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

Chapter 332 Soul Locked in the Ancestral Hall
After a night of compiling the list, Li Xuan, based on the information he had gathered, categorized the Tan family members' sins into three levels: minor, medium, and major. Minor sins would result in them being sent to hell for punishment after death; medium sins would result in their lifespan being immediately drained and their souls being sent to hell for punishment; and major sins would result in them being branded with a unique mark, passing through hell, and being sent to Iron Mountain for punishment.

At dawn, the sky was just beginning to lighten.

Li Xuan blew out the oil lamp on the table, looked at the densely packed written records, and nodded in satisfaction.

He turned his head and saw that Tan Baiwan, a man nearing fifty, was so exhausted that he had fallen asleep slumped over the table. He had indeed put in a lot of effort in investigating the Tan family members...

Li Xuan could sense Tan Baiwan's determination, smiled, and blew a breath. Tan Baiwan stood up in a daze.

"go to sleep."

Upon hearing Li Xuan's instructions, Tan Baiwan gave an "oh," then staggered to the bed and collapsed, quickly falling into a deep sleep with snoring sounds...

The people of Tanjia Town all get up very early.

This town comprises six villages, with only the central area being the bustling town center. Besides working for the Tan family, the villagers also engage in farming and hunting. Due to the terrain, there are very few fishermen.

Li Xuan went out and headed directly towards the Tan clan's territory.

This village is located northeast of Tanjia Village. According to Tan Baiwan, the ancestors of the Tan family consulted a skilled feng shui master who determined that the northeast was an auspicious location. Although the people who lived here might not become emperors, they could at least become powerful figures in their own right.

When he entered Tanjiacun, he looked up and saw a huge and exquisite ancestral hall on the hillside in the distance. In this remote and impoverished place, it could be described as a miniature palace.

Outsiders are not allowed to enter or leave Tanjiacun Village, for fear of disturbing the feng shui.

Therefore, only members of the Tan family could work odd jobs in the village; outsiders could only do their jobs outside the village.

Li Xuan walked briskly up the hillside, just as he was about to push open the door to the Tan Family Ancestral Hall.

Two men wielding long sticks rushed over, shouting menacingly, "Who are you? Is the Tan Family Ancestral Hall a place for you to roam?"

Li Xuan laughed and said, "The Tan family preys on the villagers. I've come to see which Tan family ancestors raised such a bunch of freaks."

Since he was there to get to the root of the problem, he had no intention of having a polite conversation.

The two men were furious upon hearing this, and with the sound of their long sticks whistling through their hands, they began to beat Li Xuan mercilessly!

boom!
The man who struck first was utterly astonished; the stick he had thrown with all his might was easily caught by this fair-skinned young man with just one hand.

He tried to pull the stick back, but found that it seemed to be welded to the other person's hand and wouldn't budge.

Another man came to the rescue, and Li Xuan grabbed the stick that the man was throwing at him, broke it in two with force, and then flicked each of them on the head!

The stick was solid, and the two men's heads exploded. Their vision went black, and they collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

Li Xuan pushed open the ancestral hall door and walked in. What came into view was the ancestral tablets of the Tan family ancestors arranged in a tiered manner behind the incense table, with a faint aura surrounding the ancestral hall.

He said, “The descendants of the Tan family have bullied men and women, and even caused many deaths and injuries. This is outrageous to both gods and men. I, Li Xuan, the judge of Fengdu, have come to Tan Family Town today and I will clean up this cancerous tumor for you all to restore order to the world.”

After death, unless there are special reasons, people must go to the underworld to be reincarnated, and the Tan family ancestors were no exception. As the judge of Fengdu, Li Xuan had a natural ability to sense things related to the underworld better than ordinary sorcerers, and 90% of the people in these memorial tablets had already been reincarnated.

The remaining ten percent are attached to the memorial tablet in the form of incense offerings.

As soon as Li Xuan finished speaking, the memorial tablets on this floor began to tremble. The words on the highest memorial tablet emitted a red light, a cold wind swept through the ancestral hall, the door closed automatically, and the candles lit up with green flames.

The name on the highest memorial tablet is Tan Sheng, a person from the Ming Dynasty.

A hoarse, hollow voice echoed in the ancestral hall: "What a Fengdu judge you are! How dare you presume to cleanse the Tan family of its cancerous growths? Aren't you afraid of being stuck here forever?"

Li Xuan placed the booklet he had compiled the night before on the incense table: "You have been delaying your reincarnation and forcibly staying in the ancestral hall to protect your offspring, which has already violated the laws of the underworld. Now that your offspring are committing evil, do you still want to defy the law?"

A cold wind swept through, and the booklet opened automatically, its pages turning.

After a while, Tan Sheng's memorial tablet said: "So-called laws are nothing but shackles imposed on the weak by the strong. The reason why people feel trapped by the law is simply because they are too weak!"

Our Tan family doesn't need legal regulation; we're self-sufficient and thrive endlessly. This world is inherently a dog-eat-dog world; it's the natural order. I don't think these younger generations have done anything wrong. The weak should play their role well. These lowlifes, allowed to live, are not only ungrateful but also want to repay kindness with enmity?

So that's how it is. No wonder the Tan family bullied men and women without any remorse during our investigation; this is what their upbringing is like...

Li Xuan sighed softly, slammed his right hand on the incense table, dust flew up, the pure copper incense burner cracked in the middle, all the incense sticks broke off, and the flickering green flames of the candles were instantly extinguished.

The memorial tablet of Tan Sheng seemed to sense the impending danger, its voice sharp: "What are you doing? There are more than a dozen old ghosts of the Tan family guarding this ancestral hall. How can you, a mere child, be so presumptuous! Today, I will use your blood to cleanse this great disrespect..."

The atmosphere in the ancestral hall instantly became oppressive!

Blurry figures appeared on the memorial tablets; they were the oldest members of the Tan family.

Their eyes glowed green, their bodies were jet black, and they slowly reached out their hands to strangle Li Xuan's neck...

Li Xuan looked at them calmly and said, "Is this what you call a foundation? It's a pity you chose the wrong path. If you buried the corpses in an extremely yin place and they became zombies, I might have to put in some effort. But you only focused on strengthening your souls with your offspring and incense... You've really bitten off more than you can chew."

He slapped his right hand, which was resting on the incense table, once more!
Cracks appeared on the solid wood incense table, and the sound of chains could be heard from the shadows. The next second, more than a dozen semi-transparent, pitch-black chains shot out from Li Xuan's body!
Soul-Locking Chains!
A technique exclusive to mid-level Grand Judges!
Li Xuan had only used it twice when he felt its convenience, and it was especially effective for the soul!
If you encounter a physical opponent, simply integrate the Soul-Locking Chain into the magic weapon, and when you pull someone out, it will injure both their body and soul—very effective!

The Tan family ancestors were taken aback and tried to dodge the Soul-Locking Chains, but the chains moved in sync with their movements as if they were locked onto a target, and caught them in the blink of an eye.

To Li Xuan's surprise, Tan Sheng, who was the strongest, actually had the ability to resist the Soul-Locking Chain.

Thick smoke billowed from Tan Sheng's body as he desperately gripped the Soul-Locking Chains that were trying to bind him, shouting with a ferocious expression, "These are just petty tricks, how can they compare to the foundation of the Tan family?"

During the Chongzhen era, he met a sorcerer and learned the method of nourishing the soul with incense, which could not only grant "longevity" but also even lead to immortality.

Tan Sheng taught this technique to several members of the Tan family, but few possessed the talent. Currently, only a dozen or so members of the Tan family have mastered it. However, what he never expected was that their proud way of existence would be so vulnerable in front of this young man…

(End of this chapter)