If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1081 The Little Man Yu Fengxian

Yang Chan's ability to gain the approval of the Lotus Lantern demonstrates that she possesses a pure and benevolent heart.

With her boundless love, she lit the Lotus Lantern, and its gentle, pure light illuminated the entire "forbidden land."

The "desolate area," formed by a massive amount of resentment, death energy, and yin energy, which was drawn into the earth's vein energy, not only quickly became clean and clear, but also transformed into a blessed land in the underworld to soothe resentment.

"They have been saved!"

Yang Chanqiao's face shone with a holy light of satisfaction and joy, truly resembling a "Holy Mother".

"Where are Zhang Er and Tian Rong?" Qinglian Jushi asked.

Yang Chan's expression froze, and she murmured, "It seems I didn't see Yu Fengxian. She must have kidnapped someone."

The immortals looked worried and said, "If Yu Fengxian really imprisons them, the anti-Qin campaign, which was in a very good position, will immediately collapse by more than half."

"Alas, we really shouldn't have gotten so close to Xianyang. Yu Fengxian is too dangerous. No matter how well we hide or how perfectly we disguise ourselves, she seems to be able to spot any 'rebellion' at a glance. Her reputation for discerning right from wrong is well-deserved."

"But this is outside the city, and there is no dragon aura outside the city."

"Anyway, I don't believe she just happened to run into Zhang Er and the others. She arrived without any warning, appearing right next to them before we even had a chance to react."

The immortals discussed for a long time without reaching a conclusion, and dared not enter Xianyang City to investigate themselves. They could only pass the message on to their friends and retainers among the heroes of the land, asking them to use their connections in the Xianyang court to see if they could get Zhang Er and the other "traitors of Qin" out.

Well, it sounds a bit far-fetched, but it's not impossible.

Back then, Xiang Liang and his nephew Xiang Yu killed people everywhere and even assassinated nobles and local officials of the Qin Dynasty. After being arrested and imprisoned, they were sentenced to death according to the law.

However, Xiang Jia managed to pull some strings and get the prison clerk in charge of the trial to release the uncle and nephew without charge.

Sima Xin, the Qin prison official who released them, was later promoted and given a raise, becoming a senior official who could attend court assemblies.

In the Qin Dynasty today, from the imperial court in Xianyang to the local prefectures, many officials are descendants of the six states, or even former officials of the six states.

Emperor Renhuang relocated the nobles of the six kingdoms to the Epang Palace for centralized management, precisely because he did not want them to remain in the provinces and affect his rule.

If the Qin Dynasty can be ruled by several generations of emperors, the influence of the former rulers of the six states will surely gradually disappear.

However, the Qin Dynasty unified the world in less than two hundred years.

Many nobles from the old dynasty did not die at all.

Leaving aside the concerns and plans of the "anti-Qin heroes".

Xiao Yu was indeed as Dou Gengyan had predicted.

Upon returning to Xianyang, I saw from afar that above the mass grave, resentment, death, and yin energy intertwined to form a towering pillar of smoke, a shocking sight, so I came to investigate.

If necessary, she would indeed channel the earth's veins and yin veins to release the vengeful spirits in the mass grave.

Encountering Zhang Er and Wei Jiu was accidental; recognizing them, however, was inevitable.

She doesn't need to use "divine eyes to distinguish between right and wrong" at all.

She could recognize the aura of this group of "hidden dragons" from miles away.

Even if she recognized them, she had no intention of paying them any attention.

Unfortunately, they brought this upon themselves. In Meng Qi's words, as the Grand Tutor of Qin, even if she had no intention of causing trouble, she was easily drawn by fate, and her luck clashed with that of the rebel leader, and she became entangled with him in karma.

She casually tossed them into the nightmare dimension she had woven herself, while the nightmare itself was thrown deep into the dream dimension of the mass grave.

They probably won't lose their lives, but they'll definitely suffer a lot.

This can be considered a test of the effectiveness of the fourth chapter of "The Great Magic Eye Technique," titled "Night Demon."

The effect is strong.

Nightmares can indeed easily blur the lines between reality and dreams.

She can freely travel between dreams and reality, weaving dreams and pulling people in reality into her fabricated illusions.

If necessary, she can even bring the "demon" from her dreams into reality and use it as a "real illusion" to kill people.

Faced with her new tactics, Zhang Er and Wei Jiu, along with their group of "heroes of China" who had already triggered the Great Annihilation of their fathers, were neither able to understand what was happening nor able to resist.

After casually punishing them, Xiaoyu immediately used his dream escape technique to return to the Imperial Observatory in Xianyang.

Just like what Zhang Er and the others saw, Guan Zhenren of the Qingyu Division suddenly saw a large number of purple bubbles appearing around him.

The boundary between dreams and reality is broken.

The surrounding scenery, which was originally real and tangible, became blurry and illusory, while Xiaoyu's figure quickly became real.

In the blink of an eye, everything returned to normal.

Apart from Grand Tutor Yu's inexplicable appearance beside me, nothing seems to have changed.

"Master Yu? Am I dreaming?"

When Master Guan first encountered this dream escape technique, his mind was filled with astonishment and confusion.

“You are indeed dreaming, only the dream has become reality,” Xiaoyu said with a smile.

Just as Master Guan was about to ask her what secret technique she had used, he suddenly remembered the Xianyang Incident and said with a serious expression, "Did you receive news of the coup by the Marquis of Donghai and the strangulation of Empress Dowager Zhao?"

Xiao Yu nodded and said, "The judge of the underworld found me and asked me to return to Xianyang to handle the funeral arrangements for the 'Regent Empress Dowager'."

Later, I overheard a group of traitors whispering.

It turns out someone was instigating the deceased Empress Dowager Zhao to send me back to Xianyang to get involved in this mess.

"Alas, I don't know what to say. Xianyang is indeed full of all sorts of demons and monsters, and it's in complete chaos." Master Guan looked distressed. "The celestial changes we observed at the beginning of the year have all come true. All sorts of disasters are becoming a reality."

Xiao Yu said, "Don't overthink it. Deal with things as they come, starting with the big and then the small, and addressing the urgent matters first. What is the most important matter for the Imperial Observatory right now?"

Master Guan said, "The Marquis of the Eastern Sea has brought a group of Qi Refiners from the Eastern Sea back to Xianyang. They want to seize your position as Grand Tutor."

"This is a small matter, and it's my personal business, so there's no rush," Xiaoyu said.

Master Guan said, "The Marquis of Lieyang, Zhao Gao, and Li Si have joined forces to support the young prince Huhai to ascend the throne as emperor."

"There's no rush," Xiaoyu said.

Master Guan said urgently, "It's very urgent! Yesterday, before dawn, while the Empress Dowager and Lao Ai were staying up late to study the Qi Shadows and had just fallen asleep, Marquis Lieyang led his men to storm the palace."

They didn't stop fighting until midnight last night.

Then Li Si, Zhao Gao, and Marquis Lieyang divided their forces into several routes. Li Si persuaded the civil and military officials in the court one by one, while Marquis Lieyang was stationed outside the city and began to reorganize the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Guanzhong region.

With military power in hand, and the full support of civil and military officials, they will surely announce Huhai as the new emperor at the morning court tomorrow.

If you want to do something, you have to do it now.

"Then tell me, what do I need to do?" Xiaoyu asked.

Master Guan paused for a moment, then said, "How would I know what you're going to do?"
If you don't oppose Prince Huhai's ascension to the throne, you don't need to do anything. But alas, now that Marquis Lieyang and his forces have gained momentum, Master Yu should just wait for the situation to stabilize!

No matter who becomes emperor, the destiny of the Qin Dynasty's demise will not change.

Why should we care who sits on the throne right now?
Moreover, Prince Huhai had previously visited your home to offer New Year's greetings, showing you the respect due to a disciple, and you had a very pleasant conversation.

"Yes, I did send New Year's greetings. It's been so long, how did you know?" Xiaoyu asked curiously.

Master Guan said, "I don't know who told you this, but many people know about it."

The young prince, Huhai, is respectful of his teachers, humble and polite; even someone as eccentric as you speaks highly of him.

"Did I praise him highly? Well, I did say a few polite words at the time."

Xiao Yu seemed thoughtful and said, "It seems that Hu Hai and Zhao Gao began preparing for today's upheaval long ago." By taking the opportunity of New Year's greetings to express closeness and respect, theoretically, even if he couldn't win her over, he could at least partially alleviate her resentment towards his "usurpation."

"What is the current situation of Empress Dowager Zhao?" she asked.

Master Guan said, "She is dead, and her soul has temporarily gone to the City of the Wrongfully Dead. For details, ask Yang Li. The Earth Emperor Palace also sent a Celestial Master to the City of the Wrongfully Dead to investigate the situation."

Xiao Yu beckoned his servant, Fatty Mole, to invite Yangli Daotong over.

"The Empress Dowager's condition is not good. If she cannot be appeased, she may become a ghost king. If Master Yu has time, it would be best to go and see her."

Even if we cannot fulfill her wish, we must still preside over the Water and Land Ritual to dispel the resentment within her,” Yang Li said.

Xiaoyu asked doubtfully, "Given Empress Dowager Zhao's personality, could she really become a ghost king? If she had the magnanimity to be a ghost king, she wouldn't have been controlled by Lao Ai, alienated from the Ying royal family and the court officials, and ultimately hanged."

“She died a horrible death, so horrible that her resentment was so intense it could transform her into a ghost king!” Yang Li said solemnly, with obvious pity and sympathy in his eyes. “The children she secretly had with Lao Ai were all killed right in front of her.”

His brains splattered, and his death was extremely gruesome.

It is said that Empress Dowager Zhao went mad at that time, like a madman, shouting that she wanted to kill all the 'rebels'.

Otherwise, Marquis Lieyang wouldn't have strangled her.

Master Guan said, "It was not Marquis Lieyang who strangled the Empress Dowager; it was Prince Huhai who gave the order. The person who carried it out was also a disciple of Huhai."

"What orders does Marquis Lieyang want that Prince Huhai dare to refuse?" Yang Li sneered.

Master Guan said, "Lord Lieyang doesn't necessarily want the Empress Dowager to die, but Prince Huhai can't tolerate her! Only when the Empress Dowager dies can Huhai be at ease."

Xiaoyu asked, "According to the old system, how should a case like Empress Dowager Zhao's be handled?"

Yang Li pondered for a moment and said, "It's hard to say. If the Empress Dowager had died while the Emperor was still alive, even the ghost messengers wouldn't dare touch her soul, let alone bring it to the City of the Wrongfully Dead."

How to handle this now depends on the attitude of the imperial court and the new emperor.

If she is to be buried according to the rites for a regent empress dowager, then we will have to bring her spirit back and send it to her mausoleum.

If the new emperor intends to condemn her and forbid her from being buried in the imperial mausoleum, thus denying her the blessed burial place of an empress dowager, it would be better for her to return to the cycle of reincarnation, rather than live like a lonely ghost, weeping day and night in a barren and desolate land.

Master Guan sighed, "The new emperor has already made his stance clear."

The Empress Dowager died yesterday morning and has already settled in the City of the Wrongfully Dead.

Given the laziness and cowardice of the ghost messengers, how could they be so efficient?

The Empress Dowager died a terrible death, and her spirit refused to leave the palace, continuing to wail and curse.

Hu Hai could see ghosts. Hearing the ghost's cry made him panic, so he had a sorcerer use Taoist magic to send her soul into the City of the Wrongfully Dead.

They've already thrown them into the City of the Wrongfully Dead, clearly hoping the underworld will help suppress this evil spirit.

The underworld probably also felt that Empress Zhao was a hot potato, which is why it heeded her plea and sent a judge to find Master Yu.

Xiaoyu then asked, "Regardless of the Qin Dynasty's heyday or its current decline."

"If a feudal lord were to die under normal circumstances, what should our Imperial Observatory do?"

Without the slightest hesitation, Yang Li said fluently, "Before the establishment of the Underworld, the human king ruled the human kingdom during his lifetime and was buried in a grand mausoleum after his death."

There are still vast and prosperous underworld kingdoms to rule over.

They do not have to suffer the pain of the six realms of reincarnation.

There's no need to pay attention to the retribution from the underworld.

The treatment a ruler receives after death depends primarily on the strength of his nation, and secondarily on his character and conduct.

They were so powerful that they dominated the land during their lifetime, wielding the authority of a human king, or that after death they were protected by powerful immortals, with even the underworld officials不敢找门 (不敢找门 - meaning "dare not come to their door"). Just like in ancient times, they still ruled the underworld kingdom in blessed lands, eternally enjoying the blessings of a human ruler.

If a nation is not strong enough, it may be dragged to the Yama's Palace by the underworld officials and forced to undergo judgment.

Given the current situation of the Qin Dynasty

Yang Li looked at Xiao Yu with a hesitant gaze and said, "Empress Dowager Zhao is not just desperately seeking help from someone in dire need."

If you are willing, you do have the ability to stand up for her and save her from a major disaster.

Now, the new emperor Huhai is clearly unwilling to treat her well, and there is absolutely no hope of receiving imperial decrees or any human intervention.

If even you ignore her, she'll probably be dragged to the underworld to be judged for her good and evil deeds in this life.

For her crimes, she might be cast into the eighteenth level of hell, or even reborn as an animal, a truly miserable fate.

Xiaoyu seemed to be thinking, and said, "Now it seems that the Ten Kings of Hell really do have a reason to exist."

Even a human king is still a human being, and as such, he should be responsible for the karmic consequences and evil deeds he commits.

Yang Li shook his head and said, "Ghosts and gods depend on humans and are used to bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and changing their stance according to the wind."

Ordinary deceased souls who offer gifts or perform rituals will receive extra care from ghosts and gods.

How could emperors and generals possibly receive a fair trial?

"At least it's better than being completely uncontrolled in the past," Xiaoyu said.

"Are you not going to rescue Empress Dowager Zhao?" Yang Li asked.

Xiaoyu said, "I don't know how to save her, but I plan to go to the underworld to see her."

Before meeting Empress Dowager Zhao, I need to write several petitions to present to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell.

Yang Li, your spirit has left your body and personally delivered my petition to the great gods.

After obtaining their permission and understanding, and finding out their bottom line, I will then personally go to the underworld.

"Another petition?" Yang Li asked awkwardly.

Master Guan also looked strange.

"As the Celestial Master of the Great Qin Dynasty, I need to go to the Underworld on official business and write a petition explaining the situation. Is there any problem?" Xiaoyu asked.

Yang Li said, "Do you know what the gods of Mount Tai are saying about you behind your back?"

They say you have a sweet face but a dark heart, a smile that hides a knife, and that you are a hypocritical villain.

The name "Honey-tongued, dagger-hearted Phoenix Fairy" has already spread throughout the Shinto world.

Xiaoyu retorted angrily, "Who's spreading rumors about me? When have I ever been a villain?"

Yang Li said, "Have you forgotten that last year at the end of the year, you asked the Third Holy Mother to help deliver a petition, which showed respect and humility, and the words were extremely flattering?"

As a result, you turned around and slapped the Emperor of the Eastern Peak, causing the Dai Temple at the foot of Mount Tai to collapse.

The following year, before the Lantern Festival was even over, you went to Mount Hua again. What blasphemous thing did you do to the Golden Heavenly King?
This has made the God of Mount Hua grind his teeth at you, wishing he could eat your flesh and sleep on your skin.

After the Lantern Festival, hey, Mount Tai is upside down again.

Did you do this? I heard from Master Guan that you disrupted the geomantic veins of Shu and diverted them to Mount Tai.

If someone is outwardly respectful but stabs you in the back, your reputation will be ruined.

Now they're sending petitions to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and the Ten Kings of Hell; could it be that they're up to no good again?

Xiaoyu was both shocked and furious: Damn it, I only submitted a petition once, how could my reputation be ruined like this? It must be the gods of the Five Sacred Mountains playing tricks!
"Master Guan, I haven't been back for several months. Have there been any earthquake warnings in various parts of Kyushu?"

While Fellow Daoist Yangli was delivering his petition, I first helped the people of China mitigate the effects of the earthquake.

(End of this chapter)