Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 345: The Corpse of Heavenly Arts; The Transformation of the Lotus Flower

Henggao Sacred Mountain, the Evil-Repelling Palace, and Amaterasu Prison.

Amaterasu Prison is the highest level prison in the Prison of Exorcism. It is always as bright as day in this cell, as if the sun that illuminates the world and punishes evil is hidden here. No matter how hidden the evil spirits are, they will be exposed in Amaterasu Prison.

Therefore, only the most terrifying demons can be imprisoned in this prison.

A man tapped lightly on a table made of black colored glaze with his fingertips. The crisp sound formed a melodious tune in the air above Amaterasu Prison. He seemed to be in a good mood.

He looked to be about 40 or 50 years old, with a hooked nose, thick eyebrows and round eyes. He was energetic and had an aura of authority that came from not even being angry.

He seemed to enjoy being alone, but he was not alone. In front of him was a transparent cage like a crystal palace, and inside the cage were several dark and strange bones.

He looked at the pile of bones as if he was looking at an old familiar friend.

But before he could enjoy the time of reminiscing with old friends for long, it was interrupted by an uninvited guest.

"Give me Tianshu's body."

A majestic and indifferent female voice suddenly sounded, and a noble purple and a sacred silver appeared in the cell that was as bright as day.

The face of Hua Jing's head was still shrouded in an incomprehensible mist, making it impossible to judge her mood from her expression. Only her white eyes revealed a hidden anger that made people dare not look at her.

"Hua Jing, you've crossed the line."

The chief monk Henglian stopped playing music and frowned slightly.

The three chiefs of the Exorcist Department each have their own duties, and they are independent and check and balance each other. Each chief has his own business and power. They cannot cross the line, snatch the tasks of other chiefs, or set foot on the territory of other chiefs without permission.

When the Exorcism Bureau was first established, it had a system of separation of powers, the purpose of which was to prevent excessive concentration of power in the hands of a particular chief, which would taint the original intention of the Exorcism Bureau to eliminate evil for the people and cleanse the five continents.

The reckless behavior of Hua Jing's breaking into the prison obviously did not get the permission of the prison's master, Heng Lian. Not to mention that Hua Jing's ability to walk to Amaterasu Prison meant that she must have broken many rules along the way, and even killed Heng Lian's subordinates.

Then it is natural that Master Henglian would feel unhappy.

"The one who can punish me is in your cell right now."

The voice of Huajing Master did not change, but instead one could hear some arrogance in it.

In the history of the Exorcism Department, it was not uncommon for a chief to cross the line, and the task of punishing the cross-border offender would often fall on the third chief. But now, there is no third chief in the Exorcism Department of Zhongyuanzhou.

Strangely, Hua Jing's provocation did not make Heng Lian angry, as if his frown just now was also fake. He sat up straighter and his tone became calmer:

"If people have no restrictions, they will really do whatever they want..."

He shook his head with emotion, and after he finished talking to himself, he raised his eyes and asked, "How do you know his body is here?"

"The Drumskin Ghost has occupied this prison for ninety years. You have always been proud of catching it, but today you are willing to let it go. This means that I have placed a collection that you like more in the prison tomorrow."

Chief Hua Jing just stared at Chief Heng Lian with his pair of white pupils, trying to see something from his face.

Upon hearing this, Master Henglian nodded as if he understood.
"He is the person I admire most in my life, and he is also the elder I respect the most, so I should leave the best cell to him."

"Don't you think the word 'prison cell' is particularly harsh in your words?"

Hua Jingzuo did not move forward, she just stopped in front of the door.

Even though she knew that the corpse of the chief of the Heavenly Arts was inside, she did not enter. Because the Amaterasu Prison was the most solid prison in the Five Continents, it had a restriction that took more than a hundred years of effort and countless treasures to forge, and the key to pass this restriction was only possessed by the chief of the Heavenly Arts Prison, the Henglian Prison.

"I just want to clear his name." The chief of Henglian stood up and looked at the black bones in front of him.

"If you really want to clear his name, you should hand over his body to me. I will prove in front of everyone that his corpse has nothing to do with the evil spirit."

Hua Jing's tone was angry. Tian Shu's chief sacrificed his life to win a chance for the people of Zhongyuan Continent and even the entire Five Continents to survive. But the commemoration of this martyr did not last long, and voices of doubt about him actually arose. Even this voice became more and more intense, until today when someone found the remains of Tian Shu's master and it completely broke out.

This situation is truly chilling. When Abbot Huajing learned about this, the first thing he did was to look for his body, trying to clear the name of Abbot Tianshu, but his body disappeared immediately from the place where it appeared.

"This is not within your scope of responsibility. I will not hand him over to you." The head of Henglian shook his head. "Hua Jing, you only take care of the living. The dead..."

Before he could finish his words, Hua Jingzuo raised his head slightly and interrupted, "Did you hide his body here on purpose?"

The head of Henglian turned his head, his eagle-like eyes were sharp and unstoppable:

"This is a matter that concerns the reputation of our Exorcist Department for five thousand years! How can I take it lightly? Regardless of whether he is good or evil, I will get to the bottom of it!!"

"What is there to check?! There is no way he could have reached an agreement with the evil spirit! You should know that as well as I do!"

Hua Jingzu was furious. The sound she made shook the restriction in front of her, and ripples vaguely appeared in the transparent air.

"He was the only one who survived the acid rain disaster! He was the only one in the Exorcist Department who advocated making full use of everything to enslave the evil spirits! He took away countless vicious evil spirits from the prison and made them his subordinates! Haven't you seen his last move, 'Boundless Space'?! When will there be a circle of black beards surrounding him?!"

The series of questions from the head of Henglian were like shells, exploding in the airtight cell, creating waves of reverberations and deafening sounds:
"Only an evil demon can have such disgusting tentacles! Even his corpse has been completely dyed black!"

Many people witnessed the moment when the all-destroying black sun was surrounded by a circle of tentacles. Some people even used precious photo stones to record the scene, which was the biggest evidence used to question the original intention of Tianshu Zun's sacrifice before the corpse appeared.

The chest of the Huajing leader rose and fell under her wide purple robe. She remained silent for a long time, and finally spoke:
"You fear them."

The head of Henglian was a little confused by this question and was stunned for a moment. "You are in charge of the Heavenly Prison, and you like to torture and ravage the evil spirits. No matter how terrifying the evil spirits are, they will voluntarily ask for death under your hands. You are praised by others as 'the one who makes the evil spirits feel afraid'. But I can see that it is not because you are fearless, but because you are seeking revenge. I don't know what shadows you left behind, but I know that you are just venting your fear of them on these weaker evil spirits, so you don't deserve such a title at all."

Chief Hua Jing spoke mercilessly about her judgment of Chief Heng Lian. Her white pupils could see things that others could not see.

"Are you deliberately trying to provoke me?"

Abbot Henglian turned around, with his hands behind his back. This was the first time since Abbot Huajing appeared that he faced her completely.

The chief monk of Huajing shook his head slightly. "I just want to say that if you want to find someone who is least afraid of them in this world, it's him. You can torture these evil spirits to your heart's content in the safest place because their claws and teeth have been worn out by him. Therefore, you have no right to question him, and no one in the entire Five Continents has such qualifications."

In the Exorcism Department, she is in charge of the internal affairs, and finding evil spirits and their traces is her main responsibility; the Chief of Tianshu is in charge of the external affairs, and capturing and killing evil spirits is his responsibility; and the Chief of Henglian is in charge of the Heavenly Prison, and is responsible for controlling and studying evil spirits.

From the perspective of deployment and division of labor, the position of the head of Tianshu is indeed the one that requires the greatest effort and is the most dangerous.

"Ridiculous! Why can't anyone question a matter of principle? I have long told him that he shouldn't try to control evil spirits! How is this different from practicing evil?!"

"It's a matter of principle?" Huajing's chief asked coldly. "When evil cultivators try to control evil, it's because they worship power. In essence, they want to seek power from more powerful beings. But when he controls evil, he treats evil spirits as domestic animals. His goal is to make people look at evil spirits like they would look at pigs and dogs at home, so that they won't be afraid of them. You've worked with him for so many years, and you don't even understand this?!"

The expression of the chief seat of Henglian finally changed. The corners of his lips trembled slightly. He stopped looking at the aggressive chief seat of Huajing and instead looked at the black bones in the crystal palace. Suddenly, he clenched his fists and sighed:
"How could I not see that? But he is wrong. He is the only one in the world who can treat evil spirits as domestic animals... It is not right and impossible to let people treat tigers and leopards as cats and dogs..."

The man placed his hand on the transparent surface of the Crystal Palace with a sense of loss, as if he wanted to touch his old colleague through the cage. "He should have had a glorious ending, but he chose to touch those dirty things..."

His words were full of regret for this old friend, as if the sudden decline in Tianshu Zun's reputation after his death was all his fault for not being able to dissuade him.

Unfortunately, at their level, everyone has their own aspirations, and their aspirations are stronger than gold. It is as difficult as ascending to heaven to change the mind of a Lord Dongxu.

Abbot Hua Jing looked at the emotions revealed by Abbot Heng Lian and remained silent.

She and the Chief Henglian both seemed to be high-ranking people on par with the Chief Tianshu, but no one in the Exorcist Department dared to say that they had not received help and guidance from the Venerable Tianshu, and no one could say that they had no feelings for the old man who was like a stabilizing force.

"Do you think I don't want to believe him? That's because I can no longer believe him!!"

There was great sorrow hidden in the voice of Abbot Henglian, and Abbot Huajing felt somewhat confused by the words.

What do you mean by 'can't believe'? Did the head of Tianshu really do something he shouldn't have done...?
She suddenly sensed something and stepped into the cell door hesitantly, and the restriction was actually released on her.

She moved lightly, and in a flash she arrived in front of the Crystal Palace.

She bent slightly, trying to look more closely at the pile of black bones.

suddenly!

A thick black liquid was injected into her eyes!
She reacted instantly!

She tilted her head slightly at an angle, just enough to avoid the incoming liquid.

The speed was so fast that it was unbelievable, but when she stopped, she found that it was impossible for the liquid to hit her eyes because there was a piece of crystal made of special material between it and her eyes.

The pool of liquid was shot onto the inner wall of the Crystal Palace, and then fell down like candle wax. If you look closely, you will find that it is not liquid at all, but a bunch of black aphids that are much smaller than ants. They gather together, densely packed without a single gap.

The culprit who shot them was actually the corpse left behind by the chief elder.

The chief monk Henglian watched all this silently from the side. His face was gloomy and he said sadly:
"The person who found his body died immediately after the news spread. It was a miserable death. I tried my best to clean up all the traces in a short time, and then took his body away and put it here. It's not that I don't want you to take him out to prove your innocence, but he has no innocence to speak of. The evil nature of his body is beyond what I have seen in my life. As long as it appears in the world, someone will die! Do you expect this thing to save his reputation?!"

Hua Jing's chief monk was speechless. "This should have been stained after his death. The evil demon wanted to slander him and even spared his corpse."

"Once ink stains white paper, it can never be wiped clean..." The leader of Henglian raised his head and sighed.

Upon hearing this, Hua Jing Chief was silent, but Heng Lian Chief waved his hand:

"Let's go... We are the only ones who can protect his last bit of dignity..."

Behind the clouds and mist, the leader of Huajing frowned slightly.

The more you argue, the darker it gets. Instead of doing that, not unveiling the veil is actually a way to protect the Heavenly Art Master.

She no longer insisted on clearing the name of the deceased, but left in silence.

Outside the prison, Tao Yaoyao looked worried, and the familiar happiness was gone from her brows:
"Sir, is You Su really a bad guy..."

Master Hua Jing did not answer, but just walked into the sea of ​​clouds.

The death of Venerable Tianshu temporarily defended the coast, but it also directly led to huge changes in the two largest forces in Zhongyuan Continent.

No one can take the position of the head of the Exorcist Celestial Art, and the affairs can only be handled by the two heads. But the most stable thing in the world is the triangle, and the most easily opposed is the binary state. The open and covert struggles between the two heads, and the factional struggles between the radicals and conservatives have quietly begun.

After all, only a small number of people doubted the chief elder. After all, he was a hero who saved the Five Continents, and there were also many people who protected the Xuanxiao Sect. But it was a foregone conclusion that You Su was a demon who killed people without blinking an eye. The leader of the Xuanxiao Sect cut off the Lotus Peak to protect himself. The spearheads of the people were directed at the Venerable Lianjian, who was unruly, and even affected the fairy Wangshu, who had always covered her face with a mask and remained mysterious.

Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the gate of Xuanxiao Sect to ask for an explanation. The majesty of this magnificent sect seemed to have disappeared. But when people eager to vent their hatred rushed to Lotus Peak, they found that it was deserted.

And in the ice and snow of Beiaozhou that had never melted for thousands of years, a young man opened his eyes.

(End of this chapter)