Chapter 727: Evil Monk (4)
Yinyuan, Bai Yuan, went to rest.
After enduring several years in Demon-Suppressing Ridge, they were almost exhausted both physically and mentally.
Even though the top-grade spiritual materials from Mount Qionghua helped them to harmonize their bodies and nourish their souls, they still felt extremely tired. After a big meal , the two of them soaked in the huge chalcedony pond and fell into the deepest sleep.
Lu Yi sat upright in the lobby, quietly reviewing what he had done since arriving at Demon-Suppressing Ridge.
Domineering, overbearing, rude and brutal!
This was the impression he deliberately created for certain people.
It's simple.
Yinyuan and Baiyuan are his old lovers. If something happens to them, Lu Yi must save them!
However, the two were demoted to prisoners of Demon-Suppressing Ridge. And no one could take a prisoner away from Demon-Suppressing Ridge unless a saint or the Buddha spoke up in person and issued a decree or a Buddhist invitation.
The officials of Demon-Suppressing Ridge, even the most insignificant clerk in any of the major towns, could easily take the life of a criminal whose cultivation level was a hundred or a thousand times higher than his own.
This is the rule of Demon-Suppressing Ridge.
Therefore, Lu Yi had to go to Demon-Suppressing Ridge in person.
Even with the power of the Prison-Suppressing Xuanguang Buddha, Yeluting, the city lord, could not be removed from his position as the city lord. The Demon-Suppressing Ridge had its own unique system and rules. Unless Yeluting was truly colluding with the evil demons, as long as he could conscientiously perform his duties as the city lord, no one could do anything to him.
To put it more bluntly, Yelu Ting's position as city lord is jointly protected by the eighteen sages of Taoism and the thirteen Buddhas of Buddhism.
Anyone outside the system of Zhenmo Ridge who dares to disrespect the city lord Yelu Ting is provoking the above thirty-one powerful beings and is seeking death.
Therefore, for the sake of the unfortunate couple, Lu Yu had to go to the city himself - he took the initiative to apply to serve in the ninth city. With his identity as a true descendant of the Buddhist Zhenyu lineage, it was reasonable and appropriate for him to seek a position as a deputy city lord.
Moreover, the high-ranking officials of the Taoist and Buddhist sects are happy to see the true disciples of each sect go to serve in Demon-Suppressing Ridge!
Therefore, when Lu Yi took the position of deputy city lord of the ninth city of Zhenzi, he became an insider of the Zhenmo Ridge system. Therefore, he could provoke Yelu Ting unscrupulously and protect Yin Yuan and Bai Yuan under the unique system and rules of Zhenmo Ridge.
The price is that this deputy city lord will have to stay in prison for at least a hundred years!
"One hundred years!" Lu Yi crossed his legs, holding the teacup, and sipped the fragrant tea in small sips.
Lu Yi had no idea what happened to Yin Yuan and Bai Yuan that led to their downfall. But as for himself, Lu Yi was looking forward to what would happen in the next hundred years!
plot?
Assassination?
Kill him forcefully in public?
In his mind, the small axe was flashing with faint starlight, and wisps of strange aura gushed out, echoing with the Taichu Huntong Pearl, and constantly blending into the Fantian Seal. Lu Yi held the teacup in one hand and pressed his own Zen stick with the other, allowing the mixed strange aura to continuously flow into the Zen stick, transforming it from decay to magic.
"Da, da, da!"
Ah Hu walked in with a puzzled look on his face, clasped his fists to Lu Yi, was stunned for a moment, and then quickly changed his clasped fists to a salutation: "Brother Yi...someone from the Prisoners Department of Demon Suppression City came to our house and said that we were involved in a case."
Lu Yu raised his eyebrows and smiled.
He nodded and pointed outside the door. "I just sat down and someone came to visit? Great! It seems like they are a little impatient... Tsk, this job is crude... Or do they really think we are soft persimmons that they can take advantage of at will?"
With a wave of his sleeves, the huge lobby was dimmed and all the tables and chairs turned to dust.
On the wall behind Lu Yi, a huge portrait of the true body of the Prison-Suppressing Mysterious Light Buddha slowly hung down and covered the entire wall.
This portrait had been blessed by a master, so as soon as it was unfolded, a round of Buddha light rose like the sun, covering the entire hall. The strange fluctuations of the prison force field swept through the void, dispersing all other laws and rhymes.
The Buddhist practitioners who cultivate the power to suppress the prison feel like fish in water in this hall.
For the Taoist or Buddhist immortals who practice any other method, when they come here, it's like a fish being thrown into the desert. You can imagine how they feel.
Throwing down a straw mat, Lu Yi sat cross-legged on it. With his head shaking, he saw the eighteen most powerful guardian monks under his command, with their chests bared and knives in their hands, standing in a row behind Lu Yi with murderous glares in their eyes, like a row of executioners waiting for the fate of their executioners to fall.
It is worth mentioning that the swords used by monks are usually only three feet long.
The swords used by the were all as high as their bodies, which was about 13 feet long!
It's more like a guillotine than a sword!
Bright, cold, and full of murderous aura!
Light footsteps were heard, and a middle-aged man wearing a lavender official robe, a jade belt and a jade seal, with a peaceful aura, led a group of more than a dozen true immortals dressed as yamen runners and three men in gorgeous clothes, and passed through the courtyard gate opposite the main entrance of the lobby.
Lu Yi sat cross-legged on the cushion, holding a teacup and whistled.
Buddha's light flickered in the yard, and a large group of Taoist soldiers and monks appeared out of nowhere. They opened their arms silently and blocked the group of people.
Ah Hu and Yu Dian Hu stood on the left and right, like two gatekeepers. They lowered their heads and muttered a few words to the man in purple robe. After a dispute, the man in purple robe had a gloomy face and took only one of the three men in gorgeous clothes. The two of them crossed the yard one after the other and came to the lobby.
The lobby was empty, there wasn't even a chair!
Lu Yi raised his head and said calmly, "I am devoted to my ascetic practice. My food, clothing, shelter and transportation are all in accordance with the way of an ascetic monk... Therefore, I don't have any tables, chairs or beds. If you two are willing, you can sit on the floor. If not, you can stand!"
Lifting the jade teacup in his hand, which was filled with mist and exquisite, and worth at least hundreds of thousands of top-grade fairy crystals, he casually took a sip of the fragrant and spiritual tea, which was worth more than a million top-grade spirit stones per kilogram. Exhaling a mouthful of the rich tea fragrance, Lu Yi sighed, "As the saying goes, the guest should follow the host's wishes... You two are not too picky, right?"
The purple-robed man was stunned for a while.
He looked at the teacup in Lu Yi's hand, sniffed the tea fragrance emitted by Lu Yi, silently calculated the price of the set of items in Lu Yi's hand, and then kept sneering.
What a hard-working ascetic monk he is!
After taking a deep breath, the man in purple robe coughed heavily a few times.
The Prison-Suppressing Buddha Light from the Buddha statue behind Lu Yi enveloped the hall. The purple-robed man practiced the orthodox Daoist methods, which were incompatible with the power of Prison-Suppressing. He took a deep breath, and the thick and heavy breath of Prison-Suppressing filled his lungs, almost choking him.
After coughing violently a few times and rolling his eyes at Lu Yi in annoyance, the man in purple robe took out a contract of sale from his sleeve.
"Deputy City Lord Fahai, I am Xia Mingdao, the Chief of the Prisoner Department of Demon Suppression City. This time I came here to talk about a female prisoner in the ninth city of Zhenzi." Xia Mingdao said in a deep voice: "Deputy City Lord, you should know that prisoners can be bought and sold freely... As long as the prisoners do not leave the city, anyone, regardless of official or civilian, can buy and sell them freely, and then... decide their life and death?"
Lu Yi nodded and said calmly: "I know!"
The prisoners in Demon-Suppressing Ridge are an evil law.
After all the criminals were banished to the major towns in Demon-Suppressing Ridge, they first became the private property of the City Guard Office.
Those capable people can collude with the officials of all ranks in the city defense office to freely buy and sell these prisoners, dominate their life and death, and manipulate their fate at will.
Especially those female cultivators who are quite pretty, if they become prisoners of the town, their final fate will probably be to be sold to some private individuals by the city defense office at a price not even worth three cents, and then... their fate can be imagined.
This kind of transaction is legal and is protected by all the rules of Demon-Suppressing Ridge.
As long as the people who redeemed the prisoners did not take them out of the town where they belonged and did not free them from their status as prisoners, whatever they did to these prisoners was reasonable and legal!
Xia Mingdao opened the contract with both hands and showed it to Lu Yi.
"This is Shan Youren, the head of Renyi Bank, who brought the criminal Bai Yuan..."
Xia Mingdao was about to explain the origin of this contract, but Lu Yi had already gently waved his hand: "Stop talking nonsense. You just want to tell me that the ownership of the white turtle is in the hands of the Taoist friend behind you. It is illegal for me to keep her!"
Xia Mingdao smiled and nodded: "The deputy city lord is a reasonable person. This is the rule!"
Lu Yi looked behind Xia Mingdao, at the slightly bloated man in fancy clothes whose cultivation level was around the first level of the True Immortal Realm: "So, you are now the nominal master of Bai Yuan? If so, why did you let her do that to the Human-Faced Flower?"
Shaking his head, still without waiting for the man to explain, Lu Yi smiled and said: "No matter what you do, after all, this is your method. This contract, even if I destroy it..."
Xia Mingdao hurriedly laughed and said, "It cannot be destroyed. This is a formal contract registered with the Criminal Division!"
Lu Yu ignored Xia Mingdao and said, "Even if I destroyed it, you can probably come up with eight or ten similar contracts... In short, you just don't want Bai Yuan to live too happily. You just want to cause trouble for me, don't you?"
Xia Mingdao blinked, looked at the man in fancy clothes beside him, thought for a moment, and took two steps back.
He is only the chief of the Criminal Department. Although he has the supreme power of life and death when facing prisoners, facing a deputy city lord like Lu Yi who has a too strong background... What does this matter have to do with him?
It's just a contract. People spent real money and asked him to certify the contract.
He testified and witnessed it.
If you want to fight, then go ahead... The Criminal Division is not one of those departments responsible for the town's 'public security' and 'laws and regulations'. You are racking your brains over a prisoner. What does this have to do with Xia Mingdao?
Anyway, the money is already in my pocket, so I don’t care whether you live or die.
Xia Mingdao let go.
The tribute given to him by the man in fancy clothes was not worth him saying anything more. Next, it was up to the man in fancy clothes to perform.
The man in fancy clothes took a step forward, and a strange smile appeared on his slightly greasy round face!
"Deputy City Lord, please understand. I feel a strong affinity with Miss Bai Yuan from the moment I meet her..."
The next moment, the man in gorgeous clothes exploded into pieces of flesh, and his immortal soul and true immortal status were completely annihilated.
