Terrifying Heavens: I'll directly worship the Black Law of Fengdu!

Chapter 65 The Three Realms and Twenty-Eight Heavens

Looking at the words "Establishment of Merit in the Department" on the token of the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak, Li Xuan guessed that the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak had a total of seventy-two departments under his command in the human world. Regardless of human good or evil, life and death, or even insects and beasts, whether they could breathe or not, everyone could find a person in charge in the seventy-two departments.

He traveled through countless worlds and only built the first department in the "Dual Pupils" world. He might build the remaining seventy-one departments in the future.

Looking back, I've traveled through several worlds.

In the world of the school cemetery, he set up an altar to summon the Lord of the Nine Hells of Fengdu. The process was chaotic, and the seals were randomly deactivated. It was a suicidal act. Logically, Fengdu should have sent a squad of tyrannical soldiers to take him away! Instead, Marshal Tianpeng personally came, gave him a sword as a slight punishment, and then gave him a big gift package of seal scriptures.

Li Xuan was quite impressed by a sentence that Marshal Tianpeng said before leaving the world of "School Tomb".

He said, "The ghosts of this world are quite interesting; I will take them with me first."

This sentence means: "The ghosts in this world are interesting, I'll take them with me!"

Although the text is short, it contains a great deal of information. It can be understood that before Li Xuan arrived in the "Campus" world, Marshal Tianpeng had never seen the ghosts in the Campus world, or in other words, he had never been to the Campus world.

Li Xuan's role is like sending a signal on a planet in the vast universe, which Marshal Tianpeng tracks down and adds a new marker to his private map.

Li Xuan's previous idea in the "Dual Pupil" world that he would become a pioneer of the God Map was correct.

However, the world he explored was the heavens.

Taoism believes that the world is infinite. If we had to categorize it, it could be divided into the Three Realms and the Twenty-Eight Heavens. These heavens represent the universe or spacetime.

The three realms are the Desire Realm, the Form Realm, and the Formless Realm.

The Desire Realm is where the physical body resides, where material desires run rampant, and it is filled with struggle, killing, sorrow, and suffering.

The Realm of Form is where those whose spirit and body are integrated reside, such as cultivators who have achieved success in their cultivation, and earth immortals who have achieved immortality through their physical bodies.

The Formless Realm is a region that transcends the realm of spirit and body. For example, the various great emperors and celestial beings in Taoism reside within it, and some even transcend the Formless Realm to reach higher worlds.

Beyond the Four Brahma Heavens lie the Jade Pure Heaven, the Upper Pure Heaven, the Supreme Pure Heaven, the Great Luo Heaven, and so on, where the Three Pure Ones, the supreme beings, reside.

If we include these subsequent great realms, there are a total of thirty-six heavens!

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After graduating, Li Xuan rarely contacted his classmates.

He enjoys researching things he likes, and meaningless socializing only wastes his happy time.

In the mobile chat group, his classmates invited him to a class reunion once, but he didn't go. Sitting at home, he could even guess what the reunion would be about.

It's simply a matter of where everyone will find employment after graduation.

It's simply a matter of who had a crush on whom during their school years.

There's nothing more to do than have someone who's had enough to eat and drink and has nothing else to do, so some people show off in front of others and put on a show of bragging and getting slapped in the face.

Maybe when he gets bored in the future, he'll actually want to see the real-life manifestation of these exciting novel plots.

But right now, cultivation is the most important thing. When he becomes an immortal, he can travel through time and space to make up for all the missed plot points. Li Xuan bought some fruit, sat on a chair in the garden, and ate while reading various Taoist scriptures.

I suddenly thought of the two officials in the world of Twin Pupils. They left their contact information. I wonder if it can be used in this real world?
Before the altar of the Black Law, the two of them spoke hesitantly, always providing reasons before asking questions. They must have been mindful of the Black Law's rules and thus had some reservations.

Li Xuan took out the "Lu Jian" talisman from the gourd, affixed it to his forehead, and chanted the incantation to summon Lu Jian: "Lu Jian, the official of Fengdu, hurry to your old friend, quickly, as the law commands!!"

The talisman immediately emitted a cold, eerie aura.

Visible black smoke billowed out, gathering at the head of the talisman to form a small, human-shaped figure of a clerk. The figure was still crudely "modeled," and its features were not clearly visible.

He looked around for a moment and said, “Lu Jian recommended Zhang Miaoyuan of the True Immortal Temple, but his disciples are morally flawed, have poor eyesight, and have even offended the sorcerer. Therefore, he was punished by being confined to Iron Mountain for two hundred years, hoping that this minor punishment would serve as a great warning. Since he could not come, I have come in his place…”

Li Xuan was dumbfounded; there was no such clause in the Black Law.

The Black Law is not only strict with the judges of Fengdu, but also ridiculously strict with the officials of ghosts and spirits. But thinking about it, it makes sense. If you want to recommend someone, you have to be prepared to take responsibility! If the person is of bad character, or if their disciple is evil, or if the recommended person has selfish motives and helps their disciple do wrong things!

Then you, as the recommender, will have to bear at least half of the consequences!
Li Xuan bowed and asked, "And who are you?"

The official said, "I am Wang An. The incident at the altar caused me to be punished, and my cultivation was slightly impaired, which is why I am late in coming here."

Li Xuan didn't understand. How could he be "punished because of the altar"?

He asked, "I remember that when I opened the altar and invited the Black Lawyer, everything was done according to the proper procedures."

Wang Angong hesitated for a moment, then said, “You are a low-ranking, first-grade judge of Fengdu. Although you are carrying out the Black Law, there is still room for maneuver. You only need to strictly abide by the ordinary precepts. Only when you reach the higher-ranking, first-grade level can you formally abide by the Black Law and receive the support of the Fengdu general’s troops. Lu Jian and I are different. No matter what rank of judge we support, we must strictly abide by the Black Law’s precepts. Otherwise, the law will not be lenient.”

He added, “When you invoked the Black Law, there was a faint North Pole light surrounding the altar, which grants you the power to pardon minor precepts within the Black Law. We were so curious that we could not keep quiet and wanted to ask what it was about, and thus we broke the precepts.”

Li Xuan remained silent. He was eager to cultivate, and regarding the Black Laws, he mostly looked at the precepts for judges, only glancing at the others. His thinking was simple: the ghosts and gods of Fengdu were all seasoned veterans; they must know the Black Laws and precepts by heart, so why would they violate them?

Wang Angongcao said:

“I and Lu Jiangongcao committed three offenses.”

Firstly, while the investigation of the illegal laws at the altar was still incomplete, I had a conversation with you.

Secondly, to rashly examine the imperial seal and inquire about its origin is to disrespect the authority granted by the North Pole and to question the power of the judge.

Thirdly, leaving talismans with the judge before the ritual is completed raises suspicions of forming a faction.

He was then detained in the underworld, bound to an iron pillar, and subjected to thousands of blows with an iron hammer, five hundred lashes with an iron rod, and three hundred lashes with a fire stick.

Such punishments are far beyond ordinary beatings in the mortal world; they penetrate flesh and blood to the very soul, causing unbearable pain, stripping away one's cultivation and power. I am fortunate to have regained my freedom after the punishment, but Lu Jian's situation is even more dire, and his predicament is compounded by the prospect of being imprisoned in Iron Mountain for two hundred years..."

That's so tragic...

Li Xuan didn't know what to say.

I held it in for a long time.

He simply changed the subject and asked, "The world is infinite. Is Wang Gongcao an enlightened being from the world of 'Zhang Miaoyuan' of the True Immortal Temple, or does he come from a higher world?"

(End of this chapter)