Man covers the sky and conquers all worlds

Chapter 236 The Confucian Sage's Seal, The Gu God's Test (Part Two)

Ever since that nine-tailed celestial fox, who was besieged by the Buddhist sect and fell from the first rank to the second rank, announced that the demon race would submit to the human race under the rule of the human emperor.

In the southern border region known as the Wan Da Shan Mountains, a colossal creature suddenly appeared.

A colossal entity that even countless forces deliberately ignore, cannot pretend not to see!
This is a vast force that brings together both demons and humans.

On the surface, the demon race appears to be predominantly composed of humans.

In reality... most of the territory of this behemoth is still firmly in the hands of the demon race.

But... this was not something the demon race did intentionally.

In fact, after the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox ordered the demon race to become vassals of the human race, the demon race had already offered up the most fertile land and the most precious mines.

They even went to great lengths to gather countless people from the Great Feng, Buddhist lands, barbarian tribes, and even distant overseas regions.

Even so, the number of humans gathered in the southern border region still did not exceed five million.

It may seem like a lot, but when spread across such a vast land, it is still far too little.

After all... migration has never been a true means of increasing population.

Fortunately, after Li Ming passed down the Taoist teachings of the three major systems of martial arts, Taoism, and Buddhism.

The human race, freed from oppressive taxes and granted vast tracts of land, finally had the opportunity to recuperate and thrive.

Entering the stage of keeping warm and indulging in lustful thoughts.

With the added benefit of favorable policies, they began to produce children at the highest efficiency.

However, most of the humans who were able to be migrated here were from the lower classes, and their literacy rate was shockingly low.

If we want to rely on their strength to truly support the Great Xia Wang Kingdom, at least the next generation needs to grow up.

Not to mention teaching them Taoism and martial arts, and helping them reach the next level of cultivation.

Even with the help of the demon race, there is still a separation between the demon race and the human race in terms of tradition and physiology.

Coupled with the entanglement of interests, it is difficult for them to cultivate the human race's power.

Fortunately, after Li Ming visited Tianzong, the three major sects of Taoism also came to Li Ming, either openly or secretly.

It brought a large number of capable people to the dawn.

Furthermore, despite originating from the same source, the three major sects have many contradictions and frictions.

Dawn is not worried about being sidelined by them.

Of course... Dawn didn't care about this.

This is, after all, a world of extraordinary powers, and the direct source of power is the Dawn Force in one's hands.

Therefore, under his extensive delegation of power, the disciples of the three major Taoist sects traveled to the southern border regions, spreading their martial arts and teachings far and wide.

Another year has passed. In the Great Feng region of northern Xia, Wei Yuan, the renowned God of War of the Great Wind, has actually stepped into the second rank on the battlefield.

He killed several powerful members of the Witch God Cult in a single day.

With his terrifying aura of being an army all by himself, he directly stormed into the capital of Kang.

On that day, the Witch God Cult gathered a second-rank expert and several third-rank wizards, standing ready in the royal city of Kang Kingdom.

Before Wei Yuan could even arrive, a crimson gold seal descended from the sky, carrying boundless power.

With a single seal, the second-rank Witch God Cult expert was crushed to dust, and the entire royal city collapsed three feet downwards.

It even awakened the great shaman of the witch clan, who was sleeping thousands of miles away.

The Wu tribe's system excels at manipulating the power of heaven and earth, but is not adept at fighting warriors one-on-one.

A thousand miles apart, a sword of the Five Elements pierced the sky and came flying through the air, almost shattering Wei Yuan's body.

Wei Yuan drew the Five Elements Sword in one hand and held it in his other, while carrying the massive array patterns engraved on the entire city on his back.

He forcefully stepped into the heart of the royal city, plucked the head of the Kang Kingdom's ruler, and roared to the sky as he departed.

Thus, this military genius of the Great Feng, who commanded 300,000 troops, finally grew into the pillar of the Great Feng.

And Joan of Arc, who was completely absorbed in Taoist practices, finally awoke from her sleep.

He was then shocked to realize that his indulgence had nurtured such a terrifying tiger!
He was single-mindedly pursuing immortality, but that didn't stop him from becoming an emperor.

He wants to become the first immortal emperor in the world!

To forever hold the world in one's hands, and to forever enjoy the offerings of the endless living beings of the land.

Therefore... this emperor, who had been behind the scenes for many years, finally made a rare appearance in court.

How could the shrewd ministers not know the real reason behind the emperor's ascension to the throne?

They suddenly realized that the sky... was about to change!

Suddenly, everyone in the court felt insecure.

The first decree issued by Emperor Joan of Arc upon taking office was to "invite" Wei Yuan's family into the palace.

Then, eighteen imperial edicts were issued in succession, ordering Wei Yuan to return to the capital alone to await his reward.

Just when countless people thought that the young military genius was about to fly into a rage and lead an army of 300,000 to surge forward.

Wei Yuan broke away from the army and returned to the capital alone...

……

At the same time, the Great Xia Dynasty in the southern border region had become so powerful that it could attract all the surrounding human races with its own gravity.

The human race, struggling to survive under the control of many powerful forces, heard of a human dynasty in the southern borderlands that offered light taxes and opportunities for cultivation and martial arts.

People flocked here with their families, including... even some small and medium-sized families.

The border prefectures of Dafeng, as well as the parts of southern Xinjiang occupied by the Buddhist sect, could only retreat under this terrifying momentum.

After all, even the first-rank Gara Tree Bodhisattva was defeated here, so how could they possibly offend that evil star?
In the Golden Palace, a courtier dressed in crimson and purple robes spoke in a deep voice,

"Your Majesty, when our Great Xia pioneering team entered the Southern Frontier Abyss, we encountered a group of strange and unruly people who blocked our way. They... are suspected to be the legendary Gu Clan!"

"The Gu Clan..."

Having just emerged from seclusion and convened a special court assembly, Li Ming slowly raised his eyes.
"How much strength can we ascertain about them?"

"The other side's methods are bizarre and their abilities are complex; our spies were unable to infiltrate them."

The man seemed somewhat helpless.

The force responsible for expanding southward was the original group of people from the Great Xia Dynasty, which he represented.

Although they were very senior, the Great Xia Dynasty had only been established for a few years, and their strength was still hovering around the fifth rank.

The strongest among them is only of the fourth rank, and that is the person in front of us.

At the same time... they did not want to give such an opportunity to others, so they were caught in this dilemma and had to report to Dawn.

In their eyes, they were the true confidants of Dawn, completely different from those who joined after the Great Xia Dynasty had become powerful.

"Alright, you don't need to worry about this matter. I'll handle it."

Li Ming's gaze lowered.

During his year of seclusion, he not only cultivated the realm of the Shrouding the Heavens system to the fourth level of perfection.

They even extended the Heavenly Dao system and the Martial Arts system to the second rank.

Even with the gradual enhancement of the Ancient Sacred Body, his martial arts system realm almost stepped into the first rank.

The Heavenly Dao system realm has also reached the second-high level.

This system also has great potential. If he wants to take another step forward, simply borrowing the cultivation methods of the three major systems of Taoism, as well as the basic methods of other schools, will no longer be enough to meet his needs.

"Gu Clan! Gu God... I hope you won't disappoint me." The moment Li Ming closed his eyes, his figure had already dissolved into the void and disappeared before the eyes of the many courtiers.

"Your Majesty... is truly unrestrained and free-spirited!"

The officials shook their heads helplessly and were forced to disperse.

……

Whoosh!

The wind howls across the sky, and dawn treads through the air, each step covering hundreds of miles.

He traversed the vast Shiwan Mountains in just half an hour, with his leisurely stroll.

After passing through the towering mountains of the Ten Thousand Mountains, the land begins to dot the landscape with scattered lakes and plains with a mild climate.

Countless human tribes are scattered across the plains.

These people looked exactly like the people of Da Feng and Da Xia, but most of them were uncivilized and still lived a primitive life.

This is why Leon Lai's popularity has expanded in this direction.

Although these people were uncivilized, their physiological structure was actually no different from that of ordinary humans.

They are also part of the human race.

If these people are brought together and their descendants are dedicated to teaching them, then within a generation, barbaric habits can be completely reversed.

After all... the Great Xia Dynasty is currently in dire need of manpower.

To be precise, if Dawn wants to gather more humanitarian fortune, it must rule over a larger population!

boom!
With another step forward, the atmosphere of the world before dawn completely changed.

He could feel and see a massive, pitch-black rift, stretching for over a hundred miles, splitting the earth apart, thousands of miles away.

If it were just an ordinary extraordinary expert, perhaps this would be all they could see.

But in the eyes of dawn, this crack not only separated the earth, but also the void.

At the end of the crack, there was a blazing and magnificent aura, as if it were the embodiment of the righteous energy of heaven and earth.

"The Way of the Confucian Sage... seems not as bad as I thought!"

As dawn broke, his gaze lowered, and he developed a strong interest in Confucianism and Taoism for the first time.

In this world, those with great fortune cannot live forever.

Unless a martial artist reaches the highest level and forms a domain like heaven and earth, thus isolating themselves from the erosion of this level of rules.

Otherwise... even someone as talented and brilliant as Dao Zun cannot break this ironclad rule.

This is the logic engraved at the bottom of the rules. Even someone as powerful as him has to abide by this rule before he has completely integrated the power of the vast universe into this body.

Similarly, the Confucian sage who was born in response to the times, who lifted humanity out of chaos and disorder, and who single-handedly deduced the Confucian and Taoist system by relying on the fortune of heaven and earth, also ultimately fell under this rule.

But this cannot conceal his immense strength; he single-handedly sealed away numerous top-tier powerhouses in the world!
The great calamity that should have come was postponed for countless years.

At dawn, when he was in the capital of Dafeng, he briefly witnessed the power of Confucian scholars.

But that kind of power, which combines the fortune of heaven and earth, is far too fragile, as faint as a firefly.

Only now, having witnessed firsthand the seal laid down by the Confucian sage, did he realize with astonishment that the Confucian sage's talent... was no less than that of the Daoist Venerable!

If he hadn't traversed this arduous, muddy, and fleeting path alone, he might have already become one of the immortal beings.

However, this powerful force has already been eroded by another strange and grand aura, leaving it teetering on the brink of collapse.

boom!
As dawn broke, he looked up into the abyss. At the end of the abyss, a similarly cold and vast gaze shot towards him.

"It's already able to exude some power. It's really... a good test subject."

Li Ming smiled faintly. His gaze, which seemed to pierce through the void, was obliterated by an even more domineering force before it even reached within a hundred miles.

As one of the ancient, supreme-grade gods and demons, the Gu God is a monster born from the birth of intelligence from the rules of heaven and earth.

It is imprinted with seven complete rules of heaven and earth.

Moreover, it was sealed by the Confucian sage, and can only leak out an extremely weak power to affect the real world.

Perhaps this power is an extremely precious opportunity for the Gu Clan, but also a crisis.

But for Li Ming, he was a suitable experimental subject.

It allows him to freely experience the true rules of heaven and earth that the Gu God has mastered.

"Fine, I'll play along with you then."

As dawn broke, his figure, like a withered leaf, slowly drifted down onto a major road on the plain.

boom!
With a whooshing sound, a sharp wolf-tooth arrowhead trailed a trail as it spun rapidly through the air and hurtled towards them.

Li Ming continued walking, and this arrow, which was powerful enough to pierce through a sixth-grade demon beast, actually disintegrated into countless tiny particles before it even got within three zhang of his body, scattering in the air.

In fact, if it weren't for Dawn deliberately concealing her presence...

This arrow, before it is even fired, will vanish into nothingness along with its owner.

Two men with dark skin, curly hair, and somewhat simple faces suddenly jumped out from the bushes on both sides of the road.

The man with longer hair looked wary, and pulled three more wolf-tooth arrows from his leather armor, pointing them at Dawn and threateningly saying...

"No one is allowed to enter the territory of my Li Gu clan except for merchant caravans."

"One is a fourth-rank official, and the other is a fifth-rank official. It was you... who stopped the people I sent?"

Li Ming chuckled slightly.

Aside from the three major Daoist sects, the strongest person he trained was only at the fifth rank.

They were indeed no match for these two simple and honest young men.

"Are you talking about those guys who claim to be from the Great Xia? Oh! So you're in cahoots with them!"

Upon hearing this, the other man drew his bow again and shot an arrow toward dawn.

"Noisy!"

Li Ming's eyes flickered slightly, and a terrifying aura emanated from him, as if the Milky Way had been reversed.

The earth and rocks, hardened by the scorching sun, parted like flowing water, and half of the young man's body was pierced through them, leaving him unable to move.

"You... the leader of my Power Gu Clan, is a third-grade transcendent..."

The other youth, though unpunished, was still taken aback by the terrifying aura. Realizing that his leader might not be a match for this man, he stammered and changed his words.

"Our seven tribes are of one heart and mind. Do you really intend to force your way in?"

Dawn smiled, his hands behind his back.

"Seven tribes, all of one mind? Then let them all come at me at once!"

boom!
In an instant, the man felt the world change color and everything flow backward.

When he came to his senses, he was already lying down in front of the tribe's gate.

"Sachi, why are you back?"

"It is powerful Gu clan members who ask this question."

The young man named Sachi wailed as if he had lost his parents.

"A...a great demon has broken in!"

(End of this chapter)