The Great Seminary

Chapter 274 Fish Roe
After Jiang Lianpeng was reduced to ashes, Zhang Gui, with a cold face, casually subdued all the remaining guards of the 'Compassionate People Society'.

He then ordered Zhao Sanshi to lead his hundred stone corpse warriors to thoroughly search the hiding place of the Ciren Society.

For the collapsed houses, they lifted them up one brick at a time to search for the missing pieces.

Check for anything suspicious, especially things like insect eggs; bring them up immediately.

Zhao Sanshi solemnly replied, "Yes," and led his men to search the place.

Zhang Gui, whose divine blessings had dissipated and who had returned to his normal appearance, began to personally interrogate the captured members of the 'Compassionate People Society'.

After questioning everyone, it turned out that not a single one of them knew what a 'phosphorus-free earthworm' was.

Even when the topic of the Ciren Society's collusion with the Earth Demon Clan was brought up, they all seemed incredibly surprised and horrified, as if they would rather die than believe it.

Without any choice.

Zhang Gui had no choice but to conduct the trial again from the other side.

Because he started from a lowly rank and worked his way up to a high position the first time, this time he began as a "Golden Guard" in the Xuanwu Hall of the Tzu Chi Association.

As a result, Zhang Gui sat on a stone wall that was only half intact, and just as he opened his mouth...

The Jin Haiwei then threw his head to the ground, his face covered in blood, and shouted:

“If a man dies, he will die!

But if you accuse my Compassionate People Association of having connections with the Hundred Races of Earth Demons, that is absolutely slander!
In all honesty and justice, I, a compassionate person, would risk the wrath of the world to save humanity, yet I am condemned by everyone. And what about people like you?

Seeing this human trafficker posing as a loyal minister and general, Zhang Gui finally couldn't suppress his anger.

She stood up and kicked him in the mouth.

"You, with your bear-like appearance, dare to call yourself a man? You have no conscience!"

You bastard, I'll teach you a lesson.

Of all the things that are considered "outrageous by the world," a hundred out of ten are wrong.

Therefore, a gentleman would not do such a thing!

"If no one dares to do or change anything that is 'outrageous to the world,' wouldn't the world remain unchanged for eternity?"

"A gentleman should not defy the world's condemnation, but a sage should not shirk his duty!"

Zhang Gui growled:
"So there are still people like Lao Tzu in this world to change it and bring about a revolution."

Who do you think you are?

The last kick knocked Jin Haiwei unconscious. "Human traffickers who buy and sell people and harm living beings."

They even dare to cover up their actions; they're truly despicable scoundrels who're getting worse with age.

Enraged, he lost all interest in continuing to associate with the "Compassionate People's Society" members who had been brainwashed by the organization and whose true intentions were unclear—whether genuine or feigned, and who were distorting the truth.

He sat down in front of the half-stone wall, stared blankly at the blue sky for a while, and closed his eyes, lost in thought.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Thirty's excited voice suddenly rang out.
"Your Majesty, we have found a strange little object. It doesn't look like an insect egg, but rather like fish roe."

“Oh,” Zhang Gui suddenly opened his eyes, “Give it to me.”

"Yes." Zhao Sanshi stepped forward a few paces and handed over a piece about the size of half a quail egg.
It looked like a small, strange, wet, slippery piece of fish roe that had just been taken from the belly of a mother fish that had been cut open.
He placed the items into Zhang Gui's hands.

Zhang Gui took the 'fish roe block' and squeezed it, then used his divine power to envelop it.

Based on past experience, one can sense anything strange or living, even the remains of a recently deceased person whose life force has not yet dissipated.

But this time there was no response; it was clearly just an ordinary, inanimate object.

But Zhang Gui didn't give up. He played with the 'fish roe' and examined it carefully, even holding it up to the sunlight, but unfortunately, he still found nothing.

Just then, Jin Haiwei of the Ciren Society, whom he had just knocked unconscious, slowly woke up.

In a daze, he unconsciously uttered a "sigh."

"Sigh." Zhang Gui's heart stirred, and he got up and went to the Jin Haiwei again. Looking down at him, he broke off a fish roe the size of a grain of rice from the 'fish roe block' in his hand.

Then he recited: "The Ming and Song dynasty's 'Great Edict' states..."

Those who forcibly buy people are imprisoned in "standing cages" and displayed in the streets for seven days; those who are not executed are exiled, numbering three thousand.

The words fell.

Jin Haiwei's body, which had been lying paralyzed on the ground, slowly straightened up on its own, standing upright like a zombie. His neck was straight, and his blood-stained face was filled with gritted teeth, but he did not utter a single word of begging for mercy.

"Although you can't distinguish between good and evil and are quite muddle-headed, you do have some backbone."

Seeing this, Zhang Gui casually praised him, then pinched the 'fish roe' and stretched it towards a crack in Jin Haiwei's face.

Unexpectedly, Jin Haiwei, who was originally a tough guy, suddenly contorted his face to the extreme when he saw the fish roe, and let out a scream of "Ahhh!"

His body struggled in vain, bound tightly by the power of Zhang Gui's divine authority and the rules of the elements.

He pleaded desperately, "Spare me, my lord, spare me!"

Zhang Gui was taken aback, a strange expression appearing on his face. He raised the 'fish roe' in his hand and asked:

"Do you know what this is?"

Jin Haiwei hesitated for a moment and remained silent.

Seeing him become stubborn again, he was truly both stupid and wicked.

Without further hesitation, Zhang Gui pressed the 'fish roe' directly into the crack on Jin Haiwei's face.
"You deserve to die!"

As a result, Jin Haiwei's mental defenses finally collapsed completely, and he began to howl irrationally.
"Kill me, kill me!"
I know these eggs are from a phosphate-free earthworm.

I know that Ciren is colluding with the 'Earth Demon Clan'.

They make a living by buying and selling people.

Using the corpses of those refugees who were on the verge of death, those who starved to death, and those who were killed, to help the phosphorus-free earth dragons cultivate intelligent dragon offspring is like adding icing on the cake.

They exchanged it for many treasures that couldn't be bought with gold or silver.

Zhang Gui listened quietly from the side.

Under divine intervention, the 'fish roe' that had been stuffed into Jin Haiwei's facial wound, which had originally seemed lifeless, began to radiate a 'luster' of life.

A feeling of joy welled up inside me:
"it is true.

These 'fish roe' are actually the eggs of a phosphorus-free earthworm.

This treasure wasn't carried by Jiang Lianpeng; it vanished into thin air along with his grandson.

This means that I only lost that treasure robe that could transform into a ten-zhang-tall 'phosphorus-free earth dragon'.

So it's a mixed bag.
At the same time, he sensed that the more excited Jin Haiwei was, the more violently his blood and qi churned, and the more obvious the life luster of the phosphate-free insect eggs hidden in the wound on his face became.

Conversely.

The brighter the life luster of the phosphate-free insect eggs, the weaker the fluctuations of Jin Haiwei's qi and blood become.

Finally, even his breath became weak.

She could only murmur weakly.

“My wife, children, and elderly parents are all controlled by powerful figures in the ‘society.’ I can’t let them die!”

I didn't want to either, I didn't want to, don't blame me, don't blame me."

At this moment, when divine sense was used to perceive the phosphate-free insect eggs stuffed in the wound on his face, the life radiance emanating from them was still increasing at an extremely slight rate.

It seems unlikely that even if Jin Haiwei died, the insect eggs would hatch.

(End of this chapter)