Pre-Qin Mythology: Starting with the River God

They escaped!

The previous Water Immortal was not inside the cauldron; instead, there was Quan Ming's headless corpse. However, he discovered a giant python's head.

The previous narcissus was a giant python.

Monsters and spirits are made gods!

"So, you ran away with my head on your head?"

"Oh!"

The anger in Quan Ming's eyes was hard to contain.

Gods exist because of necessity. He is not a fool. How could he not have seen through the scheme of the previous Water God? He was clearly using his head to ensure that his divine power remained, instead of turning him into an ordinary spirit!

Raise your hand...

Quan Ming transformed forty-nine of his one hundred strands of Daoist energy into dim yellow flames!

Like the will of the Chu region, the Daoist spirit can be invoked by the gods.

The difference is that the will of Chu is a power that can make one's wishes come true. As long as such authority exists under the Chu Heaven, it can borrow the power of the Heaven, but it will be consumed after use.

Daoist arts are linked to one's own authority; even if one uses the same method of "creating techniques with the mind," one cannot unleash techniques that exceed one's authority.

For example, these hundred wisps of flame right now.

Fire in water?

In reality, it's more like a reflection of the afterglow of the sun, far inferior to the fire magic cast by other deities.

However, there is an advantage: Daoist aura is a measure of authority, which will only be used up and will not be consumed.

Burn!

The dim yellow flames stirred up waves, boiling around the twelve-foot-tall Shang Dynasty cauldron, scorching the remains and corpse water inside. Quan Ming held his breath and used the remaining Daoist energy to take out twelve strands, which transformed into a water snail the size of a bull's horn, absorbing all the corpse energy into it.

Soon, only a headless skeleton and a perfectly intact python head remained in the cauldron.

Look at the snake's head.

Quan Ming had already decided where to put it: "I'll find a dead dog's body and attach it to it to guard the door."

Ten strands of Daoist energy transformed into flowing water that swirled around the right sleeve, adding cloud patterns to the sleeve and creating a ten-foot-wide inner world within it. He then waved his sleeve, taking the white bones and snake head into it.

Quan Ming threw the fragments of the Quanbing Cloth Armor he had obtained from the fish into the cauldron.

He chanted, "I hereby announce to..."

The Shang Dynasty's sacrificial rites were prayers to the ancestors in the Shang Heaven, seeking blessings. Quan Ming glanced at the group of ancestors depicted on the bronze mural, snorted, and continued, "This is Quan's message to Ming!"

He worshipped himself... In any case, for the Shang Dynasty's priests, he himself became an ancestor after death and could also mobilize the power of the Shang Heaven.

hum!

A force surged forth from the bronze mural, connecting with Quan Ming.

This is an ancestral god who acknowledged Quan Ming's merchant lineage and became a branch of the merchant family, the Quan Kingdom, after his death!

The murals are connected to the fate of the Quan Kingdom, but now the Quan Kingdom has been destroyed. The remaining national fortune has also retreated here with the collapse of the ancestral temple. They will only be born when a Quan ruler revolts and restores the Quan Kingdom. However, if all the bloodlines of the Quan rulers die, they will also completely disappear.

Because they felt that the lives and deaths of the Quan people were entrusted to Quan Ming, this "ancestral god".

The aura within the mural surged forth, seemingly pandering, and forcefully carved out a large empty space on the mural. The ancestral portraits in front were enraged, but helpless, and could only reluctantly move their positions. Finally, behind the mural "Zi Quan Establishes the Nation," a new mural appeared, depicting Quan Ming consuming the will of Chu and healing the people of Quan—"Narcissus Protects Quan!"

hum!

On the bronze mural, in the painting "Ziquan Establishes the State," Ziquan wears a snake mask and holds a long halberd...

At this moment, the long spear emerges from the mural.

when!

It landed with a thud!

Quan Ming raised an eyebrow. He truly did not know that there were other... Shang Dynasty sacrificial artifacts hidden in these murals!

The most important matters of state are sacrifice and war!

Quan Ming slightly raised his hand, and a wisp of Daoist energy lifted the bronze halberd into his hand.

This green halberd is shaped like a black bird, and is engraved with the inscription "Martial Arts"!

Once it fell into his hands, Quan Ming knew its origin. It was a symbol of the land of Quan, which was bestowed upon his son Quan during the reign of Wu Ding. During the Shang Dynasty, it also had the power to conquer the surrounding feudal lords!

"...sacrificial vessels from the previous dynasty."

Quan Ming shook his head. At this moment, the heavens... Logically speaking, the Zhou Dynasty should be in charge. How could something from the Shang Dynasty command the heavens of the Zhou Dynasty?

Moreover, this is the Chu region, which even Zhou does not submit to.

After thinking about it...

"Perhaps it will be useful to the remnants of the Shang dynasty like the State of Song... If we were to confront them later, I would have the upper hand."

Finally, I glanced at the snake face on the plaque "Ziquan Establishes the State".

Quan Ming was displeased.

Is this how they're going to lure him into restoring his kingdom?

ridiculous.

Quan Ming ignored the murals; he had more important things to do. Holding a green halberd, he chanted praises to his ancestral gods—that is, himself—like a shaman from the Shang Dynasty. Seeing that he had no offerings, he casually uttered, "Eat this pure offering," and that was it.

Then comes the sharing of prayers!

"The corrupt officials who wield power are now harming those in power!"

"May Heaven forever bless our descendants, so that they may rest in peace upon entering the water!"

Boom!

As the sacrificial ceremony unfolded, the Shang Ding rang softly. At the same time, Quan Ming heard his own sacrificial voice in his ears, and Shang Tian, ​​which is the Qi Yun in the mural, was asking Quan Ming, the ancestral god, for his will.

Quan Ming raised the green halberd in his hand. At this moment, he was both the shaman who was performing the sacrifice and the god who was being sacrificed.

"allow!"

Quan Guo's limited fortune, like a wild horse, surged a quarter of its energy into the green spear in Quan Ming's hand, as if it had been waiting for this moment.

Another quarter flowed into the cauldron.

The remainder is preserved in the murals.

hum!

The green halberd in his hand trembled, and pieces of bronze rust fell away, revealing mottled gold.

Quan Ming's excitement at suppressing the destiny of the Quan Kingdom!

"I really don't like anything too golden; it's fine as it is now..."

The green halberd remained motionless, retaining most of its bronze rust, but gold patterns were engraved on its smooth surface, gleaming with sharpness!

This halberd can be used to behead powerful rulers and powerful officials alike, without any guilt!

It can be said that as long as the previous Quan Xian dared to show his face, Quan Ming could kill him without breaking a sweat... because everything about him was dependent on the fortune of the Quan Kingdom.

And what about the Yin Corpses that were transformed from the corpses of those powerful people?

Quan Ming looked at Shang Ding.

Black blood seeped from the fragment of cloth armor inside the cauldron, recalling the illusion: in the darkness, a hunched figure grinned as he cast the [Divine Decree], consuming tens of thousands of Chu wills to create a hundred Yin Corpses!

These Yin Corpses are powerful, each with three strands of Daoist energy forming a restriction!

Subtly, due to the bloodline connection, when the three hundred restrictions are gathered together, even a celestial being who has just entered the second level of the Dao Heaven cannot gain any advantage in its hands!

In addition, there was a powerful general from the Kingdom of Quan who possessed forty-nine restrictions... Black energy surged, and it had already begun to show signs of intelligence.

The wailing and lamenting souls of these powerful soldiers had already been completely swallowed by the Earth God.

...The Earth Lord of Youdu seemed to sense Quan Ming's probing, his icy gaze fixed upwards from Youdu, preparing to investigate which fool was behind this...

Quan Ming wielded the green halberd in his hand and gently tapped the Shang tripod.

"Exorcise evil spirits!"

Consuming a sliver of the Kingdom's fortune, the black blood on the fragments of cloth armor within the cauldron dissipated, returning to purity. The illusory image of the past also vanished, leaving Tu Bo empty-handed.

This is the method to deal with the corpse of the powerful.

That immortal dared to use the corpse of the powerful man to deal with his ancestral god, so he was destined to lose his divine power and his army!

What does Quan Ming have to fear?

What troubled him was how to bypass the will of Chu and completely eliminate this branch immortal who kept causing him trouble!