Chapter 973: Chapter 904: A New Path Forward!
After half a long winter, the Spring Festival arrives.
On this day of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, naturally, everyone is thinking of happy things.
On a farmstead along Longwang Road, a man is moving the large cabbages from the snow outside into the house, preparing this year’s New Year’s Eve dinner.
And the man’s old grandfather is still chatting with old neighbors in the snow.
“Didn’t they say a war was going to break out? Luckily, it was later said that it wasn’t. Otherwise, if the harvest was delayed, we wouldn’t be able to properly celebrate this year.”
“Exactly! It’s better not to have a war! But still, if there’s no war, why do we have to pay sothing like military support taxes and expedition taxes?”
“Alright, alright. Be content with what we have. If a war actually happens and there aren’t enough people, and we’re all conscripted, then there’s nothing we can do! At least there’s no war right now, so we old friends can chat at our doorsteps and watch the kids celebrate the New Year at ho together. Better to lose money than lose life, better to lose money than lose life…”
Before the autumn harvest, it was said that a war was imminent, and taxes and grain were collected imdiately in various places, supposedly to prepare for the war.
Luckily, the news soon ca that the war wouldn’t be happening.
This allowed the farrs rushing for the autumn harvest to breathe a sigh of relief.
However, what everyone didn’t expect was that even though the war wouldn’t happen, the previously ntioned taxes still had to be paid.
After all, so people had already paid them.
You can’t let others pay while you don’t, right?
So everyone had to pay the taxes.
As for refunding the taxes paid?
You’re dreaming.
So, although every household could still have a family reunion for this year’s Spring Festival,
They had so much tax paid at the end of the autumn harvest that there wasn’t much spare money at ho.
It could be said that since the founding of the Great Sui, this year was the tightest year for the whole family.
Many dissatisfied people didn’t realize that this year, though it was the worst in the past ten years, might be the best in the next ten years.
As the Spring Festival approached, the Great Sui official also announced sothing very important that many people had long awaited.
The second of the Twelve Zodiacs—Niu!
aning this year is the Year of the Ox.
All who are born entering this door are of the Ox.
Compared to last year’s rats, families with babies born under the Ox this year were much happier.
After all, an ox appears much larger than a rat and looks much stronger.
Presumably, a child born like this must be very healthy.
Alongside the news that it’s the Year of the Ox, another very important announcent was made—one of the Twelve Superior Demons of the All Things Path, Niu Mo, was titled Great General of Divine Might by the Red Emperor.
This was the first instance of a mber of the Demon Clan becoming an official of the Great Sui.
Suddenly, officials everywhere foresaw closer cooperation between the Great Sui and the Demon Clan of the All Things Path.
Several officials even went to nearby mountains and riverbanks in their territories to burn incense and worship the gods.
Originally, many officials were resistant to these Mountain Gods and river gods.
Because their protection of local prosperity seed like proof that the officials were not doing a good job.
But now, with the sense that the Imperial Court wanted more collaboration with them, so perceptive officials imdiately sensed a great opportunity and went to build good relations with these beings.
So officials even personally donated large sums of money to nearby Mountain and river gods as offerings.
This resulted in various Mountain and river gods eating more than their fill for a recent period.
anwhile, the All Things Path had a new major developnt.
After being titled Great General of Divine Might, Niu Mo naturally felt that as a General, he should have so subordinates.
So he had Zhang San convey to the Red Emperor, asking if he could allocate a military force under his command.
Zhang San knew well that the Red Emperor would not be comfortable with having his own forces growing too strong, so he approached the Red Emperor about this matter.
But Zhang San said that Niu Mo was very grateful and thus wanted to recruit more ox-type demons and other demon clans to establish a Divine Might Army to pledge allegiance to the Red Emperor.
The Red Emperor, although not trusting a Bull Demon’s intention to be loyal to him,
thought that as long as he wasn’t allocating other military forces to this Bull Demon and just allowed him to gather so little demons, it was fine.
After all, this is the Year of the Ox.
In the Year of the Rat last year, the rat-type demons not only resolved the rat plague but also put the steppe in crisis, which was indeed a significant achievent.
This year, by appointing Niu Mo as Great General of Divine Might, allowing the All Things Path to set up a demon clan army to fight the Tujue, is also good.
Thus, the Red Emperor quickly agreed to this matter.
Then, as the Thousand-Eyed Rat King, jealous, spread the news of this event,
Within less than half a month, a large number of demon clans gathered at Traveling Dragon Pass, waiting for Niu Mo to select them.
In the end, Niu Mo selected a force of over 800 demons and nad it Divine Might Army.
Half of them were ox-type demons.
anwhile, in the Ghost Domain, Zhang San’s senior was discussing several intricate issues related to the Path of Life and Death with Mr. Jiang.
Though Hu Xingxiang didn’t quite understand matters of the Path of Life and Death, she knew that recently her foster father had been assisting Zhang San’s senior with understanding much related to the Path of Life and Death.
At this mont, after hearing the previous senior of the Path of Life and Death express his doubts, Zhang San’s senior was suddenly enlightened.
“So this is how it is, so there are so many distinctions in the Path of Life and Death. But how do you find this thod of integration that I ntioned?”
Old Mr. Jiang smiled and said, “Now, our Path of Life and Death is quite weak, and actually, for a long ti, I have had similar thoughts. I just wanted the Path of Life and Death to learn from the Path of Ghosts and Gods and then beco the Mountain God, river god, or even City God in so places. However, even though we have trained in so techniques and runes from the Path of Ghosts and Gods and can absorb the Power of Incense Fla, such power only serves as an energy storage in our bodies and doesn’t enhance our strength. So, if you can establish a City God system, then our Path of Life and Death will have new hope.”
Zhang San’s senior nodded with a smile.
“Rest assured, once our City God system is fully established, we can integrate your Path of Life and Death into the entire Six Paths frawork.”
Upon hearing this, Old Mr. Jiang beca increasingly interested in the Six Paths frawork ntioned by Zhang San.
Initially, he wanted to lead the ghosts and monsters of the Path of Life and Death to do sothing, but he couldn’t progress on the Path of Ghosts and Gods, so he had to look for a new approach.
Coincidentally, at this ti, Zhang San’s senior ca with a plan that seed to genuinely allow the Path of Life and Death to proceed.
If the Path of Life and Death truly has a new choice, then for all ghosts and monsters of the Path of Life and Death and for this world, it is a good thing.
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