Hall of Supre Harmony.
"Is this the god statue of the Great Dharma God that has been passed down through generations in the Great Mohism?"
Lu Yuan looked at the three-zhang-tall pure bronze statue placed in the center of the grand hall, with a few traces of curiosity and interest flashing in his eyes.
By now, three months had passed.
Three months ago, he had received the Snowy Wilds’ Tribes’ ssenger, Hu Yan Bi, and after in-depth conversations with him, he finally decided to accept the remaining tribes of the Snowy Plains Nomads into Chu State.
He also dispatched Huang Xin to lead troops to the Longxi Commandery to aid those Barbarians in their migration.
In the end, with the combined efforts of the Chu army and the Barbarians, they repelled several harassnts and blockades by the grassland Barbarians, successfully relocating the remaining 1.3 million-plus Barbarians back to Chu State.
Lu Yuan then settled these Barbarians in Hanzhong and Xichuan, registering them as Registered Citizens, thereby completely assimilating them under the rule of Chu State.
From then on, the ethnic group of the Barbarians was effectively eradicated.
There were no longer tribes of the Snowy Wilds; there were only citizens of Chu State.
The tribal leaders of those Barbarians were conferred noble titles by Lu Yuan if they were to be titles, granted official positions if they were to receive positions, and along with the remaining forces of the Barbarians’ tribes, they were integrated into the system of Chu State.
However, with the factual disappearance of the Barbarian ethnic group, and the tribal leaders becoming Chu Officials and Generals, the entity of the Snowy Plains Nomads no longer existed in the secular world.
With the hide no longer existing, how will the hair attach itself?
Without the Snowy Plains Nomads, the Great Mohism which had been the spiritual faith ruling over the entire group of Barbarians, naturally also suffered a heavy blow.
In Chu State, imperial power is above all else.
Lu Yuan had no need for a spiritual leader to guide his people and compete with him for the right to interpret the will of the gods.
Therefore, the religion of Great Mohism was naturally suppressed by Chu State.
Moreover, in the wars of the past two years, the then Spirit Master of Great Mohism was ambushed and killed by grassland Barbarians in a battle.
Just like that, following the marriage of the Spiritual Woman, the only remaining leader, the Spirit Master, also t his demise on the battlefield.
And the new Spirit Master of Great Mohism, who had yet to be fully trained, was faced with the Snowy Wilds’ Tribes seeking to annex to Chu State, an event that ant the extinction of the entire Barbarian race.
Under internal chaos and external changes, this once-glorious religion directly perished.
The remaining followers of Great Mohism, under the arrangents of the Spiritual Woman, were smoothly incorporated by Chu State, without causing any significant disturbance.
Since Great Mohism had disappeared, its holy objects and the Barbarians’ deity, the god statue of the Great Dharma God that had been inherited for tens of thousands of years, naturally fell into the hands of Lu Yuan.
It was delivered by the last remaining followers of Great Mohism to Baling, given to the Spiritual Woman, who then handed it over to Lu Yuan for disposition.
Thus this scene unfolded before him.
"Indeed, it is exceptionally extraordinary," Lu Yuan exclaid in amazent.
He saw before him the god statue made of pure bronze. Even though it was in the dimness of the palace, it emitted a faint golden light by itself, imparting a sense of sanctity.
Just from its appearance, one could tell the statue was remarkable.
As a practitioner of the Taiping Dao Book, Lu Yuan could perceive even more than an ordinary person.
Through the divine light of the statue, he sensed an extrely imnse power of Qi Luck within the body of the pure bronze statue.
This force of Qi Luck was extraordinarily dense, much denser than what Lu Yuan had gathered at that mont, having unified the whole of Yangzhou and incidentally occupied the Hanzhong and Xiangyang regions of Yong State, by a hundredfold or even more.
"Such imnse Qi Luck, I’m afraid even if I unified all Nine Provinces, I may not be able to gather as much, right?"
Lu Yuan slightly released his Divine Sense, attempting to penetrate into the statue, but just as he made slight contact, he imdiately felt a vast consciousness within the god statue expelling him out.
And the statue in front of him suddenly radiated brilliant light and started to tremble with a buzzing sound.
The expression on the face of the god statue shifted from its original majesty to sothing more ferocious, as if it were coming to life.
The air inside the palace was filled with a holy aura, with a powerful oppression sweeping toward Lu Yuan.
Like a terrifying tidal wave, it seed it could engulf Lu Yuan in an instant.
"Your Majesty, be careful, the consciousness of the Great Dharma God is awakening. Don’t resist, my concubine can soothe it," said the Spiritual Woman who followed by his side and saw the sudden rampage of the Great Dharma God statue, her expression changing slightly as she quickly spoke to Lu Yuan.
And then, her body imdiately emitted a ray of light, very similar to the divine radiance emitted by the god statue.
Afterward, she approached the statue, and the holy aura diffusing in the air did not stop the Spiritual Woman, allowing her to arrive near the statue without hindrance.
The two rays of light rged and touched each other, the Spiritual Woman knelt down, her thoughts and consciousness transmitted into the statue, and the two began to communicate.
Gradually, with the soothing by the Spiritual Woman, the rampaging statue slowly cald down, returning to its original peaceful state, with a faint halo falling, serene and sacred.
"Has this statue always been so terrifying?"
Lu Yuan, seeing the calm restored nearby, swallowed with difficulty, his complexion sowhat pale as he looked at the Spiritual Woman and asked.
At that mont when he was targeted by the statue, he felt like a small boat facing the sea, at the rcy of those suddenly violent waves, at any ti in danger of being shattered and subrged.
The consciousness owned by that statue, along with the Qi Luck dominated by that consciousness, and mixed in the Qi Luck were elents of divine power that seed to have been transford from belief, were too terrifying, too imnse.
It was a force that utterly overturned what Lu Yuan had previously imagined, strong and dangerous.
’This is definitely not a force that one can possess by Gathering Three Qi or Four Qi Condensation. That vast consciousness, like the sea, at the very least is of Five Qi Towards Primordial, or even belongs to the power of Immortals at Three Flowers Gathering.’
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