In the world of "Covering the Sky": An Analysis of the Ancient Sacred Body at the Start

Time flies, and before we knew it, three months had passed since Yu Yi ascended the throne.

After Yu Yi ascended the throne, the first thing he did was to purge the court and the public, dismissing and executing many officials.

As the saying goes, "a new emperor brings a new court," the goal is not to purge the court and the people, but to consolidate power.

Although Yu Yi has never been an emperor, he has never eaten pork or seen a pig run. He simply follows the same old routine of recruiting some, attacking others, and dividing others.

He established his authority in the court, constantly placing his own people in positions of power, and also managed to win over the hearts of the people. In the end, only one voice remained in the court: his voice!

When the time was right, Yu Yi decisively abolished the prime minister system, established a cabinet, and, disregarding the opposition of his ministers, arbitrarily established the Eastern Depot.

"Could this be the power of incense offerings and prayers?"

On this day, Yu Yi was reviewing memorials in the imperial study when he suddenly felt wisps of mysterious power converging towards him.

The so-called power of incense offerings mainly comes from the believers' devout faith and sincere prayers.

When believers make incense offerings, they infuse their wishes, prayers, and gratitude into the offerings, thus generating the power of the incense offerings.

The power of incense offerings cannot be directly absorbed because it is mixed with various distracting thoughts and desires.

Cultivators in the world of Shrouding the Heavens generally use the incense and prayers they collect to forge an embodiment of their faith.

"Only ten or so points of source energy?"

Yu Yi activated the Yin-Yang Mirror to absorb the incense and prayers, but in the end, he only converted a dozen or so points of source energy.

Fortunately, the power of incense offerings and prayers is continuous, and every moment, the power of incense offerings and prayers converges on him.

"The Yin-Yang Mirror absorbed all the incense offerings for a whole day, ultimately converting them into over 1,500 points of source energy..."

The next day, Yu Yi checked his attribute panel and found that he had gained more than 1,500 points of source energy. More than 1,500 points a day, that's more than 500,000 a year.

In this way, it will only take two years to collect enough source energy to replicate the Ancient Sacred Body.

Moreover, as the number of believers increases and their faith becomes more devout, the amount of incense offerings and prayers generated will also increase, perhaps within a year.

Yu Yi was originally hesitant about whether to devour the entire fate of the Qing Kingdom after destroying the Qi Kingdom and Dongyi City, but now it seems that there is no need to exhaust the resources.

"Guards, convey my decree: summon Grand Secretary Lin Ruofu and Director of the Overwatch Council Fan Xian to the palace..."

After waiting for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Lin Ruofu and Fan Xian hurriedly entered the palace and arrived at the Imperial Study.

"Greetings, Your Majesty..."

"Rise! Someone, bring a seat!"

"Fan Xian, you've done a good job spreading the faith, I'm very satisfied, but it's not enough."

"Therefore, I intend to formulate a policy that all my followers will have their taxes halved..."

Of course, there are standards for this. For example, believers must pray for a full hour every day.

Yu Yi did this to cultivate the habit of prayer among the people of Qing Kingdom. Habits are not innate; they require a gradual process of development.

As long as the people of Qing Kingdom develop the habit of praying every day, they will gradually and naturally become his believers, even if they are only the most basic and shallow believers.

Believers are also divided into levels, from lowest to highest: shallow believers, true believers, sincere believers, fanatical believers...

The higher the level of the believer, the more incense and prayers are offered, and the purer the prayers are.

"Your Majesty, once this policy is implemented, the financial pressure will be enormous, and the national treasury will inevitably be unable to make ends meet."

Lin Ruofu did not raise any objections, but only explained the consequences of implementing this policy.

"Isn't there still the Imperial Treasury? The deficit from halving taxes will be covered by the Imperial Treasury. Fan Xian, you are now in charge of the Imperial Treasury. Do you have any objections?"

"Your Majesty, I have no objection, but after taking over the Imperial Treasury, I discovered that it was heavily indebted, with a deficit of up to twenty million taels of silver..."

Fan Xian is currently troubled by the deficit in the Imperial Treasury, and now Yu Yi wants to use the Imperial Treasury to replenish the national treasury. Fan Xian feels that he can't do this job anymore.

"I don't care about any of that. You are now in charge of the Imperial Treasury. If any problems arise, I will hold you accountable!"

"Didn't your mother leave you Qingyutang? Use the money from Qingyutang to fill the hole first."

"Money is just an external thing; you can't take it with you when you're born or when you die. What do you need so much for? If you handle this matter well, your annual salary will increase by 20%."

"Then I'm fine!"

Upon hearing about the 20% raise, Fan Xian beamed and agreed without hesitation.

After all, he worked himself to the bone every day, exhausted like a dog, all for cultivation resources.

In Fan Xian's eyes, he had made a huge profit by exchanging mere gold and silver for precious cultivation resources.

"Then it's settled!"

Yu Yi smiled broadly. With the tax reduction policy, the number of worshippers would definitely surge. The small salary increase for Fan Xian would be nothing compared to that.

"Prime Minister Lin, the cabinet needs to come up with a plan as soon as possible regarding the policy of halving taxes..."

"Your humble servant obeys..."

Yu Yi waved his hand, signaling the two could leave. Lin Ruofu bowed and left, but Fan Xian did not move and stayed behind alone.

"Fan Xian, is there anything else?"

"Brother Yu, just yesterday, I successfully escaped the sea of ​​suffering and became a cultivator..."

Fan Xian was excited. He had been practicing the Forget-Dust Scripture for three months and had recently sensed the Wheel of Life. He then went into seclusion for several days and successfully opened the Sea of ​​Bitterness yesterday.

"I'm not blind, I saw it a long time ago, and then what? What are you trying to say?"

"Uh~ Besides wanting to share my joy with you, Brother Yu, it's also that I've started forging divine runes, and I'm running out of source energy..."

"Brother Yu, could you lend me some Source in advance? Perhaps it's because this world is too low-level, but I've found that I can't cultivate at all without Source..."

Fan Xian also tried cultivating without using the source, but found that he couldn't cultivate because this world simply doesn't have that kind of high-level energy, the essence of heaven and earth.

"Then I'll give you six months' salary in advance! Remember to use it sparingly, I don't have much energy left."

"Thank you, Brother Yu..."

"Three months from now, I plan to send troops to attack the Qi State and the Eastern Yi. If you can forge the weapon within three months, I won't need to personally lead the expedition."

In terms of strength alone, the Qing Kingdom far surpasses the Qi Kingdom and Dongyi City. If it weren't for Ku He and Si Gu Jian, the Qing Kingdom would have unified the world long ago.

Only Yu Yi himself could guarantee the capture of Ku He and Si Gu Jian.

Although Fan Xian has opened up the sea of ​​suffering, he may not be able to defeat a Grandmaster unless he can refine a weapon.

"Brother Yu, three months is too short. It probably won't even be enough time to forge the divine runes..."

"So, I didn't expect anything from you."

It would probably take Fan Xian at least half a year to refine the weapon, but Yu Yi couldn't wait that long.