Chapter 207 The Prosperous Heaven

[As you have annihilated all opposition forces in the country, both mortals and monks have begun to act under your orders.]

[In ancient times, the Golden Heavenly Emperor used the human race as his foundation to control all races in the world. Now your Heavenly Court has also followed the ancient emperor's method and built itself: you use the Blood Godson to brainwash the monks, and then use the monks as the basis of power to build a huge and sophisticated ruling machine.]

[Although you don't have the talent and ability to govern the country like Emperor Jin Tian, ​​you know how to use people. You select talents from the heavenly officials and make them form an efficient and accurate governing organization. You delegate all the powers related to governance to them.]

[In this way, the Heavenly Court can still operate normally even without you, the Emperor of Heaven, in charge. You are freed from the complicated government affairs and can concentrate on cultivation. Except for a few major matters that you must make the final decision on, you are basically free...]

[You, you hired someone to undermine yourself... You are truly a genius at governing a country! ]

[But you don't feel anything about this. One reason is that you still control their loyalty and life and death with the Blood God Son. In addition, your cultivation power is absolutely overwhelming. No matter how powerful the officials under you are, you will never lose your dominant position.]

[Secondly, because you are not a power creature, you have neither superb political ability nor the corresponding desire for power. If ruling the wild world is not an important matter that must be done, you would not want to establish a troublesome heaven...]

[In short, under your "monarch offline system", this new heaven is gradually thriving. Although the various benefits are not as good as the "utopia" in Zhongzhou, it is obvious that your heaven is healthier and more normal. ]

【People are self-reliant and will not be spoiled, and the people are full of vitality. 】

[The monks work hard and perform their duties loyally for the Emperor of Heaven. They are all crazy fans who don't want any salary.]

[Under such a simple and effective system, a peaceful and prosperous era is certainly not difficult! ]

[Everyone is discussing with great interest: Emperor Xuantian is able to live a second life, which is truly a blessing for the world...]

[At the same time, overseas, there are also rumors about the amazing story of "Xuandu's reincarnation" rebuilding the heaven! ]

[In the circle of monks, the ability to transmit information is of course very fast. After you blatantly conquered the seven great cave paradises in the country, the news immediately spread to countries in all directions.]

【Everyone is discussing the affairs of Heaven! 】

【But their focus is not on whether you are really the reincarnation of Xuandu, but on your attitude towards them. 】

[After all, you are a celestial being no matter what. Facing a paradise without even a true immortal, it is basically a dimensionality reduction attack.]

[Plus, you revealed that you are against cannibalism, but where in the world are there monks who don't eat people? Once you have the intention to eradicate all evil, what awaits them is the inevitable tragedy of extermination of the entire family! ]

[So everyone was very scared, and under the catalyst of fear, they naturally split into two factions, just like the seven paradises before.]

[One faction is the classic pessimistic surrender faction, advocating kneeling down and surrendering, offering one's own territory and property in order to obtain the qualification to be a dog...]

[What's wrong with being a dog for the Heavenly Palace? Being a dog for the Heavenly Palace is the greatest honor! Smecta! ]

[The other faction is not the war faction, because you are now a celestial immortal plus seven true immortals, this kind of force is really invincible, and they don't want to seek death. ]

[But your clause that forbids eating humans really touches their fundamental interests. Becoming an immortal is everyone's dream and pursuit. Your sword is simply going to cut off the path to becoming an immortal! ]

[So... they chose Kairun! ]

【So in the next few years, you received a lot of miscellaneous foreign news. 】

[In the third year of the Emperor of Heaven, the Heavenly Court killed 30,000 rebels in the Cave Heavens, establishing its fierce power in one fell swoop, and the immortals and mortals of all countries were terrified! ]

[In the fourth year of the Emperor of Heaven, the royal families of the ten surrounding countries submitted petitions one after another, voluntarily giving up their power and donating their land to the Heavenly Court! ]

[The Emperor of Heaven was pleased with this and ordered the Heavenly Officials to take in the land and population of the ten countries, and the royal families of the ten countries were rewarded.]

[In the sixth year of the Emperor of Heaven, a total of 72 cave paradises in the former lands of the ten countries all submitted petitions for surrender. Except for a small number of cultivators who escaped because they did not obey the Heavenly Law, nearly one million cultivators joined the Heavenly Official camp, and the size of the Heavenly Official camp expanded rapidly! ]

[In the eighth year of the reign of the Emperor of Heaven, another 108 states submitted petitions to submit to the Emperor of Heaven, and the Emperor of Heaven gave them all gold and silver as honors and support.]

【…】

[In the 36th year of the Emperor of Heaven, in view of the increasingly bloated bureaucracy, the Emperor of Heaven announced that he would no longer accept land donations for the time being. The Heavenly Court would carry out overall construction and digest the vast territory it had taken over.]

[After ten years of integration, the world is in great order, and the people are happy with the prosperity of the Heavenly Emperor...]

[Ten years later, the Heavenly Court continued to expand its territory, taking over more than 8,000 countries in one fell swoop, and transferring nearly 100 million Heavenly Officials! ]

【So I integrated it again...】

[So the land was expanded again...]

[This cycle repeats itself. When the expansion reaches its limit, the company will integrate the internal areas. When the integration is complete, the company will expand the territory.]

[With such high efficiency and growth, you suddenly realize how ridiculous you were in your previous life. You actually wanted to kill all the immortals on your own...]

[“The best strategy is to gather everyone’s strength!”]

[You look through the various statistics under your rule with emotion: the population is in the trillions, the land covers millions of countries, and the total number of celestial officials is in the tens of billions! ]

[In the Heavenly Officials, True Immortals are constantly being born. Originally, it only took about 200 years for Western Wilderness cultivators to become immortals. Although the salary you gave was too little, which greatly affected their cultivation speed, True Immortals were still born from time to time.]

[As of the 290th year of the Heavenly Emperor, you have more than 100,000 True Immortals under your command! ]

[Such an achievement has already surpassed the hundreds of thousands of countries you slaughtered in your previous life... You have deeply understood the limitations of individual abilities, and are also shocked by the huge size of the Great Desolation: after expanding so much land, it still only occupies one trillionth of the land of the Western Desolate...]

【Also, there is a very serious problem bothering you right now. 】

[Not enough spiritual energy!] [The salary system you established back then has long been shaky under the huge bureaucracy. Hundreds of millions of celestial officials are crying out for food, and there is an extreme shortage of spiritual energy in the country...]

[And your so-called "internal integration" is actually cleaning up the problem of redundant officials. You have repeatedly launched internal purges, firing people under different pretexts to enrich the national treasury... But this is still only a temporary solution and not a fundamental solution. The demand for spiritual energy is a bottomless pit! ]

[“We can’t go on like this…”]

[You secretly made up your mind to maintain your spiritual energy reserves in the most extreme way possible...]

[Ding! Facing the spiritual energy shortage problem brought about by the Dharma Ending Age, you choose: (?)]

[A: Slaughter the people internally. The treasury is empty due to the problem of redundant officials in the Heavenly Court, so you should slaughter the people internally to physically reduce demand! B: Slaughter the people externally. Heaven created all things to feed people, but people have nothing to repay Heaven... Emperor Xuantian said, kill, kill, kill!]

"So extreme?"

Zhao Si, who hadn't seen Xue Xiaohei's tricks for a long time, was dumbfounded when faced with two options:
"One is for internal affairs, the other is for external affairs... Aren't these both killing people?"

He is indeed the ruthless demon who destroyed the entire Western Wilderness with a single burst of primitive power. Both options are for massacre!

"But...it seems that he really has no better choice..."

Zhao Si carefully put himself into Xue Xiaohei's perspective:

In the Dharma Ending Age, spiritual energy itself is an extremely scarce resource for cultivating immortals. However, to maintain a country with an extremely large territory, it is inevitable to use cultivators, and cultivators must have spiritual energy to work.

Without the supply of spiritual energy, the Heavenly Palace is equivalent to non-existence. This is not a problem that can be solved by the Heavenly Officials being willing to serve as Palu for free!

In order to obtain spiritual energy, one can only extract the souls of mortals for transformation... Of course, the Heavenly Court cannot do this, otherwise what is the difference between it and Zhongzhou?
So no matter what Xue Xiaohei thought, he only had one direction to choose from:
Slaughter the monks!

If you don’t ask mortals for spiritual energy, then ask monks for spiritual energy. In short, you must have enough spiritual energy reserves.

This general direction can be divided into two paths: one is to reduce demand internally, and the other is to increase supply externally.

Either you kill the people inside or you kill the people outside. There is no third option...

"Massacre of internal celestial officials...isn't this equivalent to destroying the administrative capacity of the celestial court?!"

Zhao Si looked at this genius idea speechlessly, because the problem of redundant officials in Heaven is actually not a problem at all. Now the territory is small so there are redundant officials, won’t it be better when the territory is bigger in the future!
Besides, if too many heavenly officials died, how could the heavenly court govern? Obviously, they could not be chosen.

"As for slaughtering them publicly... just slaughter them. They are all valuable creatures that eat people anyway. Slaughtering them can be considered as upholding justice."

However, this would undoubtedly force the monks from other places to become desperate and fight against the Heavenly Court when they cannot be trusted.

"Who cares? Just start over if you die!"

Zhao Si thought about it for a moment and clicked directly:
"Choose B!"

[You chose option B, slaughtering others. Heaven created all things to feed humans, but humans have nothing to repay Heaven... Emperor Xuantian said, "Kill, kill, kill!"]

[You immediately made up your mind to start transforming into the King of the Great West! ]

[In the 294th year of the Heavenly Emperor, you announced a major decree to your subjects: In view of the fact that the monks have committed cannibalism, which is really against the orthodoxy of the immortal way, from now on, the Heavenly Court will no longer accept foreign monks, and all foreign monks will be killed! ]

【All evil will be brought to justice! 】

[After receiving the imperial decree, the Heavenly Officials were thankful that they surrendered early, otherwise this time they would be finished...]

[But I would rather die than have a friend die. My colleagues are worried about the low spiritual energy salary. Now that the imperial edict has been issued, I will just start hunting in the wild! ]

[Daoyou, please lend me your spiritual energy! ]

【…】

【The Heavenly Court, which had never engaged in a major war since its establishment three hundred years ago, directly mobilized 100,000 True Immortals under the order of Emperor Xuantian, forming 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals. With this terrifying strength, they launched a devastating attack on the cultivators of various countries east of the Heavenly Court!】

[No matter whether they are righteous or evil, as long as they are cultivators, they will be within the scope of extermination! ]

[Faced with the organized and disciplined 100,000 True Immortals, the cultivators from all over the place were completely powerless to fight back. Wherever they passed, they destroyed everything in their path...]

[By the 350th year of the Heavenly Emperor, the Heavenly Court had wiped out tens of millions of large and small cave paradises in the West, killing countless monks, and often even blew up the cave paradises to collect the free spiritual energy.]

[The army returned, the Emperor of Heaven was very happy, the spiritual energy gained was immeasurable. ]

[After that, the army of 100,000 True Immortals would regularly go out to conquer the monks, and the spiritual energy they obtained would be transported back to the capital. The conquered lands would also be immediately managed by heavenly officials! ]

【Everything in heaven is thriving! 】

[However, your arrogant behavior soon attracted the attention of a large external force, and after learning of your identity as the "reincarnation of Xuan Du", the other party became quite excited.]

【So you soon received a letter declaring war! 】

[Signed: Xuandu! ]

【you:……】

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(End of this chapter)