Chapter 144: On the Methods of Making Money in the Underworld
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"How dare you spy on my judgment!"
Judge Lu and Bai Wuchang shouted in unison, while Hei Wuchang looked around.
"Here it is."
As Gu Qingyuan spoke, he appeared. The water was calm, like a quiet lake without any ripples.
Seeing that unworldly appearance, Judge Lu and the other two were all shocked.
"My friend, you look unfamiliar. I don't know which mortal immortal has come to visit Bi Mansion. I am sorry for not coming in person to welcome you." Judge Lu said with a smile.
Gu Qingyuan pointed at the Black and White Impermanence and said, "Coming here with them, this trip to the underworld has really opened my eyes."
Judge Lu cursed inwardly that the drunkard was so careless that no one knew what he said. He said, "You made a fool of yourself, Immortal Xu. My underworld has its own laws. King Yama is high up in the sky, and the turnover of personnel is bound to cause huge losses. This is the last resort. If Immortal Shanyin thinks highly of me, you can share some of the profits."
"There's no need to use King Yama to pressure me. I'm not afraid of him at all. I won't accept the charity money. I'm here just to share the money." Gu Qingyuan said.
Judge Lu secretly used magic to inform his superiors, using the strategy of delaying: "How can I trouble the immortal to spend so much energy on just two treasuries of silver?"
Seeing that Gu Qingyuan didn't say anything, Judge Lu's face froze slightly.
"When King Yama arrives, I will show you how I will torture you!"
"Then I wonder how the Immortal intends to divide it?"
Gu Qingyuan said, "They led us into the city, bribed us with money, and took away all the money. They gave us a good reputation. You three can't tell the difference. In my opinion, we don't need to return the money to the victims. You can kill yourselves to apologize, and I will burn the two warehouses of money for you. How much you can get on your way to the underworld depends on your ability."
"You!" Judge Lu and Wu Chang saw the visitor as unfriendly and stopped flattering. "I thought you had some skills, so I called you a Supreme Immortal. I didn't expect you to be so bold. In the underworld, the ghostly aura is so strong that I'm afraid your pure and upright immortal aura has been largely lost!"
Judge Lu stretched out his hand, and a red pen and a small book appeared. "This judge's pen and the book of life and death can determine life span and good and evil. It is easy to erase your life span with a stroke of the red pen. Don't make the mistake."
He was extremely angry in his heart. It was not so easy to reduce one's life span. Even for a mortal, it would take a lot of effort to increase or decrease the life span, and it would have to go through numerous audits. Once it was discovered that someone had tampered with it, he would be immediately sent to hell. Not to mention that the person had cultivation and could turn his life span into immortal life span. It was unknown how much effort it would take to increase or decrease it.
Judge Lu was originally a human who died and turned into a ghost and took on the position of a god. He was not good at fighting, and all his skills were transformed from immortal fortunes. He would feel sad for a long time if he got anything less, otherwise he would not have done such a corrupt act.
The same was true for the Black and White Impermanence, except that the Impermanence's job was to capture ghosts and was good at fighting. Now, seeing Gu Qingyuan coming with a menacing momentum, he held a mourning stick and a soul-calling flag in his hands, and the ghostly aura was surging, with sobs coming out.
"You say it so lightly, Mr. Lu, would you like to broaden my horizons?" Gu Qingyuan chuckled.
Judge Lu snorted coldly, suppressed his heartache, and unfolded the Book of Life and Death: "You are stubborn and refuse to repent."
The Book of Life and Death turned the pages automatically without wind, and then stopped.
"Xu Xuan, a native of Linjiang City, studied medicine and saved countless lives. His life span... his life span..." Judge Lu stopped halfway through his words and could not continue reading.
"How long is your life span? Tell me!" Gu Qingyuan was also a little curious and wanted to see if he could be recorded in the Book of Life and Death.
Bai Wuchang saw that Judge Lu had a strange expression on his face, so he moved his feet and looked at the book with his peripheral vision. He saw that the words behind the life span on the book kept changing, from tens to tens of thousands. Bai Wuchang looked at it for a while, and the numbers behind the life span stopped changing, leaving only a blank. Then, under the fearful gaze of Judge Lu and the others, the ink words recording Xu Xuan's life disappeared little by little, turning into a blank page.
"Please spare my life, Immortal, please spare my life. I don't know the true immortal, please forgive my sins." Judge Lu had never seen anything like this before. Even the immortals in heaven had people use seals to erase the records and transcribe them as immortal officials. They disappeared on their own like this. He had never heard of this before. His legs went weak and he leaned forward to kowtow.
The two men knelt down, and Hei Wuchang was stunned and knelt down as well.
After knocking for a long time, seeing that the monk did not move or respond, Judge Lu felt a chill in his heart.
"How can I summon this plague god? I'm afraid my life will end. No, I have to let Bai Wuchang delay for a few breaths to give me a chance to escape."
He thought about it in his mind and used some magic to exorcise ghosts, hoping to make Bai Wuchang jump up, but he didn't expect that Bai Wuchang had the same idea.
Two groups of ghost energy came out separately and enveloped each other. The two men who wanted to push a scapegoat to escape stood still, and then their thoughts became confused and a violent aura was revealed.
The two men cursed inwardly, and Judge Lu waved his red brush and Bai Wuchang swept his mourning stick to dispel the ghost magic and soar into the air.
'Run, and seek the protection of King Yama!'
The two of them had the same thought, and a black cloud rose up and flew into the sky.
Gu Qingyuan watched a good show of intrigue and deception, and wondered why the King of Hell hadn't come yet. He looked at the two people above his head and shouted, "Kneel!"
Judge Lu and Bai Wuchang rose quickly and fell even faster, falling straight down and kneeling in front of Gu Qingyuan. Even the more honest Hei Wuchang was restrained in place. The three of them had their knees rooted to the ground and their heads sticking to the ground. No matter how hard they tried, they could not get up.
This method was deduced by Gu Qingyuan from "Plum Blossom Mirror". Among them, there is a method of inviting gods and rebuking ghosts, which is to borrow the power of heaven and earth to ask gods and ghosts for help. However, Gu Qingyuan studied it thoroughly and turned it into a method of restraining gods and rebuking ghosts. Although there is only one word difference, there is a world of difference between them.
One is to invite gods and ghosts, either based on human relationships or with a reason, for example, shouting to the Jade Emperor to hurry up and give the order, which means that there are people above you, Taoist disciples, gods from all directions, please give face.
One is to restrain directly, send gods to command the generals, and with one call, the military order is as heavy as a mountain. With one shout, no one dares to disobey. If anyone violates the order, he will be executed without mercy.
This world has its own laws, but after the connection between heaven and earth, the laws of heaven are no longer evident and the earth is often hidden, leading to the chaos of good and evil not being rewarded and the partiality of the universe.
Gu Qingyuan took the opportunity of creating gods to get a glimpse of the principles of heaven and earth, and the mysteries of heaven's rules, and then created this method. However, it is a bit of a waste of talent to use it on two little ghost fairies.
"It's a misunderstanding, it's a misunderstanding, please don't worry, Immortal, and listen to me explain it in detail." A black cloud floated in the sky, and a ghost shouted. He was wearing a maroon official robe, a two-winged hat, a wide face, big eyes, and a thick black beard.
Behind him followed ghost soldiers, lanterns cleared the way, all the evil spirits with ox-headed and horse-faced monsters were in line, black banners were waving, golden medals for summoning souls were shining, paper money was fluttering, strands of white silk for attracting souls were hanging down, the wind was whistling, and black air was everywhere. It was a grand scene.
"I was wondering what it was, it turns out to be gold floss on the outside and grass on the inside, a fake product using another name." Gu Qingyuan stood up and laughed, then raised his hand and pressed it down.
The ghost generals, ghost soldiers, and Yama fell into the black cloud like dumplings, and like Lu Pan, they knelt on the ground, unable to get up again. The ghost soldiers and ghost generals were so frightened that they kowtowed like crazy and begged for mercy.
For a moment, only Gu Qingyuan was standing, while the others all knelt. The evil spirits were frightened, the monsters turned pale, and the sound of kowtowing continued.
Thank you for the reward from the big guy who can't think of a good name. I will continue to work hard on writing. I can't save any manuscripts.
(End of this chapter)