Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 106 The Decision Between Master and Disciple

Lin Jiu was not afraid of the "Shangqing Bone Marrow Spiritual Text Ghost Law" but rather the "Beiyin Fengdu Taixuan Demon-Controlling Spiritual Book Ghost Law". What law to examine depends on what the Fengdu judges saw.

Twenty-one families were brutally murdered in Liujia Town over two days; it was a truly heinous crime.

He wasn't afraid of being sent to hell, where his fellow Maoshan disciples could atone for their sins and be reincarnated sooner by chanting the sutras of salvation. His only fear was being imprisoned in Iron Mountain after the "Northern Yin Ghost Laws" were examined. Iron Mountain was the most special place under the rule of the Northern Yin Fengdu Emperor; those imprisoned there could only obediently await the end of their punishment, and no sutra could help them.

The other disciples were all waiting on the mountain.

Lin Jiu dared not waste any more time, lest the ghosts commit further killings.

The place where the Primordial Eight Trigrams Formation is set up is located on Xiaolan Mountain outside the town. When the ghosts fight, there will be constant wails, so as not to frighten the people in the town.

All the fellow disciples from Maoshan have already entered the formation and gone into hiding.

Shi Jian sat cross-legged on the rock, seemingly carefree, but his aura was completely concealed, making him practically invisible to the ghosts.

He opened his eyes and saw that Lin Jiu was the last to come up. He said with some displeasure, "Your good-for-nothing disciple is slow to summon ghosts, and even you, his master, are a step behind. Do you even have any respect for me, your senior brother?"

Feeling depressed, Lin Jiu didn't want to get entangled with Shi Jian on this issue, so he immediately admitted his mistake: "Senior Brother is right. I will apologize to everyone afterwards."

Shi Jian: "..."

He thought to himself, "Lin Fengjiao is usually so proud and arrogant. She always speaks with neither servility nor arrogance, and she would always have a word with me, her senior brother, regardless of whether she was right or wrong. Why is she so quick to back down now? Could it be that the trouble caused by those two good-for-nothing disciples has already reached the underworld and attracted the attention of the ancestors?"

Matters concerning Maoshan can only be resolved internally within Maoshan; we must not embarrass ourselves in the process!
He decided that after the Innate Eight Trigrams Formation was completed, he would set up an altar to consult the patriarchs of the underworld...

Just then, the sound of wheels rolling came from the mountain road. It turned out that Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai had arrived with a cart full of tofu. They rushed into the Innate Bagua Formation and shouted, "They're here! They're here! So many ghosts!"

Sure enough, hundreds of ghosts followed closely behind and rushed into the formation.

The next moment, large talismans rose up all around, and the Maoshan disciples jumped out from every corner, each displaying their unique abilities, using gourds, bamboo tubes, wine jars, talismans, bottles, and bags to collect the ghosts. Because of the suppression of the formation, these ghosts were as fragile as chicks, at their mercy...

Shi Jian, seemingly lost in thought, suddenly swung his hands out left and right, crackling with electricity!
A flash of lightning, and the two ghosts were instantly annihilated! Another flash, and two more ghosts vanished...

Seeing this, Lin Jiu channeled all his inner strength to catch a bolt of lightning and dissipate its force. He hurriedly said, "Senior Brother, if you use the Lightning Thunder Fist, these ghosts will never be reborn."

Shi Jian sneered, "Are you teaching me how to deal with ghosts?"

Lin Jiu was speechless.

Shi Jian realized something was wrong the moment he saw these ghosts.

On the fifteenth of the seventh month, the gates of hell open, and only innocent ghosts can be released from the underworld. However, some of these ghosts have bloodshot eyes and are radiating malevolence, clearly indicating that they have just killed someone in the past few days! If these ghosts are allowed to return to the underworld and pass through the Mirror of Retribution, all their secrets will be discovered.

Maoshan's reputation is bound to be damaged!

Without hesitation, Shi Jian unleashed his Lightning Thunder Fist once again, killing several more souls right in front of Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu was anxious, but dared not argue with Shi Jian in front of so many junior brothers. Every word spoken by the senior disciple of Maoshan outside Maoshan carried the weight of the Maoshan sect leader, and he was implicitly considered a candidate for successor. He could only use all his skills to frantically collect ghosts, hoping to collect as many as possible.

In less than the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn, all the ghosts in the area were cleared away. The junior brothers handed all the ghosts over to Lin Jiu, while the eldest brother, Shi Jian, snorted coldly and left.

Qiu Shengwencai chimed in, "Master Uncle is gone. Damn, he's so arrogant. He didn't even give Master any face."

Lin Jiu raised his hand to stop the two from continuing, looking at them with a complicated expression: "You... sigh, it's my fault as their master. Quickly return these ghosts to the ghost messengers, and we'll pack up and move out of Liujia Town tonight."

After saying goodbye to his fellow disciples, he walked back to the mortuary.

Qiu Sheng asked, puzzled, "Master, why do we have to move again? What happened? It was wrong of us to ambush the ghost messengers, but the ghosts have been taken back. You are the head of the bank, in charge of printing ghost money. The ghost messengers will have to give you face no matter what. What's there to be afraid of..."

Lin Jiu slapped Qiu Sheng across the face with such force that it drew blood from the corner of Qiu Sheng's mouth.

He took Qiu Shengwencai as his apprentice when Qiu Shengwencai was very young.

These two fellow apprentices were orphans. Qiu Sheng at least had an aunt who ran a rouge business in Renjia Town, and they had a good relationship. Wen Cai, on the other hand, was truly penniless. If he were separated from his own family, without any skills to make a living, and with his stubbornness, he would starve to death sooner or later...

Lin Jiu, who had been with Qiu Sheng and Wen Cai for many years but had not married or had children, already regarded them as his own children. Although he often beat and scolded them for causing trouble, he had never slapped them as hard as he had done now.

Qiu Sheng was dumbfounded.

He had never been hit by his master's stick before, and he looked at Lin Jiu in astonishment: "Master, are you... am I wrong?"

Lin Jiu's hand, which had been raised to slap Qiu Sheng, was caught in a dilemma, unsure whether to lower it or not. He was even more astonished than Qiu Sheng himself, and feeling distressed, he simply recounted his encounter with the Fengdu judge in Renjia Town.

He sat down on a roadside rock, somewhat dejected, looking reluctantly at his two apprentices, and said, "So the only way we can avoid the arrival of the Fengdu Judge and go to a place where no one can find us! Only in that way can we avoid the suffering of entering the Iron Enclosure Mountain of Fengdu..."

Wen Cai retorted, unconvinced, "You yourself said that the Fengdu judge is a young man. Qiu Sheng and I might not be any worse than him in a fight. Just because he can be a judge doesn't mean we can't."

Hearing this, Lin Jiu felt weak all over. He pointed at Wen Cai and said after a long while, "I don't want to hit you right now. Let's save our energy for moving..."

Qiu Sheng has a carefree personality, but he is still smart. After listening to his master's words, he understood the gravity of the situation.

Knowing that he and Wencai had caused their master enormous trouble, he immediately knelt on the ground, slapping himself repeatedly until his cheeks bulged and his eyes reddened. He said, "Master, I know I was wrong! That judge is so powerful; we can't let you suffer this undeserved calamity. Please sever our master-disciple relationship and remove our names from the Maoshan register..."

Lin Jiu has been with Qiu Sheng for so many years.

Hearing such sincere words for the first time, his heart trembled. He gently wiped his eyes with his sleeve, pulled Qiu Sheng up from the ground, and scolded, "What a waste of time! We need to get back to the mortuary. Being a master for a day is being a master, and I've been your master for nearly twenty years. Even if we have to live a life of wandering and uncertainty from now on..."

Outside Liujia Town, a young man slowly approached on an oxcart.

The young man was Li Xuan. He looked at the gate of Liu Family Town and was in a great mood. He had not only saved Master Qianhe, who only fought at the peak level, but also his four disciples from the east, west, south and north.

The black notebook didn't urge me to complete the task, so I took this opportunity to have a good chat with Lin Jiu and teach Qiu Shengwen a lesson to prevent him from causing trouble in the future.

(End of this chapter)