Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Now, Li Shimin has joined forces with the armies of Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng in Jinyang, and during this period, they have captured all the Sui Dynasty county towns between the two Tang armies.

Furthermore, the territories of the two sides were connected in a line, stretching from Jinyang in the west to Chang'an in the east, from the Yellow River in the south to the Qinling Mountains in the north, covering an area of ​​nearly a thousand square miles, which was now entirely occupied by the Tang army of the Li family.

Li Shimin used his clones to summon clouds and rain to nourish the people under his jurisdiction, just like he had done in Chang'an. He encouraged agriculture and sericulture, promoted childbirth, trained an army, and recruited talented people and powerful demons to help him. His strength was increasing every moment.

On Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's side, the same measures were taken. Although Liu Qing was not there to help them, the Taoist priest Yuan Shoucheng was in charge of praying for rain, which was considered to have resulted in favorable weather.

Liu Qing was genuinely surprised. The killing intent in the mortal realm was becoming increasingly intense. In the Heavenly Court, unless a powerful being could use their supernatural abilities to see something, the other gods were like blind and deaf people.

Who is Yuan Shoucheng, that he can pray for rain in the human world and receive a response from the four gods of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, resulting in targeted rainfall?

Liu Qing frowned, secretly wondering if Yuan Shoucheng's background was related to the Heavenly Court.
Besides Yuan Shoucheng, many demon kings and demon saints came to serve in Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's army, and five hundred Buddhist Arhats secretly assisted them.

Just like at Dasanguan Pass, five hundred Arhats descended with their Buddhist thoughts, which were then placed on the corpses of Tang soldiers who died in battle, forming Buddhist zombies that infiltrated the army.

If the news is indeed as the clone has spread, then Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's side is now secretly aided by the Heavenly Court and Buddhism, and is more powerful and favored than Li Shimin's side.

That's a total mess.

Liu Qing did not believe that the Buddha of the Great Thunder Temple could not deduce that Li Shimin was the Son of Heaven, nor that the Heavenly Court could see that Li Shimin was the reincarnation of the Ziwei Emperor.

Since they all saw it, why didn't they join Li Shimin's army and instead stay by Li Yuan's side?
Staying by Li Yuan's side is not for Li Yuan's sake, but for Li Jiancheng's. Could it be that they want to make Li Jiancheng the second Tang emperor?
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Thinking of this, Liu Qing was startled.

Li Shimin was the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, a destiny ordained by Heaven. Now, Buddhism and the Heavenly Court are secretly joining forces, attempting to change the established Heavenly Way.

Aren't they afraid of the backlash from Heaven?

Liu Qing only dared to alter some minor aspects of the Heavenly Dao, but not the major aspects. Firstly, his cultivation was insufficient, and secondly, he feared the Heavenly Dao would retaliate afterward.

Now that I've witnessed the methods of Buddhism and the Heavenly Court, I realize I was too conservative.

Buddhism is one thing, but how dare they betray the Heavenly Court, which represents the Way of Heaven? The courage of the Jade Emperor is unparalleled in the Three Realms.

Liu Qing's mind was filled with all sorts of thoughts, but for now, he was only making inferences based on the information transmitted by his clone, so he couldn't take it seriously. He would just have to wait and see.

Leaving aside Li Shimin's affairs for the time being, Liu Qing used his divine sense to scan the Wei River and its surroundings, and instantly understood the situation.

Steward Shi continues to serve as a competent steward, Ji Ping'an remains the doorman, and the eighteen snake-like heroes of the Liu family are currently tending to the Blood Peach Tree within Liu Qing's Power Cave.

The pit left behind by the Ren Water Peach that Liu Qing had just consumed was also planted by them, and it seems that he will soon have another acquired spiritual root.

The bearded catfish family has already gone to the sacrificial ceremony and is starting preparations for the market and auction, full of enthusiasm.

With a thought, Liu Qing opened the sacrificial realm and passed on his many unused collections to Hu Zi Nian as the grand finale of the auction.

Most of these collections consisted of magical artifacts, which Liu Qing looked down upon, but were rare treasures for demons who didn't know how to refine artifacts.

The catfish with the beard auctioned it off, receiving incense money and power money, which he then handed over to Master Liu Qing.

The harvest of incense silver and power gold has increased significantly. The income from boiling salt in Snake Pool only accounts for one percent, and the incense collection by the various incarnation river gods and the eight incense messengers Qing Ji accounts for at most one-tenth.

If we're talking about the largest share accumulated, it's from Liu Qing's several attacks, where he killed demon kings and demon saints.

Liu Qing glanced at the Power Cave and roughly estimated that the incense silver alone amounted to over a hundred million taels, and the power gold also amounted to a million taels.

These incense offerings and official titles could then be used to create a new batch of clerical positions for Liu Qing.

When Liu Qing turned his gaze to Crab Left Hand and Shrimp Traveler, the matter of evolving a new divine office became urgent.

After Xie Zuoshou stepped down from his post at Snake Pool, he came to the Wei River with Liu Qing and was appointed by Liu Qing as the Left General of the Wei River Navy.

In the Battle of Dasanguan, Xia Kexing, who lost a claw, was appointed as the Right General of the Wei River Navy.

Of course, Xia Kexing retired from the army and became the Right General of the Wei River Navy. His wife, Xia Qianqian, also retired.

He helped Xia Kexing take charge of the right wing of the Wei River navy, offering advice and training in battle formations; his role was even greater than that of Xia Kexing.

It seems that Xia Kexing will be living off Xia Qianqian's kindness for the rest of his life.

Crab Left Hand and Shrimp Traveler, two generals of the Wei River navy, are responsible for controlling all river monsters in the Wei River, patrolling all directions to keep it calm and peaceful, and immediately killing any evil gods or demons that cause trouble.

Everything is going very well.

The key issue is that since Crab Left Hand and Shrimp Traveler had just taken office, and their sailors had only been recruited recently, although there were some veterans transferred from Li Jing, it would be difficult to form an elite force in a short period of time.

Therefore, when faced with the Wei River, which is even larger than the Jing River, the sailors led by Crab Left Hand and Shrimp Guest were somewhat powerless and unable to defend it.

During the six months that Liu Qing spent in seclusion, the river demons and river gods in the Wei River area that he had just subdued forgot how terrifying Liu Qing was and began to have different thoughts.

They incited river demons to rebel, seized control of a branch of the river's waters, and then secretly went ashore to devour mortals. Faced with this situation, Crab Left Hand and Shrimp Traveler led their army to quell the rebellion, but due to their limited cultivation and the fact that their sailors were newly trained and not elite, they were repeatedly outmaneuvered and exhausted.

Liu Qing snorted coldly, summoned the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone, and threw it outside. Instantly, the Panlong Eight-Tone Cone transformed into a dragon and attacked the Wei River Gods, who had the highest cultivation levels.

Before long, he returned with the corpses of the several Wei River gods who had caused the trouble.

The Panlong Eight-Tone Cone was only half a step away from evolving into a superior-grade innate spiritual treasure. Its power was far beyond what a few river gods of the Wei River could withstand.

After killing several river gods of the Wei River, Liu Qing saw that there was a lot of incense silver and power gold in the Power Cave Heaven, so he decided to absorb and refine their divinity to evolve new positions of incense god and power god.

Liu Qing could not possibly focus his energy on the Wei River alone, so he prepared to develop divine authority and create his own river god system for the Wei River basin, just like the Jing River basin.

The previous river god of the Wei River, if any of them were obedient, would be spared; if any of them were disobedient, they would all be killed and replaced by his own clone.

With the help of the River God system and the sailors of Crab Left Hand and Shrimp Traveler, the Wei River will be safe.

Of course, this is only the superficial reason. The deeper reason is that Liu Qing intends to once again gather all the power over the Wei River basin and melt it into the Power Cave Heaven.

Like the Jinghe River, he bound his own moral foundation to the authority over the waterways.

Give your life an extra layer of insurance.

If Liu Qing is killed, then all the people living in the Jinghe and Weihe River basins must also be killed.

Who would dare to get involved in such a massive karmic debt of killing?
Even a sage would have to consider the backlash if he wanted to kill Liu Qing.

Liu Qing opened his mouth and inhaled, instantly absorbing countless incense and divine essences. The place of divine storage was filled with incense smoke, and one divine token after another was manifested.

The ninth-rank river god, the eighth-rank river god, and the seventh-rank river god are the same as those in the Jing River area. Each ditch is guarded by the ninth-rank and eighth-rank river gods, the seventh-rank river god takes charge of a local water palace, and the fifth-rank river god controls the entire Wei River.

Back when Liu Qing defied his innate nature and became an innate being, the split spirit he had created last time had already achieved perfect Yang spirit.

With a thought, Liu Qing allowed each of his divided spirits to merge with the divine office, achieving the positions of River God of the ninth, eighth, and seventh ranks.

Immediately, he waved his hand, ordering these Dao-aligned river god avatars to go and reside in the waters of the various tributaries of the Wei River.

In just one round, more than a hundred river god clones went there. The remaining clones did not immediately merge with the Dao, but were used by Liu Qing as seeds to continue splitting.

After splitting twice, the number of divided spirits within Liu Qing's body reached several hundred.

The Wei River's various tributaries require over three hundred river god positions, exceeding the number needed for the Jing River. Currently, Liu Qing's clones are insufficient; he will be able to control them all once his internal clones reach full capacity.

The incense silver worth hundreds of millions of taels was devoured and refined, and all the incense divinity was transformed into divine authority and exhausted. Only a million taels of authority gold remained. Liu Qing did not keep any of it and directly devoured and refined its authority divinity, evolving into a new authority divine authority.

General in charge of the two rivers' water conservancy, rank six.

The two rivers refer to the Wei River and the Jing River. The external information provided is consistent with Liu Qing's current situation.

Thinking of the cheat code's all-nighter intention, Liu Qing suddenly had an idea and wanted to give it a try.

He thought of the Heavenly Venerable of Universal Transformation of Thunder and Lightning in the Nine Heavens, and he put the remaining bit of incense and divinity into the divine treasury to evolve.

After a long while, the incense smoke dissipated, and a deity appeared.

The Seventh Grade, Tenth Earthly Realm, Thunderous Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable!

Liu Qing's eyes flashed.

Because the incense offerings have limited divine power, they can only evolve into seventh-rank deities. Later, when the incense offerings have more divine power, they can be promoted, but this is not the key point.

The key point is that, with Wen Zhong in mind, the cheat system timely granted him a divine position, and it was a very fitting one: the divine position of 'Ten Earths Responding to the Origin of Thunder and Universal Transformation Heavenly Venerable'.

The change from the Nine Heavens to the Ten Earths signifies the transfer of divine authority from the Heavenly Court to Liu Qing.

Wen Zhong has not yet attained the Dao, so the Investiture of the Gods has not yet been alerted. But even if it is alerted, there is nothing to fear. Shen Gongbao was forcibly taken away earlier, and although Wen Zhong's divine position is extremely high, he will not escape the fate of being taken away.

Liu Qing's attempt was successful.

One only needs to think of a certain person when evolving a divine position, and a divine position corresponding to that person will be evolved.

That puts my mind at ease.

If I wish to free the disciples of the Jie Sect from the Investiture of the Gods in the future, I can act in accordance with what I have done today.

Hopefully, those disciples of the Jie Sect won't be too happy too soon. They thought they had escaped the control of the Investiture of the Gods, only to fall into Liu Qing's hands again. (End of Chapter)