Chapter 406: Not Acceptable
Fang Yanxu realized that he had underestimated Macho Joshua's influence and the efficiency of the Trumpet Alliance. He regretted not sending Huang Hansheng to kill Miaomiao earlier.
If Miaomiao were to survive today, the marriage between Meng Xian and Fang Meirong might be canceled.
Thinking this far, Fang Yanxu had a new idea. He grinned and apologized to Uriel.
"Then, this lowly non-existent being shall withdraw from this mortal planet. As for the mortal affair below, I shall leave them to solve it themselves. However…"
"However?"
"I have duties to perform as a law enforcement officer. Some of these mortals have consumed the souls of others, and they must be punished according to Samsara Law."
"Oh? Are there criminals here?"
Fang Yanxu immediately turned to Miaomiao, Mao Xueyan, Ma Moxi, Zhao Yun, and Ling Tianlong.
His attention stopped at Ling Tianlong for several seconds, contemplating if he should involve this man. But after careful consideration, he announced.
"Mao Xueyan, Zhao Yun, and Ma Moxi have devoured soul fragments of Divine Beasts from Heaven Realms, and they have a warrant on their heads. Ling Tianlong didn't go through the River of Reincarnation, never drank the wine of Meng Po, but his soul was reincarnated here with the help of an unknown god. We shall investigate further who was behind his illegal reincarnation. But for now, they are to be put to custody and be brought back to the Samsara Court!"
Uriel glanced at the four people, whom Fang Yanxu had named.
Indeed, they had the power of something that they shouldn't have possessed, especially Ling Tianlong, who had the experience of the previous life.
Reincarnate with the previous life's memory was not a sin, but it was considered cheating. After all, everyone was supposed to start with nothing, but their naked body. After that, it depended on their environment, parents, fate, and their freewill.
The corner of Uriel's eyes accidentally caught the colorful aura of several people, who carried the Hell Fiend Bloodline.
Wei Yuan, Gan Ning, Zhu Qiao, and a little tiger stood out like a sore thumb. Their emanating Qi and their tainted aura annoyed Uriel.
"I get it. This world is indeed impure."
Hearing the favorable comment of Uriel, Fang Yanxu thought that the archangel had agreed to let him do his job, "Yes, Your Holiness. The world is too dirty. That's why immortals and gods like us need to come down once in a while. I hope you don't mind if I bring the five fugitives back with me."
"Cool," Uriel stopped releasing the light. He pulled back the Providence of Light and took a deep breath.
A second later, the infant instantly grew up and became an adult. Six feather wings spread behind his back while his physique became a mass of dark mist under his hooded robes. Two golden pupils were the only things glowing within the gas.
"Tell me, Fang Yanxu."
"Y-Yes?"
Without the light, Fang Yanxu and everyone slowly opened their eyes. However, it took time to adjust their sight.
As soon as they had adapted to the sight, they discovered the two external beings in the sky.
Within the black gas under the hooded robes, Uriel's bright golden eyes gazed upon their souls. The golden line under his eyes curved up into a wide smile, yet it didn't look pleasant.
"Why is Mao Miaomiao included in the list? I don't see any illegal soul or his tainted Qi. In fact, I can't even see a tinge of his tainted aura nor his sin. When has he violated the Samsara Law?"
Fang Yanxu gulped as he had failed to distract Uriel. He came up with another excuse.
"Mao Miaomiao was the one who concocted the forbidden pills! I saw the records from the world guardians. He made four divine pills and distributed them to the sinners! As the maker of the forbidden pills, he has to come with me-"
Uriel suddenly flashed and reappeared directly in front of Fang Yanxu. The golden eyes in the dark gas under the hood stared into the immortal's eyes.
"Which record?"
"T-T-The world guardian's record, Your Holiness?"
Uriel's smiling face was so wide that it looked similar to a smiley face. Yet, it frightened Fang Yanxu.
His instinct cried that he had to flee from here, or he might be killed!
Uriel snickered as he turned around, looking at his assistant.
The female angel with black wings was still there. Her sheep head was strange, but her revealing clothes and sexy curvy body attracted many men's eyes.
Still, some of them noticed something strange under her transparent fabric.
She had no genital or nipples! She had no gender!
"Azazel!"
Azazel sighed, "Yes, my lord?"
"Can you check this world's record?"
"Yes."
"Then, is there any record about Mao Miaomiao?"
Azazel closed her sheep eyes. A few seconds later, she nodded, "There are."
"Good! Then, is there any evidence as this immortal has claimed? Did Mao Miaomiao make the pills?"
Azazel closed her eyes again.
However, she shook her head as she turned to Fang Yanxu, "There is no such record about the event."
"W-WHAT!?"
Fang Yanxu's face turned white. He was sure that the world guardians had recorded everything with their immortal-grade artifacts.
During the previous month when Fang Yanxu had allowed Miaomiao and others to take a break, he was busy digging through the records of Fang Meirong's husband.
Fang Yanxu remembered that he had discovered a record when Miaomiao had created the four divine pills. He even requested a copy of the record so that he could use it as evidence, hoping to use it to blackmail Miaomiao's dao gods in the case of emergency.
However, the world guardians hadn't delivered the copy to him yet. They said that creating another record artifact that could contain the world's event might take a long time. They also couldn't hand over the artifact of this world as they were bound with the core of this planet.
For a month, Fang Yanxu had been patiently waited for the new hardware artifact to download the event.
But now, hearing that there was no record of Miaomiao's past deed was puzzling.
"I'm sure that he made that! Several world guardians saw it that day! I also saw the footage!" Fang Yanxu turned to the remaining Eye of Tribulation, which belonged to Zhao Liang. "You over there!"
Zhao Liang's avatar blinked and transformed to the real body of a senior bald monk with an orange kasaya. He politely bowed, "Is there something I could help with?"
"You were there at that time, right? Where's the record of that day when several world guardians were purged by Meng Hong?"
The monk smiled, "I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Hah!?"
The monk turned to the archangel in his true form, "This monk can vouch for Mao Miaomiao. He has never concocted such restricted pills on this world. The souls that you might have sensed inside those mortals are probably artificial souls of something similar to divine beasts."
"The hell!?"
Fang Yanxu was speechless. He was sure that he saw the scene and the record that day. He even remembered how Miaomiao's eyes shattered and everyone had to assist him during the process.
Then, he remembered something that he had been overlooking.
OG-Buddha was this monk's backer.
Zhao Bao and his disciples also worshipped OG-Buddha.
Siren City was OG-Buddha's territory!
From the intel that he had investigated about Miaomiao, OG-Buddha was one of the latter's DaoTube subscribers!
'Shit! These fuckers are in it together!'
Fang Yanxu was enraged for the first time. He knew that Zhao Liang lied, but he couldn't do anything as he was the only witness.
After all, all world guardians who had been involved in the pill tribulation had been killed by Meng Hong, the father of Meng Xin. Using the other world guardians as witnesses in the court might anger Samsara or Yama Court's judges since they could see through lies.
"Well, where's your proof, butt-licker? You know that abducting mortals to the higher realms is NOT ACCEPTABLE!" Uriel laughed.
"…"
As Fang Yanxu had confirmed that these beings were here for Miaomiao, he decided to use Plan C.
The immortal smiled, "Very well. Since it was a misunderstanding on my part, I shall take my leave."
Uriel, Azazel, and Zhao Liang nodded in satisfaction. With this, Miaomiao and Siren City should be fine now. As for the war game below, it would be canceled, and Yuan Shaoqing would be forced to retreat.
However, a certain troublemaker didn't want this to end.
Miaomiao gazed at the two angels and protested, "Before he leaves, bring Fang Meirong back first. Where is she!?"
Fang Yanxu spat and turned around, ignoring Miaomiao without answering his question.
"Are you going to abduct my wife and leave just like that?"
"Hohoh? Abduction?"
Uriel grinned and stared at the immortal, "Is there something I don't know?"
Fang Yanxu clicked his tongue as he didn't want to answer the question. Still, he couldn't ignore the superior beings.
Before Fang Yanxu could say anything, Wei Yuan seized the opportunity to exploit the situation, "Sir, I can explain. That man has abducted one of our sisters and claimed that she would be married to someone else. However, our sister is one of my husband's concubines, and they are not willing to part!"
"Really?" Uriel's smiley face became ominous again. The black gas slowly extended toward Fang Yanxu as if the hand of God's messenger was about the grab him and send him straight to Hell.
Fang Yanxu glared at Wei Yuan, "Fang Meirong is my daughter! As a father, what's wrong with taking my daughter from this isolated planet to my realm!?"
"Aha! I see. I see."
Uriel repeatedly nodded as he found the drama interesting. He pulled back his gas hand and dispersed his killing intent.
The more they blamed each other, the more colorful their aura became.
Wei Yuan's aura was pink and blue, revealing her lust and loyalty trait. Another color was a dark yellow tinge, representing the sin of envy. Fortunately, the sin was being suppressed by the pink light, which sometimes created the face of Mao Miaomiao.
Uriel liked this girl as well. He figured that Miaomiao and Wei Yuan might be rare soul-mate couples, who supported each other's hearts. As long as they were together, they would never fall to the dark side.
As for Fang Yanxu, it was ominous and fully tainted with brown color, signifying his dishonesty and deceit.
By learning their thoughts, traits, and characters, Uriel had a clear idea of what might have transpired before he arrived here.
"So, is this war game related to your daughter, Fang Yanxu?"
Fang Yanxu's face twitched. He reluctantly admitted it, "Partly. But the major cause of this war was Mao Miaomiao and Yuan Shaoqing."
"By chance," Uriel sneered. "Are you trying to kill Mao Miaomiao by using the third party? Or because you don't approve of their relationship, you want to bully him? Or perhaps, you're planning to sell your daughter to someone, so you can get ahead in your career? For example, marrying her to someone from the Meng Clan, so you will have a higher chance to be selected as a judge in the next Yama Election?"
"…"
Bull-eyes.
Uriel was spot on.
Fang Yanxu's face turned ugly, "Preposterous, Your Holiness. Why should I sell my daughter? She's my family!"
"Who knows?" Uriel shrugged and glanced at the mortals, who had been ignored.
The archangel locked his sight at Ling Tianlong, who emitted dubious aura and the power of fate. Opposite to Wei Yuan and Miaomiao, Ling Tianlong's good color was devoured by the black aura as if he had fallen to the dark side.
"I have an idea, actually."
"Yes?"
"Earlier, you seemed to be matching Mao Miaomiao against a 9th-stage cultivator, right?"
"… Yes. But that's because his strength can't be measured with the standard of this world. He is stronger than his peers by several realms."
"True. Even I can tell that his bloodlines and his luck are the major portions of his strength. But hey, you can't just use a 9th-stage cultivator to fight weaker juniors. Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
Fang Yanxu clicked his tongue again. Because of his frustration, he lost it, "Then, if you were me, who would you have picked as his opponent? Those weak nascent soul cultivators? They don't even have the right foundation! None of them can even cultivate five advanced elements before they formed their nascent souls. Look at Mao Miaomiao. How many advanced elements are there? He may have hidden it well, but I'm sure he will eventually have like 7 or 9 advanced elements in the future! Everybody here is useless!"
The outburst was surprising and funny from Uriel's point of view. He wanted to refute, "If you already knew about this, why didn't you accept Mao Miaomiao as your daughter's husband?"
Uriel kept the thought to himself. He turned around and pointed at a youth.
"How about that guy?"
"Him?"
Uriel was pointing at Ling Tianlong.
Fang Yanxu couldn't understand what Uriel had aimed. Also, he didn't have faith in Ling Tianlong as he had no immortal-grade weapon, and he was internally injured from the previous fight with Lu Fengxian.
In short, Ling Tianlong was too weak at the moment.
"I don't think he's Mao Miaomiao's match."
"If you look at it on the surface, well, yes," Uriel shrugged and turned to Miaomiao.
"Say, Mao Miaomiao. I heard you have a certain mission… a hunting mission."
"Huh?"
Now, Miaomiao squinted his eyes as he started to doubt Uriel's motive.
Then, he heard Uriel's telepathic voice.
'I'll help you complete your protagonist hunt. Master Joshua ordered me to help you. If we let you be, you'll never be able to kill Ling Tianlong in your lifetime, and it will impact the view rate and the subscription rate.'
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