Journey to the West: From the Primordial Era

Chapter 157 Emperor Xin's Enthronement Ceremony

The coronation ceremony of the Great Merchant Emperor is about to begin. Qin Hua's divine clone Xuankong and his son Qingzhou Hou Xuanzong must change into formal attire and attend the ceremony with the four great marquises and the Nine States Marquis, and by the way, express their submission to the new Human Emperor.

On this day, the sun was rising, and the warm sunlight hung down from the sky, illuminating the palace with its golden splendor. In the palace, six white dragon-scale horses pulled the emperor's chariot slowly out.

The four great marquises, the nine marquises, the prime minister, the grand tutor, the deputy prime minister, as well as the doctors and generals in the court, surrounded the carriage and headed towards the Taimiao of Da Shang.

When the Emperor ascended the throne, he first offered sacrifices to the ancestral temple and then to heaven and earth!

In the Taimiao, there are tablets of the 27th kings of the Shang Dynasty. As soon as he entered the Taimiao, Xuanzong, Marquis of Qingzhou, felt an inexplicable force coming, and the true energy in his body seemed to be suppressed and unable to circulate.

He only saw Yin Shou, with an increasingly graceful demeanor, walking step by step towards the Taimiao, and under the leadership of the Taimiao's high priest, he continued to pay homage to the previous kings.

Every time he worshipped, his energy became stronger.

After all the previous kings had finished paying homage to their ancestors, Yin Shou's aura became extremely powerful. Xuanzong looked with the corner of his eye and seemed to see a black bird flapping its wings and soaring in the void above his head.

"This is the protection and blessing of our ancestors!"

Xuanzong understood.

In fact, except for Cheng Tang, the first king of the Shang Dynasty, who was the rightful emperor, the remaining 26 kings did not have the destiny of being an emperor.

The reason they were able to ascend to the throne of the Human Emperor, apart from their own considerable luck, was mainly due to the blessing of the Great Shang Dynasty's national destiny and the luck of their ancestors. This was how they were able to barely reach the level of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and allowing their luck to penetrate heaven and earth!

It is said that this method was created by Xia Qi, the founding monarch of the Great Xia Dynasty.

Before Xia Qi, from the Three Sovereigns to the Five Emperors, the system was one of abdication!

Needless to say, the Three Sovereigns had no selfish motives in abdicating the throne. They were the three founding ancestors of the human race, and all the emperors of all dynasties, including the Five Emperors, were descendants of the Three Sovereigns.

During the period of the Five Emperors, it was not that the emperors did not want to pass the throne to their descendants, but they had the destiny of being emperors, but their descendants did not have the fate of being emperors.

If the throne is passed on by force, it won't be long before the real emperor overthrows and replaces him.

It was not until the time of Xia Qi, who possessed the blood of the Qingqiu Sky Fox, that he referred to the Qingqiu Sky Fox's innate magical powers, bestowed upon himself the fate of his father, King Yu, and acted in a way that deceived heaven, and forcibly overthrew Bo Yi, who had the order of the Emperor of Man.

From then on, the title of Human Emperor was no longer held by the most capable, but became a position passed down from generation to generation.

Except for the founding monarch of the human dynasty, all subsequent kings must go through the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the Taimiao, blessing themselves with the country's fortune and the luck of their ancestors, and forcibly be promoted to the emperor of mankind.

This news is not a secret. Anyone who is powerful and influential enough to have reached a certain level knows something about it.

Xuanzong had not paid attention to these things before. He only heard some of the situations from Qin Hua when the coronation ceremony was about to begin.

"The previous kings of the Shang Dynasty were all Human Emperors, but in the Zhou Dynasty, the Human Emperor became the Human King... It seems that the Human Kings of the Zhou Dynasty did not use this secret method of borrowing luck to ascend to the Human Emperor!"

Qin Hua's son, Xuanzong, Marquis of Qingzhou, continued to observe. According to the information he knew, after the fall of the Shang Dynasty, the Human Emperor became the Human King, calling himself the Son of Heaven, and the human race thus came under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court.

The power over the rise and fall of the Humane Dynasty also fell into the hands of Zhongtian Ziwei Emperor, one of the Four Emperors of Heaven.

"Hmm? It seems that the future Emperor Ziwei is Bo Yikao, the eldest son of Ji Chang of the Western Zhou Dynasty! The eldest son serves as one of the Four Imperial Lords of Heaven, and the second son becomes the Human King. The Western Zhou Dynasty gained a lot of benefits in the Conferred God War!"

Qin Hua even suddenly thought that when the Zhou Dynasty was established in the future, there would be some kind of exchange with the Emperor of Heaven. The Zhou Dynasty would lower its status and no longer call itself the Emperor of Man in exchange for the position of the Emperor of Heaven.

This is not impossible!

However, these are things that happened in the original timeline. With the addition of Qin Hua in this world, it may not be the Western Zhou Dynasty that overthrew the Shang Dynasty and established the dynasty.

After offering sacrifices to the ancestral temple, Yin's luck rose and reached its peak.

Then, under the leadership of the chief priest of the ancestral temple, he joined the ministers and headed towards the altar. The ritual of the sacrifice was similar to the procedure when Emperor Xuanzong sacrificed to the Holy Mother Nuwa in Linzi.

The only difference is that when the Human Emperor offered sacrifices to heaven, he used the Tailao ritual!

boom!

At the moment when Yin Shou offered the Tailao ceremony and burned the sacrificial text in the sacrificial cauldron, his qi, which had reached its peak, combined with the destiny of the black bird in the sky above Chaoge, suddenly broke through a bottleneck and shook the sky.

At the moment when the Human Emperor ascended the throne, the Emperor of Heaven, who ruled over the starry sky of the three realms in the Thirty-three Heavens, also turned his gaze towards the direction of the city of Chaoge on earth.

The authority of the Emperor of Heaven is connected to the infinite will of Haotian. He can preach on behalf of Heaven and can be called the son of half the world. Whether in terms of authority or status, he is a supreme existence.

Unfortunately, in this world, in addition to the Heavenly Emperor and the Quasi-Saint, there are six Hunyuan Saints who transcend the Heavenly Way and can even manipulate some of the Heavenly Way's thoughts.

Let’s not talk about the fact that saints have transcended the limitations of the world.

Apart from the saints, from ancient times to the present, the Emperor of Heaven is said to rule the three realms and the heavens, but there are often people on the earth who do not submit to the will of the Emperor of Heaven.

In ancient times, the enemies of the Ancient Heavenly Emperor were twelve innate gods. The twelve gods ruled the earth and divided the world with the Heavenly Emperor. They even attacked the heavens many times. In the end, both sides were defeated, and the Ancient Heavenly Emperor even fell.

After the ancient times, the human race rose up again on earth. Among them, the Three Emperors of the human race were also the rulers of all races and things on earth. The power on earth was also beyond the control of the Emperor of Heaven...

However, this Jade Emperor has enough patience! The human race cannot always be in its heyday. As long as it declines for a period of time, he will have the opportunity to take back the authority of the earth!

And the great catastrophe of conferring gods brought about by the revolution of humanity is the best opportunity!

The Emperor of Heaven's thoughts are unpredictable and no one can guess them.

Now Qin Hua's son Xuanzong is just the son of a prince. If it were not for this critical period of time, he would not even have the chance to be highly regarded by the three immortal religions and the countless immortal gods.

"...My title of emperor is Emperor Xin!"

When the sacrifice to heaven was about to end, Yin Shou stood on the altar and loudly announced his title of emperor.

From today on, the name Yin Shou will no longer appear in any occasion, and everyone can only call him Your Majesty or Emperor Xin!

The name Emperor Xin is similar to the reign title of emperors in later generations.

The first year of Emperor Xin's accession to the throne was the first year of Emperor Xin, and so on.

"My lord, please pay homage to Your Majesty!"

After Emperor Xin announced his title, the four great dukes, the nine marquises, and all the ministers under the roof shouted in unison, bowed down and paid homage to him. This was to establish the etiquette between the monarch and his subjects!

All the ministers, soldiers, and millions of people in Chaoge City bowed down like wheat being cut.

Countless voices gathered together to form a huge wave that rose into the sky.

The sound waves seemed to be echoing throughout the thousands of miles of Chaoge City. Above the entire city, countless energies merged together and merged into the pillar of luck and light of the Great Shang Dynasty.

The beam of light reached the sky and the earth, and a mighty divine light swept in all directions.

Some evil cultivators and demons with ill intentions towards the human race were watching from a distance and were immediately attacked by this divine light. They began to smoke and let out miserable screams.

"Hahaha, everyone please stand up!"

With the help of the high priest, Emperor Xin used a secret method to ascend the throne of the Human Emperor. Looking up at the sky, the sky seemed within reach; looking down at the earth, billions of people were submitting at his feet.

Even though he was a man of extraordinary ambition, he couldn't help but feel high-spirited and full of heroism and ambition.

"Holding the universe in one's hands and ruling the country, is this the authority of the emperor?"

Emperor Xin's mind was in turmoil. No! He was not yet the real emperor. The real emperor should be like the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, who had made great contributions and virtues. After completing his merits and virtues, his soul would no longer return to the netherworld, but would go to the holy land of Fire Cloud Cave!

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