I write novels in Liyue

The story takes place in the mortal realm, in Chang'an City.

This city is mentioned in the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

When Chen Guangrui, the top scholar in the imperial examination, was traveling by boat with his wife, he was framed by a villain. His wife also suffered humiliation and compromised herself, submitting to the villain who killed her husband.

Not only that, the thief Liu Hong also impersonated Chen Guangrui and became an official.

However, Chen Guangrui's wife was already pregnant at this time. Although she had been brutally raped and violated by the bandits, she had no choice but to endure it. After giving birth to Chen Guangrui's child, she was afraid that the child would suffer at the hands of the bandits, so she put the child in a wooden basin and let it float away with the river.

The child was eventually rescued by a monk from Jinshan Temple, who gave him the nickname Jiang Liuer. When he grew up, he shaved his head and became a Buddhist monk, taking the Dharma name Xuanzang.

When Xuanzang was begging for alms to find his mother, he learned about what had happened back then, so he took his mother and went to Chang'an to seek refuge with his maternal grandfather.

Xuanzang's maternal grandfather was the prime minister of the current dynasty.

Anyone who has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows that the position of Prime Minister, even if not as powerful as that of Prime Minister Cao Cao, is still second only to the emperor, like that of Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.

With the prime minister's intervention, the thief was quickly brought to justice.

Upon reading this, the readers felt a sense of satisfaction.

That's the kind of swift and decisive revenge we want!

Even Chen Guangrui was resurrected by the Dragon King.

With the Prime Minister's help, Chen Guangrui returned to the court. However, Xuanzang's mother committed suicide because of the eighteen years of suffering she had endured.

In his grief, Xuanzang gave his mother a proper burial and then returned to the temple.

Upon reading this, readers couldn't help but feel depressed and distressed.

"That Fang Qiu... he really knows how to seize every opportunity to kill someone... Even when everyone is reunited, he has to stab them in the back, otherwise he won't feel comfortable."

"Seize the opportunity? I'm only now realizing how vulgar that word is."

"Filthy? Stitching... needles... You can even do this? Oh no, I can never look at this word the same way again..."

"Brother, stop your magic tricks. If this continues, we won't have many idioms left to use..."

"Could you guys please stop discussing this kind of thing during such a serious plot... it ruins the atmosphere."

"I was just trying to lighten the mood because the plot was too sad."

People were talking about it.

"Seize the opportunity..."

The skinny man subconsciously glanced at Su Xiaoqi sitting opposite him.

However, Su Xiaoqi also heard their discussion and noticed the skinny man's gaze, and her eyes immediately turned even colder.

Chapter 654 Fang Qiu's writing is truly somewhat perverse.

One day, in the Tang Dynasty.

Changan.

Beside the Jing River.

The fisherman and the woodcutter were chatting, but their conversation was overheard by a yaksha in the river.

He hurriedly reported to the Dragon King of the Jing River that there was a fortune teller in Chang'an who could accurately predict the time, place, and time of day. As long as one casts the fishing rod a hundred times, one will surely return with a full load.

Upon hearing this, the Dragon King of the Jing River feared that all his offspring in the river would be fished out. So, he went to Chang'an City and found the fortune teller, and made a bet with him about when and how much rain would fall.

The Dragon King of the Jing River thought victory was assured.

As a result, the Heavenly Court issued a decree that the amount of rain fell exactly as the fortune teller had predicted.

The Dragon King of the Jing River, with a heavy heart and a wicked spirit, secretly adjusted the amount of rainfall.

The next day, when he arrived at the fortune teller's stall in a smug manner, the fortune teller reminded him that he had committed a grave offense, violated the heavenly law, and was punishable by death.

The one who slew the dragon was Wei Zheng, a court official during the Tang Dynasty.

The Dragon King of the Jing River was terrified. Following the guidance of a fortune teller, he appeared in Li Shimin's dream that very night, asking Li Shimin to save him and summon Wei Zheng to court.

Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but sigh.

"This is Fang Qiu's warning to young people in the book: don't make a big mistake for the sake of temporary victory or defeat."

"That's right. The fortune teller is clearly a master. He can even predict when it will rain and how much. The Dragon King is blinded by anger and can't even understand this."

"In officialdom, there are indeed too many people who lose their positions and promising futures because they are not calm and cannot sit still."

"Hiss... If you put it that way, then the principles in Fang Qiu's book can also be applied to officialdom."

"Does this mean that Fang Qiu's *Romance of the Three Kingdoms* is required reading for the Qianyan Army, and now *Journey to the West* is going to become required reading for officials?"

The crowd was astonished and began to discuss the matter.

Li Shimin agreed.

However, the next day, while Li Shimin was playing chess with Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng suddenly fell asleep.

Li Shimin thought that Wei Zheng was so dedicated to the country and its people that he could fall asleep while playing chess with him, and also that he had stopped Wei Zheng from slaying the dragon, so he did not wake Wei Zheng.

Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng was taken to Heaven by the Heavenly Court through an astral projection of his soul, and then his dragon head was severed with a single stroke.

This action left everyone stunned.

That very night, the ghost of the Jing River Dragon King came knocking, terrifying Li Shimin.

He was restless for many days, and his health deteriorated until he finally fell ill.

When Li Shimin was terminally ill, a subordinate handed him a letter saying that a friend of his was a judge in the underworld and that his friend would take care of the Tang emperor.

Thus, Li Shimin passed away.

Upon arriving in the underworld, he met King Yama, and because of the letter, the judge added two strokes to Li Shimin's lifespan.

Thus, Li Shimin was sent back to the living world, where he was terrified by the various horrifying scenes in the underworld along the way.

Even Li Shimin, the Heavenly Khan who led his father Li Yuan to pacify the world and made great contributions, and who killed countless people, was greatly frightened by these scenes. In the end, he even encountered those who had died when he pacified the world.

They wailed and demanded that Li Shimin take their lives.

These scenes were enough to frighten not only Li Shimin, but also many readers.

It wasn't because Fang Qiu's description of the scene was particularly bizarre.

Surprisingly, Fang Qiu didn't use many words to describe the horror and strangeness of the underworld.

I don't know what happened.

However, the methods used to torture ghosts in the eighteen levels of hell were so shocking that they made people tremble with fear.

Tongue-pulling, finger-cutting, steaming, being subjected to fire and knives, being tied to copper pillars...

Is this the kind of punishment a normal person could come up with?

Fang Qiu's mentality is probably somewhat abnormal...

"Writing books really can make people psychologically abnormal..."

"What kind of twisted logic is that? I'm also an author. Only Fang Qiu is a pervert. Be wary of generalizing from a single case to the whole."

"To be honest, I'm also an author. The last time I went on a blind date, the other person asked me if people who write books are prone to mental illness..."

"Ah, this..."

Especially the two members of the treasure-hunting team, when they heard Su Xiaoqi describe those terrifying scenes, their scalps tingled.

It seems he committed quite a few crimes...

Thank goodness it was fake...

If these things really exist after a person dies, that would be truly terrifying...

After returning to life, Li Shimin immediately convened a grand Buddhist and Taoist ceremony to pray for the souls of the deceased.

The Water and Land Assembly was presided over by Xuanzang.

However, the grand water and land assembly was interrupted halfway through.

The messenger informed the Tang Emperor.

Xuanzang practiced Hinayana Buddhism, which could not save the souls of the dead. He needed to go to the Western Paradise to seek Mahayana Buddhism.

The Tang emperor recognized the man as the one who had delivered the cassock a few days earlier and immediately inquired about the location of Mahayana Buddhism.

Guanyin Bodhisattva revealed her true form, which immediately drew the attention of the crowd.

Upon hearing this, the skinny man suddenly paused for a moment and said.

"Wait a minute."

"what?"

Su Xiaoqi frowned.

"I've discovered that all of this seems to be a preordained arrangement. The fisherman and the woodcutter were talking by the river when the Yaksha overheard them. The Jing River Dragon King is naturally irritable and impulsive, which is why he sought out the fortune teller. The fortune teller is clearly a mortal, yet he can communicate with the heavens. This suggests that the fortune teller is very likely Guanyin Bodhisattva. Could all of this be to let the Tang Emperor know the horrors of the underworld, thus facilitating the spread of Christianity from the West to the East?"

After listening to the skinny man's words, Su Xiao

Qi immediately heard the scholars at the table not far away discussing this as well.

"What a brilliant plan! It's so ingenious. The control over people's hearts is just right. I only understood it when I saw Guanyin appear."

"Indeed, as described in this book, Li Shimin was a top-notch monarch who helped his father conquer the world and forced him to abdicate. If one were to rashly preach the Way, Li Shimin would certainly not pay any attention to it."

"This is a combination of kindness and severity: first make you feel fear, then tell you the solution. This is something that can be used in officialdom."

"Emperor Tang probably knew there was something wrong with all of this, but he was powerless to resist the incarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Look at the part where Xuanzang steps forward and says he's going to the Western Paradise to obtain the scriptures. He doesn't talk about benefiting all people, but about ensuring the eternal stability of Emperor Tang's empire. In other words, Xuanzang also knew that this journey to the west wasn't to obtain the true scriptures to save all people, but to deal with this deity who held the power to decide the life and death of the Tang Dynasty..."

Hearing that renowned scholars shared the same view as the skinny man, Su Xiaoqi followed their words and pieced together the story, discovering that it was indeed as the skinny man had said.

It was as if an invisible hand was controlling everything, linking each link to the next, ensnaring the Tang Emperor, a mere mortal, in a trap.

Seeing this, Su Xiaoqi looked at the skinny man with some surprise.

He actually came up with ideas that only scholars would think of.

Sensing Su Xiaoqi's surprised gaze, the skinny man chuckled, scratched his head, and suddenly thought of something to do when there was a spare moment.

A surge of excitement welled up inside me.

Chapter 655 The True Face of the True Lord of Cloud Retention and Wind Borrowing