My Arms Can Turn into Blades

Chapter 625: Chapter 72: Eye of the Storm

"What do you mean?"

The man with the horse face tightly grasped the Jade Seal, feeling the nearly tangible Vast Emperor’s Qi emanating from it, and suddenly looked up at Hecate.

Although reason told him.

Now that the Jade Seal was in hand, he should leave immediately without saying anything unnecessary.

However.

Hecate’s recent proposal was simply too tempting.

He certainly knew that after the Feudal Dynasty was gone, the true utility of the Jade Seal could no longer be realized, such as the legendary Qi Gathering, the authority to bestow and strip powers... and most importantly, the Imperial God!

Because to obtain the aforementioned abilities, not only were grand rituals needed, along with legitimate recognition, but also sufficient support from the thoughts and beliefs of subjects.

Besides this.

There also needed to be deaths, generation after generation of people... many people dying.

Because only in this way could the Ten Halls be occupied.

If.

The Yellow Springs Mainstream was the ’mother’, then the Ten Halls were the ’uncles’.

...The reason for saying so is that in a certain sense, that is the personification of ’rites’.

But it’s not just as simple as rites.

For instance, in a place with a custom of stone worship, it might have started with a rogue bringing back an ordinary stone whimsically, ceremoniously worshipping it for amusement or comfort.

Everyone didn’t care initially, but gradually, habit became nature. With time, the new generation, influenced all around, also felt that the stone could protect them, continuing the ancestor’s footsteps in worship, until they finally forgot that the stone was initially brought back just for fun.

On important days, people must sincerely worship, and just by imagination, a specific ritual was formed, like what time to worship, what the offerings should be, what should or shouldn’t be done during the ritual, even what prayer words to say...

This worship system, when converted, is the embryonic flesh and blood of the Ten Halls.

The core is... what should be done, what should not be done, and human beliefs and desires.

Of course, the actual situation is far more complex, much more complex.

Because no matter how large a clan is, its population can’t compare to a Feudal Dynasty.

Even if the stone is worshipped for generations, with worshippers dying for generations, it is still a drop in the ocean compared to an entire Feudal Dynasty.

Similarly, the Yellow Springs Mainstream, doesn’t have a complete worship system... although it is called rites, at its essence, it’s a ’spectacle’ created by countless ordinary people’s thoughts over thousands of years,

It’s the embers left behind over thousands of years after the death of countless ordinary people.

But at the root of it all... it’s still humans.

Human beliefs and desires.

When generation after generation of people from the Feudal Dynasty died, there’s always a portion who recognized the Feudal Dynasty of their time, having a strong sense of belonging. That strong sense of belonging would make them remain, becoming the thoughts of the Ten Halls.

And when the number is vast enough, enough to sway the Ten Halls, becoming the mainstream thought, the highest ruler of the Feudal Dynasty would possess Qi Gathering, the power to bestow and strip authority, and the most important Imperial God ability.

Though there are still many restrictions, at that time, it marks the true founding.

But the Feudal Dynasties that could achieve this... are not many.

In fact, they are very few.

One reason is that the Han Dynasty existed long enough, leaving an indelible thought imprint on the Ten Halls, making it impossible for successors to completely replace it.

In addition, after the fall of the Han, belief systems completely collapsed.

The legendary I humbly serve the Holy Dynasty... the Sima Clan single-handedly, with Luoshui’s betrayal and regicide, directly initiated the era where those with military might became the Emperor.

The chaos in the Ten Halls was extreme.

The Han Dynasty’s Emperor held strong persuasive power over the people... even at the end of the Han Dynasty, it held considerable influence.

This deep-rooted faith in the Emperor and the Han Dynasty maintained long-term stability in the Ten Halls.

But it also made subsequent chaos come particularly violently...

And the long-term chaos in the Ten Halls led to most subsequent Feudal Dynasty Emperors only possessing the ability of Qi Gathering, with the more fortunate able to bestow and strip authority, but the most critical Imperial God power.

Only a few Emperors of prosperous times possessed it.

And by the late stages of each dynasty... never mind Imperial God, when people were barely surviving, the last Emperor couldn’t even use the Qi Gathering ability.

The times have reached the modern era.

It’s even less conceivable now.

Now that the era has changed, it’s absolutely impossible for another Feudal Dynasty to appear.

Perhaps right after the downfall of a Feudal Dynasty, it was possible.

But now? Not to mention the requirement of deaths, generation after generation of people... many deaths, and grand rituals.

Just needing enough subject thoughts alone.

The man with the horse face simply couldn’t do it, even if he could kill, would ordinary people acknowledge him?

Impossible.

Holding the Jade Seal, he would only be thought of as cosplay.

Emperor? How many years have gone by since the Feudal Dynasty perished.

In fact.

Though the foundational color of the Ten Halls is still the embers left over from Feudal Dynasties, a ’spectacle’ created by countless ordinary people’s thoughts since the Qin and Han.

Within the Ten Halls, a new power is already forming.

...That is a power different from before.

Qi Gathering, the power to bestow and strip authority, Imperial God.

The most important abilities in the hands of a Feudal Dynasty’s highest ruler... it’s foreseeable, are about to return.

And this, actually, is one of the reasons why the Celestial Strategy Mansion has been kept at arm’s length.

The man with the horse face was well aware of this.

So after obtaining the Jade Seal, although he wanted to do many things, his primary focus was still to enhance his combat strength, never considering rebuilding any Feudal Dynasty, because it was utterly impossible.