be resurrected and reincarnated according to the genealogies.

How could Song Wuji allow them to run wild like this? He only allowed them to gain merit by killing demons. Once they had accumulated a certain number of merits, he would arrange for them to choose one person to be resurrected.

After all, the human realm's fortune is limited, with only 100 slots available for resurrection each day; exceeding that limit would consume additional luck.

The number of slots for reincarnation is limited, and one can only be reincarnated into the secret realm of the human world.

The Magpie Bridge Secret Realm refreshes 500 refugees every day. They occupy these 500 refugees. Refugees are people waiting to migrate, so they can leave the secret realm directly and join the human path, but they will lose a large part of their memories and have some cognitive errors.

In addition, if a person from a secret realm becomes pregnant, or if a local resident becomes pregnant, they can go through the proper procedures and be washed clean by the Yellow Springs water before being reincarnated.

In fact, if Song Wuji were willing to allow people to be reborn as rats in Cangzhong, he could increase the number of rebirth slots.

After all, rats reproduce in large numbers.

However, Song Wuji still felt it went against his conscience, so he did not do so. He only ordered that only those who were utterly wicked would be reincarnated as rat people to perform simple and tedious manual labor, such as mining, salt production, and land reclamation...

Rats are numerous, grow quickly, and can work by eating excrement. They are already the most popular type of monster among craftsmen and farmers who have mastered the art of "taming birds and beasts".

Although it lacks combat capabilities, it possesses basic intelligence, knows how to use tools, and can complete some simple, rough processing tasks.

The plague bacteria on the body can also be removed by drinking a soup made from the rat tail of a plant grown by the family (called "Fragrant Rat Tail Plague-Avoiding Soup").

There's no way around it. If the rats have no worries about food and drink, they can reproduce six litters a year. The only problem is that they have a short lifespan, less than ten years, and their best working age is only 2-6 years old, which is perfect now.

However, the Tiger Kingdom belongs to the ancient people, and the Zhaiseng Secret Realm is also a human capital city, which can be managed and used as a place for reincarnation.

However, if one kills more demons and slays more secret realms in the human realm, there will likely be no limit to the number of resurrected beings.

Seeing this, Song Wuji had no choice but to give up: "Let's develop steadily for a while. The navy hasn't been trained yet!"

He immediately sat cross-legged in the newly built Stove God Temple in Hongzhou Prefecture and began to contact the stoves of every household. Through the authority of the household head, he collected the cooking smoke from the chimneys of every household and refined it into clouds that ascend to heaven.

Only by possessing the Ascension Cloud can one rely on the "Ascension Special Qualities" to be transported to the Southern Heavenly Gate to report to the Kitchen God.

(End of this chapter)