books44 Chapter 94 The egg... the egg is broken.
Chapter 94 The egg... the egg is broken.
Seeing that Li Tingyun had set his sights on Mei Shiyu, Xia Changfeng reminded him, "Palace Master, he is a member of the Dao Xuan Sect."
"That's not necessarily true..."
Li Tingyun met Xia Changfeng's questioning gaze and stopped talking.
He then said, "Whether he's good or evil, to me, anyone can be used."
Xia Changfeng said, "Palace Master, this damages one's virtue and affects one's fortune. Moreover, altering the Book of Merits will bring retribution. Over time, Mei Shiyu will surely notice. If he discovers that you were behind it and insists on pursuing the matter, I'm afraid disaster will befall you."
"I'm fucking afraid of that?!"
Li Tingyun said nonchalantly, "What retribution? It's irrelevant. Just do your job."
Xia Changfeng asked, "Then how much merit should I transfer from him? Palace Master, is it that all his merits are being given to you..."
“What do you mean, ‘his’ or ‘mine’?” Li Tingyun interrupted him directly. “What’s his is mine.”
Xia Changfeng: "..."
Lord Temple Master, where does such confidence come from?
But he didn't say it aloud, and continued to ask, "If all of Mei Shiyu's merits are transferred, it still won't be enough, what should we do?"
Li Tingyun: Am I really that despicable?!
He asked, "Have you checked how much merit Mei Shiyu has accumulated?"
Xia Changfeng said, "No. But I think he should be... fulfilled."
Li Tingyun said, "I think so too. In fact, Dao Xuan Sect has always had an unwritten rule that during the entrance examination, each disciple's merit must account for at least 60%."
In addition, Master Zong also required his disciples and grand-disciples to sever all worldly grudges within a hundred years of joining the sect, so as to smoothly overcome tribulations in the future and avoid causing trouble or creating unnecessary complications.
To put it in a common saying, "Heaven's sins may be forgiven, but self-inflicted sins are unforgivable." If it is heaven's calamity that refuses to let one go, death is one thing, but what is truly worrisome is that the cycle of cause and effect is inescapable, and one may spend one's life cultivating immortality in the mountains and by the water, only to die in the end due to human calamity.
Li Tingyun said, "If even Mei Shiyu hasn't achieved perfect merit, then their Dao Xuan Sect's rule has become a joke."
Xia Changfeng thought to himself: If you keep pestering him, Palace Master, he may never achieve perfect merit in this lifetime.
Just as he was thinking this, a communication talisman flew in out of nowhere, extremely urgent, almost as if it were going to hit him directly in the face.
It is Si Wuxie.
Xia Changfeng's expression changed, and he pinched the communication talisman between two fingers.
In an instant, the talisman vanished, transforming into an urgent voice: "The egg...the egg is broken!!!"
Li Tingyun asked, "What 'egg'?"
After a moment's thought, Xia Changfeng realized it was probably that "swan egg".
He said to Li Tingyun, "Palace Master, we once encountered an egg laid by some unknown spirit pet in front of the Judge Temple. The egg was about the size of a pebble and had already developed sentience. Cui Jue raised it like a bandit."
Upon hearing his description, Li Tingyun said, "As far as I know, that is a Xie Zhi, an ancient beast that guards the Judge's Pen."
He remembered that in the original text, Judge Cui Jue kept a xiezhi beast to keep his judge's pen.
This Xie Zhi is still in its infancy and often stays inside its eggshell, but its combat power should not be underestimated; it is no less than that of the Ten Kings of Hell.
The Xie Zhi, an ancient beast resembling a Qilin with a single horn on its head, is a symbol of fairness and justice in mythology, capable of distinguishing right from wrong and good from evil.
Ordinary people often place stone statues of the Xiezhi beast in front of government offices, hoping that officials will uphold justice and punish evil and promote good.
In reality, the Xie Zhi is a ferocious beast.
In various myths and legends, ancient beasts that can ward off evil and suppress wickedness are mostly ferocious and menacing, possessing more or less the characteristics of ferocious beasts—implying a sense of fighting violence with violence and evil with evil.
"That's perfect. Let's kill this ferocious beast, seize the Judge's Pen, and change the Book of Merits."
Xia Changfeng bid farewell, saying, "Palace Master, I'll take my leave first."
Li Tingyun nodded.
The Xie Zhi beast is quite powerful, comparable to the Ghost King, so it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with.
But Li Tingyun didn't say much to Xia Changfeng.
Because his ingrained thinking told him that everyone in Fengdu was a complete weakling.
The Ghost Emperor is a complete scumbag, and the Ghost Kings are even lesser scumbags.
As for the ferocious beast and the underworld officials, they're just dust; taking them down is effortless.
If the dignified Lord of Vermilion Bird City doesn't even have the ability to deal with a ferocious beast, then Xia Changfeng might as well just smash his head against a block of tofu and die.
Even if Taiji Hall is a mental hospital housing a bunch of lunatics, it never accepts trash.
There, useless people will suffer a terrible fate. They might be dragged to a dark corner by their fellow patients and devoured alive—like a weak and pitiful prey surrounded by a pack of vicious wolves, to be torn apart and dismembered. Their tragic fate is predictable.
The rule of the jungle is that the strong rule the only law of survival.
In the empty square, Li Tingyun was about to leave when something suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Lord, the Qiankun Bag is here. I retrieved it from the Black and White Impermanence, and almost forgot to return it to you."
Xia Changfeng's voice was like the wind passing by without leaving a trace.
Li Tingyun caught the Qiankun bag floating in mid-air and then left the group chat.
Standing in the kitchen of the Rebirth Inn, he opened his Qiankun bag, took out a set of clothes that didn't belong to him, and walked towards the front hall.
The burial clothes had been ruined by him, becoming tattered, dirty, and old.
The green-hatted zombie almost went berserk after just one glance.
He actually pulled the talisman paper stuck to his forehead off!
Fortunately, Mei Shiyu locked him in the center of the formation, otherwise he would have sought revenge on the boy no matter what.
Li Tingyun said irritably, "These clothes can still be used after washing, so just make do with them."
Mao Jiang was furious but had no way to vent his anger. The eight-foot-tall man squatted on the ground, turned his face away, and scratched his ears and cheeks in frustration.
Green hair grew wildly on his body, causing him pain and itching. Enraged, he grabbed a tuft and ripped it off, tearing apart the veins buried deep beneath his skin. Blood gushed out and mingled with the gradually rotting skin, a sight that made one's scalp tingle.
Despite clenching his teeth as he plucked the hair, a chilling roar still escaped his throat. He clutched his neck with both hands, as if his itchy throat was also filled with green hair. He tried to scratch his neck with his fingernails, stick his hands in, and dig them out by the roots.
Seeing this, Mei Shiyu had no choice but to use magic to freeze his body.
It was unclear what he was thinking; his brows were furrowed, and his eyes seemed to be filled with an impenetrable fog.
Li Tingyun said, "Master, you are harming him by doing this. If he cannot clean up the rotten flesh and hair on his body in time, he will be devoured by this wildly growing green fur. If you want him to die, it would be quicker to give him a sword."
Mei Shiyu said in a deep voice, "I've thought of a solution, though it's not really a solution."
Li Tingyun sneered, "I hope you're not going to waste your primordial spirit power again."
"That's not it."
Mei Shiyu took out a small box from the Bodhi Ring, opened it, and found a golden silkworm lying inside.
Li Tingyun exclaimed in surprise, "Master, this is... a Gu poison?!"
What surprised him was not the Golden Silkworm Gu itself, but how could Mei Shiyu possess such an evil thing?