My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 365 Thirty thousand!

Even though Kong Tianxiang had been mentally prepared, his expression was still quite interesting when he saw the corpse with his own eyes.

My younger brother, who was lively and energetic yesterday, is now lying on the floor as an empty shell, his soul completely gone, without a trace of will or spirit left.

Now, not only will his soul not return to the underworld, but he may never be able to reincarnate again!

After a long silence, Kong Tianxiang suddenly clenched his fist and asked, "How did my third brother die?"

"As you can see."

Li Wei pointed to the surrounding cells and said, "Your brother has been imprisoned in this solitary cell ever since he entered the Thunder Department. No one has ever come in, and he has never come into contact with any external objects! But his three souls and seven spirits just disappeared so suddenly!"

"The most coincidental thing is that the Thunder Prison's law monitoring system just happened to break down today. When we retrieved the surveillance footage, we couldn't see anything. Isn't that amazing?"

"Therefore, for such unfortunate people whose cause of death is unknown and leaves no trace, we generally assume that they committed suicide."

Kong Tianxiang's forehead veins throbbed: "My third brother would never commit suicide!"

"Moreover, after my third brother entered, his cultivation was suppressed by the Thunder Prison, and there are laws within the Thunder Prison specifically designed to protect the lives of prisoners!"

"How could someone without cultivation possibly resist the power of the laws?"

Li Weiyi shrugged and said, "Anything is possible, so please don't be so absolute, okay? What if he feels he has damaged the family's reputation and is so ashamed that he dies of shame?"

"Moreover, the laws are not omnipotent. If your brother has access to some loophole in the Heavenly Dao, who can stop him from seeking death?"

Kong Tianxiang was taken aback by Li Wei's words and couldn't help but say angrily, "If something happens in Lei Yu, your entire Lei Department will be punished. You can't possibly stay out of it either."

"Hahaha! Have you forgotten that I was seriously injured yesterday while trying to capture you? I'd like to see who dares to question me, the Heavenly Emperor's special envoy who was injured in the line of duty. Is it wrong for me to go into seclusion to heal my wounds?"

Kong Tianxiang had already witnessed Li Wei's methods and knew that this guy liked to strike first, so when he heard that Li Wei was in seclusion yesterday, he subconsciously suspected that this guy might be the murderer.

But upon closer reflection, Li Wei had neither the motive nor the ability to take action, so he ultimately dismissed his suspicions.

A flicker of fear crossed Kong Tianxiang's eyes: Could it really be because of this?
Li Wei suddenly moved closer, staring intently into his eyes: "What were you thinking just now?"

Kong Tianxiang subconsciously took a step back and said stiffly, "I wasn't thinking about anything."

"No! Something just popped into your head, why don't you tell me about it?"

Kong Tianxiang hadn't expected Li Wei to be so observant, and could only feign composure, saying, "Is Inspector Li going to fabricate something out of nothing and then use torture to extract a confession?"

"Heh! Since you won't accept my toast, don't blame me!" Li Wei said to the prison guard outside Lei's cell, "Bai Jie! Bring Mi Hongzhi to me!"

Kong Tianxiang's eyes widened instantly: "What are you trying to do?! This is Thunder Prison, are you crazy?"

"Hehe!" Li Wei let out a strange laugh.

“As I said before, due to some mysterious force, the surveillance camera in your brother’s room is broken and we haven’t been able to retrieve the footage.”

"Although we immediately sent people to invite experts from the Central Thunder Academy's Law System to come and inspect it, you know how experts are! They're usually very busy!"

"So, based on our initial estimate, the law monitoring system in the room won't be fixed until at least tomorrow morning!"

Kong Tianxiang was terrified and retreated step by step, shouting like a trapped beast, "You...you dare!!"

"Tsk tsk tsk! Master Kong, I haven't even said what I'm going to do yet, why are you so scared!"

Li Wei approached step by step, saying like a demon, "Don't worry! This is the Thunder Department. As the Inspector, I will naturally abide by the law."

Kong Tianxiang breathed a slight sigh of relief, but when he heard Li Wei's next words, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

"But you love your brother so much that you ignored my advice and insisted on examining his injuries yourself. As a result, you were invaded by the residual immortal meme. That's quite reasonable, isn't it?"

Meme?

What meme?!
My brother died because of a Sendoh meme?

Snap!
The door to the room opened, and Bai Jie walked in carrying Mi Hongzhi, whose head was as big as a bucket and whose face was covered with blue veins.

Kong Tianxiang only glanced at it, but he felt as if his head had grown larger, and he experienced waves of phantom pain, making his scalp tingle.

He broke down and exclaimed, "Li Wei!! I'll talk! I'll tell you everything!"

Li Wei smiled.

"I'm glad you're willing to explain yourself! But I have serious doubts about the veracity of your words! So, to ensure you're telling the truth, I'll terminate the agreement!!"

Aunt Bai grinned maliciously, picked up a syringe and pierced the vein on Mi Hongzhi's forehead, pulling out a tube of jet-black blood stained with meme poison!
"I don't know if this will work, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try, right?"

Although Aunt Bai is already several decades old, her body, nourished by spiritual energy, is like that of a girl in her twenties, full of youthful vitality.

Looking at her smiling face as she approached Kong Tianxiang step by step with the syringe, anyone who didn't know better would think she was a newly graduated nurse.

"Master Kong, it's time for your injection!"

"You bastard! If you dare treat me like this, you'll be fired from the Thunder Department tomorrow!"

"If necessary, I can submit my resignation now! After losing my position as Lei Li, I can devote myself wholeheartedly to my work as a secretary!"

"But Master Kong, your fate may not be so good!"

"You...you no!!!"

The arms cannot twist the thighs.

Kong Tianxiang's cultivation was already completely sealed in the Thunder Prison. When he encountered the two kind-hearted people, Li Wei and Bai Jie, his fate was predictable.

Li Wei looked at him with emotion and said:

"What a touching story it is that a beloved older brother was infected with memes while investigating the cause of his younger brother's death!"

"Don't worry, Master Kong, we will definitely help you become famous in Zhongzhou City! We will make you a model of brotherhood!"

Kong Tianxiang, whose head was already swelling, rolled his eyes and clung tightly to Li Wei's leg, yelling, "I'll talk! I'll tell you everything! Help me!!"

Li Wei observed for a moment and found that the guy's headshot speed was very slow, so he wasn't in a hurry to save him.

"It's probably because there's a nascent soul separated by Mi Hongzhi, so the effect of blood infection is lower than expected, but as long as it's effective, that's fine."

Li Wei squatted down and pressed down on Kong Tianxiang's shoulder: "Now I can trust you! Second Master Kong, tell me everything you know."

For the sake of his own life, Kong Tianxiang didn't care about anything else at this moment: "Although our Kong family ostensibly operates the Sacred Path Private School and controls the issuance of advancement licenses!"

"But in reality, we also have some special businesses operating in secret. For example, the buying and selling of virgin boy urine, the trading of primordial yin and yang water, and the collection of innate pure yang and pure yin energy. Our Kong family holds shares in all the immortal cultivation industries in Zhongzhou related to underage cultivators."

The human body is a treasure trove, and cultivators are even more so. Therefore, the flesh, hair, and bodily fluids of a cultivator can all be used to make materials for the path to immortality.

Among the many materials used in human body construction,
The human bodies of underage monks are among the most sought-after and best-selling commodities!

After all, young cultivators still maintain a state of pure yang or pure yin, so they possess a primordial innate energy that has all sorts of incredible uses.

However, the Heavenly Court is not the Demonic Path. What they need more are talented people, not just skilled individuals. Therefore, many things are not allowed on the surface.

But there is definitely some room for maneuver behind the scenes.

For example, when building toilets in the Holy Way Academy, installing two more arrays and setting up two collection devices for children's urine will yield rich rewards over the years.

There are also those who collect menstrual blood, hair, nails, and even nocturnal emissions. In short, there's nothing capitalists won't do, only things you can't imagine.

That's why people say you can make money by following the path of sainthood.

The tuition fees are exorbitant, the food expenses are enormous, and the various ancillary industries are plentiful. A single private school can support an entire area and countless cultivators.

Kong Tianxiang continued, "Of course, this kind of thing is no longer an exception. The Heavenly Court's Ministry of Finance has even set up a special tax for it, which is already considered to be a semi-compliant industry under the Heavenly Laws! Moreover, it was originally just a matter of making use of waste, so it's not exactly a heinous act!"

"But the third brother... but the third brother..."

Even Kong Tianxiang found it difficult to say what followed, and after repeating himself for a long time, he finally said, "But he was also involved in the buying and selling of cultivators!"

"About a thousand years ago, someone was willing to pay a high price to provide him with cultivators under the age of eighteen with various special birth dates on a long-term basis! Three to three hundred people every year. But I've only heard about it, so it may not be true!"

"Good! Very good!" A suppressed sneer came from the side, and Confucius was so angry that he almost beat this unfilial descendant to death on the spot!
His prediction came true!
These damned bastards are indeed using the Holy Path School they established to buy and sell monks!
Three hundred people every year!

Over a thousand years, that would amount to 30 boys and girls.

You guys are really daring!
Upon hearing the cold laughter, Kong Tianxiang noticed that a tall, elderly man had appeared beside him, hidden in the shadows.

Who is this Lao Deng?

They look at me like they want to eat me alive. Did I kill your whole family?
Kong Tianxiang glared fiercely at the old man, then turned to Li Wei with a fawning smile and said:
"Inspector Li, I've said everything I needed to say. Can you let me off the hook and remove this meme-infected blood?"

"Heh! You wish! What about the transaction method? What about the contact person? You haven't explained anything clearly, and you think you can get away with this?"

Kong Tianxiang said painfully, "Your Excellency, the Inspector, please understand! I have never been involved in this kind of business. The third brother is in charge! If I hadn't heard him mention it once by chance, I wouldn't even know about it!"

Li Wei frowned slightly: "What about Kong Tianlin? As the head of the Kong family, he couldn't possibly be completely unaware of this, could he?"

"Then you guessed right! Without a basic moral bottom line, it would be impossible to come into contact with two of Confucius's treasures and become the head of the Confucius family."

"So my eldest brother has always maintained the lowest possible level of morality. He wouldn't even listen to anything that went too far, let alone participate in it! It's always the other branch families who have helped him share the burden."

Good guy.

How could someone like Kong Tianlin possess such a low level of morality, reaching the highest possible level?
Li Wei looked speechlessly at the first Confucius, saying, "I told you, as long as there are sages, there will be thieves. The things you left behind have long been ruined by later generations."

Confucius's will had revived before, and he had considered the decline of the Confucius family, but this was the first time he had come to understand the dark side of his family so deeply.

But as it turns out, He was oversimplifying things; the actual situation was far more serious than anyone imagined.

Although Li Wei saw that Kong Tianxiang's words were sincere and did not seem to be lying, he still felt that something was wrong, so he decided to trick him one last time.

"Bai Jie! Go and bring me all the descendants of Kong Tianxiang's lineage. If I remember correctly, his granddaughter-in-law recently gave birth to a great-granddaughter, who is very much loved by him, so you must bring her along!"

Bai Jie turned and left without hesitation.

Kong Tianxiang was nearly driven mad. Seeing that she was about to leave, he quickly stopped her, shouting, "Li Wei!!! You fucking bastard!! I already told you, I really told you everything!!!"

Even at a time like this, Li Wei could still laugh, like a friendly neighbor saying, "Whether they said it or not, we'll find out soon enough. Don't worry, nothing will happen."

"After all, big-headed dolls are quite cute, right?"

"You son of a bitch!!!" Kong Tianxiang finally broke down.

He had originally intended to keep the last bit of information hidden, but under Li Wei's pressure, he finally had no choice but to reveal the final truth.

Thirty thousand.

A surge of anger welled up in Li Wei's heart for no apparent reason. He asked incredulously, "What did you say?"

Kong Tianxiang closed his eyes in anguish: "Thirty thousand!"

“The number of people trading each year is 30,000, once every four months, 10,000 each time, but sometimes it may be more, but it will never be less.”

"I really told you everything this time!"

Li Wei fell silent.

The first Confucius also fell silent.

They now know why Kong Tianxiang deliberately concealed the number of people involved.

Because this number is simply too frightening!
30,000 a year, that's 30 million in a thousand years!!!
Those bastards!!!

Unexpectedly
Therefore, it has been proven that the lifespan of ordinary mortals is only about a hundred years, and their evil deeds are limited. However, with the lifespan of cultivators who are blessed by longevity, the evil they can do is truly terrifying.

A hint of murderous intent flashed in Confucius's eyes. Li Wei's gaze also turned icy cold, while Bai Jie felt his hands and feet grow cold.

Seeing the shocked and disdainful looks in everyone's eyes,

Kong Tianxiang could no longer hold back his tears: "I'm sorry to my eldest brother, I'm sorry to my third brother! I'm sorry to the family!"

At that moment, a strong sense of regret suddenly welled up in his heart.

"Waaaah! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that!"

"I shouldn't have said that!"

"To disobey clan secrets is disloyalty, to fail to protect the reputation of one's elder brothers is injustice, to fail to protect the family's honor is filial impiety, and to fail to withstand pressure and sacrifice oneself is inhumanity!"

"I have truly failed the moral precepts left by our ancestors!"

Confucius was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of blood! "Is this how I taught you benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and filial piety? Is this how you use my worldview to guide yourself?"

(End of this chapter)