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

Chapter 335 The Great Reshuffle in Tan Family Town
Li Xuan stood in front of the burning ancestral hall, the firelight making him look like a demon from hell, especially now that he was shrouded in shadow, making the scene extremely eerie.

He slowly began to speak: "The Tan clan of Tanjia Town has been a notorious bully, tyrannical, and utterly wicked group, committing countless crimes. According to this list, I order you to bring all those involved here, leaving no one out. Do you understand?!"

The first ghostly soldier clasped his hands above his head and said, "I receive the decree!"

The other ghostly soldiers echoed in unison, "We obey the decree!" Their imposing aura was overwhelming. The villagers of Tanjiacun trembled with fear, crawling on the ground like quails, even their breathing becoming much softer...

Although this judge had the authority to mobilize troops due to his rank, he had to pay a corresponding price.

Mobilizing troops requires consuming merit: if it is for punishing evil and promoting good, or accumulating good deeds, the merit is shared equally between the judge and the troops; if the judge mobilizes troops to bully the weak and harm the innocent, the sin is directly attributed to the judge.

Soldiers and generals pay close attention to military orders, and they obey orders without question. When ordered to go to war, there is only one thing to do: obey orders!

At Li Xuan's command, the Yin soldiers marched down the mountain. They split up at various intersections, their pace quickening until their figures disappeared into the air.

After a short while, some members of the Tan family, with vacant stares and stiff steps, came up from the foot of the mountain one after another. When they reached the burning ancestral hall, they stood in neat rows.

The clan elders and patriarchs, though blind to the truth, saw it clearly to Li Xuan.

The ghost soldiers used shackles-like magical artifacts. Each of them held an iron chain connecting the shackles, pulling the members of the Tan family up like dogs on a leash.

As dusk approached, the ancestral hall collapsed with a loud crash, and the flames were no longer as intense as before.

However, the open space in front of the ancestral hall was already filled with more than 500 members of the Tan clan who had committed heinous crimes. As the number of people on the register was checked, they all woke up from their dazed state.

"where is this?"

"Our ancestral hall! How did our ancestral hall catch fire?!"

"Elders, clan leader, how did you get injured?"

"Good heavens, what are these things? Ghosts?"

The Tan clan was in great turmoil. Some of them were on the street, some were at home, and some were even in the next town. In the blink of an eye, they appeared here.

The Tan clan members in Tanjia Town fared somewhat better; upon waking, they felt soreness, numbness, and pain in their legs. Those outside Tanjia Town fared much worse.

The ghostly soldiers were incredibly fast, controlling their bodies as they charged forward at breakneck speed, even faster than horses. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, many of their boots had worn through to the bottom, their feet protruding through gaps, a bloody mess with bones barely visible.

The first thing they did upon waking was to collapse to the ground, convulsing. Their bodies were so exhausted that they had no strength left to scream in pain.

The ghost soldiers only care about carrying out their orders; they don't care what these sinners become, since they will eventually abandon their physical bodies when they go to hell anyway.

The clan chief and elders have been lying here since noon, their faces pale, and the wooden splinters stuck in their bodies are about the size of chopsticks, causing them to swell and ache with the slightest movement.

The place is full right now.

The clan chief, realizing that the inexplicable pressure pressing down on him had disappeared, quickly begged for mercy: "Although I am the clan chief, all decisions in the clan are not made by me alone. They must be discussed and decided by these elders."

The elder lying nearby, pondering how to escape, was suddenly enraged by the clan leader's inhuman excuse. He swung his fist at the elder's face, yelling, "What did you say? Don't you know how domineering you've become as clan leader! The entire Tan clan has become your personal fiefdom! You say the ancestors are watching, and if we disagree with you, we're disrespecting the ancestors!" The clan leader cried out in anguish, "It's a misunderstanding..."

The clan elder crawled over and started wrestling with him: "You son of a bitch! If it weren't for your corrupt leadership, how could the rest of the family be so crooked? It's all your fault!"

Li Xuan ignored the fighting performance of these people and counted the number of people in the arena one by one with the booklet in his hand. That's right!

He closed the booklet and said, "Snatching lifespan, taking away soul, sending to hell, passing before the Mirror of Retribution, and being punished according to crimes! If there is any resistance, throw them directly into Fengdu Hell!"

Upon hearing this, the members of the Tan clan cried and begged like madmen, and some even risked throwing punches at Li Xuan!

Before the person throwing the punch could even get close, the ghostly soldier chopped off his head with a long halberd, splattering blood all over the ground. His soul emerged from the corpse and was immediately bound by heavy shackles.

Two hundred Yin soldiers, each holding three or four chains, were to be taken away along with all those brought by the clan chief and elders who had attacked the judge, in addition to those on Li Xuan's list.

There were a total of six or seven hundred people, all lifeless, their corpses piled up haphazardly, quite conspicuous.

After the ghostly soldiers took away the souls from the scene, Li Xuan put away the altar, returned to his normal attire, and saw many members of the Tan family standing at the foot of the hill, their eyes filled with extreme fear...

Li Xuan looked down and saw that these people had taken off running.

Today's visit to Tanjiacun has cast a huge psychological shadow on the Tan clan. He believes that this event will affect at least several generations, because this is a world where ghosts and gods truly exist.

He reached out and touched the purplish-red gourd, then paused for a moment. He had forgotten to hand over the several ghosts trapped inside the gourd to the underworld soldiers. Oh well, he could trouble the City God to make the trip later.

The events that occurred in Tanjia Village, Tanjia Town, spread like wildfire among the villagers, becoming increasingly exaggerated and even leading to outrageous rumors that the Jade Emperor of Heaven would personally intervene to punish the Tan family.

Li Xuan certainly couldn't let the rumors run rampant.

He wrote down the whole story and asked the town's scribe to help print it. Then, Tan Baiwan asked people to read it to every illiterate person they encountered in the entire town.

In this way, the events that happened in Tanjiacun were synchronized, and no one talked about the Jade Emperor anymore, and they were filled with awe for the legendary Fengdu Emperor.

Seeing the rising popularity, Li Xuan simply built the Fengdu Temple in the town.

The common people learned through the "leaflets" that Li Xuan was the judge who severely punished the Tan clan. Upon learning that he was going to build the Fengdu Temple, several hundred people came and volunteered to help with the work.

Many of them had been bullied by the Tan family. Now, in addition to expressing their gratitude, they were helping to build the temple and hoped that the Fengdu Emperor would remember them and bless them and their families when the temple was completed...

Surprisingly, in addition to ordinary people, members of the Tan family also flocked to help.

They expressed their fear and said that they had deeply realized the harm caused by evil and that from now on they would learn from the lessons of their predecessors and do good deeds.

Some of these people are minor sinners whose punishment will only begin after their souls descend to hell. They are terrified and hope to offset their sins by doing good deeds...

Tan Baiwan was greatly inspired by this incident. He went from yearning for immortality and transcendence to now being wholeheartedly immersed in doing good deeds. His entire demeanor underwent a tremendous change, and his originally somewhat mercenary businessman appearance became kind and approachable.

(End of this chapter)