Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 6 Nine

In an abandoned grass pavilion near the official road, there were two people sitting.

One is a young and handsome Taoist priest wearing Taoist robes and disheveled hair, but with extraordinary temperament.

The other is a gorgeously dressed, monk-like Taoist, kind-hearted old mage.

The two sat looking at each other, and their conversation was extraordinary, and the things they talked about were all things that others could not understand.

Li Xiuyuan looked at the old mage in front of him calmly. This old mage was none other than an incense avatar of the protector of the country. When he cast spells to punish Zhao Rui, the avatar of the protector of the country found him. And pleaded with Zhao Rui for himself.

"It seems that the golden Buddha on Zhao Rui's body showed miraculous powers, reminding the mage and making the mage aware of Zhao Rui's situation, but I don't know why the mage protecting the country appeared today as an incense avatar? If Zhao Rui made it clear, I don't think it's necessary."

The benevolent mage said with a smile: "Zhao Rui is a relative of the emperor, and Li Shengren is the one who pursues Da Hongyuan. Why bother with a mortal? I think it's better to let him go, and the punishment you gave him is enough." Too much, the loss of both legs should have offset the mistakes he made, after all, it is still the world of the Song Dynasty, if this matter is known to the officials, it will affect Li Shengren your whole life."

"For the sake of the Dao, appropriate compromises should also be made. For people like us, what is more important than achieving the Dao?"

"A hundred years of mortals pass by in a hurry, no matter if they are good or kind, in the end they are nothing more than a handful of loess. Who will remember your kind deed today? And who will care if you punished a wicked person? ?You have divine power, and you should also look at the world with the eyes of God, so that you can see more long-term and thorough."

"Is the mage's words persuading me, or teaching me?"

Li Xiuyuan said calmly; "If you are pleading, this is not the tone of pleading. If you are teaching me, I think the teacher's way and my way should not be the same. Although you and I have some superficial friendship, but There is a way, but the way is different, and we don’t conspire with each other.”

"I didn't decide Zhao Rui's life or death for him. I just gave him a chance to choose. If he still had a sense of reverence for ghosts and gods, heaven, human life, and life and death, he might be able to escape today." A catastrophe."

He stood up and stood with his hands behind his back, looking into the distance and saying.

"Can a person who has lost his sense of reverence and moral goodness still be considered a human being? He is just a demon, an evil spirit. If I don't punish him, more people will die because of him...and I will also I'm very curious, Zhao Rui has done a lot of evil, why is he still surrounded by purple energy? It stands to reason that his evil should have exhausted his luck."

After speaking, he suddenly turned his head to look at the protector of the country.

The guardian of the country squinted his eyes and smiled, "Li Shengren, don't you already know it in your heart?"

"Sure enough, someone changed the Book of Life and Death..."

Li Xiuyuan's expression turned cold: "I'm afraid that his evil deeds will be added to other people's heads, and the good deeds and good rewards of others will be transferred to him. Only in this way will his luck not be reduced. That is to say, excluding the book of life and death in the hands of Dongyue Shenjun, West Lake Lord, and Heishan old demon, the eighth book of life and death is in the capital?"

The protector of the country bowed his head and looked down, shutting up endlessly.

"To modify the book of life and death, you need a judge's pen, but the judge's pen is in my hands, and there is no second one in the world. If you don't use the judge's pen, ghosts and spirits will bear great retribution if they forcibly change it. It is possible to incur the punishment of the gods and kill a thousand-year-old demon, so recklessly alter the book of life and death unless the ghosts and spirits holding the book of life and death have a way to escape the evil retribution."

"Li Shengren is extremely intelligent, and his deduction is indeed correct, but you don't need to look at me like this. Many things in the capital are beyond my control, and the eighth book of life and death is not in my hands." The guardian of the country said .

"Really? I've learned a lot about ghosts and gods recently. In my opinion, there are only two people in the world who can change the book of life and death without fear of consequences without using a judge's pen. One is me, because my luck is prosperous and I can bear it." This kind of evil retribution, the other is Yan Jun of the underworld, he is the righteous god of heaven and earth who is in charge of the book of life and death, just like the God of Thunder, the God of Thunder, this is the ability bestowed by heaven, even if an ordinary pen falls on Yan Jun He can change the book of life and death in his hand."

"Yan Jun is in the capital?" Li Xiuyuan said with his eyes fixed.

"I exchanged the news of Lord Yan for Zhao Rui's life, what does the sage think?" said the protector of the country.

Li Xiuyuan said, "Master Huguo personally appeared to stop me, didn't I think of this result? During the time you stopped me, I had already erected a stone tablet on the official road where Zhao Rui was advancing, and behind the stone tablet hung a The picture, the picture is a fierce tiger, if Zhao Rui is in awe, if he is afraid, he will definitely avoid the stele, or go back home, so that he can avoid my picture of a tiger."

"What if Zhao Rui didn't avoid it?" said the Guardian Master.

"If he doesn't avoid it, he will definitely take down the tiger picture in a fit of anger and tear it up, and then the tiger will wake up, and he will be dragged into the painting by the tiger, and will not appear in this world." Li Xiuyuan said calmly: " Revenge, full of resentment, only to see Hu Tu and turn on me, this kind of person has never repented, even if the real Bodhisattva manifests, he can't save him."

The implication is that even your false Buddha cannot save him.

"Good, good."

The protector clasped his hands together and yelled the Buddha's name, not knowing whether he regarded himself as a monk or a Taoist priest.

"Since this matter has been settled, I can't persuade you anymore. I just hope that after the sage enters the capital, the two of us can get closer and closer, help each other and benefit each other, and don't affect the big things between you and me for a little thing. Zhao Rui's disappearance, I will quell this matter for the saint, but I can't do anything about the book of life and death, but I can be sure that it is not Yan Jun who is in charge of the book of life and death, but someone else."

"The reason why Yan Jun can change the book of life and death is not because of his own identity, but because he has the divine power of the underworld. After his reincarnation, the divine power should have other arrangements. I heard that the saint has sent ghosts and gods to rule the underworld. You might as well ask the underworld. Empress, maybe she knows the whole story."

"After I finish my words, I won't bother the sage anymore, so I leave."

After the protector of the country finished speaking, his body shook, and he collapsed directly, turning into a cloud of strong incense that drifted away with the wind.

Li Xiuyuan's attitude was resolute, so there were only two outcomes for Zhao Rui, one could either bypass the tiger picture and avoid death, or he would fall under the spell and be imprisoned in the picture.

The result is set.

Naturally, it would be useless for Master Protector to intercede. If Zhao Rui had a good skill, it would be useless to intercede.

"He has always shown great kindness in front of me, and he intends to make friends." Li Xiuyuan smelled the scent of incense in the air that had not dissipated; Comparable to a god and Buddha, how could I let down my vigilance, maybe the protector of the country also sensed my vigilance towards him, so he lowered his posture so as to relax my vigilance?"

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly felt something in his heart.

He took out the mirror and shook it lightly, and a picture appeared in it immediately.

It was Zhao Rui who was furious when he saw the stele and asked the guards to take down the tiger picture and burn it, but then Wei Hu in the tiger picture was awakened, and according to his instructions, Zhao Rui was put into the painting and imprisoned inside.

"Sure enough, you still haven't escaped this disaster."

Li Xiuyuan looked calm, and laughed mockingly: "How can a person with a poisonous scorpion's heart change immediately because of a temporary punishment? I hang the tiger picture there, nothing more than following God's will and leaving a glimmer of life, not simply fighting In the name of acting on behalf of the heavens, he will kill all people."

Just a trick.

On the official road in the distance, the tiger picture hanging on the stone tablet was immediately swept up by a gust of wind, blown into the air, and then disappeared quickly.

At this time, the guards around Zhao Rui who were guarding the tiger picture were still looking at each other and trying to figure out how to break the spell. Some suggested pouring black dog blood, some suggested going to a nearby temple to invite mages and eminent monks, and some suggested taking the tiger with them. Tu went to the capital to find an expert to decipher it... But he was afraid that the tiger in the picture would run out again, but none of them dared to take Tiger Tu away.

But at this moment when they saw Hu Tu flying away, their faces turned pale with fright.

"No, this painting flew away."

"It's over, the prince is still trapped inside and hasn't come out yet."

"Hurry up, catch up and get that painting back. If the prince disappears, all of us will be punished severely."

The guards panicked and tried to chase Hutu away.

But after only chasing for a while, he completely lost his whereabouts, and he didn't know where the tiger map flew to.

The prince is gone, and so is the tiger map.

How can I explain this to the officials if I go to the capital?

Hu Tufei returned to Li Xiuyuan's hands naturally.

With a shake of his hand, he opened the scroll, and saw Zhao Rui in the painting who collapsed to the ground with a frightened face and was pinned down by one of the black tiger's claws.

"How about it, my lord, is this game fun? Don't worry, you won't be sleepy for too long. After a while, I will let the ghost soldiers and ghosts come to arrest your soul and take you to the underworld. To build a ghost city, an evil ghost like you is the best labor, when will you atone for your crimes, when will you go to reincarnation, now, just stay in this picture honestly for me."

Li Xiuyuan said.

Zhao Rui in the picture could hear Li Xiuyuan's voice, he struggled up, his face was ferocious, and he seemed to be roaring at him.