Hell Emperor.

Chapter 347 Xia Wei - On Taoism
Seeing that Ren Changhong was about to fight, Hua Xiaomei hurriedly stepped forward to stop her and persuaded her, "Wait, don't be so anxious, maybe what she said is true?"

"Do you believe this clumsy lie?" Ren Changhong snorted coldly, not believing it at all.

Hua Xiaomei had no choice but to say based on the current situation: "Maybe. Have you ever heard that the Golden Wheel Palace would send out ghost messengers to capture souls? I see that her strength is low, and she doesn't seem to be following us to gather information. She is clearly a ghost messenger to capture souls."

Seeing Hua Xiaomei speaking for him, Shan Yao nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes, that's right! I heard from my cousin that the previous master of the Golden Wheel Palace was a member of the evil demons. Thanks to Shura Jie, the new master, the Golden Wheel Palace has been able to grow stronger and stronger, with new buildings being added every day!"

"Shura...what?"

Hearing the name from Shan Yao's mouth, Ren Changhong's pupils shrank, his stern face could no longer remain calm, and his sword-holding hand trembled slightly.

"Did I hear it wrong? She just mentioned..."

Hua Xiaomei also showed a look of surprise, suspecting that she had heard it wrong. According to Ren Changhong's previous description, that Shura Jie was clearly Ye Jie.

"Quick! Tell us everything about the Palace Master!" Ren Changhong came back to his senses soon and asked immediately, the urgency in his words no longer able to be suppressed.

Even Shan Yao was frightened by her suddenly hasty tone. He dared not hide anything and quickly and tremblingly told everything he knew:
"The Palace Master... The Palace Master's name is Shura Jie. Strangely enough, none of the ghost officials in the palace, including me, know the Palace Master's name. Judging from his appearance, he is about the same age as me, but even the Earth Dragon King is no match for him. He can enlighten the ghost officials in the palace with just a wave of his hand, allowing tall buildings to be built. Even my brother who had turned into a beast-shaped ghost was cured by him."

Hua Xiaomei couldn't help but frown. The more Shan Yao talked, the more mysterious it seemed to her. Apart from the similar age, the rest of what Shan Yao described was very different from the Ye Jie in her memory. How could they be the same person?
After a pause, Shan Yao said to Ren Changhong: "I saw the token you just took out. You are also a Shura. Do you know the Palace Master?"

"More than just knowing each other..." Ren Changhong took a deep breath. She remembered that Ye Jie once mentioned that he would go to the Golden Wheel Palace to carry out the task assigned by the Lord of the Demon Palace.

What Ren Changhong could never have imagined was that Ye Jie, who was said to be here to carry out a mission, had suddenly transformed into the Lord of the Golden Wheel Palace. She had no idea what to say. The development of things was completely beyond her expectations. If she saw Ye Jie next time, she would definitely ask him for clarification.

Hua Xiaomei cast a puzzled look at Ren Changhong beside her: "Is she really talking about Ye Jie? Could it be that you made a mistake?"

Thinking of Ye Jie, Hua Xiaomei could not equate him, who had been unsuccessful for many years, with Shura Jie, who was described by Shan Yao as being able to fight against the demon king and whose every move was accompanied by miracles. There must be some misunderstanding.

Ren Changhong glanced at her and said, "Whether it is true or not, you will know once you go and see it."

Hua Xiaomei bit her lip. It seemed that this was indeed the only way. If she wanted to solve the mystery of Shura Jie, she had to go and find out. Then she would be able to confirm it.

As if she had thought of something, Hua Xiaomei's eyes suddenly lit up: "Oh, right... you just mentioned the Earth Dragon King, do you know where the Earth Dragon King is?"

Hearing Hua Xiaomei mention the Earth Dragon King, Ren Changhong also became interested. Among the alchemy materials they were looking for for Nan Linghe, one of them was the ten-zhang earth dragon heart. Such a huge earth dragon heart can only be bred in the body of a demon king-level earth dragon.

To Ren Changhong's surprise, they actually learned information about the Earth Dragon King from the ghost messenger Shan Yao whom they met by chance. This was really easy to get.

Shan Yao was a little surprised and didn't know why the two asked about this, but he still answered: "The Earth Dragon King is collecting bone fragments. I heard from the Palace Master that the Earth Dragon King will be the guardian demon of the Golden Wheel Palace in the future, capable of protecting ordinary ghost messengers from being harmed by ghosts in the underworld."

"A great demon guarding the palace? In that case, how can we get the heart of the earth dragon?" Hua Xiaomei was a little dumbfounded.

Ren Changhong pondered and said, "Since it is a great demon guarding the palace, it will be easy to deal with. The great demon guarding the palace only obeys the orders of the palace master. It depends on whether Shura Jie is willing to take out the earth dragon heart."

Hua Xiaomei's eyes also showed some trust: "If he is really the Ye Jie I know, then of course he is willing. This is to save Sister He who is in a state of collapse. He will give it out no matter what he says."

"can I go now……"

Shan Yao said timidly, feeling that it might not be a good idea to tell the two people in front of him the news inside the palace. Now even the big demon guarding the palace has been targeted by them, and she didn't know what they would be concerned about next.

"No, you still have to take us to the Golden Wheel Palace." Hua Xiaomei smiled faintly, "Before that, we need to tell our companions about this news. You come with me."

Shan Yao looked helpless, but was still caught by Hua Xiaomei and reunited with Xia Wei, who was cleaning out the beastmen.

Not far away, Xia Wei had a solemn expression on her face, her knife-like eyes fixed on the beast-shaped creature in front of her.

The beast-shaped creature in front of her was completely different from the beast-shaped creatures Xia Wei had killed along the way. He did not lose his intelligence like the other beast-shaped creatures, and did not go crazy and only knew to attack everything around him. Instead, he was very calm, with red pupils revealing a deep gaze. He stared at Xia Wei, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Who are you? Are you the son of the city lord here? Can you understand what I am saying?"

Xia Wei asked sharply. She remembered that the residents in the city had mentioned that the city lord's son was also attacked by beastmen.

It is impossible for the city lord to lock up his son with other insane beastmen, so he will definitely lock him up alone.

Xia Wei searched all the way and finally found this tightly sealed room in the City Lord's Mansion. However, the beast-shaped creature in the room was far beyond Xia Wei's expectations.

"Who am I? This is a question worth pondering."

Unexpectedly, the beast-like being in front of her, who was dressed in dirty clothes, had bloodshot eyes and dilated pupils, opened his mouth and answered her question at this moment.

"I am the beast-user Xiao En, and I am communicating with you through this body." Upon learning that the owner of the body was the instigator of all this, Xia Wei flew into a rage: "Are you the beast-user who is harming people? Go to hell!"

After saying that, a purple light flashed in Xia Wei's eyes, and blazing lasers gathered in them. The next moment, the beast user was going to be killed on the spot!

Facing the threat of the magic light, the beast-like master looked calm and spoke slowly: "What you see is not the real me, but a body I borrowed. You can't hurt me."

After hearing what he said, Xia Wei calmed down. Although the person in front of her claimed to be the beast-user Xiao En, his aura was no different from the beast-users she had met along the way. It seemed that the situation was really as Xiao En said. This was just a body he borrowed. Even if it was destroyed, it would have no effect on him.

"You coward, do you dare to show yourself and compete with me?" Xia Wei asked.

Xiao En was not annoyed, but just said: "Every beastman is my eyes, and everything they see will appear in front of my eyes. I just wanted to see who was destroying the beastmen I left behind, but I didn't expect to see you."

After a pause, Xiao En continued: "I saw what you did. You have unique potential. Join us, join the Beast Palace. In time, you will become the most powerful Beast Master, and even have the opportunity to become the Lord of the Beast Palace..."

Xia Wei was so angry that she laughed: "Join you? Join you in harming others?"

Xiao En shook his head: "You are wrong, we are not harming others, on the contrary, we are saving them from suffering."

"Rescue? What kind of rescue is this? Don't you know what those beastmen have become and how many people they have hurt?" Xia Wei gritted her teeth.

Xiao En said calmly, "Look at the people in this city. Did I ask them to capture the beastmen and fight with living people to please the audience? People in this world kill each other all the time. Is it because of the beastmen? People kill each other for their own selfish desires. The number of people who died at the hands of humans is greater than any natural disaster or any monster. Could it be that these were also done by the beastmen?"

Xia Wei was startled, and then she heard Xiao En continue: "You, like us, hate the ugliness of human beings and feel deeply for those foolish and mediocre people. That's why you killed those people in the city, right? This awareness is the prerequisite for joining the Beast Hall. Join us and purify the entire dirty world together with the Beast Envoy."

Hearing this, Xia Wei angrily said, "What do you mean I am the same as you? I am doing righteous things, I am enforcing justice! And you are killing those innocent people! How can we be the same!"

Seeing that Xia Wei couldn't be persuaded at all, Xiao En felt helpless: "I turned those people into beasts to help their souls escape from the suffering of reincarnation. After they retreat into beast form and lose their spiritual intelligence, they will no longer suffer from the suffering of reincarnation. No matter how many times they reincarnate, they can only maintain their beast form and cannot feel the sorrows and joys of the world, thus escaping from the root of suffering."

Xia Wei glared: "And you still say you are not harming others! Not only have you harmed them in this life, you are also going to harm them in the next life and the next life!"

Xiao En suddenly asked: "Tell me, why do people live?"

"Why? Of course it's for the bond, for the family, and for everything that we cherish!" Xia Wei answered without hesitation.

Xiao En was stunned. He had heard many different answers. Some people answered that the purpose of living was to ascend to the immortal throne and surpass all living beings. Some people answered that it was to accumulate wealth and pass it on to future generations. However, this was the first time he had heard an answer like Xia Wei's.

Shaking his head, Xiao En continued, "You are wrong. The reason why people live is only because this world is in a cycle and needs endless nourishment. At the end of each person's life, what is recorded in their life is just a little bit of good deeds in the book of life and death. In the end, there is nothing but endless pain. Only one immortal is born among millions of people. Every immortal stands on the bones of millions of people. Except for that one immortal, the lives of the other millions of people are meaningless. The meaning of their existence is to suffer."

At the end, Xiao En looked Xia Wei in the face: "All the suffering in the world is caused by the foolish people themselves. If people know nothing, think nothing, and are as pure as babies, they can be freed from suffering, and this is what the beast-shaped messenger does. You can kill the bodies of those foolish people, but they will still be foolish in their next life, so you cannot help them be freed once and for all, but the beast-shaped messenger can."

Seeing Xia Wei gritted her teeth secretly and remained silent, Xiao En thought she was persuaded and continued, "What do you think? Join us. With your talent, you will surely shine in the Beast Hall."

"What a heresy! You and the other beast-users are all a bunch of lunatics! How can you think that I'm the same as you?" Xia Wei shouted angrily.

Xiao En was greatly puzzled. He clearly saw Xia Wei killing people through the beastman's eyes, and that's why he thought she was a fellow traveler. He didn't expect Xia Wei didn't think so at all.

"I saw everything. Didn't you kill those people? Or are you trying to find an excuse to shirk responsibility?" Xiao En asked back.

"What is there to shirk? I killed those people who deserved to be killed. What do you think? I am acting in the name of justice. If time had allowed, I would have written down their names so that people would praise them. How could I be the same as a bunch of lunatics like you?" Xia Wei said angrily.

Xiao En was quite speechless. Who would believe such words? He could only say, "Do you really think so? Do you have the final say on whether they should live or die?"

Xia Wei's eyes widened with anger, her eyebrows furrowed tightly, and she said without hesitation: "Of course! I don't have the final say, so do you have the final say? Who do you think you are? Are you qualified to give me instructions?"

Xia Wei's words almost made Xiao En unable to breathe. As a beast-form user, he had to treat even the ordinary Yama Palace Lords with respect. He never expected that Xia Wei would not give him any face at all and almost scolded him.

The most terrifying thing is that Xia Wei thinks he is a lunatic, but he thinks Xia Wei is the unreasonable lunatic, and the kind who is so paranoid that she is hopeless.

Xiao En sighed deeply: "It seems that I was wrong. I thought you were a talented person, but I didn't expect you to be as stupid as the rest of the world."

"You call me stupid? You coward, clean your neck and wait, I, Xia Wei, will kill you!"

At the end of her words, Xia Wei was furious, and a blazing purple light gathered from the bottom of her eyes. The devilish light swept across, and the entire upper body of the beast-shaped creature that inhabited Xiao En's consciousness disappeared.

Somewhere far away, a dark evil beast with wings on its back stood still, and it seemed that Xia Wei's roar was still lingering in its ears. Until now, it still couldn't believe that there were such unreasonable people in the world.

Xia Wei, who stayed where she was, took a lot of effort to calm herself down. She made up her mind that the next time she saw Xiao En, she would scare him to death and let those beast-shaped users who believed in heresy learn a lesson from her power!

(End of this chapter)