"Come back!"

Xu Fu decisively abandoned the idea of luring Ji Xiang into a trap! Toyotomi Hideyoshi, standing beside him, didn't understand why Xu Fu's expression had suddenly changed so drastically. However, he could guess that something had happened to the ghost god. After all, the name of the celestial god that Xu Fu had shouted out in alarm had made his heart palpitate for a moment!

It was as if a cry had traveled across the ages!

"You can feel it, right...? A person embodying great calamity and inauspiciousness, upon reciting that holy name, will feel a resonance in their heart... That feeling of being forcibly converted and made to establish merit, that is the power of Tiankai Huangdao Heavenly Lord!"

"I'll tell you more about the origins of this Heavenly Lord later... Hideyoshi, lend me a hand and summon back Omononushi!"

"If we can't summon him back... you must be prepared to suffer a great loss!"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's pale face twitched, and then, due to suspicion, his face became even more ghastly: "What are you saying? I don't understand. Why would I suffer a great loss if this ghost god dies?"

Xu Fu snorted coldly and said concisely: "Because this ghost god is inextricably linked to Japan, and all your power comes from the offerings given by the 'Tenka-bito' (people of the land)! It and you are two sides of the same coin, a rule that has been in place since the time of Emperor Sujin."

"If it dies, you will be the next Omononushi! At that time, the power of calamity will emanate from you, and half of the world will die because of you. And your path to becoming a god or immortal will be cut off. This great calamity belongs to the ghost god, never to a celestial god. Once it is transferred to you, you are finished."

"Come and help me, use all your strength. After all, you are the only one by my side who is of any great use now."

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mind was shaken, and he vaguely understood the situation. The reason why this ghost god would harm him must be because of the deals made with those ancient emperors. These emperors and the ghost gods refined by Xu Fu had signed various treaties, just like how the people worshiped the gods, offering specific things, and the gods would bless the people with a year of life without disease or disaster. Conversely, if they did not offer what the gods demanded, then the people who did not respect the gods would suffer revenge from the gods.

This was not a willing offering at all.

This was clearly extortion!

"I seize the lives of the people, and the previous emperors seize my life. The sacrificial vows made to the ghost gods, will they never be erased for thousands of generations...?"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi had no choice, or rather, he was a little flustered at this moment.

The Tenka-bito had to exist. For Hideyoshi, they were his providers. If he lost his providers, the god being provided for would also die, so a certain number of people had to exist, they must not all die.

It was like raising livestock. If the livestock died, and if the rancher had lost the ability to hunt, they would soon starve to death.

Hideyoshi was now a rancher who had lost the ability to hunt.

If you raise domestic pigs for too long, you will forget how to catch wild boars. Although the Warring States period had just ended not long ago, he had become somewhat complacent, intoxicated by the fortune gathered at the peak of the world.

Rumbling...

In an instant, a滔天 (tao tian - overwhelming) and澎湃 (peng pai - surging) divine power erupted from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's body.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's image also began to change from a human to a god.

But no divine position appeared.

It was just that the divine light was exceptionally strong, and even wisps of "Tai Xu Qi" (Primordial Void Energy), which could only be seen in the Dafuli Earth, appeared in the world!

The power of this divine position was by no means that of a folk god born in the human world. Folk gods did not need divine positions because they themselves were the incarnations of the divine positions that were worshiped. But celestial gods must have divine positions.

However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi broke this situation.

He had the 位格 (wei ge - status) of a celestial god, but not the divine position of a celestial god. This meant... he was the celestial god himself!

Xu Fu couldn't help but stare at his current transformation, a look of satisfaction on his face.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the most satisfactory "work" that Xu Fu had created throughout the ages.

He was a real celestial god in the true sense of the word, not those divine tablets born from愿念 (yuan nian - wishes and desires) gathered in Dafuli!

The reason why he had the capital to contend with the 里山河 (li shan he - reverse world), Xu Fu's confidence came from this!

Those rulers of the past, whether they were the supreme emperors of all dynasties, or the kings, marquises, generals, and nobles, or the leaders of Shintoism and Buddhism among the practitioners, which one did not want to live forever!

As long as they had any attachment to the world before they died, they would inevitably follow the legend of Emperor Jinmu and find the place where they lived in each era!

Then, they would kowtow, beg, and plead with him to grant them eternal life, even if they became vengeful spirits, even if they became the carriers of ghost gods, it was all the same!

"Many of the failures of the past found it difficult to step out of Japan, and were restricted by me as a pseudo-immortal. But now, the work is nearing completion. Humans are ascending to become gods, truly achieving 天人合一 (tian ren he yi - the unity of heaven and man)!"

"And this is the first step that my divine kingdom will take to achieve success!"

"Isn't the human heart the heart of heaven? Isn't the heart of heaven the human heart? Why do we need to speculate about it anymore! After becoming a god, one will naturally understand the operation of the heavenly way! Dongfang Shuo, Dong Zhongshu, you are stubborn and cannot see the ultimate end of all laws!"

Xu Fu constantly sighed in his heart, proud of himself for creating this masterpiece.

"Toyokuni Daimyojin, 神以假象 (shen yi jia xiang - god with illusion)!"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's celestial image suddenly burst out with a grand divine light, and Xu Fu simultaneously performed the ritual, chanting Toyotomi Hideyoshi's divine name.

Omononushi, the ghost god far away on the Korean border, about to be crushed by the Tiankai Huangdao Heavenly Lord, suddenly disappeared from the real world!

"Recall!"

Crossing rivers, lakes, and seas, tens of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, the ghost god was forcibly recalled, suddenly transferred from one location to another!

This was definitely not a遁术 (dun shu - escape technique)!

Using the strong connection between the two, Xu Fu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi shifted the universe. Omononushi returned from the Korean border and was about to descend in an instant.

"It seems that the matter of killing that heavenly demon still needs to be considered in the long term, and cannot be rushed..."

The word "rushed" had not yet been spoken.

Suddenly, a huge celestial gate appeared in the sky!

This celestial gate appeared outside Osaka Castle and opened in an instant, as if a huge opening had been propped open in the sky. Xu Fu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi sensed this power, and they遁 (dun - escaped) out of the secret room as soon as possible. What they saw was that Omononushi was about to descend, and the next moment, a huge palm stretched out relentlessly from the celestial gate!

Tiankai Huangdao, Bu Xu Yu Jing!

功德 (gong de - merit and virtue) blessing,百无禁忌 (bai wu jin ji - all taboos are broken)!

"Not good! The calamity of Omononushi has been converted into merit and virtue, and is chasing after us along the celestial gate opened by this power of merit!"

The celestial gate opened wide, and Omononushi was grabbed by the Tiankai Huangdao Heavenly Lord's giant hand. A large amount of calamity was continuously converted into huge merit and virtue!

A light of ascension appeared in the world, clouds and rosy clouds arose together, and the sound of heavenly music and drums was heard, as well as the sound of tinkling jade ornaments. This was the heavenly phenomenon when the celebratory clouds of merit and virtue descended!

Xu Fu was shocked, and from that celestial gate, he saw the figure of Ji Xiang!

"A friend from afar?"

"Isn't it a joy!"

Xu Fu's face was horrified and angry!

Ji Xiang smiled, raised a large number of swords, and waved them down!