Chapter 68: Dark Thunder Surge (Please vote!)
Prehistoric, Shouyang Mountain.

Wearing a nine-tasseled emperor crown and a sun-moon-patterned emperor robe, Jin Bing, who was dressed in a noble manner, stood in his own magnificent emperor palace. However, his face was not filled with joy, but instead showed a look of sadness...

"It's too hasty. This position of the Human Emperor is such a pitfall!"

To be fair, Jin Bing's original idea was to gradually swallow up the ancient land and population, and indirectly undermine Emperor Jun with the most loyal personality, the most legal form, and the most stable foundation.

This idea is naturally extremely idealistic, because Di Jun naturally holds the power of life and death over him, and can easily kill him if he disagrees with him.

But this is a last resort. All the ways out are dead ends. Only this way has a little possibility. So no matter how illusory it is, Jin Bing can only grit his teeth and take a gamble!

You can't rush this path, you can't force it, and you can't even show the slightest bit of disloyalty. This is a typical way to gain experience...

However, in these repeated restarts in life, the most important truth that Jin Bing learned was:
Plans can never keep up with changes!
What’s the use of having a good plan?

For a person like Di Jun who is already an extremely outstanding figure, a simple move of "abdication" ruined his own plan...

People didn't want to wait for him to grow and seize power, and chose to abdicate directly. Facing this external trick, Jin Bing had no ability to resist at all.

First he said he would abdicate, then he was crowned:
First he was given the honorific title of "Human Emperor", then he was given a set of clothing and treatment as the Emperor of Heaven, and then he went to heaven to discuss the central military affairs. With a series of smooth little combos, he left Jin Bing at a loss.

Originally I wanted to follow the routine, but now I have done it all at once, and I can’t even refuse. I want him to participate in politics, so I send the Emperor of Heaven’s golden chariot to Shouyang Mountain every day to take him to the heaven, and then handle various government affairs in front of Kunpeng...

As time went by, Jin Bing's title of "Great Chief of the Human Race" basically became a nominal position, because all important affairs of the human race were handled by him alone. Once he went to heaven to govern the country, he would inevitably not be able to take care of the politics of the human race!

The reason why the human race, a small and unknown race, has developed so efficiently is because Jin Bing has monopolized power and taken care of everything himself. His autocratic decisions are by no means empty talk.

Therefore, the organizational form of the human race’s political power is actually extremely deformed and is a typical “authoritarian centralization of power.”

So, when the Heavenly Court promoted him and "kindly" allowed him to govern the country, this deformed system collapsed in an instant!

Without Jin Bing's micro-control at the center, everyone became headless flies and administrative efficiency almost dropped to zero.

When Jin Bing realized that this situation was inevitable, he could only quickly promote a successor...

"Great Chief...His Majesty the Emperor!"

Xuandu knocked on the door of the Human Emperor Palace nervously.

"coming?"

Jin Bing sighed helplessly, looking at the anxious Xuan Du, he tried to speak gently:

"How are you dealing with the remaining dragons?"

"His Majesty……"

Xuan Du hesitated to speak, but still lowered his head and replied:
“…It hasn’t worked yet.”

This answer was not beyond Jin Bing's expectations. After all, although the feudal order of the Dragon Clan had perished, the old ideas were not so easy to eradicate. It required persistent education and crackdown before they would slowly disappear.

But obviously, I don't have that much free time to fight with them!
"Xuandu!"

Jin Bing suddenly said in a deep voice:
"In an emergency, we must take the necessary measures. From today on, you will take over most of my power in the human race. When I'm not around, you will govern the country!"

"what?!"

This news itself was good news, but Xuan Du panicked and quickly rejected it:
"Your Majesty, I am not virtuous enough..."

"Even if you don't have enough, you have to be enough!"

Jin Bing said seriously:
"Now that I have become the successor of the Emperor of Heaven, I will definitely not stay in Shouyang Mountain for long. Without me, the billions of monsters under Shouyang Mountain's rule will be in chaos... Only you can step forward to succeed me."

"Don't worry about your lack of ability. I will assign you some assistants. You just need to manage them well."

At this point, although Xuandu was still very panicked, he also realized the seriousness of the problem. Shouyang Mountain is now facing a huge crisis, and only he can barely take over as the chief and save Shouyang Mountain.

"……Yes!"

Xuan Du gritted his teeth and bowed to accept the offer. "Yes."

Jin Bing nodded, but reminded him in an inexplicable tone:
"Xuan Du, you are a weak person... From now on, as the leader of the human race, you must remember that you must not be soft-hearted when dealing with internal and external enemies!"

No mercy? To whom?
Xuandu was a little confused, but still agreed...

Xuan Du, feeling nervous and excited, retreated.

Jin Bing stood alone at the entrance of the Human Emperor Palace, gazing into the distance with a complicated look:
All I saw was a golden chariot with glittering light falling from the sky. From a distance, it looked like the sun was setting.

That was the golden chariot used by the Emperor of Heaven, coming to take him to heaven. The driver was Sun Yu Xihe, and the ones pulling the chariot were ten lively little golden crows flying around.

"The Emperor of Heaven's wife is driving the car for me, and my ten sons are pulling the cart in front... This honor is like roasting me on the fire!"

Jin Bing sighed bitterly. The more the Emperor of Heaven treated him, the more he sweated!

"No, I always feel it's not safe to go to heaven alone..."

After thinking about it, Jin Bing decided to add an extra layer of security for himself, so he waved his hand to summon three figures from the depths of Shouyang Mountain.

One was old, one was middle-aged, and one was young. The three had different faces, and they were surrounded by a faint aura of Daluo Taoism.

These are the three incarnations that Jin Bing created using the advanced clone technique when he worshipped Taiqing as his master. After three kalpas of hard training and enlightenment, combined with his own experience of reaching the peak of Daluo in his previous life, he has now begun to enter the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal!

"It's a bit weak, and in front of Emperor Jun it's no different from an ant, but... it's better than nothing."

Jin Bing sighed. He had basically used up all his trump cards. All he could do now was to do his best and leave the rest to fate...

"Try to die beautifully..."

……

[In the 12th cycle of the 368th year of the demon calendar, you were named the "Human Emperor", on the same level as Donghuang Taiyi. Afterwards, you were given various special honors, including clothing, carriages, palaces, military and political affairs, and other special treatments that only the emperor of heaven could enjoy. It seems that Emperor Jun is really ready to abdicate.]

[In the 369th year of the demon calendar, you abdicated the position of "Great Chief of the Human Race" to Xuandu on the grounds of lack of energy, and directly lived in the palace of the Heavenly Court for a long time, so as not to waste the time of Xihe to receive you, and Xuandu was able to officially govern the military and political affairs of the Human Race with the highest power.]

[Although you pushed him out of his position as a Taiqing disciple in this life, you also gave him the supreme power of the chieftain, and the guilt in his heart has been somewhat alleviated.]

【You took Xuandu's ability into consideration, so you assigned him a group of assistants to help him manage the human race. At the same time, you improved the deformed human race's centralized system and replaced it with a powerful official system with Xuandu as the core, changing centralization into decentralization.】

[In this way, although Xuandu's power was weakened, under the joint governance of the powerful officials, the human race was guaranteed to continue to develop efficiently. ]

[Among these powerful officials, there are both human pioneers and elites from various demon races. You have done your best to balance everything and handed over a complete and suitable governance system to Xuandu... But, is this really perfect? ​​]

[Not long after you ascended to heaven to live permanently, the remaining forces of the dragon clan, centered around the real dragon Ao Guang, took the opportunity to grow stronger. After all, Xuandu does not have as much experience as you, an old senior. A few careless moments allowed Ao Guang to gain huge prestige among the old dragon clan! ]

[The orthodox Azure Dragon of the East China Sea has noble blood and is a kind person. In the eyes of the old dragon clan, he perfectly meets the dream of "orthodoxy of the dragon clan", so a faction naturally established itself inside Shouyang Mountain.]

[Once a force is formed, it will seek power. Soon, Ao Guang took the initiative to ask to assist the chieftain in governing the country amid the calls of the old dragon clan. They waved the banner of "equality among all races" that you left behind, and called on the dragon clan to be one of the myriad clans of Shouyang. Why do you want to restrict the dragon clan from serving as officials? ]

[This is unequal! It goes against the ideals of His Majesty the Emperor! ]

[Faced with their calls for help, many simple people who don’t know the truth can really empathize with them…]

[Xuan Du naturally noticed their ulterior motives, but... he compromised, because the dragon clan's principles were not wrong, and restricting them was itself a form of inequality.]

[Thus, under the excited gaze of thousands of dragons, Ao Guang officially took office as the First Sun Celestial Official! ]

[The hidden mines you planted in the past have finally reached a turbulent point...]

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