vrcanaries Chapter 415 Fate and Merit
Chapter 415 Fate and Merit
In the square outside the government office.
Before Wen Yuchao could speak to the fish monster, the girl from the Hu family shouted, "Lord City Lord, I want to sue this fish monster."
Since her uncle is unreliable, she can only save herself.
The way to save yourself is to muddy the water.
She didn't believe that the city lord really dared to judge a Mahayana-level fish monster.
As long as the city lord does not dare to judge the fish monster, the charges against her will naturally be invalid.
"What are you going to sue it for?"
Wen Yuchao said.
"This fish monster killed my husband, the king is blessed. Please, Lord City Lord, judge this fish monster for me."
Ms. Hu said with a hint of pride.
Judging from her expression, she was obviously not sad at all about Wang San's death.
Wen Yuchao looked at the fish demon and said, "Fish demon Wenbi, the daughter of the Hu family accused you of killing her husband, Wang Youfu. What do you have to say about this?"
"Your Excellency is wronged."
The fish demon did not get angry, but said with a look of grievance: "I was just trying to scare Wang Youfu as a prank, but I never thought he was so timid that he would be scared to death by me."
"Why do you want to scare Wang Youfu?"
Wen Yuchao said.
"I was having fun in the water, but Wang Youfu caught me and later demanded a great opportunity from me."
The fish demon said, "It was because of my opportunity that he became rich and powerful later on. But he didn't appreciate his blessings at all and committed evil in the village. That's why I want to take revenge on him."
Of course, he took revenge on Wang Youfu not because Wang Youfu had done anything evil. Even if Wang Youfu was a good person, he would still take revenge on Wang Youfu.
But he was also a wise demon, and he knew very well that saying this could win favor for himself and reduce his punishment.
Sure enough, as soon as the fish demon finished speaking, whispers arose all around.
"It seems that this fish monster is indeed not a bad person."
"Wang Youfu has been in power for a year and a half. It never took revenge on Wang Youfu before. It's just that Wang Youfu has gone too far recently."
Not to mention the demon clan, even the human race present were no longer so hostile towards the fish demon.
"You are talking nonsense."
The Hu girl said anxiously: "If you hadn't killed Wang San, how could he have died?"
"I can vouch for the fish demon."
"And I."
One after another, women's voices were heard.
Soon after, several women appeared in the square.
"It's you."
The Hu daughter flew into a rage, "What do you bitches want to do? Are you trying to betray me?"
These women were actually Wang San’s concubines.
They were all abducted by Wang San and had long held a grudge against him.
In the past, they were afraid of Wang San and the Hu girl and dared not resist. They also knew that resistance was meaningless and would only lead to death.
Now that the city lord personally supports them, they are willing to give it a try.
"Wang San has been overindulging himself in sexual activities for many years, and his health has been deteriorating. He fainted here last month."
"Yes, there was no blood at the scene of Wang San's death. He died suddenly."
"On the contrary, Mrs. Hu was extremely vicious and cruel. Several of our sisters were beaten to death by her."
"She was also the one who killed Yang Xiuxiu's family."
Several concubines said one after another.
They also provided physical evidence, in which a concubine used a magic shell to secretly record a conversation in which Hu said she wanted to kill Yang Xiuxiu's family.
Mrs. Hu was trembling with anger.
The truth was out, and Wen Yuchao stopped dragging his feet: "Ms. Hu, we have the witnesses and evidence, what do you have to say?"
The Hu girl was in great sorrow.
Then, she said in a sharp voice: “I have nothing to say, but this fish monster also indirectly killed my husband. Doesn’t the city lord intend to give everyone an explanation?
Or, Lord City Lord, you only dare to punish a weak woman like me, and you dare not even say a word when you encounter a big monster?"
Wen Yuchao looked at her deeply, then said to the fish demon: "Wenbi, do you admit your guilt?"
All living creatures looked at the fish monster, and many of them thought that the fish monster did not admit its guilt, and were even furious.
Wen Bi said, "My Lord, I plead guilty."
Wen Yuchao nodded in satisfaction, then thought deeply for a while, picked up the warrant, and pronounced the verdict loudly: "Defendant, fish demon Wenbi, you have two choices, imprisonment for thirty years, or endure thirty lashes of thunder whip, which punishment are you willing to accept?"
Wen Bi said: "I am willing to endure thirty blows of thunder whip."
Upon hearing this, many creatures thought that Wen Yuchao was trying to fool people. This so-called thunder whip must be a painless punishment for the fish monster.
"Hahaha, I knew it."
The Hu girl laughed, "Sir, I am willing to endure the thunder whip instead of other punishments."
"If you insist, that's fine."
Wen Yuchao smiled.
Then he ordered people to execute the thunder whip punishment on Wen Bi.
Thunder Whip is not just a name, it is a whip made of real thunder.
This was what Wen Yuchao asked for from the Lord of Thunder Spirit.
For those monks or monsters with profound cultivation, ordinary punishments are completely useless to them and can't even hurt their skin.
After thinking it over, Wen Yuchao went to the Lord of Thunder Spirit to ask for the Thunder Whip, which was a substitute for the thunder tribulation.
Although its power is not as strong as that of a thunder tribulation, it is equally terrifying and is very scary for Mahayana cultivators.
Moreover, the power of this thunder whip will be adjusted according to the prisoner's cultivation level.
The higher the prisoner's cultivation level, the more powerful the thunder whip will be.
It can be said that the Thunder Whip was created by the Lord of Thunder Spirit based on the heavenly tribulation.
When the bailiff whipped the fish monster with a whip, blood marks appeared on its body, and a crack several feet long and several feet wide appeared on the ground next to it.
The cracks on the ground made Ms. Hu turn pale.
If such a terrifying thunder whip hit her, wouldn't she be beaten into pieces?
After thirty lashes, even with the fish demon's cultivation level, it was still covered with scars.
Everyone in the square applauded and praised Wen Yuchao's fair judgment.
This whipping is not that simple. The residual power of thunder will remain in the body for three months.
This means that the fish monster will have to endure three more months of torture.
The fish demon couldn't help but regret it at this moment.
If it had known that the thunder whip would be so terrifying, it might not have agreed to Master Xuji.
Of course, this idea changed after it met Zen Master Xuji again.
At the same time, Wen Yuchao looked at the Hu girl and said, "Defendant, the Hu girl, you have committed a heinous crime. I sentence you to death. Of course, you can also change it to 100 lashes..."
"No, I accept the death penalty."
Ms. Hu said subconsciously.
She would rather die than be whipped by that terrifying thunder whip.
After saying this, she said fearfully, "I don't want to die..."
But she had no say in this.
Ms. Hu was sentenced to death and executed a month later.
After the trial, Wen Yuchao announced the adjournment of the court.
The impact of this trial was far from being weakened by Wen Yuchao's withdrawal from court, but instead became increasingly severe.
Just as Zen Master Xuji had expected, all living beings in the world were paying attention to this trial.
When they learned that the fish monsters were all being tried in Nanling City, Wen Yuchao finally made a fair judgment.
Both the human race and the demon race were excited.
This is not a big deal.
However, this has never happened before.
From this incident, all living beings in the world saw something called "order" and the sanctity of Qingzhou's laws.
In Qingzhou, even if a big demon harms people, he will be brought to justice, but he will not be deliberately targeted.
The trial of this case can be said to be completely fair and just.
For a moment, Qingzhou became a holy place, a holy place of order in the eyes of all living beings in the world.
This is extremely important to the vast majority of living beings in the world.
This makes countless creatures yearn for Qingzhou.
Many creatures rushed to Qingzhou overnight, wanting to become a part of Qingzhou.
Of course, most creatures still find it difficult to leave their homeland.
These creatures are looking forward to the Qingzhou royal army arriving soon to rescue them.
As for the Daxia army, its reputation was already extremely bad.
Now with the comparison of Li Qianjue's army, there is no doubt that the people of Daxia army will turn against them.
Su Mu clearly felt that the major temples had ushered in a wave of luck.
"fate?"
Su Mu was quite surprised and seemed to be thinking about something.
It seems that his understanding of fate is still superficial.
I didn't expect that Zen Master Xuji's actions would actually cause the fortunes of the major temples to soar.
From this we can see that the human heart is a very wonderful thing.
When the "human hearts" of countless creatures yearn for Qingzhou and the temple, this will bring great luck to Qingzhou and the temple.
On average, each temple’s qi increased by fifty.
Now there are a total of thirty-three temples in various places, which means that Su Mu did nothing, but ended up gaining more than fifteen hundred fortunes.
Not only that, as time goes by, this luck continues to grow.
The lion’s share of the credit for this achievement definitely belongs to Zen Master Xu Ji.
Of course, Yu Yao and Wen Yuchao also made certain contributions.
Su Mu has never been a stingy person.
These three people brought him a lot of luck, so he naturally did not hesitate to bestow merits on them.
Anyway, this thing called merit was something he completely made up.
If he didn't want to increase the value of his merits and let the people under his command work hard to do merits for him in the future, theoretically he could get as much merits as he wanted.
In the former foggy restricted area, the currency was ginkgo fruit.
However, condensing the ginkgo fruit also requires Su Mu to consume a certain amount of his own energy.
He simply created the concept of "merit", which did not cause any loss to himself at all.
The task of calculating merits was entrusted by Su Mu to his avatar who was in charge of the Hongmeng World.
The clone of the Hongmeng world is just like the way of heaven in the Hongmeng world.
Su Mu will give merit to whoever creates luck for him.
A destiny is equivalent to a merit.
Take the priesthood, for example.
The ninth rank hairy god requires ten merits.
An eighth-grade auxiliary god requires thirty merits.
To become a seventh-rank god, one needs three hundred merits.
To become a sixth-grade deity, one needs five hundred merits.
To control a fifth-grade god, one needs one thousand merits.
Su Mu considered himself to be very generous. The amount of merit required for different grades of divine posts was basically calculated according to the amount of Qi of the next level of True Immortal.
For example, a seventh-rank god corresponds to a lower-rank true immortal.
Lower-level True Immortals usually have 500 Qi points, but Su Mu only needs 300 merits.
This means that for his subordinates, we only need to create three hundred fortunes for him.
The sixth-grade classic god corresponds to the middle-level true immortal.
A middle-level True Immortal generally possesses one thousand energies.
His subordinates only need to contribute 500 points of luck to him.
This was to facilitate his subordinates to advance their clergy and thus increase their strength.
And this time.
Zen Master Xuji, the fish demon and Wen Yuchao definitely made a fortune.
These three created more than 1,500 destiny for Su Mu, and Su Mu gave them more than 1,500 merits in return.
Among them, Zen Master Xuji was the main contributor, and Su Mu bestowed on him a thousand merits.
The remaining luck was divided equally between Wen Yuchao and the fish demon.