Immortal Father
Chapter 918 - 918 320 No Time for Dual Cultivation Vote for Monthly Ticket_2

918: Chapter 320 No Time for Dual Cultivation [Vote for Monthly Ticket]_2 918: Chapter 320 No Time for Dual Cultivation [Vote for Monthly Ticket]_2 This favor, I truly do not know how to repay.

Li Ping’an stored the Vajra Turning into the Cangyue Bead, allowing the Vast Creation Chart and the Artifact Spirit of the Cangyue Bead to coordinate, while he himself, clutching this weighty ‘gift’, returned to the Misty Realm.

In the half month that followed, he was busy with the integration of the Misty Realm and the six realms of Dongjia.

Taiqing’s action of moving the newly acquired domain directly next to the Misty Realm truly provided tremendous help, and its impact was profound.

For ease of management and to highlight the importance of the location ‘where the Heavenly Court convenes,’ Li Ping’an decided to merge the two realms into one for unified governance.

He summoned the immortals to discuss how to advance the affairs of heaven and earth, and after repeated deliberation and cautious experimentation, successfully pushed the Misty Realm tens of thousands of li, almost ‘adjoining’ the two realms.

Then, Li Ping’an sat in meditation between the voids of the two realms for several days, comprehending the method of harmony between heaven and earth.

In front of the immortals of the Heavenly Court, the witches of the Witch Clan, and the celestial soldiers of the Human Race, he commanded the Heavenly Dao, causing the thin membranes of heaven and earth that enveloped the two realms to expand, collide, and fuse simultaneously.

Accompanied by a ‘pop’ sound, the thin membranes of the two small worlds became one.

A new Misty Realm, home to sixty million mortals and four continents, was born to the northwest of the main world of the Desolate Era.

Tian Hu and Lai Fa, these two revered spirits of incense and fire, officially became the Mountain Gods of the Misty Realm.

Li Ping’an did not rest but immediately convened the first court assembly of the Heavenly Court from the military camp of the Misty Realm, and set forth the plans to be executed next.

Thanks to the recruitment at the Holy Mother Palace’s grand assembly, the Heavenly Court now had several hundred available Immortal Officials, most of whom were True Immortals and Heavenly Immortals.

Li Ping’an followed the note given by his father and suggestions from Wang Shan and others after this period of assessment, assigning roles to the Immortal Officials, creating internal and external departments, and simply established the six ministries of the Heavenly Court.

The organizational structure of the Heavenly Court thus began!

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The temporary six ministries of the Heavenly Court were divided into the Outer Three Ministries and the Inner Three Ministries.

The Outer Three Ministries—Military Ministry, Ministry of Stars, and Heavenly Square Pavilion—were respectively in charge of external warfare, translocation of heaven and earth, and intelligence espionage.

The Inner Three Ministries—Ministry of Wealth, Ministry of Spirit, and Hall of Punishment.

Among them, the Ministry of Stars and Ministry of Spirit were the most unique.

For the efficiency of the Heavenly Court’s operations, Li Ping’an granted considerable authority to the Ministry of Stars, such as handling ‘post-conquest’ matters of a domain, all consolidated under the affair of translocation of heaven and earth.

This also meant that the most important task of the Heavenly Court at present was to seize territory.

Or rather, a true ‘territory snatching’ by carrying the domain back home.

The Ministry of Spirit was in charge of the affairs of all living beings, with the two great Mountain Gods serving in the Ministry, mainly responsible for ensuring the living beings under the Heavenly Court’s governance were well-bred, well-educated, and well-cultivated in spirit, and to quickly cultivate celestial soldiers for the Heavenly Court.

This structure of the six ministries of the Heavenly Court was a temporary measure, to be replanned according to the different stages of development of the Heavenly Court.

The assignment of the heads of the six ministries was also done with great care.

The head of the Military Ministry was the Ancestral Witch Houtu, with Qing Su, and Feng Zhansiang as official Immortals, including twelve great witches and more than twenty Golden Immortals of the Human Race.

The head of the Ministry of Stars was Wang Shan, with Ye Zisang exceptionally promoted as an official Immortal of the Ministry of Stars, Immortal Huanglong serving as a member of the Ministry of Stars, and as a guest of the Heavenly Court, entitled to receive the merit of the Heavenly Dao periodically.

The Pavilion Master of Heavenly Square Pavilion naturally went to Feng Jigui, with rewards given to Luo Xuejing and others.

The Minister of Wealth was Li Dazhi, the only Immortal Minister not residing in the Misty Realm, but the monthly merit of the Heavenly Dao would still be distributed without fail.

Ministry of Spirit and Hall of Punishment remained vacant, with the two great Mountain Gods primarily in charge, with Mother Gui Ling holding a position in the Ministry of Spirit as a member and guest of the Heavenly Court.

The Hall of Punishment was temporarily managed by Li Ping’an himself.

It was quite peculiar.

Li Ping’an felt that before the division, many immortals were somewhat loose and unclear about their duties, but after he established the initial six ministries of the Heavenly Court, they suddenly became motivated.

Especially the celestial officials of the Military Ministry, whose eagerness for battle was directed towards the surrounding domains.

The power of organization.

That is, the celestial officials assigned to the Ministry of Spirit complained bitterly, feeling that handling internal affairs and promoting the breeding of living beings was a tough job, and the prospects for future development were unclear and not as swift as elevating through earning military merits.

This is precisely:

With the initial structuring of the Heavenly Court, immortals harbored aspiring ambitions.

For Li Ping’an, however, this was a source of immense pressure.

Why?

Having established the six ministries, he had to distribute a fixed quota of the Heavenly Dao’s merit every month.

Where does the merit of the Heavenly Dao come from?

Reverence from sentient beings.

Fortunately, the current number of Immortal Officials in the Heavenly Court is not large, and the sixty million living beings of the Misty Realm are the followers of Tian Hu and Lai Fa; the merit from this reverence alone is more than enough to support ten times the current base of the Heavenly Court.

However, these are just the merit salary of the Immortal Officials.

The real primary expenditure of the Heavenly Dao’s merit would be the future army of Heavenly Soldiers.

Currently, the celestial soldiers of the Misty Realm are supported by the rations of the Human Emperor; as for the Heavenly Court’s own soldiers, there were only Gu Qingcheng, Yu Yingshu, Chen Ting’er, and the chief instructor Fu Yu.

Reverence from living beings, the more the better.

How to develop high-quality celestial soldiers became a new headache for Li Ping’an.

Before the return of the Six Saints, he only had a thousand years, and it was exceedingly difficult to cultivate Qi Cultivators into immortals from scratch; thus, he had to adopt both ‘raising troops’ and ‘recruitment’ tactics, balancing short-term and long-term strategies.

The good news was that even without the army of celestial soldiers, the Misty Realm could still expand at this stage.

A few days after establishing the six ministries, Li Ping’an sat behind his writing desk, and with a stroke of his jade brush, he determined the next targets of conquest for the Misty Realm.

Within half a year, conquer three nearby small realms;

Within ten years, pull these three small realms close to the Misty Realm.

As for how to implement…

let Wang Shan and others discuss it themselves.

The three small realms he chose were no longer influenced by the power of the Western Sect, with only a few minor demons and monsters to deal with, and some Loose Cultivator forces.