Chapter 443: Flood control completed, plans to establish the Five Elders
Once Hongjun allowed the Saints and Gungun to intervene in flood control, the devastating flood crisis immediately became far less severe.
After all, it was easy to deal with now.
First, Ao Yue summoned the Dragon Race to help the earthly beings control the floods, transporting some of the floodwater back to the Heavenly River. Then the Witch Race helped the various races dig channels, directing the floodwater toward the Four Seas and the rivers and lakes elsewhere, keeping it from ravaging the places where earthly beings lived.
Meanwhile, Nine Li led the disciples of the Expounding Teaching across the land, slaying the water demons that terrorized entire regions and obstructed flood control, eliminating every source of interference.
Finally, Gungun ordered the Iron-Eating Beasts to bring out the nine Great Cauldrons from the Iron-Eating Forest and transport them to the Human Race's Hao Capital, teaching the humans how to suppress the earth veins.
Upon receiving the nine cauldrons and the method, Yu Shun immediately summoned Yu the Great and his other ministers. They went to Shouyang Mountain to request divine copper, then to Longevity Mountain to request immortal soil, and finally sent people to Fire Cloud Cave to request the human path's primordial flame.
In the end, they reforged the nine Great Cauldrons into divine treasures that united the convictions of the entire Human Race and bore its fortune-the Nine Provinces Cauldrons!
On the day the Nine Provinces Cauldrons were completed, Yu Shun brought his merit to fruition and became a Great Emperor of the Human Race. Nine Li, his original self, also gained fortune, raising his cultivation another level.
After becoming an emperor, Yu Shun, grateful for Yu the Great's contributions to flood control, abdicated the position of