The Grand Historian Bikeng, who had always supported the Grand Chancellor Shang Rong politically, was also at a loss for words.
You all kept urging King Zhou to offer sacrifice to heaven every day. Now, what's going on? When it's your turn, do you become so scared?
Bikeng naturally isn't afraid of death. If Zhou truly made him follow in the footsteps of offering sacrifices to heaven, he wouldn't have any complaints either, as he would just follow along.
Both big bosses remained silent, leaving the rest of the ministers and generals to look towards Huang Fei Hu.
Huang Fei Hu was baffled too. What does the Yin surname's act of self-immolation to sacrifice to heaven have to do with my surname Huang? Why do they want me to join in the sacrifice as well?
These words were not politically correct, so he had to keep silent. I don't object, but I definitely don't support it either.
King Zhou understood. Youhun was using a retreat as an advance, forcing the ministers to go along with him.
If anyone brings this up again, they'll be on the same 'road' as me!
King Zhou thought this strategy was quite effective. By holding back and not making any moves, he was able to strike at the politicians who often used the ancestor of Cheng Tang as a threat to him.
He was not ready to stop the construction of the sacrificial platform at this point. Why would he stop? He wanted to build it, and build it big!
It takes thirty-five years to build one sacrificial platform, and according to Jia Ziya's calculation, two can start construction simultaneously. However, with limited manpower, it would take at least sixty years!
King Zhou was overjoyed. Alright, Jia Ziya, just keep building at this pace. After sixty years, if I'm still alive, I will sacrifice myself along with Wang Bikang to heaven and ask for divine blessings for the great Dao!
Deng Jiugong submitted a memorandum, implying that he had heard about the construction of the sacrificial platform in Chaoge and therefore also planned to follow suit. King Zhou snickered in secret. This Deng Jiugong, a typical general, doesn't understand the situation at all. Whatever Chaoge says, Nanjun will follow suit blindly. This man is far too lacking in political acumen. However, with one stroke of his pen, he approved it!
How many are you going to build? Seven, and you want to build a circle of "sacrificial platforms" around the Southern Frontier?
King Zhou thought he had plenty of royal uncles and brothers to assign them tasks.
He approved Deng Jiugong's request, but noted that seven sacrificial platforms were insufficient to show his reverence for ancestors.
I'll increase the budget and build seventeen sacrificial platforms in the Southern Frontier.
He instructed Deng Jiugong to list the names of Ji Zi and Wei Zi on the sacrificial platforms during the ceremony, so that they would "start their journey" in the Southern Frontier when the fire was lit.
Assign the "Moving Mountains Project" and the "Building Ten Thousand Sacrificial Platforms" to those who need it, and after that, there's nothing more for Deng Chanyu to do.
Daji could find her sense of existence and demonstrate her personal value through healing and saving lives. Moreover, with her father and brother both in the Southern Frontier, she settled here.
Deng Chanyu returned to Chaoge by herself, as she still had some loose ends to tie up.
Li Qi, who had lost an arm and lost all his magical abilities, was being confined within the Map of Rivers and Mountains.
This guy had killed Ji Ziya before, stolen cow urine, and destroyed the tea house. Deng Chanyu was enraged and caused the subsequent Battle of the Nine Dragon Islands.
The candidates she recommended all had names and qualifications, and she recommended a total of five, at least five. Among them was one of the Eight Deities of the Divine Sects, the King of Plague in the Pandemic Department, Lu Yue. According to Zhao Gongming, during the Battle of the Nine Dragon Islands, more than 40 and less than 50 disciples of the peripheral department of Juejiao were killed by water. Among these cultivators, were there any who could make it onto the list? She did not know.
She held a shield named "Ji Ziya" and went out to gather a lot of animosity. Now, she sent Li Qi to Ji Ziya, to settle scores or grievances as he saw fit.
"Ji Ziya, my brother, because of your little sister's sake, you have been put in this unjust situation. My little sister feels very guilty. Fortunately, I found a treasure along the way, so I will give it to you for protection and safety."
The magical weapons of Wang Mo, Yang Sen, Gao Youqian, and Li Xingba are all beads.
Among them, Wang Mo and Yang Sen may be based on deep brotherhood, both using the Open Heaven Bead, while Gao Youqian uses the Primordial Unity Bead, and Li Xingba uses the Split Earth Bead.
The Nine Dragon Islands were completely captured by her, and all the beads also fell into her hands.
The technique for refining the Open Heaven Bead is simple, just that the materials are more precious. She gave it to Ji Ziya for self-protection, to settle karmic debts and to cultivate good causes.
Ji Ziya was shocked. I haven't done anything, and you're taking it upon yourself to avenge me and even giving me a magical weapon? How generous of the disciples of Nuwa Mother God!
If he had weapons like the Daoshen Whip, Xinghuang Banner, and Zhanxian Feidao in his possession, Ji Ziya wouldn't have taken interest in the Open Heaven Bead. But since he had nothing on him right now - poor and helpless - the Open Heaven Bead in his hands was definitely a treasure.
"This old man has made no contribution at all; it was all my younger sister who was running around. This is truly something I feel ashamed to receive."
"Take it, take it! Ji Ziya, good-bye!"
"Thank you for the gift of magic weapons, Miss sister!" Ji Ziya made a very respectful bow.
Nuwa, who was in the Palace of Nuwa, laughed again. Her apprentice took an entire Nine Dragon Island, and then she gave Ji Ziya a broken bead, and yet he thanked her for that?
Deng Chanyu didn't know that her teacher was secretly spying on her, and she waved goodbye and directly flew away in a cloud.
Ji Ziya waited until she flew far away before taking out the Open Heaven Bead to examine it carefully.
It was dazzling and unusually heavy, as if it could really open up the heavens and split the earth. What a fine treasure!
Ji Ziya remembered that his junior brother, Shen Gongpao, had once made such a treasure. At that time, he had envied it so much. He never expected that he would be able to obtain such a magical weapon himself.
How wonderful, dying once is truly worth it!
Ji Ziya was overjoyed and no longer cared about Li Qi.
Ji Ziya remembered that King Zhou had specifically issued a reward for Li Qi, so he turned him over to Huang Fei Hu and had him punished according to the laws of the Great Dao.
Ji Ziya was unsure about whether to accept the reward of being promoted three levels, but under Ma's encouragement, he chose a thousand taels of gold.
King Zhou was even happier, thinking that Ji Ziya did not want to be promoted so that he could firmly hold onto the task of building the sacrificial platform.
He immediately invited the newlyweds Ji Ziya and his wife to a banquet in the Shou Xian Palace. The Queen of the Palace, Jia, the Guifei Huang, and Yang, were all showing off to Ma. Sixty-eight-year-old Ma had never seen such a scene before. On her way home, she kept reminding Ji Ziya to be loyal to the Great Dao and to King Zhou.
Ji Ziya: "Oh, yes, yes, yes."
Li Qi had nothing more to say. He was punished according to the law.
King Zhou had never encountered the Nine-Tailed Fox Spirit and didn't understand the torturous methods like Pao Luo. According to the usual practice, he should be executed by decapitation at noon.
However, in order to demonstrate the majesty of an emperor on earth and to intimidate those immortals who ignore the laws of the Yin Dynasty, King Zhou ordered Wu Cheng Wang Huang Fei Hu to personally supervise the execution.
Execution is execution. Huang Fei Hu doesn't even know who Li Qi is, so it doesn't matter.
Handle it as official business. Tie the person up, and send them to the gate of the noon palace.
At three o'clock in the afternoon.
Huang Fei Hu ignored Li Qi's malicious aura and threw out an order token to Zhou Ji, his household general.
He shouted: "Execute!"
The surrounding soldiers and officers also shouted: "Execute!"
The people who gathered in front of the noon gate also shouted: "Execute!"
Half of Chaoge's people came to watch, and the news that the executed was an immortal only added to the excitement.
Even immortals have to be executed for breaking the law. The Great Dao is powerful indeed!
Zhou Ji stripped to his waist, holding his own Kua Da Fuchi axe high, and chopped off Li Qi's head with a "click".
