Heavenly Official Sends Evil

Chapter 936: The Puzzle of Leaving the Blessed Land

This hatred will never cease, this body will never perish.

On the day the injustice is redressed, I am willing to serve like a dog or a horse.

The first half of the phrase "blood" was something Wu Xian had heard the prisoner shout during their battle.

But she didn't utter the second half of the sentence at the time. Perhaps the prisoner did initially hope to regain her innocence, but after becoming an evil spirit, hatred made her forget her original desire.

It's alright, this white silk ribbon will still remember it for her.

After a moment of contemplation, Wu Xian used his iron-toothed cat teeth to bite through his thick skin, solemnly holding the white silk in one hand and dripping his blood onto it with the other.

The White Silk used to express grievances has the ability to prevent the imprisoned woman from attacking after making an oath, and to enhance treasures after vindication.

Wu Xian didn't care much about the former; after many battles, he viewed the imprisoned woman as someone worthless. However, the latter's effect of enhancing treasures was not to be missed.

This is related to Wu Xian's upper limit of combat power in the blessed land. The more strength he has, the more confident he will be in surviving to the end.

Therefore, Wu Xian made the vow without hesitation.

After leaving the cell, Wu Xian saw that Qi Liang and Luo Caixia were both in tears and helpless, as if they had just recovered from a serious illness.

Wu Xian pulled the two up and had no choice but to cast a "mind-calming and spirit-purifying spell" on them, which helped the two, who were on the verge of a mental breakdown, regain their composure.

After the three left the cell, they entered a corridor lined with stones on all sides, with cold water dripping from the ceiling. After passing through the corridor, they finally reached the end.

This is the execution ground, also known as the execution ground or Caishikou, where death sentences are carried out.

The circular ritual field was divided into two areas by a red line.

To the left is a platform three feet above the ground, upon which a pavilion has been built to shelter from the wind and rain. Tables and chairs are placed under the pavilion, which is where officials sit to oversee executions.

To the right is an execution platform, slightly lower than the executioner's platform. On the platform are two short, bluish-black stakes, which are used to bind condemned prisoners. The purplish-black color on the stakes is the color of human blood, and you can smell the pungent, fishy odor emanating from them from afar.

Behind the stake stood two executioners, dressed in red and wielding decapitation blades. Beneath their red robes, flesh and blood had rotted away, leaving only red skulls with cold flames burning silently in their eye sockets.

At the end of the red line is a dilapidated wooden door. Between the execution platform and this door, there is a bloodstain, indicating that this door was where the bodies of the decapitated prisoners were transported.

Wu Xian surveyed the environment of the execution ground.

As he looked around, he suddenly placed his hand on the platform.

The next second, a fierce blade flashed down; the executioner was slashing at Wu Xian's hand!

Wu Xian recoiled as if electrocuted, looking at the executioner with lingering fear. Had he been even slightly slower, his finger would have been chopped off.

Despite having just experienced danger, Wu Xian suddenly smiled with relief.

Qi Liang asked Wu Xian curiously, "What are you laughing at?"

Wu Xian pointed to the execution platform:
"The last piece of the puzzle for clearing the blessed land has been found."

“There are two executioners, two prisoner stakes, and I happen to have two death warrants!”

"The test we just conducted showed that the executioner will attack those who try to enter the execution platform, but if I'm not mistaken, there is one type of person who will not be attacked by the executioner: death row inmates."

Wu Xian took out two documents, on which were written the words "execution at noon tomorrow." There was a space before these eight characters for writing a name.

"Once you write your name on the death warrant, you become a death row inmate. The executioner will tie you to the stake and behead you at noon the next day."

Luo Caixia blinked: "Then you're still going to die?"

Wu Xian shook his head:
"This is different. The requirement to pass through the blessed land is to survive until dawn. By noon, we would have already left the blessed land, so the beheading could not be carried out."

"In other words, the documents plus the execution platform can achieve the same effect as the main hall of the county government on the first floor, protecting the newcomers until dawn!" "Two people in the cage, two people on the execution platform, that's four people in total, which already meets the conditions for completing the blessed land!"

"Although there's no way to do it this round, we can use the two of you to experiment first."

Wu Xian wrote Luo Caixia's name on an execution warrant and encouraged her to go up to the execution platform and give it a try.

Luo Caixia clutched the document, her heart pounding as she stepped up the stairs.

She had just stepped into the execution platform area, and before she could even display the execution document, she saw the executioner slashing at her menacingly.

Luo Caixia quickly rolled backward, narrowly avoiding the slash, and loudly questioned Wu Xian:

"How is this going?"

"How is this going?"

Wu Xian, also puzzled, uttered the same question: Could his guess be wrong?

Qi Liang took the death sentence document and examined it:

"It's the imperial seal, isn't it?"

“The death penalty document lacked the county government’s seal; official documents only become valid when the seal is affixed.”

"Do you remember the document that was placed inside the terracotta figurine in the restaurant? That document had the county government's official seal on it!"

Big seal...

Wu Xian thought carefully and quickly remembered that he had indeed seen such a seal before.

In the second-floor doll's recollection of the imprisoned woman, he saw the magistrate use a large seal, a brass seal with a slightly thick square metal block at the bottom and a short, round copper pillar at the top that was easy to grip.

It seems that only by obtaining the seal can the newlyweds safely survive until dawn using the execution platform here.

Wu Xian shrugged helplessly: "Alright, at least we found the second-to-last piece of the puzzle to leave the blessed land."

Wu Xian then checked the exhibition stand and found a blank document there. This document might be useful, so Wu Xian put it away.

After that, there was nothing left to explore but the dilapidated wooden door at the end of the red line.

Boom!
Huh, huh...

Wu Xiangang looked at the wooden door and suddenly heard a loud bang from inside, followed by heavy breathing, as if something very large had awakened.

Wow!

The wooden door shattered into pieces instantly, revealing a terrifying giant face squeezed inside.

More than half of this enormous face is mouth, filled with countless teeth, while the remaining part is filled with the facial features of countless humans.

"Roar……"

After the roar, countless eyes outside the giant face's mouth simultaneously looked at Wu Xian and the other two, drool dripping from the corners of its mouth. Then, with a burst of strength, another section of it crawled out.

Judging from the segment of its body that crawled out, this thing was practically a terrifying worm made up of human corpses, as wide as a corridor!
Wu Xian licked his lips, his heart beating slightly faster.

This thing is probably a monster made up of executed corpses. There's no certainty about how long its body is behind the door. Such a huge body is a huge problem.

But the real problem is, if this thing wakes up, what about the others?

The sound of the drum on the back will suppress the evil spirits inside the Death Gate for a period of time. Now that this thing has awakened, does it mean that the other evil spirits inside the Death Gate have also awakened?

(End of this chapter)