God Chosen

Lan Jicai pointed at Ha Lu Han, who had collapsed across from them.

"Setting everything else aside, Daheitian God is an incarnation of Heaven itself, and there is also Auspicious Heavenly Mother. Within our dynasty's borders, we can still stop them, but once they reach the Northern Court, the two work along different paths toward the same goal, like fish in water.

"Thus, the people of the Northern Court have long been influenced and infiltrated by Great Snow Mountain. During the Great Qian era, at least a third of the people and tribes among the Eight Great Tribes changed allegiance and began believing in Great Snow Mountain.

"Look at Ha Lu Han again. The world says he is the reincarnation of the Naiman King, the heart of the Naiman Tribe and nearly the foremost prodigy of the Northern Court, yet he too cultivates Great Snow Mountain's Black Bietian Method. Perhaps there are even more believers now—more than half."

"The court does nothing about it?"

Liang Qu had always felt that Great Snow Mountain's methods were deeply sinister. Letting it expand its influence could not be a good thing.

"How would we manage it?" Lan Jicai asked in return. "You're a Da Shun man—are you going to tell Northern Court people not to believe, not to listen, not to look?

"Da Shun only seized the Flowing Gold Sea after expending the strength of nine oxen and two tigers. The Northern Court's whip cannot reach that far, and Great Snow Mountain cannot stick a needle into it.

"When you lead an army and conquer the entire Northern Court or Great Snow Mountain, then use force to make them submit—make one a northern province and one a western province—and issue an edict, perhaps that might work."

"Ahem, Mr. Lan, you jest. Then what