Suddenly I was stared at by hundreds of eyes and I was stunned.
I stood there with a dazed expression, not daring to move.
The cave was about the size of half a football field. It was pitch black inside, with several braziers on racks burning with blazing flames. A crowd of people, all wearing black robes, stood in the middle.
The hoods on their heads were taken off, revealing their pitch-black faces.
Before I could move, a man in a black robe with cow eyes walked up to me.
His eyes were like knives, squinting at me, and he shouted angrily, "Boy, who are you? How dare you break into the Reward and Punishment Hall of our Support Pavilion? Don't you know that trespassing into the Reward and Punishment Hall is a capital crime?!"
I was very nervous, but when I thought about what Xiaohong had said just now, I straightened my chest again.
I looked straight at the man and said in a deep voice, "I'm here to see Butler Zuo Weiran! I have something to ask him, I..."
Who knew that before I could finish my words, the man attacked me.
"How dare you call our Chief Zuo by his first name! That's outrageous!"
The dark energy on the man's body surged, and a stream of dark energy came directly towards me.
I quickly activated the Yin-Yang diagram on my right hand.
The energy of Yin De poured into his right hand, and the Yin-Yang diagram flourished, directly blocking the dark energy.
“Huh!”
The man cried out in surprise and said hurriedly, "No, you are not a ghost official. You are using the energy of Yin De. You are a person in the Yang world! You are a living person!"
I shrugged and said with a smile, "Hey, you figured it out. You have a good eye. I am indeed from the mortal world. My name is Yang Tianyi!"
"Yang Tianyi?"
The man repeated my name.
Then he seemed to have thought of something.
After a while, the man knelt down in front of me and said hurriedly, "It turned out to be Master Yang. I didn't recognize the great man. I hope you won't blame me. I was careless just now, so I attacked you. You are the guest of Magu, and the guest of our Gongyang Pavilion. I hope you won't blame me."
This guy reacts quickly.
For a moment, the people in black robes standing in the cave started talking.
The eyes of many people changed from suspicion and disgust to eagerness and anticipation.
Then, three people who looked like small leaders walked towards me.
I still know my own weight.
Seeing someone coming, I couldn't afford to offend the man in front of me.
I smiled and said to the man kneeling on the ground, "Big brother, please get up first. I was wrong for coming to the Reward and Punishment Hall without informing Steward Zuo in advance!"
But this man seemed to be stubborn and refused to get up from the ground no matter what.
This makes me feel embarrassed.
I quickly walked up to him and reached out to help him up.
Seeing me reaching out to help him, the man quickly waved his hand and said, "No, no, Mr. Yang, I can get up by myself!"
At this time, the small leaders had also come over.
These little leaders have their own unique looks.
A small leader had a scar on his face. The scar looked like a caterpillar crawling on his face. Let's call him Scar Man.
One of the small leaders had a bald head and a broken arm. Let's call him the Broken Arm Man.
There was also a small leader who was a dwarf, only about one meter tall.
But he looks very "rough". The roughness here is equivalent to fat. He looks like a meatball. It seems that he has a lot of effort when walking. I will call him the dwarf man for now.
The scarred man glared at the man I helped up, and said in a cold voice: "Luo Xin, don't you have eyes? Young Master Yang is a guest of Lady Magu, and it is our honor to have him come to our Reward and Punishment Hall. How dare you attack him? I think you are really too bold!"
The man named Luo Xin's face suddenly changed
Pale.
Beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping down his temples.
I was just about to interrupt and speak for the man when the dwarf standing next to the scarred man started talking to him.
"Brother Cao Zhen, is there anything you can't say nicely? Look at you, you scared my brother Luo Xin. Although he was a little rude to Young Master Yang just now, he didn't mean it."
Having said this, the dwarf looked at me with a smile.
He bared his white teeth and said, "Young Master Yang, my name is Wang Rui. The ghost officials in the Reward and Punishment Hall call me 'Quick Hand'. I am Luo Xin's team leader. Luo Xin did offend you just now. I hope Young Master Yang will be magnanimous and forgive him this time."
It turns out that the man with the scar is called Cao Zhen.
And this short man is called Wang Rui.
Wang Rui was very fat, and the fat on his face made his cunning eyes even smaller. If you didn't look carefully, you would think his eyes were dead.
But from his eyes, I could see the word "cunning". Combined with his words and actions just now, I could also tell that this short man Wang Rui was very unusual.
I smiled and nodded, and said to "Fast Hand" Wang Rui: "Actually, it's nothing. As the saying goes, there is no acquaintance without fighting. Brother Luo Xin and I can be considered to have exchanged ideas. I naturally won't take what happened just now to heart."
Luo Xin, who was standing at the side, bowed to me quickly and said, "Thank you, Mr. Yang, for your tolerance. Thank you very much!!"
I smiled and said nothing.
Cao Zhen on the side was obviously at odds with the fast-handed Wang Rui. After glaring at Wang Rui, he smiled and said to me, "Young Master Yang, I'm Cao Zhen, nicknamed Thunderbolt, you can just call me by my name."
Cao Zhen’s nickname is “Thunderbolt”
This name is very fierce!
The remaining man with the broken arm also stepped forward and introduced himself, "Mr. Yang, my name is Huang Heyun, and the ghost officials in the palace call me 'Fei Tianhe'. You can just call me Heyun."
After listening to their introduction, I thought I had gone to Liangshan!
Fast Hand, Thunderbolt, Flying Crane, awesome! I don't know how these ghost officials came up with these names. It's really weird.
Then I had a polite conversation with them and learned some information from their conversation.
It turned out that I came at a good time today, as today was the day when the Reward and Punishment Hall was awarding rewards and announcing the criminal law list. Wang Rui, Cao Zhen, and Huang Heyun were all team leaders in the Reward and Punishment Hall.
In addition to them, there were many team leaders in the Reward and Punishment Hall in the distance. Each team leader had five or six ghost officials under him. Luo Xin was the ghost official in Wang Rui's team.
Just as we were chatting, a command was given.
"Butler Zuo, here!"
A ghost official shouted in a long voice.
Afterwards, in the stone cave, behind a stone door, Zuo Weiran walked out leisurely.
There were four people following behind him, all of them had serious faces.
Zuo Weiran was still wearing the same clothes as when I saw him that day, but today his face looked a little more dignified.
Cao Zhen introduced him to me before. He said that Steward Zuo was the chief captain of the Reward and Punishment Hall, responsible for rewarding the ghost officials who had made contributions to the Reward and Punishment Hall. At the same time, he would promulgate the criminal law list and issue reward and punishment orders.
I was not standing very close to the front, so Zuo Weiran might not have seen me.
Standing on a square platform several meters wide, Zuo Weiran looked around with a stern and majestic look.
After a while, he said loudly and forcefully, "Everyone, you have performed well this week. You have all been very conscientious and have captured and eliminated many ghosts and spirits. I have come here on behalf of the Pavilion Master to express my condolences to you!"
“Thank you for your hard work!”
The people above shouted "Thank you for your hard work", and the ghost officials below loudly replied: "Serving the Support Pavilion!"
For a moment, the atmosphere at the scene became heated.
And Zuo Weiran's subsequent words brought the atmosphere to a climax.
In fact, Zuo Weiran didn’t say anything.
He just said, "Let's go.
This week’s rewards have begun to be awarded!”
Everyone is naturally happy when there is a reward.
Afterwards, Zuo Weiran called out the names of some people one by one, and most of them were small team leaders among the ghost officials. Others were ghost officials who had made outstanding contributions, and they also walked onto the stone platform to receive the rewards issued by Zuo Weiran.
I noticed that the rewards given by Zuo Weiran, apart from the infernal tools, were elixirs, magic and so on. Wow, I couldn't help but admire that the Offering Pavilion was really awesome!
I even noticed that a man who seemed to be the captain was given a Dan to break the evil for killing three evil spirits.
I don’t know whether the other things are precious or not, but the Evil-Breaking Pill is the most precious treasure among treasures for the Black and White Impermanence, and Zuo Weiran actually gave the Evil-Breaking Pill directly to a captain.
This is so awesome.
The most important thing is that the captain who was blind in one eye actually took away the Broken Edan with disdain.
If the Black and White Impermanence saw this, they would probably be heartbroken. The elixir that they valued so much was actually thrown into the pocket of the ghost official in the Reward and Punishment Hall of the Support Pavilion.
Tsk tsk!
It's true that comparing yourself to others is really scary!
I was jealous. I had already decided that in addition to honing my skills, I would also join the Reward and Punishment Hall, go out and hunt ghosts or souls, and come here to collect things.
I looked carefully and found that one of the team leaders was holding a "Heaven-Repairing Ganoderma Lucidum".
Wow, it's the Bu Tian Lingzhi. I've seen a related introduction in Yin Yang Soul Crossing Notes, saying that Bu Tian Lingzhi is very useful for replenishing Yin De Qi and increasing the upper limit of Yin De Qi. I didn't expect that I would actually see it here.
Although the "Heaven-Repairing Ganoderma Lucidum" is only the size of a palm, the good energy contained in it can definitely help me improve my Taoism.
Good deeds need to be accumulated slowly.
However, the Ganoderma lucidum contains a strong aura of goodness. Regarding the Ganoderma lucidum, the notes also say that it can only grow in a place where the faith of all living beings in the world is gathered.
As far as I know, the only places of faith in the world of the living are our five famous mountains in our country.
The five famous mountains: Mount Tai, Mount Hua, Mount Heng, Mount Huang, Mount Heng, and Mount Song.
But even if you travel all over the five famous mountains in China, you may not be able to find the Ganoderma lucidum. Good things require the right time, right place, and right people, and they are rare.
Looking at the tiny Ganoderma lucidum, my eyes lit up.
At this time, Zuo Weiran spoke again in front.
"My fellow ghost officials of the Reward and Punishment Hall, although you have performed well this time, there are still some ghosts who rely on their own strength to commit evil in the depths of the wilderness and get away with it. They think that since they are far away from the Offering Pavilion, we can't control them. This is impossible."
"Even the ghost officials in our Reward and Punishment Hall were besieged by ghosts while enforcing the law, and there were casualties. Therefore, I will announce the criminal law list for next week! The captains and team leaders of each brigade should listen carefully. Catch the ghosts and souls that should be caught, and destroy those that should be destroyed. Do not show mercy..."
Then Zuo Weiran took out a scroll, opened it, and began to announce the contents.
That scroll is the criminal law list!
And every time he made an announcement, several teams would come forward eager to take on the mission and receive the reward or punishment orders from him.
However, at the beginning, the contents on the criminal law list were not difficult to solve. They were all things like theft and robbery.
But more than ten minutes later, what Zuo Weiran announced surprised me a little.
On the criminal law list, there were actually some abominable things such as ghosts killing ghosts, ghosts abusing ghosts, ghosts attacking ghost officials, etc. Each thing corresponds to a task.
After hearing the descriptions of those events one by one, I thought to myself, the underworld is not much quieter than the world of the living.
(to be continued)
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