Chapter 689 Changes in Heaven
When Emperor Xingxiu came to power, the most uncomfortable thing was Luotian Immortal Sect. Although everyone's immortal official positions did not change, Emperor Xingxiu trusted Xingshen Sect and gave it a lot of conveniences. The first was the right to develop and sell warships, and the second was the right to assess immortal officials.
Just these two types have directly brought huge benefits. The Star God Sect used to be low-key, but now it has slowly exploded and suppressed both the Luotian Immortal Sect and the Luofu Sect. Not to mention the others, before, except for the Tianting brand warships, only the Luofu Sect could sell and develop them, but now there is the Star God Sect.
The key is the assessment of the immortal officials. How many immortal officials are there in the major star regions? With the assessment power in hand, the Star God Sect has gained a firm foothold in the Heavenly Court. Now no one dares to offend the Star God Sect. The entire pattern of the Heavenly Court has changed, and some immortals have even been squeezed out by the Star God Sect.
Hongluan star field, Luotian Immortal Gate.
Ever since Emperor Tiange and Yan Xun became Daluo Golden Immortals and owned their own star domains, everyone would choose to gather in the Hongluan star domain. On the one hand, they hoped that the Immortal Lord Hongluan would join them, and on the other hand, the Immortal Lord Hongluan is currently in seclusion, and his clone is in charge here.
Luotian Immortal Sect is without exception the number one immortal sect in Hongluan Star Domain. At this moment, the entire planet is the mountain gate of Luotian Immortal Sect. A group of people came either in person or as clones and gathered in the hall of Luotian Immortal Sect. Those who did not come directly opened the Skynet video, so everyone was here.
The clone of the Immortal Hongluan and the Immortal Tiange sat on it, next to them were Master Chen Lei and the Immortal Yan Xun, and the rest of the Taiyi sat on both sides. There were more than a hundred of them. This scene of everyone gathered together was still very intimidating, and it also made Master Chen Lei feel quite proud.
“It’s a rare opportunity for everyone to gather here,” said Master Chen Lei. “Everyone has been having a hard time recently. The Emperor trusts the Star God Sect and lets the Star God Sect be the troublemaker. This really disgusts us. That’s why we are holding this meeting. Let’s discuss what kind of rules should be adopted next.”
"There is no good solution," Jiang Youning said, "The Emperor is clearly supporting the Starry Immortal to ascend to the throne. Logically, there are still tens of thousands of years before we enter the Starry Age. This is just a preview of what will happen in the future. If we don't make changes, I'm afraid we will have a hard time moving forward in the future."
"How to change? Act as a running dog like the Xingshen Sect?" Zhao Hao said bluntly.
"If you don't want to be a lackey, then keep a low profile and stay quiet," Jiang Youning said calmly, "Keep a low profile to the outside world, run the major industries honestly, and don't think about expansion. Internally, teach the disciples, and let the immortal officials do their jobs, so that others can't find any sore spots, and everything will be fine."
"This is one way," Master Chen Lei nodded slightly, "As long as we don't make any mistakes, they will be helpless against us. But this is only passive defense. If we want to avoid being squeezed out in the future, then the number of Taiyi and Daluo in the sect must be increased."
"Go and be the town envoys." The clone of Hongluan Immortal Venerable said, "Golden Immortal, Taiyi, Daluo, all go and be the town envoys, don't gather in the sect."
“That’s what I meant as well,” Tiange Immortal Venerable said, “In the future, as long as the immortals in our sect break through to the Golden Immortal level, they can even become Star Gods.”
"But if this happens, there will be no one to handle the affairs of the sect." Master Chen Lei said in embarrassment.
"Let the celestials and true immortals handle it," Yan Xun said, "We must let them learn how to handle things and train a group of people to take over. Otherwise, it will be troublesome if the younger disciples are not available. Let me say that Xingxiu Immortal Venerable is afraid of us, so we must change our ways. If we don't form groups or join forces, there will be no problems."
This was also a helpless choice. The Xingxiu Immortal Venerable was not as easy to talk to as the Empress and the Emperor. He was very pragmatic and had a clear division of power. He would not allow the sects to grow bigger, and even the power of the academy was being compressed. Under such circumstances, the Luotian Immortal Sect could only give in.
Fortunately, there are many star fields now, and Taiyi Jinxian can also sit in the star field. There will be no problem with Taiyi Jinxian leading the Golden Immortals. The meeting decided in this way. Of course, detailed arrangements are still required. This requires everyone to discuss it carefully, especially the selection of star fields.
The star fields currently available for selection include the Apocalypse Star Field, the Eight Desolations Star Field, the Hongluan Star Field, the Tiange Star Field, the Yanxun Star Field, the Yueli Star Field, the Winter Star Field, and the Academy Star Field. There is no problem with the last one, the Academy Star Field, because it is very inclusive and Ji Shuanghua is nostalgic.
If you calculate it this way, it is completely enough. Even if a Taiyi Golden Immortal brings ten Golden Immortals with him, he can arrange the immortals of the sect very well, and even bring celestial immortals. After all, there must be people around him to serve him. In addition, there are master-disciple relationships in the sect, etc., so this can absorb a lot of immortals.
In the 60,347th year of the Eight Desolate Calendar, the Luotian Immortal Sect quietly completed this arrangement, which directly caused the Luotian Immortal Sect to become low-key. After all, the immortals did not gather together. After they dispersed, there were fewer things to do in the name of the immortal sect.
During these years, the Star God Sect had suddenly become the most sought-after immortal sect. In addition to the assessment of immortal officials, the immortals of the Star God Sect were proactively assigned to various star regions to manage the Star Gods and set up Star God Offices. Each star region had one such office to uniformly manage the Star Gods of that star region.
Fortunately, it is only responsible for managing the Star Gods. The Star God Office is not qualified to manage those Golden Immortal-level town envoys or Taiyi-level town envoys. Otherwise, the Star God Sect will arouse public anger, and then even the Star Emperor may not be able to save the Star God Sect. Despite this, the Star God Sect still became a loss to the public, and many immortals expressed resistance to the Star God Sect.
Not only the Xingshen Sect, but also the Lieyang Immortal Sect and the Lingyun Immortal Sect were valued by the Xingxiu Emperor. Some weapon refiners, alchemists, formation masters, etc. from the Luofu Sect were also promoted by the Xingxiu Emperor. This indirectly made the five major immortal sects gather around the Xingxiu Emperor, of which the Luofu Sect was forced, while the other four major immortal sects took the initiative to join him.
After 61,000 years of the Eight Desolations Calendar, the Emperor of the Stars continued to split the business into nine departments. The Ministry of Commerce separated the banking and insurance businesses, and the Ministry of Personnel separated all the immortal officials, personnel, and assessments in the star field. The same was true for the other departments, which were split and expanded one after another, adding many immortal officials.
Ten years later, Emperor Xingxiu began to take action on the military, splitting it up into squads of 100 people, squadrons of 1,000 people, battalions of 10,000 people, regiments of 100,000 people, legions of 1 million people, and groups of 100 million people. In the past, there were 100 million heavenly soldiers and generals along the way. For example, a battleship during the expeditionary period consisted of 100 million heavenly soldiers and generals.
Nowadays, a large warship can only garrison one legion, that is, a million heavenly soldiers and generals.
One hundred large warships make up an army group, which means one hundred million heavenly soldiers and generals. Not only that, the Heavenly Court has also increased the weapons of large warships and optimized the weapon systems. An army group is equal to one hundred warships, and the actual combat effectiveness is greater than that of the warships during the expeditionary period.
After the battle sequence of the Heavenly Court’s military, the highest rank is the first-rank marshal, who can lead up to ten army groups. A first-rank marshal can only lead three to five army groups. A second-rank heavenly general leads one army group, and a second-rank divine general can only lead thirty to fifty legions.
A third-rank heavenly general can lead ten legions at most, and below the third rank a heavenly general can only lead one to five legions, which is far from the period of the Emperor. This is because the Star Emperor intends to streamline the heavenly soldiers and generals, enhance combat effectiveness, increase the number of warships, and reduce military expenditures.
Compared to investing all kinds of resources in heavenly soldiers and generals, Emperor Xingxiu would rather invest them in warships. In this way, the continued optimization of warships has become the main project, which has also caused the immortals in Tushita Heaven a lot of headaches. It can be said that it is a mixture of pain and happiness.