Ch 154: Abdicating the Throne! Ascending the Throne! Becoming the Founding Emperor of the Great Ming!

Ganquan Palace.

Chu Mo weighed a piece of jade, and something resembling an imperial decree.

“This is a fake Fengshen Law.” Chu Mo slowly spread out the imperial decree, thoughtfully examining it, memorizing all the contents, “It seems to have some merit! Is this fake?”

Scratching his head, Chu Mo then placed his hand on the jade, pouring his Divine Thought into it. Then, countless pieces of information poured out.

“…So that’s how it is.” Chu Mo opened his eyes with a strange expression. In fact, this imperial decree could not be said to be a false technique. It and the technique inside the jade were actually the same set. However, the jade was directly infused with Divine Thought… able to instantly make people understand the key points.

“In other words, even if I cultivated the original Fengshen Law, I estimate it would only take a few times longer.” Chu Mo didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It was estimated that Emperor Huizong of Song intended to use this to delay his progress, gain enough time, and then see if he could turn the tables? He was really scheming at all times!

Chu Mo was filled with emotion. Emperor Huizong of Song was undoubtedly an extremely intelligent fellow… if he had put the scheming he used in power struggles into state affairs, he wouldn’t have fallen to the tragic point of moving the capital to the Five Nations City.

With a thought, Chu Mo began to allocate points.

【 Year 1: You begin to formally cultivate the Fengshen Law, and it is quite effective. 】

【 Year 10: You have a preliminary understanding of its essential mysteries!

Using a human body to perform the Fengshen ceremony! In essence, it is to unite the will of the people, gather the supreme power of the Human Path, and forcibly drive the heavens and earth with the Human Path, condensing the laws of each heaven and earth into physical divine positions, and bestowing them to others.

Therefore, the emperors who can bestow positions are undoubtedly the true masters of heaven and earth! The true lords of the world!

This is something that only a real emperor with actual power in a unified imperial dynasty can do. If it is not a unified dynasty, or if the power has problems, forcibly bestowing positions… will only lead to various accidents! 】

Chu Mo: “?”

So, the reason why Emperor Zhenzong’s attempt to bestow the title of Jade Emperor went wrong was not only because he overestimated himself by bestowing a heavenly god, but also because he was not the emperor of a unified imperial power?!

Oh no, Chu Mo suddenly thought of something. He thought of what was recorded in the contemporary history books of the Song Dynasty: Emperor Zhenzong publicly stated that the Great Song was a unified imperial power, surpassing the Han and Tang dynasties… and after completing all of this, he went to Mount Tai to perform the Fengshan ceremony…

He couldn’t hold it in anymore. The corners of Chu Mo’s mouth twitched. If he didn’t meet the standard, he would forcibly change the definition of unification, and announce to the outside world that he met the standard. Good fellow, he had completely mastered the study of definitions! But you can deceive yourself and the people of the world, but you can’t deceive the Fengshen Law, or rather, knowledge.

It’s like mathematics, no matter how much you talk about it, if you don’t know it, you just don’t know it.

【 Year 50: You gradually mastered this law! Countless thoughts flashed through your mind. You remembered the God-Seizing Method you once created, and you seemed to feel that these two sets of methods were a match made in heaven.

You had a flash of inspiration, wondering if you could use the Fengshen Law to forcibly bestow and gather a certain divine position, and then forcibly integrate it into your body with the God-Seizing Method? In this way, wouldn’t you be able to brush out countless supernatural powers! 】

Chu Mo’s eyes became sharp. It seemed like there wasn’t much of a problem?!

【 Year 60: You preliminarily improved the Fengshen Law and the God-Seizing Method! But you also realized that this set of methods could not be used wantonly… the Fengshan ceremony at Mount Tai itself was a very important part of this grand ritual.

Moreover, you need to create sufficiently great achievements! Gather enough faith from the people of the world! The greater your achievements, the more the people believe in you, the greater your authority to bestow positions, and the more you can do things beyond imagination. 】

【 Year 100: You completely controlled the Fengshen Law! And began to deduce it based on this… 】

【 Year 500: You did not get any information. The degree of perfection of this set of laws is far beyond your imagination… 】

Chu Mo immediately stopped pouring in lifespan. He frowned and sorted out the information in his mind, “Can’t advance any further? Is it because of my current perspective, or is this set of laws really perfected to this point?”

Thoughts flickered in his mind. Chu Mo was more inclined to believe it was a problem of perspective. After all, there was no perfect technique in the world. However, he didn’t dwell on this too much!

“Become the emperor, and then create eternal achievements?” Chu Mo’s fingers gently stroked the table, and he smiled silently, “Just what I wanted.”

Chu Mo didn’t care whether he became the emperor or not. After all, in so many traversals, he had only become the emperor once in the strict sense. And that time, he became the emperor very reluctantly… but every time he traversed, he controlled vast power far exceeding that of the emperor…

But now that he had to become the emperor… there was no other way!

And after Chu Mo had this thought…

Three days later, at the court meeting, Zhao Gou surprisingly opened his mouth.

“I have little virtue,” Zhao Gou’s voice was hoarse, “I met with my father and imperial brother, and learned from their mouths what my Zhao family has done to the world! I deeply realized that it is because of us that the Divine Province has almost fallen…”

“The three sages Xu Xian, Physics, Heart-Mind Study, and Neo-Confucianism, all three are cultivated together, governing the world in an orderly manner! Turning the tide. The sage saved my father and elder brother! After repeated consideration, I made a decision… a decision that violates the ancestors! That is.”

Zhao Gou pursed his lips, looking at Chu Mo, who was expressionless not far away. Even though he was mentally prepared, he still felt a sense of sadness at this moment. He said with difficulty, “To abdicate the throne to the sage Xu Xian.”

The court was dead silent.

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Countless people stared blankly at Zhao Gou, feeling their scalps tingle for a moment, even suspecting that there was something wrong with their ears. When they turned their heads and found that others had the same expression, they realized that everything was true, and immediately felt terrified.

No, what’s going on? There wasn’t a single hint. Why did he suddenly want to abdicate?! According to reason… if Chu Mo really wanted to be the emperor, shouldn’t he have given them some hints in private?!

That kind of desire can’t be completely concealed… The ancients once said, “Sima Zhao’s heart is known to all.”

So, was this a decision that Zhao Gou made on a whim… or did that sage himself have such thoughts? Countless people were in a dilemma. The two situations were completely different ways of handling it!

Yang Yizhong’s brain was blank, but he still knelt down with a thud, bowing deeply to Zhao Gou, his voice trembling, “Your Majesty, you must not! Although… although… but, but the sage is loyal, how can you put the sage in an unjust position?”

Yang Yizhong himself had no way to say words of rebuttal, because what Zhao Gou said was indeed the truth. He could only use the fact that the sage had never seized power to block Zhao Gou and Chu Mo’s mouths…

However.

“This subject Yue Fei, supports the sage to ascend to the throne.” Yue Fei’s expression was extremely serious. He stepped out of the ranks, his voice extremely loud.

During this period of time, he had learned too much from Han Shizhong about the Zhao Song’s official operations… He had been envied by Han Shizhong countless times, envying him for having a sage who absolutely trusted him. There was no, from time to time, a golden decree would fall, micro-managing their orders… and if they failed because of the golden decree, the official would then push all the responsibility onto their generals.

He had thought more than once… what if the emperor was Chu Mo, instead of Zhao Song, how great would that be… and now, the opportunity had come! Even if the risk of this matter was still very high, the young and vigorous Yue Fei said that he was willing to take such a risk…

Dead silence.

Countless people stared dumbfounded at Yue Fei. Even if the sage really had that intention, he would have to decline three times, what are you doing?

However…

“This subject Zong Ze, also agrees to support.” Zong Ze also stood up. His face was still a little pale, but it was much better than before, because he had undergone Chu Mo’s supernatural Purifying Altar treatment.

Now that things had reached this point, Han Shizhong could only stand up as well. After all, he was also Chu Mo’s direct subordinate. With the other two speaking out, if he was the only one who remained silent, it would undoubtedly offend Chu Mo! And this was something he, whose power was entrusted to Chu Mo, could not accept.

At this moment… the three human generals of the military all clearly supported Chu Mo’s ascension to the throne.

As for what three refusals and three concessions… there was none!

The scholar-officials were dumbfounded, their scalps tingling, constantly looking around, and at this moment, they remembered countless old events from the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.

It’s over, did the Great Song finally reach this point that it could not be stopped?

Of course, what slightly comforted the scholar-officials was that Chu Mo was still very serious and completed the three refusals and three concessions process, and then asked the Ministry of Rites to formulate the corresponding etiquette procedures.

Although he didn’t like this kind of etiquette very much, feeling that it was too complicated… but for the sake of the stability of the world, he still had to go through the process.

Too rough would still likely cause great turmoil. At that time, even if it was forcibly quelled with absolute power, it might still leave behind various hidden dangers…

Thus.

After a period of time, the news was officially issued, and the world was shaken.

Under the gaze of almost the entire world… the supreme position of the world was officially transferred from the Zhao Song lineage to Xu Xian.

The Song Dynasty was also renamed Ming!

Chu Mo issued an imperial decree, bestowing the title of Empress of the Great Ming to White Maiden, and bestowing the title of Crown Prince of the Great Ming to Xu Shilin.

The era name was also officially changed to Hongwu!

This is… the first year of Hongwu! The Hongwu calendar!

Chu Mo officially ascended to the stage of the Divine Province in the name of the founding emperor of the Great Ming.