Chapter 313 Holy Lord, the Eight Immortal Gods!
"Heaven...really doesn't care about me?"

Lin Liu stroked his beard and looked up at the sky thoughtfully.

To be honest, he never thought it would be so smooth, because no matter how low-key it was, it was still an act against the will of heaven that challenged the authority of heaven.

A true god ruling over mortals in the lower world is at most just playing house. Normally, the Heavenly Court would not care too much.

But if eight true gods formed a regime in the underworld, the meaning would suddenly be different!

No matter what name the government of the true God takes, it is essentially the same as the heaven:
Openly touching the uniqueness of the Heavenly Court and challenging the legitimacy of the Heavenly Court, the seriousness of this matter is so high that even if the Emperor of Heaven directly sent people to attack, Lin Liu would not find it too strange.

Therefore, the establishment of the Heavenly Palace this time was actually just an attempt, and Lin Liu had already prepared himself mentally for starting over again if it failed.

But... the Heavenly Court actually didn't care. It actually took a laissez-faire attitude towards a new regime that clearly challenged its own uniqueness...

This rather strange development made Lin Liu feel relieved but also fell into deep thought:
"What on earth is the Emperor of Heaven thinking?"

Is it that the Emperor of Heaven is really so magnanimous that he feels there is no threat, or is it that he is simply... showing off?
After thinking about it, Lin Liu tended to believe the second possibility. Perhaps the Emperor of Heaven really did it!
The reason is very simple. Today's heaven does not care about the affairs of the human world at all. When it lost its responsibilities, it also lost its ruling power.

In a sense, the current Heavenly Court cannot actually be considered a ruling group at all, but has transformed into an "autonomous organization in the divine world."

The gods in heaven have nothing to do and they spend their days leisurely there. The Emperor of Heaven has no tasks to assign to them and even he himself spends his days in idleness. The only meaning of the existence of heaven is to restrain the gods from bringing harm to the people.

In this way, they succeeded in actually achieving a situation where the heaven and earth were connected, humans and gods were separated, and heaven and humans were separated...

Perhaps in the eyes of the Emperor of Heaven, there is no conflict of interest between the Heavenly Court and the New Heavenly Court. The ecological niches of the two do not overlap, so it is normal that there is no hostility.

They are just a bunch of idiots. There is really no need to go to war over this.

Furthermore, although the Heavenly Court does not want to serve all living beings, it does not mean that it hates all living beings. Now that there are people willing to serve all living beings as beasts of burden for free, they should only "respect, understand, and bless" them.

Even watch fun.

After all, there are people like me who are willing to work overtime for free. It would be a shame not to watch this rare event...

This is probably the mentality of a pendulum.

“But it’s a good thing!”

Lin Liu smiled. As expected, Big Daddy did not leave the field early, which was a good thing no matter what.

As long as we wait until our side develops, even if the Heavenly Court realizes something is wrong, it will not affect the overall situation...

But will the future really be as he imagined?

……

[In the first year of the new heaven, you called yourself "General Chongtian" and established a new heaven without a Heavenly Emperor with the assistance of seven true gods including the Monkey King! ]

[That year, you issued an imperial decree to start the "Heavenly Official System", popularized the Shinto philosophy among the people, selected a large number of mortals with the qualifications to practice, and put them on the road to becoming officials and practicing. As a result, the whole nation cheered for the new policy, and your reputation was greatly improved. ]

[In the ten years of the New Heavenly Court, you have selected hundreds of cultivators and sent them to various places in the four continents to serve as frontier officials! ]

[In fact, a hundred people is far from the upper limit of civilian monks, but in order to ensure that the incense offerings per capita are sufficient, you did not recruit too many monks to become heavenly officials.]

[But even so, your policy is unprecedented: in order to protect the interests of a family, previous dynasties, without exception, implemented a ban on the common people's skills, allowing only their own family to grow and not allowing the common people to rise.]

[And now you have promoted hundreds of monks in one go. This is a selfless initiative and an unprecedented feat! ]

[Therefore, your reputation among the people is getting higher and higher, even surpassing all the gods and emperors of all dynasties, reaching the highest level of the only sun! ]

[A huge sun stretches across the four continents, crushing the heroes and great men of all time! ]

[Wherever you go, local officials and citizens will shout out your achievements and great deeds.]

[“There is no two suns in the sky, and in my heart there is only one sun, the general!”]

[“General! We all respect you!”]

[“The general’s kindness is higher than the sky! The general’s kindness is deeper than the sea! The general’s kindness is not enough!”]

【"loyalty!"】

【“…”】

[This is this, this is this, this is this, you clearly didn't use the Blood God Son to brainwash them, but the enthusiasm and loyalty they showed were no less than that of the Blood God Son! ]

[Praise and gratitude fill your eyes and ears, making you inexplicably full of endless ambition and ambition, and full of blazing hope for the realization of great ideals! It seems that victory is just around the corner! ]

[You will lead billions of people to win victory and realize their dreams under their watchful eyes and expectations! ]

[So you wave to them gently, which then leads to more fanatical cries of "loyalty"...]

[As your prestige grows, your title of "General" becomes more and more noticeable, and even causes dissatisfaction.]

[“How can the title of general be worthy of you?”]

[“That’s right! The general’s rank is too low! You should get a more powerful one!”]

[You seriously rejected this statement, because you have decided not to become an emperor, and the title of general is enough.]

【Everyone had no choice but to give up. 】

[But if you are unwilling to change, the people will naturally help you change, and soon, all kinds of mighty and domineering titles gradually spread among the people. ]

[“There’s an Emperor in the sky, how about an Emperor on Earth for the general?”][“Emperor on Earth… what a crappy name for a younger brother! It’s better to call him Emperor of Earth!”]

[“Emperor of the Earth? It’s better to call him Emperor! I offer my loyalty to the Emperor!”]

[“There is an Emperor in heaven, and our general should be equal to him… In the past, the Emperor of Dashun was called the Emperor, so why don’t we take the word Huang from it… and call ourselves the Emperor of Heaven?”]

[“It doesn’t sound good…”]

[“Why not call me Holy Lord? That’s so domineering!”]

[“…Holy Lord? This is good!”]

【…】

[In an era when various titles are flying around, the title of "Holy Lord" gradually gains the upper hand, because it has neither "Emperor" nor "Emperor", which just fits your declaration that you do not want to be an emperor. ]

[Although the word "Holy Lord" does not contain the words "Emperor" or "Emperor", you can tell it is a monarch at first glance. It can be said to be low-key, luxurious and meaningful! ]

[So, starting from the people, you inexplicably got the title of "Holy Lord", and this name was even adopted by the official authorities. Many local officials directly called you "Holy Lord" when reporting to you and making memorials to you!]

[The Holy Lord governs the world, and the other seven true gods each govern one side. The eight immortal gods rule over all living beings in the world forever...]

[Hold on, it's hot! Fast forward to the explosion of the spell! 】

【…】

[In the thirty years of the New Heaven, with the help of your divine power, the various technologies of mortals have finally gradually accumulated, and a "technological revolution" originating from the vast majority of the people has begun to erupt! ]

【Someone invented a textile machine that could spin multiple yarns at once.】

【Someone invented a new technology for producing steel in large quantities.】

[Someone even invented a strange machine that can move on its own by boiling water...]

【Under this vigorous progress in productivity, the power of ordinary people has grown rapidly, factories have sprung up, and products have been manufactured one after another. 】

[Advanced tools and technology have promoted population development, so the population has doubled again and again...]

[The huge population brings a huge amount of incense. With the supply of incense, even if there are thousands of monks sharing it, everyone's cultivation is still growing steadily. ]

[Under the stimulation of the benefits, the monks and heavenly officials worked even harder! ]

[Realizing that mortals can increase their population by relying on technological advancement, the celestial officials simply used their divine power to help mortals break through technological barriers.]

[With divine power, the trend of population development is becoming increasingly unstoppable...]

【Year after year. 】

[The lives of people in the four continents are changing with each passing day. They have even invented flying machines and submersibles...all kinds of things that were unheard of in ancient times have appeared in large numbers in people's lives.]

[Because the changes were so rapid, many elderly people born during the Dashun era could not adapt to the changing times. They were at a loss in the rolling waves and could not find their own position...]

[The iron plows and oxen used to plow the fields have been replaced by machines, the muddy paths have been replaced by smooth roads, the ancient cities have been replaced by modern cities... the lights and wine are bright and the prosperity is endless.]

[An old era has ended quietly, and a new era has come silently! 】

[This change cannot be said to be bad, it can only be said to be too fast, so fast that no one can accept it at all...]

[In the first half of their lives, everyone was still working like slaves for the Emperor of Dashun. Fishermen rowed boats to catch fish, farmers dug the land to grow crops, and herdsmen rode horses to herd sheep and hunt.]

[In the second half of my life, there were machines emitting black smoke roaring in the fields, huge ships weighing tens of thousands of tons sailing on the sea, and when I looked up, I saw several terrifying iron birds flying across the sky...]

[It’s been less than a hundred years, and it’s like traveling through time. No one can adapt to this! ]

[But no matter how confused everyone is about the new era, since it has already arrived, it will continue to move forward. ]

【…】

[With unlimited encouragement of childbirth, the world's population has risen almost exponentially. By the 70th year of the New Heaven, the world's population had increased dozens of times! ]

【And every twenty years, it would double again.】

[The trend of population growth is unstoppable! ]

[With such a huge infusion of incense, the hundreds of heavenly officials you selected back then have successively broken through the boundary between humans and gods and reached the realm of true gods! ]

[So you once again selected hundreds of civilian cultivators to serve as heavenly officials. This time, their speed was even faster, and they became true gods in just over thirty years.]

[So you choose again...]

[Once one batch is done, you switch to another batch, and repeat this cycle over and over again. You are almost mass-producing true gods on earth. ]

[As the number of true gods under your command increases, the Heavenly Court, which has been idle for more than a hundred years, can no longer resist and sends people to the lower world again. The person sent is still the great ancestor of the Great Shun Dynasty, Taibai Xingjun Li Ziliang...]

[This old friend was not polite either. The moment he saw you, he went straight to the point and asked you directly.]

[“Lin Liu, what on earth do you want to do!”]

……

(End of this chapter)