Heavenly Emperor Shall Ascend

As a seasoned expert in rebellion and a pioneer of religious uprisings, Zhang Jiao accumulated considerable experience during his long career of rebellion.

He also learned a great deal of revolutionary experience from Yang Ning, and by combining these, he formed the highly distinctive Great Peace Pure Spirit Way!

Instead of entering the city, Zhang Jiao collected corpses, treated the people, and distributed Talisman Water along the way, quickly gathering a force of three to five thousand people.

Then he registered these three to five thousand people and sent them back to their original places of residence. Thus, the influence of five thousand people extended to more than two hundred villages and three to four hundred thousand residents.

Zhang Jiao traveled between these two hundred villages, teaching writing, imparting knowledge, curing diseases, distributing Talisman Water, and killing a few scoundrels, landlords, and rich people who did nothing wrong.

He also reformed farming knowledge for these people, collected wood from the mountains to make Curved Shaft Plow, and smelted metals to make sickles and hoes.

Under the pretext of fighting bandits, militia teams were formed in each village, equipped with spears, broadswords, and bamboo guns. They farmed during busy seasons and practiced in their spare time.

After several months of this, these villages surprisingly achieved a bumper harvest of grain.

The magistrate of the city was overjoyed to discover a bumper harvest. Upon learning that the harvest was related to a sect called Great Peace Pure Spirit Way, he immediately invited Zhang Jiao to visit him to inquire about methods for managing the people and increasing grain production.

Zhang Jiao was once a guest of honor of the governor, and he was an expert in deception.

He told the officials that as long as the people had something to rely on, they would not easily rebel. He also told them that as long as it was the will of the gods, the people would do any kind of hard or tiring work willingly.

The Taiheng Sect does not allow the spread of any kind of deity worship within its territory, and it always destroys such beliefs immediately upon discovery.

But things have changed in the last two years. All the emperors have been killed, most of the sects have been wiped out, and the rest are like quails, not daring to make any rash moves.

City dwellers hoard food because they are worried about unforeseen circumstances; having food on hand at least keeps them from panicking.

Upon hearing Zhang Jiao's plan, I no longer cared about the issue of not being allowed to spread the faith. Anyway, even if the higher-ups punished me, it would be Zhang Jiao who was punished, not me!

So the officials simply allowed the spread of the Great Peace Way throughout the entire territory of Pingkang Prefecture.

Within a year of this news spreading, the entire Pingkang Prefecture region underwent significant changes.

Fewer people are coming to the city to beg for food, and more grain is being handed over. Officials no longer need to bother managing people, and some officials can even be dismissed!

Doesn't this perfectly illustrate the profound truth that a sage can bring order to the world simply by lifting his hands?

Therefore, Pingkang Prefecture further decentralized its power. Now, it's even too lazy to collect taxes, letting Great Peace Way collect them and hand them over to the higher authorities.

Officials from other places, upon hearing of the good things happening in Pingkang Prefecture, were immediately filled with envy.

On second thought, if they can do it, so can we!

Therefore, they extended a strong invitation to Great Peace Pure Spirit Way to set up a branch altar in their residence.

Because it involved other prefectures, Zhang Jiao reformed the management system of Great Peace Pure Spirit Way.

The altar is divided into four levels: the Main Altar, the Prefecture Altar, the Township Altar, and the Village Altar. The leader of each level is called the Celestial Master, the Prefecture Master, the Township Master, or the Shadow Master.

Starting from the lowest level, the department should include propaganda, combat, finance, and communications, and then work its way up the ranks.

The missionary department's job was to promote the ideas of the Azure Heaven and the Imperial Heaven, to tell everyone why the Azure Heaven was dead and the Imperial Heaven should rise, to ask everyone to be patient for the time being, and to announce the uprising in the year of Jiazi.

With increased publicity, news inevitably leaks out. However, the minor officials and clerks who liaise with the Great Peace Way are also oppressed people. They are also waiting for the Emperor to be established, so why would they report to their superiors?

And so, right under the noses of all the gentlemen, the Great Peace Way developed peacefully for three or four years!

Its influence extends throughout the central foothills of Southern Forest, encompassing eight prefectures and occupying almost one-tenth of the total area of Southern Forest!

It's not that they can't expand to more distant places, but the Great Peace Way's organizational capacity is not yet sufficient to manage such a large organization.

Moreover, the Year of the Rat has arrived!

In the year 30226 of the Taiheng Calendar, hundreds of millions of people chanted the slogan "The Azure Heaven is dead, the Imperial Heaven shall rise; the year is Jiazi, great fortune for the world," and marched out of countless villages and into major cities.

The city's garrison had long been in league with the Great Peace Way Dao, or rather, many of the garrison troops were sent by Zhang Jiao himself. Naturally, they wouldn't fight against the rebel army, so they simply opened the city gates and let the rebel army in as soon as the enemy arrived.

After the rebel army entered the city, the giants did not burn, kill, or loot. Instead, they targeted specific Lineage, landlords, and noble Aristocratic Clan, capturing everyone and then setting up a meeting place for a public trial.

In less than three days, more than 400,000 landlords, wealthy people, and their servants and guards died at the hands of the Yellow Turban Army. By the seventh day, this number had reached 3.6 million!

In an instant, Southern Forest was shaken! Hengming was shaken! Haiyun was shaken! Taiheng Sect was shaken!

"What, what's going on?" The first to receive the news were Fang Zhuo, the Dean the Ascension Academy in Seacloud City, and Yun Lang, an outer elder of the Taiheng Sect.

After Hengming sealed off the Great Ming Kingdom, although cultivators at the Qi Refining and Spiritual Law Realm were not allowed to enter or leave, cultivators at the Body Refinement Realm could still travel freely. Every day, Flying Boat would purchase cars from Seacloud City and sell them to the major Aristocratic Clan of Southern Forest.

The cultivators on these Flying Boat saw the flames of war spreading across the land on the second day of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and then quickly took control of Fang Zhuo, the Dean the Ascension Academy.

Fang Zhuo was also completely dumbfounded; he had never heard of such a thing in his entire life!

The result of having an immortal dominating the world is that there isn't a single successful example of an uprising, and the very concept of an uprising doesn't even exist.

The word they used most often was "riot"!

Therefore, the information that the Flying Boat captain passed on to Fang Zhuo was also about a peasant uprising.

But!

"What kind of riot involves hundreds of millions of people?" Fang Zhuo cursed, then suddenly remembered something. "You didn't leak this information, did you!"

The captain of the Flying Boat was named Fan Ziliang, and Gordon responded upon hearing this.

Fang Zhuo was taken aback when he saw his expression. "You told someone?"

"Not only that!" Facing a Qi Refining cultivator, Fan Ziliang dared not lie and said truthfully, "I saw so many people marching below, so I took out my phone and started a live stream. By the time I realized that these troops were going to attack the city, I felt something was wrong and it was too late to turn off the live stream!"

Okay, he lied again. In reality, with such a large amount of traffic, he couldn't bear to turn off the live stream. But he kept it on for a long time, until it got dark and he couldn't film anything anymore before he turned it off!

Although he was only a cultivator at the Body Refinement Realm and didn't have any luck in live streaming, showing off is a basic human need, so even without luck, he would still do live streaming.

Besides, you can earn tips by live streaming. You're just killing time anyway, so why not? What if a rich woman over three thousand years old takes a liking to you? Wouldn't that make you rich?

"It shouldn't have any impact, right?" Fan Ziliang asked cautiously.

"What do you think!" Fang Zhuo said irritably.

It's worth noting that the Ascension Academy also has many scions of the Aristocratic Clan, a quarter of whom come from Southern Forest!

It's less in recent years, but it's still about one-fifth!

Of these one-fifths, one-tenths had Lineage affected by the Yellow Turban Rebellion. If these students found out, who knows what trouble they might cause!

No, they definitely know!

Fang Zhuo took out his phone and looked helplessly at a trending topic with a bright red "Explosive" sign that had already reached number one.

#Uprising erupts at Southern Forest Forestry University; millions of people wearing yellow turbans storm the city#

Because of the convenience of mobile phones, Ascension Academy stopped issuing Identity Jade Token to students long ago, and instead made them buy their own mobile phones.

Even if you wanted Identity Jade Token, you wouldn't get one. All the Artifact Forging Master are making cell phones; nobody's making Identity Jade Token anymore.

After all, Identity Jade Token is an obligation, while making mobile phones can make money!

Therefore, every student at the Ascension Academy has a mobile phone, so such a big matter cannot be blocked at all!

"No, I have to control the students' emotions first!" Fang Zhuo hurriedly called all the teachers to seal off the school and prevent students from entering or leaving.

Then, cautiously, he sent a message to the sect leader, asking what should be done about the matter.

In the past, let alone hundreds of millions of ordinary people storming the city, even if the number increased dozens of times, it wouldn't matter; cultivators would intervene.

Those who cultivate the Calamity Annihilation Heavenly Origin Steps are actually looking to kill someone!

But now, Qi Refining cultivators can't enter Southern Forest, unless they are only Body Refinement Realm cultivators.

In a war involving hundreds of millions of people, they really couldn't play a very significant role.

Moreover, Fang Zhuo discovered from watching the live stream that these rioters were not weaklings at all. Many of them had cultivation, with the third or fourth level of physical body cultivation being commonplace, and there were even some at the fifth or sixth level. Occasionally, a few at the seventh or eighth level could be seen!

"Who could cultivate so many Body Refinement Realm cultivators in just a few years?" Fang Zhuo subconsciously thought of Hengming, and then realized how troublesome this matter was!

This may involve a power struggle between immortal artifacts and the sect's elders and leader!

Upon realizing this, Fang Zhuo gasped and quickly reminded his master.

Ming Yuxiu loves to join in the fun, but she can tolerate other kinds of fun, but this kind of fun is not to be joined in. It's best not to even think about it, let alone ask about it!