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Chapter 203 Soul Scattered, Heaven-Mending Stone (14)

Because Emperor Yonghe reacted extremely quickly, before various rumors and speculations could even arise and spread, his two imperial edicts had already been issued, effectively defining the matter.

The discussions were also largely limited to oral instructions.

This highlights the importance of timely information disclosure.

Suppressing public opinion is more difficult than controlling a river; sometimes, simply covering it up is useless. The more the official authorities try to conceal it and prevent people from speaking out, the more conspiracy theories and speculations will emerge from the public. Only a massive literary inquisition, a brutal crackdown, can temporarily suppress public opinion. But that doesn't stop some people from being stubborn enough to write things down, bury them in their own graves, and hope they'll see the light of day again someday when their graves are robbed!
Information should be disclosed and reported in a timely and transparent manner.

Only in this way can we suppress all kinds of rumors to the greatest extent.

Of course, this is on the premise that the government office or the media issuing the announcement has a certain degree of credibility.

If I've said too much nonsense and rubbish before.

If public credibility is completely lost.

The effect would then be quite limited.

Emperor Yonghe was a man of good character and credibility. At least no one found him to have lied through his teeth. At most, people thought he was a bit harsh and ungrateful, unlike the kind and benevolent Emperor Emeritus.

But it's not to the point of spouting nonsense.

The only thing that people don't quite believe yet is the Imperial Seal of the State. However, because of the extraordinary phenomena, not many people think it's fake; they just have some doubts and dare not be completely certain.

Therefore, Emperor Yonghe's two oral edicts were disseminated.

No one questioned it.

The discussion largely revolves around the fact that the Jia family could attract unusual individuals. After all, with most people unaware that Shi Xiangyun was also among those who vomited blood, only ten people did so. Nine of them were in the Jia family, and the only one not in the Jia family, but in the palace, was a Jia family daughter, Jia Yuanchun. Essentially, they were all members of the Jia family or relatives of the Jia family.

It's hard to escape the center of public opinion!

How interested were people? So interested that late at night, in all the brothels, the old lechers had no interest in seeking pleasure or judging the courtesans and dancers on the stage, but were instead enthusiastically discussing the Jia family.

"Have you heard? The Jia family is practically a den of monsters. According to His Majesty, the one who suddenly vomited blood and was on the verge of death two hours ago was not human in his previous life."

They just haven't done anything wrong, and they haven't eaten people.

Those who committed heinous acts in their past lives and ate people, as well as those who are still spirits in this life, all died and vanished into thin air.

But I don't seem to have heard of anyone being reduced to ashes...

"But I heard that Lin Daiyu, who was said to be a fairy descended to earth, also vomited blood. Wasn't she a fairy?"

"You don't understand this at all. Wasn't Lin Daiyu some kind of fairy in her previous life? She was supposed to repay the kindness of the Divine Stone Attendant for watering her with sweet dew. If she had been a human in her previous life, how could she have used the phrase 'watering with sweet dew' to describe it?"

She must have been a plant in her past life, so I'll water her.

"So what if she's a fairy? She wasn't made from human form."

"That makes sense..."

"If that's the case, then only Shenying Shizeng was human in his previous life. It feels like Shenying Shizeng is like Tang Sanzang, who can grant immortality if you eat him. A bunch of monsters surround him and they are reincarnated together. I don't know what kind of operation that is, but the Jia family has indeed become a den of monsters."

"But if that's the case, does that mean there are only a few people in the entire capital who weren't human in their past lives, but were spirits or monsters?"

"Ten is not a small number, how many more do you want?"

"The capital city is, after all, the imperial capital of a country, and it must have some kind of luck or warding-off-evil effect. These spirits are likely to have been able to enter the capital smoothly because they were covered by the immortal aura brought by the reincarnation of the Divine Attendant Shenying, or perhaps they had been bribed."

There are people or something in the underworld of reincarnation.

Even immortals are human; they must have human emotions and worldly concerns.

"It's a pity I visited them, but they didn't seem to have any memories of their past lives. I couldn't get anything out of them, and His Majesty wasn't willing to reveal too much. Otherwise, I really wanted to ask them about their past lives, what the Immortal Realm was like, and whether they went to the Underworld after death!"

"It's hard to say. Since there are gods descending to earth, there must also be hell and Yama. Let's do some good deeds. I don't want to go to hell after I die."

"What's wrong? You've done plenty of bad things, are you scared now?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? I haven't done anything wrong..."

"Speaking of which, apart from Wang Xifeng and Jia Yuanchun who are already married, and a widow named Li Wan, the rest of the Jia family's daughters are still unmarried, right?"
Although they are spirits, according to His Majesty's words, they are good spirits, and they are spirits from blessed lands.

He could barely be considered a demigod or something...

I wonder if I can marry her, and if there are any obstacles?

"You still want to create a romantic tale between a human and a demon?"

"No way, you have no idea what kind of person he is. I'm sure he doesn't want to create a romantic relationship between a human and a demon. He wants to die so that as the wife of a spirit, he might be able to take him back out of our past relationship and rekindle our romance. Or maybe he could take him back to a blessed land and become a divine couple together."

This guy has read plenty of these kinds of monster stories.

"Haha, it's better to avoid them. Unless you're willing to treat them like royalty and make them fall in love with you, what's the point?"
If you offend them again, and they turn around and plot against you, that would be even more deadly, especially with your appearance..."

"What do you mean?"

"What, do I have to spell it out for you? I'll tell you you're ugly, then. Why don't you take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror? What kind of blind spirit would be interested in you? A wild boar spirit from the mountain?"

“Puchi…hahahahaha…”

"you wanna die!!!"

Before long, some people got angry and started fighting, which alerted the patrolling guards. They packed up all the fighters and sent them to the prison. Whether they could get out smoothly after that depended on their family connections.

Those with strong connections will be politely offered a ride.

Even those with ordinary backgrounds can get out by paying some money.

With a poor background, merchants are likely to suffer huge losses.

Of course, such hot-tempered and foul-mouthed people are ultimately a minority, and most places are still harmonious. The main point of discussion in this incident is the Rongguo Mansion.

He would only say a few words occasionally. Emperor Yonghe was a bit reckless, but fortunately the Imperial Seal of the State was harmless to ordinary people.

Overall, there was no negative public opinion generated.

It will not affect the sacrificial ceremony to Heaven the day after tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Ding Shui had successfully returned to the interior of the Five-Colored Stone and began to examine the memories of the two spirits that had been intelligently sorted and summarized by the super hacker system.

Unimportant details, such as what the person ate before becoming a spirit or how they cultivated afterward, were temporarily ignored by Ding Shui. He then simply consulted the system's AI, asking it to extract the key points.

What are their plans regarding the Five-Colored Stone?

"Waste the merits and wisdom of the Five-Colored Stone, bring it back to the Realm of Illusion, refine its internal essence, and integrate it into the essence of the Realm of Illusion, so that the Realm of Illusion becomes real."

The five-colored stone contains a rich source of the five elements.

It also contains a trace of innate Five Elements power.

Although it is still a long way from mending the heavens and creating the world, it is not a problem to turn a small illusory cave into reality. Moreover, the accumulation of the Great Illusionary Realm is already sufficient. It just lacks the opportunity to turn the illusion into reality.

A trace of innate Five Elements power is enough.

After intelligent analysis, the system responded truthfully.

"I see. That's pretty much what I guessed. They really do want the original body. Are they being so eager because Jinghuan promised them something?"

Ding Shui seemed to be deep in thought, and continued to ask questions.

"Jinghuan promised them that after the matter was accomplished, they could enter the Taixu Illusionary Realm and enjoy the blessings of the Taixu Illusionary Realm's transformation from illusion to reality. The transformation of the Taixu Illusionary Realm into reality is equivalent to completing a metamorphosis. Not only will the Lord of the Taixu Illusionary Realm enjoy great benefits, but the living beings inside will also benefit."

They reasoned that the benefits would allow them to fully transform and no longer be subject to illusions.

The system continued to respond.

"Do they know the situation of Shenying Attendant and Jiangzhu Fairy, and how Jinghuan bound Jiangzhu Fairy to the original body and placed the Blood and Tears Karma Curse on it?"

“Take a closer look; if they know anything, it would be best to trace the entire cause and effect.”

Ding Shui naturally continued to ask questions.

Even if it weren't for wanting the original owner to die unjustly, Ding Shui was still very curious about this matter and quite willing to gossip about it.

"Jia Baoyu is not the reincarnation of Shenying Attendant..."

"The real reincarnation of Shenying Attendant is actually Zhen Baoyu, the Zhen family's Zhen Baoyu who has already been raided. The origin of this story can be traced back to before Shenying Attendant descended to the mortal world. Shenying Attendant sensed that his tribulation of love was approaching, and worried that failing the tribulation would damage his cultivation. So he devised a trick to transfer the tribulation between his real and fake bodies. He would descend to the mortal world with his real body and then transfer the tribulation of love to his fake body."

However, this was not allowed in the Upper Realm, but it required someone's assistance to carry it out. So, the Divine Attendant found the Fairy Disenchantment, the master of the Illusionary Realm, and asked her for help, and told her the method to turn the illusion into reality in the Illusionary Realm.

And the location of the five-colored stone fragments.

"So Fairy Jinghuan agreed to help carry out the technique of transplanting flowers and grafting trees. Just then, Fairy Jiangzhu learned that Shenying was going to descend to the mortal world and sensed that she had an unresolved karmic debt, which made it difficult for her to become an immortal. At the same time, the karmic debt was tied to Shenying."

She would certainly have had little chance to repay the favor in the upper realm.

Therefore, he wanted to repay the kindness when he went through his tribulations.

However, Fairy Jiangzhu was ignorant of these matters, while Fairy Jinghuan was quite famous in this area. Therefore, Fairy Jiangzhu came to Fairy Jinghuan herself, hoping that Fairy Jinghuan could help her come up with an idea. Fairy Jinghuan then told Shenying Attendant, who then realized that Fairy Jiangzhu was his love tribulation, and that the tribulation energy was showing signs of rising slightly.

That means the chances of failure are greater.

To avoid any unforeseen circumstances, the Divine Stone Attendant requested to go a step further and completely bind the Crimson Pearl Fairy to his avatar. He didn't specify the details of the process, as long as it achieved the goal of helping her successfully overcome her tribulation of love.

"Afterwards, Fairy Jinghuan fabricated the story of repaying kindness with tears and promised to help her repay the kindness smoothly and clear away the karma of becoming an immortal. Including later, stuffing the jade transformed from the five-colored stone fragments into Jia Baoyu's mouth, so that he would be born with auspiciousness, was also to gain the trust of Fairy Jiangzhu."

She was a servant named Shenying, who came from the Nuwa Palace.

The presence of five-colored stone fragments on his body actually makes him seem more real.

Moreover, the auspicious signs of a deity's reincarnation make it seem more real than the true form of Shenying Attendant, which lacks any such signs.

It was after seeing these things that Fairy Jiangzhu recognized Jia Baoyu as the reincarnation of Shenying Attendant. In order to repay her debt of tears and settle her karma, and to avoid mistaking someone else in her next reincarnation or being unable to repay her debt of tears, she continued to ask Fairy Jinghuan for help.

Fairy Jinghuan then recommended the Twelve Beauties Register to her, stating that as long as she signed the contract within the register, she could control her fate after reincarnation to a certain extent. This would help her repay her debt of tears smoothly and avoid any mishaps. Fairy Jiangzhu not only believed this but also directly signed the relevant contract.

Immediately afterwards, in front of Fairy Jinghuan, Fairy Jiangzhu used the Twelve Beauties Register to establish a karmic contract between her and Jia Baoyu to repay the debt of tears. Theoretically speaking, as long as she successfully repays the debt of tears, the karmic debt can be completely severed.

The contract seems to be fine.

However, Fairy Jinghuan added a hidden clause to the contract: if the recipient of the tears is wrong, it will become a curse of mutual destruction, a curse of blood and tears.

"Besides that, on the surface it seems that she and Jia Baoyu have formed a karmic contract to repay tears, but Jia Baoyu's fate is not able to bear the karmic contract of a powerful cultivator. So in the end, the one who takes the karmic burden for him is the Spirit Jade that Jia Baoyu has refined a trace of."

This is also why the original owner was entangled with it.

At the same time, Fairy Jinghuan can be considered to have killed two birds with one stone.

It can not only help Shenying Attendant get rid of his love tribulation once and for all, but also eliminate the spirit of the Five-Colored Stone without having to bear the karmic consequences.

After all, she only provided the relevant contract.

It was signed by the Crimson Pearl Fairy herself.

"After that, everything proceeded according to plan. The reason those wicked spirits descended to the mortal realm was both to collect wicked energy and to ensure that the relationship between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu wouldn't run into problems. Or rather, if any intractable problems arose, Fairy Disenchantment could temporarily descend using the bodies of those wicked spirits to try and resolve them."

Everything was going perfectly according to plan…

Even without the system's AI saying anything further, Ding Shui already knew what had happened; she had ruined the plan.

"So in reality, the whole thing was a collaboration between Shenying Attendant and Jinghuan Fairy. The two of them were the real masterminds, and everyone else was just a pawn."

What exactly is Jia Baoyu of the Jia family?

"Jia Baoyu was actually a normal person, but when he was just conceived as an embryo, Fairy Jinghuan used a secret technique to transfer a trace of Shenying Attendant's aura into his body, deceiving the Heavenly Dao and helping Shenying Attendant overcome his love tribulation."

He was just a pawn unaware of his own limitations; what a pitiful person!

The super hacker system continued to provide accurate answers based on the memories in the minds of those two spirits.

At this point, Ding Shui fully understood his targets for revenge. Fairy Jinghuan was just one of them; Shenying Attendant should also be considered a target. After all, if it weren't for Shenying Attendant, Fairy Jinghuan might not have known the original body's location at all, let alone how to use it to turn the illusory realm into reality. This enmity was immense!