Chapter 695: Chapter 209: Third Grade Meat Field, Cultivating the Burial Ground Together
Ruined temple, incense, portrait of the lady.
Li Yuan watched this scene, feeling a sense of being in a completely different world.
He still remembered the days when he and Lady Yan struggled for survival in a small mountain village, but in the blink of an eye, everything had changed, like the transformations of the world over eons.
He exited the illusion technique, disguising himself as a local mountain dweller, then reached into his pocket to take out some broken silver. He always carried some money for emergencies, and now he took this silver and headed straight for the temple.
Inside the temple, there was someone selling incense, dressed in a white long robe with a white tall hat.
Li Yuan vaguely remembered this as the attire of the Judicial Office.
The Judicial Office was divided into "Rewarding Goodness" and "Punishing Evil."
Those "Rewarding Goodness" wore white clothes and white hats, while those "Punishing Evil" wore black clothes and black hats.
Indeed, the fact that Lady Yan herself would not think of making people worship her now proved that it must be the work of the Judicial Office.
This "profitable war business" seemed to hide some unusual figures within the emerging forces that were devouring the Lotus Sect’s territory; otherwise... they wouldn’t have gone so far as to deify Lady Yan.
However, might these figures exploit Lady Yan for their own benefit? After all, Lady Yan was now becoming more ghostly in nature, her thoughts simple and indifferent, incomparable to the machinations of these people.
Li Yuan felt inclined to test it out. He approached the disciple of the Judicial Office who was selling incense and handed over the broken silver.
The disciple looked up at him and said, "Sir, keep your money.
Lady Yama doesn’t take money from everyone. What she seeks is just a world in order, where good is rewarded, and evil is punished.
As long as your heart is sincere, that is the greatest reverence to the lady."
Saying this, he handed three sticks of incense to Li Yuan.
Li Yuan walked to the portrait, lit the incense, placed it in the incense burner, and then bowed gently to the portrait before leaving.
Afterward, he wandered around and saw the familiar scene of "porridge shops" with long queues of people, and those distributing porridge all wore white.
He also saw the black-clad ones patrolling, capturing and escorting bandits and hooligans away, and the direction they were headed was towards the Ghost Prison.
He further noticed many individuals with unusual shadows of "birds, mice, rabbits," being led by the white-clad ones, also heading to the Ghost Prison.
Li Yuan followed along.
There he saw those bandits and hooligans, upon reaching the Ghost Prison, exposed by the Copper Mirror to reveal their good or evil deeds, with images of murder, arson, and forcing women to death...
These people were quickly hung in iron cages.
Other cursed individuals, meanwhile, had their eyes covered and were brought to a place from which "oink oink" sounds originated.
Immediately, Li Yuan heard the sound of pigs grunting as they ate something, and when those cursed emerged again, the unusual shadows on their backs were gone.
The Miracle Beast Garden revered "snake" and "pig," with "transforming desires into beasts" clearly a power of the "snake," but the "pig" wielded the power of "devouring."
The "pig" devoured the curse of the "snake," thus saving these people.
Li Yuan nodded silently; what he saw along the way was a gradually restoring order.
No matter the motives of the Judicial Office, so far it seemed good, and it was what Lady Yan hoped for.
But...
He looked back at this land.
Covered with scars, though it was late autumn, he saw few farmers busy in the fertile fields.
This signified turmoil, with no one farming, leading to barren fields, not fertile soil.
He shook his head gently.
’The Great Unity of Yin Yang has brought impoverishment to all lands outside the Ghost Realm Meat Field, and this is just the beginning...’
’However, if the method of the Lotus Sect’s Nuannuan Xue could be used, perhaps the Yang Qi from the Meat Field could be drawn out and scattered over the farmland to regenerate the fertile fields.
The corresponding Yin Qi could then irrigate into the Ghost Prison, much like the Lotus Sect previously doing with the Flower Shop and Miracle Beast Garden.’
This sudden idea seemed to present a new path to Li Yuan.
But what made him hesitant was that this was yet another form of "Great Unity of Yin Yang."
And just then, Li Yuan had a sensation, looked up, and saw standing proudly at the edge of the Ghost Prison, the lady in a black dress resembling a Divine Spirit.
He walked quickly, facing the Lady Black Skirt from a distance, and laughed, "I just paid a visit to your temple."
Lady Yan in Black Skirt asked, "What were you worshiping?"
Li Yuan replied, "I’ve worshiped before."
Lady Yan in Black Skirt showed a puzzled expression: "When?"
Li Yuan answered, "Heaven and earth, of course."
Lady Yan in Black Skirt: ...
In her cold eyes flashed a touch of emotion, her tone became slightly petulant like a mortal, as she said, "Not serious at all."
Li Yuan joked: "That’s why I need the lady to keep an eye on me."
Lady Yan in Black Skirt said, "It turns out many bodies from the Lotus Sect have joined me, and some I have kept.
Among them are Zhong Kui and Long Gumei, both of whom were important figures from Zhong Mansion on Fujiang Ghost Street, and have now joined the Judicial Office."
"Zhong Kui, Long Gumei?" Li Yuan frowned.
Suddenly, he let out a light sound of "hmm."
Because he was too familiar with the name Zhong Kui, wasn’t he the Immortal in the Underworld who slayed demons and devils before? But this should be a coincidence.
As for Long Gumei, he also knew.
Pang Yuanhua later told him that the woman with the surname Long was called Long Gumei, who had helped him before, and unexpectedly she was together with the Zhong Mansion Master.
He slightly put aside his distractions, then shared what he had seen along the way and his purpose for coming to Shanbao County this time.
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