Fang Yun was holding the huge black pearl in his hand and was about to speak when Zong Wuyuan suddenly bowed to Wu Jiuyi and said, "Master Wu, there is something I don't understand. Please enlighten me."
"If it is related to this case, you can ask questions, but don't waste too much time." Wu Jiu said.
Zong Wuyuan said, "Back then, the Lei family did not congratulate Fang Yun when he was crowned as a Void Saint, and they were punished with the Three Rites of Fire. Of course, I admit that although the Lei family did not commit a crime, they made a mistake. After all, the Lei family is equivalent to a Void Saint family. In terms of merit, the Lei family is not much different from an ordinary family. Fang Yun killed him, but he could not provide evidence to prove that Lei Chongmo was the first to kill him. This is a typical violation of etiquette. Is what I said the truth?"
Wu Jiu nodded and said, "Xu Sheng killed the head of the Xu Sheng family. Even though the Punishment Hall cannot punish him directly because it is outside the Shengyuan Continent, the Li Hall and the Holy Court are still there, so they will still discuss the punishment. When the evil king killed Fang Xu Sheng, someone in the Li Hall proposed to severely punish the evil king, but at that time, the status of the two was very different. Not only did Fang Xu Sheng not die, but his literary rank broke through, so no one mentioned this matter again."
"Okay! This matter was done by Fang Xusheng alone, and the Palace of Rites and the Holy Court cannot punish his family. And the seriousness of this matter far exceeds the Lei family's refusal to give gifts to Xusheng, so the level of punishment must be above the Three Rites Fire, and the 'Great Three Rites Punishment' should be imposed!" Zong Wuyuan said.
Wu Jiu looked at Zong Wuyuan in astonishment.
The whole audience was silent.
"How can this be possible!"
The person who spoke was Jiang Hechuan, who was usually good-tempered. But at this moment, he was so angry that his hair and beard stood on end and his face was full of anger.
"The young people of the Zong family are becoming more and more unruly!" A university scholar of the Kong family criticized bluntly.
"Wu Yuan, that's too much!" Yan Yukong's voice exploded in the air. As a citizen of Qing, it was the first time that Yan Yukong expressed his opinion in public.
Many people from Qing looked at Yan Yukong with complicated expressions, but a few also showed admiration.
Ao Huang stopped to look at the discussion board and asked Fang Yun: "I know about the Three Rites Fire, but why have I never heard of the Great Three Rites Punishment? It looks very powerful."
Fang Yun nodded and said, "The punishment for the third level of ceremony is a very serious punishment in the ceremonial hall. The punishment above that is deprivation of the literary position."
"What is the Great Third Rite?"
Fang Yun said: "The word 'ritual' and its meaning actually come from worship. Offering sacrifices to heaven, worshipping the earth, and offering sacrifices to ancestral temples are the three most important rituals, so they are called the Three Great Rites."
"Why are these three gifts the greatest?" Ao Huang always liked to ask questions.
Fang Yun continued, "Humans worship the sky to show their reverence for the laws of nature; they worship the earth to express their gratitude for the earth's nurturing of the human race; they worship the ancestral temple to commemorate the sages. You see, although the human race in Shengyuan Continent also worships those illusory ghosts and gods and creates legendary figures, what they respect most in their hearts are still the heaven, the earth and their ancestors. This is the purest and most simple belief, because we, the descendants of the Chinese nation, know what raised us. On the contrary, those barbarians believe in ghosts and gods more than they believe in their ancestors. Why? Their hearts are too fragile, their minds are too confused, and their desires are too strong."
"Think about it, when we worship our ancestors, what they have done and what they have achieved are all real, and do not need to be proven. No one can deny it. Our belief is true. At the same time, our ancestors will not allow us to live forever or receive any preferential treatment after death. Our worship of our ancestors is the purest form of gratitude, and this belief is sincere."
"Think about it again. The barbarians worship those imaginary ghosts and gods. They themselves cannot prove it, so they can only make up stories. There is no need to deny it. You can tell at a glance that it is fake. Therefore, their beliefs are fake and false. At the same time, they preach that ghosts and gods are omnipotent and can make people immortal and even go to a better place after death. So a little deduction can show that their beliefs are the most utilitarian and greedy. They use their own time and money to exchange for those things. This is not belief, it is simply a business transaction! But those monsters like to proclaim that they have beliefs and mock humans for not having beliefs. Why?"
“True faith flows in the blood and is rooted in the bones. Only business can shout it out repeatedly.”
Ao Huang suddenly realized and said, "No wonder after entering the human race, I always felt that the demons and barbarians' belief in ghosts and gods was ridiculous. Now I understand that the human race's belief is true belief, and the demons and barbarians' belief is essentially a kind of greed."
Fang Yun said: "However, even among the demons and barbarians, there are some who are truly sincere and pure, such as the Star Demons and Barbarians, so their beliefs are no different from those of humans. You have to remember that it is not the ghosts and gods that are bad, but those who are hypocritical. Those who like to say how bad humans are and how good demons and barbarians are must be ignorant and stupid, and at the same time very greedy."
"What is the punishment for the three great ceremonies?" Ao Huang asked.
Fang Yun continued, "The punishment of the three great rites is punishment from the three aspects of heaven, earth and ancestral temple. The first punishment is to weaken a person's connection with the star of Wenqu, the second punishment is to weaken the connection with the vitality of heaven and earth, and the third punishment is that one is not allowed to enter any temple in this life unless he is promoted to a semi-saint."
Ao Huang glared and said angrily: "This punishment is too severe. Doesn't it mean that as long as you are in Shengyuan Continent, you will never be promoted to a higher position in your life?"
"You can definitely say that." Fang Yun said.
"The little bastard from the Zong family really doesn't know his place! I just saw on the discussion board that a man named Zong Wuyuan wanted to become Zhang Longxiang's disciple but was rejected by you, and he still wasn't convinced. Haha, I almost laughed out loud at that time. Is this the person?" Ao Huang looked at Zong Wuyuan with interest.
Zong Wuyuan gritted his teeth and said loudly: "If the Li Palace punishes Fang Yun too lightly, I will call on all the scholars in the world to protest at the foot of Daofeng Mountain!"
"I will go there myself too!" Zong Ganyu's words were loud and clear.
The people of Jing looked at the father and son with contempt. They were desperate because of the failure of Jiao Sheng, and only by punishing Fang Yun could they avoid complete defeat.
Wu Jiu sighed softly. Zong Wuyuan was right. If the rules of the Li Hall were to be strictly enforced, Fang Yun's punishment would be higher than the Three Li Fires. This kind of punishment was not a law explicitly stipulated by the Criminal Hall. Even if Fang Yun was a virtual saint, it could only be weakened, not offset.
After a few breaths, Wu Jiu said, "Fang Xusheng, what do you think about this matter?"
Fang Yun was like an old scholar who looked at the world from the top of a mountain. He said calmly, "The premise for punishing me with the Great Three Rites is that there is no evidence. But now, I have evidence!"
After Fang Yun finished speaking, he injected a trace of dragon power into the black pearl through the Wen Palace Panlong.
Suddenly, the black pearl emitted countless rays of light, and finally the rays were cast towards the sky, forming a vivid light and shadow in the sky.
Many people exclaimed as they looked at the light and shadow, because the light and shadow seemed to have turned into a real world, in which the sky was covered with dark clouds and the ground was as hard as iron.
Directly in front of him was the back of a young man in a brocade robe, and far away in the distance sat a university scholar in blue.
The university scholar was muttering to himself: "This ignorant child needs to be taught a lesson so that he can learn to respect his elders."
The grand scholar looked exactly like Lei Chongmo's portrait, but was far more real than the portrait.
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