Da Zaojun

Song Wuji checked the list of rebels and found that he had never heard of most of them, except for the names of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, which were placed at the top.

So he did some more calculations and was shocked.

In the novel *Water Margin*, there is a saying that the 108 heroes of Liangshan are ranked as the Heavenly Stars and Earthly Fiends. These stars are all considered to be demonic or evil stars in the universe.

These rebel kings were all similar, all ruthless characters whose natal charts were influenced by auspicious stars: Greedy Wolf Star, Ketu Star, Mourning Star, Flying Star, Five Cripples Star, Six Thieves Star, Broom Star, Moon Comet Star...

These people were all failed rebel kings, ghost heroes who existed before the great changes in the world.

Therefore, after the various heavenly positions and karmic ranks were taken away by the Great Heavenly Venerable, these rebel kings, if they were reborn and destined to be star gods again, might still have the chance to become star gods.

"Is this what they call 'reaching for the stars'?"

"These people destined by the stars, if I were to pluck them from the sky, wouldn't that be like plucking stars from the sky?"

Therefore, Song Wuji waved his hand and said, "Don't even mention these two hundred rebel kings, even if there are eight hundred or a thousand, the underworld can't hold them all, just send them to me!"

Upon hearing this, Tian Chenghuang exclaimed, "Are you really not afraid of chaos?!"

Song Wuji laughed and said, "I want to see how they manage to cause chaos!"

Then he dealt with many other administrative matters, such as the need for [Imperial Tribute] tokens in some secret realms to set fixed resource outputs. These resources are materials for refining elixirs and magical artifacts.

For example, the Taoist Register Office and the Sangdi Certificate Office issued approvals regarding the increase in the number of monks, Taoists, temples, and Taoist monasteries.

Song Wuji decreed that a county could only build one medium-sized temple and one medium-sized Taoist temple, and a township could only have one small Taoist temple and one small temple. Moreover, a Taoist temple could not have a Buddhist temple, and a temple could not have a Taoist temple.

In prefecture-level cities, one large Taoist temple and one large Buddhist temple are permitted.

The quota for the Taoist temple was taken, namely Tiezhu Palace. The quota for the Buddhist temple was also taken, namely Tongfo Temple.

In rural areas, only ancestral halls, altars for human tripods, shrines for civil and military officials, and temples for the land are permitted to be built, but these must be approved by the government, at least at the county level.

Moreover, each township must have a Kitchen God Temple of the Nine Fields level, and the county seat must have a Kitchen God Temple of the Eight Pillars level or a Kitchen God Temple of the Seven Governments level.

As for roadside temples, one had to be built every mile along the official road.

Although Song Wuji did not completely control the power of the Kitchen God, he still had a relatively monopolistic control over the sacrificial rites. After all, if you don't believe in my Kitchen God, who else can you believe in?

If any evil god or deity revives and wants to spread a terrifying belief or any other belief, the nearby wandering monks, stove masters, stove worshippers, or stove managers can immediately go to cut down mountains and destroy temples, and might even discover a secret realm.

After finishing these official duties, Song Wuji finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he read aloud, "We need to find a few secretaries and deputies to help manage and handle this."

After much thought, I finally remembered a secret place.

This is the Phoenix Terrace Secret Realm where the Azure Phoenix was captured before.

The Phoenix Terrace Secret Realm contains the army of Sun Quan after he became emperor.

Although Sun Quan was rather incompetent, he was still a human being. Among his ministers, there were some rather cowardly ones, such as Lü Meng who crossed the river in disguise.

Sun Quan's level of persuasion to study was about the same as General Jin's.

However, he also had some capable ministers under his command.

We can recruit a batch of people.

However, Sun Quan was also a sixth-rank official. When he drew his bow and shot arrows, Song Wuji felt somewhat threatened. He also had a fleet of warships and troops. It wouldn't be difficult to capture him. The real challenge was how to subdue his ministers and his army.

In that era, people still valued integrity and loyalty; a subject would die for his lord if he were disgraced. Moreover, if any of the people of the secret realm died, Song Wuji could not be resurrected; only those still registered in the state could be resurrected.

Even those rebel kings who wanted to be resurrected had their original souls in the underworld, which then sent them over.

These fragments of the secret realm were extracted from a period of the past. Once someone dies from them, they may truly be gone and it will be difficult to retrieve them.

They must first be registered in the human realm before their true spirit imprint can be transferred into the real world.

With this in mind, Song Wuji temporarily abandoned this idea and decided to first find the dragon, tiger, ox, and horse one by one to complete the ritual of [Yuan Chen Siming] before entering the Welcoming Wealth and Sending Away Poverty Secret Realm to complete the ritual of the Fifth-Rank God of Wealth.

They are in charge of wealth, longevity, fortune, prosperity, disasters, life, and death.

All of these can actually be incorporated into the duties of the God of Destiny.

Including the Kitchen God himself, the Eastern Kitchen Master of the Nine Heavens, who also holds the position of Imperial Chef of the Nine Heavens, he has no fighting power at all and is still just a cook.

Only by becoming a Fate Master can one have a future.

Coincidentally, Song Wuji is already a sixth-rank Moon Virtue Master and a sixth-rank Heaven Virtue Master. If he were to complete the sixth-rank Yuan Chen Master, he could definitely combine the powers of the three Masters and transform into a fifth-rank Master of some other Master.

However, now that the Three Realms and Six Paths have lost their order and the will of Heaven and Earth has collapsed, the Yin Virtue system represented by Moon Virtue and the Yang Virtue system represented by Heaven Virtue have both collapsed.

Nowadays, only in places covered by the net of heaven and earth, and by the human way, can one maintain both yin and yang virtues, or more precisely, the two of the five virtues of humanity.

The rest are blessings, morality, and holiness.

Morality has its own "Tao Te Ching," which has now been placed into the human cauldron. It's unknown whether it has been reshaped or not; perhaps the education system needs to be rebuilt.

To attain true virtue requires practicing the way of a sage, or the way of a sage-king, and Song Wuji is also striving to do so.

As for Fu De, it's hard to say. Ever since Song Wuji learned the truth, he only felt that his own life was miserable, that the lives of ordinary people in the human world were miserable, and that all sentient beings were suffering.

It is truly a boundless sea of ​​suffering.

The entire world was shrouded in an atmosphere of despair.

However, blessings and virtues can only be born when all living beings feel happy from the inside out.

Unless Song Wuji immediately [maitreya descends to earth] and constructs a Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss on earth, creating a false Pure Land where people can enter by reciting a name.

Otherwise, it would be necessary to completely re-establish the human realm and reshape the order of the Three Realms and Six Paths in order to obtain it.

Even if one could enter the Pure Land simply by reciting the Buddha's name, is the Pure Land entered by someone who merely recites the Buddha's name the same as the Pure Land entered by someone who actually makes a conscious effort to cultivate? I'm afraid that other officials, gods, or Buddhas would definitely object, and in the end, classes and hierarchies would still be created.

Thinking of this, Song Wuji sensed something and, taking advantage of the moonlight, used a supernatural ability called "scooping the moon from the water".

In the blink of an eye, they arrived at the Luo River. At this moment, there was a moon in the sky above the Luo River, and the moon's reflection fell on the Luo River, which is called "Moon in the Water".

With his talent for embracing the moon and his authority over the Moon Virtue and Fate, Song Wuji can appear anywhere illuminated by moonlight and teleport using the moon's shadow.

It can be said that the ends of the earth are just a thought away.

It just consumes a lot of mana.

After quickly eating something and using the moonlight to rapidly restore his magical power, Song Wuji carefully observed the surrounding environment of Luoyang.

(End of this chapter)