This Liao Zhai is not right

Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, "I am worried that the Five Capitals Patrol Envoy Xue is not here. Please ask Judge Lu to go and call him over to avoid any changes."

Lu Pan's face was full of anxiety, but when he saw Su Fu standing with his hands behind his back, he obviously had no intention of backing down.

He had no choice but to comply with her concerns, turned around and left, as if he was going to go find Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities.

He sighed anxiously, "Alas, how can those who want to accomplish great things be so particular about small details?"

Seeing Lu Pan acting like this, Su Su estimated that he was 80% sure that he felt he was no match for King Yama, and maybe he had even thought of what to say when he turned against him.

"These two insects are quite funny. They want to stir up turmoil in the underworld by inciting a few thousand ghost soldiers to rebel. But they just want to see how many ghost soldiers and ghost generals will cross the Wangchuan River via the Naihe Bridge and participate in the battle to encircle and suppress the Black Mountain Lord."

Looking up at the towering Yama Palace in the distance, Su Su whispered, "Bao Yama, this is your men trying to cause trouble, it has nothing to do with me."

Just finished speaking.

Several dark green rays of light were projected from the distant Yama Palace to Su Su, and the graceful handwriting quietly emerged.

"I already know about this matter. The battle to suppress the old demon is intense and I have no way to escape. I will leave everything to you."

Being in the underworld, Lu Pan's little actions could not escape the eyes of King Yama, who controls the overall situation of the underworld.

Su Su estimated that ever since Heishan Jun invaded Guobei County, he had been honestly encircling and suppressing the remnants of Heishan Jun's defeated troops hiding in the deep mountains and forests. He didn't even have time to inquire about the news that King Yama had already recovered his sight. He hurriedly prepared to stab King Yama in the back while King Yama was fighting with Heishan Jun outside and the defenses of the underworld were empty.

If Lu Pan was more informed, he would never do such a suicidal thing.

Chapter 145: Ruthless House Raid

The words projected by King Yama in front of him quickly disappeared.

Su Su pretended nothing had happened and walked into the government office, sitting upright in the court.

As usual, the yamen runners in the hall shouted three times in unison, "Yama Luo has arrived." Then the yamen runners who were shouting loudly stood on both sides of the hall, and the ghosts who had been waiting in line for a long time were led by the ghost messenger to file complaints and appeals as usual.

About two quarters of an hour passed.

An anxious Lu Pan appeared outside the government office with Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities. When he saw Su Su sitting in the court doing nothing to try the case, Lu Pan's anxious face suddenly turned ashen, making his dark green face look even more hideous.

He walked quickly into the court, his eyes scanning left and right as if they were burning with ghostly lights.

Without Judge Lu saying a word, the bailiffs standing on both sides of the court turned around and disappeared from the court in the blink of an eye.

In an instant, the court, which had been busy trying a case, fell into deathly silence.

"Report to Su Yanluo."

Judge Lu bowed respectfully to Su Su, then waved to the Five Capitals Patrol Envoy Xue who was waiting outside the court, and said, "The Five Capitals Patrol Envoy Xue has been brought here."

"I have seen Yama."

Xue, the old-looking patrol officer of the Five Cities, walked into the court and bowed down.

Su Su did not reply, but placed the pitch-black Yama Seal in front of him and looked at Lu Pan and Five Cities Patrol Envoy Xue with interest.

The dead silence continued to spread in the empty courtroom. The ghost who had just been complaining about his grievances noticed the subtle change in the atmosphere. He knelt on the cold ground and shivered, trying his best to restrain his body for fear of attracting attention.

"Take him away and try him another day."

Su Su knocked on the case with his fingers, and several ghost soldiers appeared quietly, and took the ghost who was kneeling and trembling in the hall away from the court.

Seeing this, Lu Pan keenly sensed a hint of something unusual, and his eyes swept over Xue, the Five Cities Patrol Envoy.

The white-haired old man quickly asked, "May I ask when Yan Luo will take action?"

"Be bold!"

Su Su slammed the gavel down and shouted in a deep voice, "President Lu and Five Metropolitan Patrol Envoy Xue, do you two know your guilt?"

The ominous premonition became reality, and Lu Pan's red beard stood up.

It was you who seized the military power with thundering means, it was you who stood by and watched when King Yama and Lord Heishan were fighting fiercely, and in the end it was you who was the first to surrender to King Yama and defect.

At this moment, Lu Pan, who realized that he and Five Cities Patrol Envoy Xue Cai were the targets of Su Su's backstabbing, was already a little panicked.

He quickly argued, "What do you mean, Su Yanluo? What crime have we committed?"

"What's the crime?"

Su Fu knocked the case with the gavel, laughing softly, "Before Heishan Jun invaded Guobei County, King Yama's eyes had already recovered. It's ridiculous that you two didn't realize it at all, and you actually wanted to stir up chaos under King Yama's nose and occupy the underworld. Until now, you have even explained your conspiracy in detail to me in the underworld. To be honest, I have never seen people like you two who are so deceiving."

The words came out.

Lu Pan's expression changed drastically. He thought that Su Su was the first to defect and surrender to King Yama, but he didn't expect that their every move had already been seen by King Yama, whose eyes had been restored, and he was just waiting for them to fall into his trap.

“You…you…you…”

Looking at Su Su, who was sitting in the courtroom with an exceptionally cheerful tone and seemed almost to laugh out loud, Lu Pan's fear of the matter being exposed and known by the King of Hell was magnified to the extreme.

Lu Pan and Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities, were but servants of King Yama. Even with divine powers, they were only equivalent to the Yin spirits of cultivators in the realm of refining the spirit and returning to the void. So once Su Su, who was their biggest confidence in daring to stab King Yama in the back, stood against them, they were instantly caught in an awkward situation where they could neither fight nor escape.

Looking down at Lu Pan, who was full of disbelief, and Xue, the Five Metropolitan Patrol Envoy, who was trembling with fear, Su Su said righteously, "What do you mean by 'you'? I have always been working under King Yama, and I have done my best to help King Yama regain his sight. You two are trying to sow discord, but you have found the wrong people!"

“Aaaaaaah…Pfft!”

After all his calculations, he thought he had come up with a vicious plan that killed two birds with one stone, but in the end he was treated like a fool by Su Su and King Yama. Lu Pan was so angry that wisps of divine light rushed through his ghost body. He felt an extremely hot sensation in his throat and then vomited large mouthfuls of dirty blood.

"If you stick your head out, you'll get stabbed. If you hide your head, you'll get stabbed too. Why is Lu Pan so angry?"

Seeing Lu Pan vomiting blood due to a few words, Su Fu laughed dumbly, the inner fire of the red flower on his forehead burning fiercely, holding the pitch-black Yama Seal in front of him, and said, "Where are the left and right?"

"We will obey Yama's order and wait here."

In a flash, the empty court was surrounded inside and out by soldiers ready for battle, and a murderous atmosphere filled the court.

"It's a pity that you two are the gods under the command of King Yama. I can't do the justice for you, otherwise the fire of karma would have burned you two to ashes."

Su Su used the gavel to slam the case again, and took the Yama Seal and threw it at the judge Lu and the Five Metropolitan Patrol Envoy Xue who were surrounded by the ghost soldiers: "First, I will deprive you two of your positions as judges and the Five Metropolitan Patrol Envoys, and put you in jail. I will make the judgment when King Yama returns."

As Su Su's words came out, the Yama Seal emitted a great divine light.

With the naked eye, one could see that the image of Lu Pan with a green face, red beard and a green robe quickly disintegrated, and the official robe of Xue, the Five Cities Patrol Envoy, was also taken back and integrated into the Yama Seal.

The ghost soldiers who were on guard all around rushed forward immediately, captured the pale-faced Lu Pan and the Five Cities Patrol Envoy Xue on the spot, and escorted them to the Palace of King Yama.

"Reporting to Yama, Pan Lu lives in the underworld without any family members. But Xue Shiju, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities, lives in the tomb of Shangshu Xue in Guangping Prefecture in Northern Zhili. He has a high gate and a large courtyard, and has a group of servants, which is very impressive." Before Pan Lu and Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities, were escorted away, a ghost general led his troops to report.

The Five Cities Patrol Envoy was a position established by King Yama, with a special role in managing the ghosts and foxes in the world of the living. Although they are only ghost officials and not included in the register of gods, all the ghosts and foxes within a few hundred miles are controlled and managed by the Five Cities Patrol Envoy. With the power and responsibility in hand, it is easy for them to abuse their power for personal gain.

When Su Su heard that the tomb of Shangshu Xue in Guangping Prefecture was described as magnificent by the ghosts in the underworld, he knew what was going on.

He stretched out his hand and made a fist, stripping Lu Pan of his priesthood and the Yama Seal that stripped Wudu Patrol Envoy Xue of his official robes. Su Su stood up from the hall and said righteously, "Wudu Patrol Envoy Xue's intention to cause chaos is unforgivable. I didn't expect that he would abuse his power for personal gain and commit corruption and abuse the law in the world of the living. His house must be severely confiscated to serve as a warning to others. It's still early, I'll go to Guangping Prefecture too!"

The seat of Guangping Prefecture is in Handan, Hebei, and is now under the jurisdiction of Northern Zhili. It is the outskirts of the battlefield where the invading barbarians besieged Shuntian Prefecture. The activities of the White Lotus Demon are becoming increasingly rampant, and Su Su happened to go there to investigate the specific situation.

Chapter 146: Xin Family

Late at night at 11:00 p.m.

The lights in Guangping City are dim.

This place is 150 miles east of Linqing, Shandong, 120 miles west of Cizhou, and less than a thousand miles from the capital Shuntian Prefecture. Although it did not directly face the war where Shuntian Prefecture was besieged by barbarians for several months, the strong smell of gunpowder still attracted many refugees and all businesses were depressed.

Guangping City is surrounded by moats on all sides and has towering city walls, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. There is the Tianhuang Temple in the north of the city, the Guanyin Pavilion and the Fire God Temple in the south, and the City God Temple is located on West Street in the city. The Ghost Gate leading to the underworld is inside the City God Temple.

Hundreds of ghost soldiers in armor and armed with spears appeared in the City God Temple through the Ghost Gate in a mighty manner, shocking the City God of Guangping Prefecture and his subordinates as if they were facing a great enemy. They finally breathed a sigh of relief until the ghost general leading the ghost soldiers explained the whole story in front of the City God of Guangping Prefecture.

"Minister Xue has been domineering in Guangping for a long time. The ghosts and foxes under his control are suffering. I didn't expect him to be so bold as to cause chaos in the underworld. He is simply seeking his own death."

"If God wishes for his death, he will be driven mad."

"The underworld has been in chaos for a long time. I don't know when it will be settled."

"Alas, now it is not only the underworld that is in turmoil, the world of the living is also..."

Watching hundreds of ghost soldiers stirring up the dark wind and heading out of Guangping City, rushing towards the tomb of Shangshu Xue with murderous aura, the City God of Guangping Prefecture and his subordinate gods were filled with emotion.

Guangping Prefecture administered nine counties, namely Yongnian, Quzhou, Feixiang, Jieze, Handan, Cheng'an, Guangping, Weixian and Qinghe. It was under the jurisdiction of Northern Zhili and had an important geographical location. It was also a key pass with a well-informed flow of information. Of course, they were very aware of the current dire situation.

Su Su hid his body among hundreds of ghost soldiers, stepped lightly, flew into the air, and soon left Guangping City.

The capital of Guangping Prefecture and the county seat of Yongnian County are in the same place. It is obviously much better than the remote and poor Guobei County, but it is a world apart from the Yangzhou City that Su Su has been to.

It was a dark night, and the spring chill in the north was still biting. After leaving the city, one could see many refugees who had come here to escape the war living in shacks built by the river outside the city. As the cold wind blew, their cries could be heard from time to time.

Looking around, the trees and weeds along the river had all been cut down. Occasionally there was a fire burning, where dozens or even hundreds of ragged, pale-faced refugees huddled together for warmth. The corpses of people who had died of frostbite and bruises all over their bodies could be vaguely seen in the shacks, and on the small hill to the north of the shacks there were densely packed low graves without tombstones.

The phosphorescent light is faint and the yin energy is overwhelming.

Su Su glanced at the mass grave to the north of the shack, and saw many newly dead ghosts wandering around in a daze.

"The City God of Guangping Prefecture is quite capable. This mountain of graves that bury hundreds of lonely ghosts has not had any evil spirits causing trouble. This place is far away in Northern Zhili, and countless prefectures and counties have been looted by the invading barbarians. They are all waiting for the grain shipped from Jiangnan to save their lives. Now that the situation in Yangzhou is stable, this tragic situation should be improved soon."

"But...with the evil monk Imperial Master stealing power and causing chaos in the imperial court, I'm afraid they won't spend too much energy on providing relief to refugees. The increasingly rampant White Lotus demons in Northern Zhili, Central Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi and other places will certainly raise troops and start a rebellion. By then, the North will be completely plunged into war."

Su Su couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Guangping Prefecture is 1,675 miles away from Yingtian Prefecture, Nanjing, and another 2,500 to 2,600 miles away from Guobei County north of Jinhua. Even if Su Su felt compassion, she did not have the ability to deal with the evil monk who was disrupting the court order and the white lotus demon who was growing stronger in several provinces by herself.

The scene of refugees everywhere outside the city gradually disappeared from sight, and the trees and meadows in the wilderness became more and more dense.

Soon, an ancient temple that had been abandoned for many years appeared on the roadside.

Su Su could clearly see the broken walls and ruins inside the temple. The stone steps and rubble were covered with moss like a green carpet, making it look desolate and dilapidated.

However, in this deserted temple, there were flickering candlelights, reflecting the figures of several people walking slowly.

There are many monsters in the ancient temples in the deserted mountains.

In Su Shu's eyes, the figures reflected by the flickering candlelight were not human figures at all, but foxes walking on their hind legs.

"..."

Su Su was speechless for a while.

Why does she always run into fox demons every time she goes on a long trip?

The same thing happened last time when I went on a long journey from Guobei County to Yangzhou, and the same thing happened this time when I went from the underworld to search the house of Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities.

and many more......

Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities, and a nest of fox spirits living in the dilapidated temple made Su Su subconsciously recall the chapter about "Xin Shisi Niang" in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

"It can't be such a coincidence."

Su Su stopped and his mind was filled with thoughts. He glanced at the foxes standing and walking in the ruined temple.

Suddenly, I saw a narrow gravel road leading to the backyard of the dilapidated temple. There were curtains and bed curtains everywhere. If I listened carefully, I could hear the sweet voices of many young women talking.

"It is indeed the Xin family who live in the dilapidated temple."

After verifying what he was thinking, Su Su had no intention of causing any more trouble and just turned around and left.

Just a few miles ahead, hundreds of ghost soldiers were lined up outside a valley where wild wolves were lurking, waiting.

The ghost general leading the ghost soldiers said: "Reporting to Yama, the tomb of Xue Shangshu, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities, is in the valley."

Walking into the valley, I could hear wolves running and owls howling in the distance.

Deep in the valley there is a large tract of dense forest. Amid the flickering lights, the tomb of Shangshu Xue is like a village inhabited by living people, with high gates and large courtyards, clusters of houses, and a full house of guests. Servants and maids shuttle between them, and people feast and have fun all night long. There is no shortage of eerie auras and ghosts that are tainted by many grievances. The tomb of Shangshu Xue is even more lively than the pleasure boats on the river in Yangzhou at night.

Fortunately, there is no powerful monster in Shangshu Xue’s tomb, so it is easy to take it down with the help of hundreds of evil spirits.

This situation was shocking compared to the sight of refugees everywhere and piles of corpses on mass graves outside Guangping Prefecture.

It turned out that old man Xue, the patrol envoy of the Five Cities, was not wronged.

"Speed is of the essence in war. Surround Minister Xue's tomb immediately and don't let anyone escape."

Following Su Su's order.

The ghost general drew his sword and pointed his spear straight at the tomb of Xue Shangshu: "Xue, the patrol officer of the Five Cities, was corrupt and abused his power. He neglected his duties and colluded with Lu Pan, the chief of the Birth and Delivery Department, to commit treason. His crime is unforgivable. Yama has ordered that the tombs of Xue, the patrol officer of the Five Cities, and Xue Shangshu's tomb be searched immediately. Do not let anyone escape."

Hundreds of ghost soldiers, as fierce as wolves and tigers, led by this ghost general, charged into the valley, causing the wolves to flee. Su Su could only hear the crackling sound of the valley blown by the cold wind, as well as the sounds of digging graves and collapsing buildings.

At the same time, the shouting and killing sounds of hundreds of ghost soldiers were very loud.

Two hours passed like this.

Hundreds of ghost soldiers who had previously broken into Shangshu Xue's tomb were escorting the ghosts and monsters who were feasting and having fun in Shangshu Xue's tomb out of the valley in an endless stream.

The ghost general who led the ghost soldiers into the valley sheathed his sword, bowed in front of Su Su, and reported: "The tomb of Minister Xue has been taken, and all the people have been captured."

Chapter 147 Buddha Light Demonic Aura