Chapter 186: Everyone Has Their Own Retribution and Enters Reincarnation

Tianyao City, the prefectural government office.

When the palace soldiers from the Yao Mansion arrived at the mansion that day and reported to the wife of the Prefect that Prefect Qin Chen had been killed by the Tiger God, the wife’s body went limp and she fell down. The servants and maids behind her hurriedly supported her.

“Old lady!”

The maids were in a panic, while Madam Jiang, who was standing by, quickly recovered from the shock of her father-in-law’s death and said to the maids, “Hurry, help the old lady to lie down in the backyard. Ying’er, go and ask Doctor Wang to come over.”

As soon as the young lady spoke, the servants immediately became confident and began to serve and call for the doctor.

However, before everyone could help the old lady to the backyard, the inside of Tianyao City began to shake as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was splitting. Soon after, someone came to report that the Tiger God had destroyed the Xiangji Temple.

This time, the old lady felt as if the sky had fallen. She rolled her eyes, opened her mouth and gasped for a long time, then died without catching her breath.

“Mother!” Madam Jiang exclaimed, and then quickly called the servants, “Quick, send the old lady to the hospital!”

When the servants heard the young lady’s order, they rushed over quickly. They didn’t care about moral principles at this moment, and they lifted up the old lady and were about to leave.

However, at this moment, a gust of yellow wind suddenly blew up from the sky, covering the entire prefectural government in just a moment.

But this yellow wind was not strong, and people in it could still open their eyes and see things with difficulty, but they could only stand still and keep their bodies steady, and could not move at all.

Suddenly, there were extremely terrified screams from the maids in front. Jiang looked up hurriedly, only to see a black thing suddenly rushing in from the gate of the prefect’s mansion.

Is it water? No! But soon Jiang saw clearly what it was. Her pupils shrank instantly, and then her eyeballs dilated, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

Those were rats, tens of thousands of them. They rushed into the prefect’s mansion noisily, first surrounding the servants, and then crawling all over their bodies.

The servants were also terrified. They drew the knives at their waists and started hacking randomly, but they were soon overwhelmed by the endless number of rats.

The body of the prefect’s wife was also thrown to the ground. The next moment, countless rats climbed up and began to gnaw on her corpse.

The maids and servants were so frightened that they screamed continuously, and some even fainted.

But the strange thing was that the rats did not attack the maids or servants, nor did they attack the servants in the mansion. Instead, they only attacked the servants and evil servants.

Jiang was so frightened that she felt weak all over, but fortunately she had a very strong will. She stood there with her big belly. Although her face was pale and her whole body was trembling, she did not fall down, nor did she faint.

Faced with this horrifying scene, watching her mother-in-law and those servants and servants being eaten dry by rats, she could only close her eyes tightly.

At this time, the rats had filled the entire prefectural mansion. There were screams and cries everywhere, as well as the squeaking and unique gnawing sounds of rats.

Groups of rats kept running past her, but Jiang didn’t feel that she was being attacked. She quickly opened her eyes and looked around, and suddenly the rats automatically avoided her and rushed in all directions.

At this time, a terrible scream came from the backyard again. Jiang trembled all over when she heard the scream. This was the voice of her husband Qin Yue.

After hearing the scream, Jiang suddenly found the courage and immediately turned around and ran towards the backyard.

The dense swarms of rats along the way did not scare Jiang. She walked through the rats, stepped on the rats on the ground that had no time to dodge, and went straight to the backyard where she and her husband lived.

“Madam, save me.” Qin Yue’s entire lower body was covered with rats, and the sound of rats gnawing on flesh and bones could be heard continuously.

Soon both of Qin Yue’s legs were bitten off, but he remained conscious. He vomited blood and kept asking Jiang for help.

Jiang rushed forward hastily, but the rats here were piled up to his knees, and Jiang could not get any closer no matter how hard he tried.

At this time, Qin Yue’s screams became more and more intense. The rats had already gnawed his crotch. The piercing pain made Qin Yue scream non-stop.

Jiang tried desperately to rush forward to rescue, but every time he took a step forward, he would be pushed back two steps by the rats, so that he was getting further and further away from Qin Yue.

Jiang was extremely anxious at this moment. Suddenly, she saw a knife discarded by a servant on the ground. She immediately picked up the knife, put it across her neck and said, “May I ask which god is coming? Please show yourself to me.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a yellow divine light descended, and a man wearing golden armor inside and a divine robe outside, with a face like a sable and holding a steel fork, stood there. It was the Great Sage Huangfeng.

Jiang hurriedly bowed and said, “I am Qin Yue’s wife Jiang, paying my respects to the Supreme God. May I ask the Supreme God’s name?”

The Great Saint Huang Feng said, “I am the Great Saint Huang Feng, the ‘General Manager of the Capital Winds’ in the palace of the Supreme Lord of the Heavenly Spiritual Platform Xian Miao Yu Ji. Because your husband Qin Yue’s family has committed many evil deeds, I have followed the order of the Supreme Lord of the Spiritual Platform to bring down retribution.”

Jiang asked, “What sin has my husband committed?”

The Great Sage Huang Feng raised his hand and pointed, saying, “Look for yourself.”

I saw a ray of fairy light flying into Jiang’s brow, and the next moment Jiang’s mind immediately emerged with scenes. It was the whole process of Qin Yue and Hui Lian’s intimate love, killing Hui Lian, and cutting open her abdomen to take the elixir.

After reading it, Jiang was shocked and said in disbelief: “God, is this really what my husband did?”

The Great Sage Huang Feng said: “Why would this god lie to you? The law of nature is clear, and karma will be rewarded.”

After saying that, the Great Sage Huang Feng turned into a ray of fairy light and disappeared into the sky. At this moment, another scream was heard. Jiang looked hurriedly and saw that Qin Yue’s heart had been eaten by the rats, and soon the rats had eaten Qin Yue’s entire body clean.

Soon the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion fell silent, no more screams were heard, and then the rats began to retreat like a tide, quickly leaving the Prefectural Governor’s Mansion and pouring out of Tianyao City.

Jiang stood there, looking at her husband, who was left with only a tattered piece of clothing and blood on the ground. Not even a trace of him was left. Her legs went weak and she fell to the ground, then fainted.

After a while, the maids who had come to their senses came up, hurriedly helped Jiang up, and sent her to the clinic in the city.

After all the rats left Tianyao City, they turned into black smoke and disappeared between heaven and earth.

Then the Great Sage Yellow Wind rose up on a cloud and met up with Tiger Vanguard. “Let’s go to the underworld,” Tiger Vanguard said to the Great Sage Yellow Wind.

The Great Sage Huang Feng nodded, and then the two of them rose up into the immortal light and went straight into the underworld.

After the two left, a auspicious cloud appeared in the sky again. Zhuang Yan and Liu Jin stood on the cloud, looking down at Tianyao City below which had just experienced a great chaos.

Liu Jin sat cross-legged on the cloud. She carefully watched the entire process of Tiger Vanguard and Yellow Wind Great Sage bringing retribution. At first, she was very excited and felt extremely pleased.

But now, looking at the chaotic Tianyao City below, his heart was surprisingly calm.

All the hatred, sorrow and joy disappeared at the moment when dust returned to dust and earth returned to earth.

Liu Jin sat there, neither sad nor happy, neither worried nor angry, his eyes looking quietly ahead.

Zhuang Yan smiled and asked, “What do you think?”

Liu Jin raised his head, looked at Zhuang Yan, then shook his head and said, “I don’t have any insights, Taoist priest. I just feel very peaceful now.”

“Then you will understand it soon.” Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

Liu Jin seemed to understand, but after a moment she asked, “Master, are the Tiger God and the Rat God just now both gods under the seat of Lingtai Zhenjun?”

“Not bad.” Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

Liu Jin nodded and asked, “Should the Taoist temple also build statues to worship these two gods?”

Zhuang Yan said, “That depends on you. If you think it is necessary, you should build statues for them to worship.”

Liu Jin thought about it, and then said, “I think it is necessary.”

“That’s your business as the temple master,” said Zhuang Yan.

As they were talking, a ray of Buddha’s light rose from the eastern sky and arrived in front of Zhuang Yan in an instant.

When Liu Jin saw the Buddha’s light, he stood up hurriedly with a nervous look on his face. But when the Buddha’s light dissipated, a monk wearing a bright yellow cassock, with his chest exposed, a round light shining behind his head, and a “卍” mark on the middle of his chest appeared.

The monk smiled, holding the immovable seal with his left hand, and clasped his right hand together to salute Zhuang Yan and said with a smile: “Lord Lingtai, when did you come to Dongsheng Shenzhou?” Zhuang Yan also bowed in return, then said with a smile: “I came a long time ago. If I had come later, my Taoist temple in Dongsheng Shenzhou, which I have finally built, would have been destroyed by the monks under your tutelage.”

The monk waved his hands and said with a smile: “Master Lingtai is too kind. It will never be like this.”

Zhuang Yan said, “It’s not that serious. The abbot of my Lingtai Temple was beaten to death by your disciples.”

After that, Zhuang Yan pointed at the monk in front of him and said to Liu Jin, “This is the Akshobhya Buddha of the East.”

Liu Jin opened her eyes wide and opened her mouth. She first looked at Zhuang Yan in shock, and then looked at the monk in front of her with great horror.

Zhuang Yan laughed and then transformed back to his original appearance, wearing a three-color Qingxiao Four-Elephants fairy robe, a purple ribbon and white jade belt around his waist, a purple gold hibiscus crown on his head, with sword-like eyebrows, star-like eyes, and an angelic face. He was truly an immortal.

Liu Jin hurriedly knelt on the ground and bowed, “Little Immortal Liu Jin, I pay my respects to Lingtai Xianmiao Yuji Zhenjun.”

Zhuang Yan extended his hand to support him, and in an instant a magical force lifted up Liu Jin’s body from below. Then Zhuang Yan smiled and said, “I came to the lower world just to visit Lingtai Temple, but I didn’t expect to encounter so many things. Your uncle Jiu Ling already knows my identity, and I have also arranged her afterlife, so you don’t have to worry.”

Hearing this, Liu Jin was very happy and bowed quickly, “Yes, thank you for your mercy, Master.”

Then Liu Jin looked at the Akshobhya Buddha standing beside her. She hesitated for a moment, scratched her head, and asked Zhuang Yan in a low voice, “Master, should I worship him?”

“Hahaha.” Zhuang Yan and Akshobhya Buddha both laughed when they heard this.

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, “Since the Buddha is here, let’s bow down to him. It’s always good to make a good relationship with him.”

Upon hearing this, Liu Jin immediately bowed to Akshobhya Buddha and said, “I am Liu Jin, the humble Taoist, and I pay my respects to Akshobhya Buddha, the Immovable Buddha.”

Akshobhya Buddha smiled and said, “I came here to apologize to you. I didn’t discipline him well enough, which led to his making a big mistake. Although Lingtai Zhenjun has punished him now, I am also responsible in the end.”

After saying this, Akshobhya Buddha raised his hand and a golden light flew up from below and fell into the hand of Akshobhya Buddha. It was the Vajra-Destroying Pestle.

Akshobhya Buddha raised his hand and wiped away all the original energy on the Vajra Destroying Pestle, then handed it to Liu Jin and said, “This is an immortal treasure called the Vajra Destroying Pestle. It is heavy and powerful, and is most useful for breaking defenses and killing enemies in a fight. I believe you recognize it. It was it that killed the master of Jiuling Temple. So now use this treasure to compensate Lingtai Temple.”

Liu Jin looked at the Vajra Pestle in front of her, and a feeling of sadness rose in her heart again. She did not reach out to take it, but looked at Zhuang Yan.

Zhuang Yan knew what she was thinking, so he said, “Since the Buddha has lowered himself to make amends, you should accept this treasure.”

Liu Jin’s expression became solemn upon hearing this, and he immediately stood up straight. Then he stretched out his hands to take the Vajra Pestle and said, “Buddha, please have mercy on me.”

“Hey.” Akshobhya Buddha waved his hand and said with a smile: “My disciples have lived in the world for a long time. I don’t know how many of them can maintain a pure heart. It seems that it is time to call them back to the mountain gate.”

As he spoke, Akshobhya Buddha invited Zhuang Yan, “If you have time, you can come to my temple to have tea and chat. How about that?”

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, “Come back in a few days. When my subordinate Tiger Vanguard was exacting his revenge, he killed many monks from Xiangji Temple. I hope the Buddha will be more tolerant of this matter.”

Akshobhya Buddha smiled and said, “That’s easy to say, easy to say.”

Zhuang Yan nodded, and then said, “Then I will go back to the temple with Master Liu Jin first, so I will bid farewell to the Buddha first.”

Akshobhya Buddha put his hands together and said with a smile, “Please do as you wish, Master.”

Afterwards, Zhuang Yan took Liu Jin to bid farewell to Akshobhya Buddha and returned to Lingtai Temple.

After Zhuang Yan and the other man left, Akshobhya Buddha turned around with a smile, took a light step, and his figure instantly turned into a ray of Buddha light and disappeared.

After returning to Lingtai Temple, Liu Jin looked at the Vajra Pestle in his hand and said with emotion: “I didn’t expect this Buddha to be so kind and easy to talk to. It’s a pity that Elder Wuxiang is not like his master, otherwise there would be no such thing as today.”

Zhuang Yan smiled when he heard this and said, “No matter if it’s gods, Buddhas, demons or monsters, none of them are easy to talk to. If they talk to you nicely, it’s either because they want something from you or because they are afraid of you.”

Hearing this, Liu Jin felt as if her worldview had collapsed. She quickly asked, “Is the Buddha’s compassion all fake?”

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, “It’s true. Without true compassion, how can one become a Buddha or Bodhisattva? But compassion and brutality are not opposites, but complement each other.”

Liu Jin frowned and said, “Master, I don’t quite understand.”

Zhuang Yan smiled slightly, reached out his hand from his sleeve to take out a Buddhist scripture and held it in his left hand, then took the Vajra Pestle from Liu Jin’s hand and held it in his right hand.

Then, Zhuang Yan raised the Buddhist scripture in his left hand and said, “This Buddhist scripture is the truth of Buddhism.” He then raised the Vajra Pestle in his right hand and said, “This sacred pestle is the weapon used by Buddhism to protect and spread the truth.”

“Compassion alone cannot preach the scriptures, because the compassion of the weak is powerless. But brutality alone cannot make others willingly accept you. Only when compassion is the main thing and brutality is supplementary, can others willingly accept your truth.” Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

Liu Jin suddenly realized, “I understand, Master Zhen, so the Tao Sect is the same?”

“They are all the same. Otherwise, Taoists and monks only need to chant scriptures and practice Taoism. Why do they also need to practice magical powers?” Zhuang Yan said with a smile.

Liu Jin nodded and asked again, “But Master, you said that the Tiger God killed all the monks at Xiangji Temple, but this Immovable Buddha was not angry at all?”

Zhuang Yan smiled and said, “There’s nothing to be angry about. Reincarnation is nothing to a Buddha. They can go through hundreds of reincarnations in one sleep. Besides, those monks are his disciples. With the Buddha’s protection, will the underworld treat them unfairly in reincarnation? In the next life, they will either be rich or live a long life. If they are luckier, they will be Buddhists again. Do you think it’s worth getting angry about?”

Liu Jin sighed and said, “In the end, it all depends on one’s backing, background, and family background. There are human relationships everywhere.”

Only then did Liu Jin understand how important it was to have a good background. He was lucky enough to be accepted as a disciple by the old immortal Yang Mei, and now he could become a terrestrial immortal, become the master of Lingtai Temple, and receive the protection of Lingtai Zhenjun.

And if he had not worshipped the immortal Yangmei as his master, he would probably have ended up like the fox demon Huilian, practicing hard for a lifetime but never being able to become an immortal, and ending up dying in the end.

Fortunately, Hui Lian was lucky enough to meet her. Now, Elder Wuxiang will use all his merits and practices to compensate her. Hui Lian’s starting point in the next life will surpass most creatures in the world.

At this moment, Liu Jin figured out a lot, understood a lot, and could better comprehend what Master Jiu Ling said to her when he built the Lingtai Temple.

Not long after, Tiger Vanguard and Yellow Wind Great Sage returned from the underworld after reconciling accounts. With Zhuang Yan’s retribution approval document, the underworld only had to reconcile the accounts in the Book of Life and Death with the two of them.

After returning, Liu Jin immediately kowtowed to the two of them, expressed his gratitude to them, and stated that he would set up statues for them to be worshipped on both sides of the Zhenjun Temple.

Tiger Vanguard and Yellow Wind Great Sage would naturally not decline or refuse. It was their honor to be worshipped alongside Zhuang Yan.

After the two of them reported their mission to Zhuang Yan, they returned to the First Heaven and Lingtai Mountain respectively under Zhuang Yan’s orders.

But before leaving, Liu Jin asked, “May I ask the two gods, how is the underworld arranging the fox demon Hui Lian?”

The Great Sage Huang Feng said: “She has received great blessings from the Buddhist sect. In her next life, she will be born into the Nine-tailed Fox Clan of Mount Qingqiu.”

Hearing this, Liu Jin immediately felt happy for Hui Lian. This could be considered a blessing in disguise for her. The Nine-tailed Fox Clan of Qingqiu Mountain was an auspicious clan that had been canonized by the Heavenly Court.

But Liu Jin immediately asked, “What about Qin Yue? How did he judge?”

Tiger Vanguard smiled and said, “Qin Yue was sentenced to be a eunuch for three lifetimes, a pimp for three lifetimes, a beggar for three lifetimes, and a widow for one lifetime.”

Liu Jin was surprised and asked, “Doesn’t that mean I won’t be able to turn over in my next life?”

Tiger Vanguard laughed and said, “He deserves it. He didn’t deserve death even if he made a mistake. The key point is that he has implicated the entire Xiangji Temple. Not to mention the dignity of the True Lord here. Just to say that the underworld has to give face to the Eastern Unmovable Buddha, he will never be able to turn over in ten lifetimes.”

“As for Elder Wuxiang, he made a wish himself, and he cannot avoid suffering for a hundred lifetimes,” said the Great Sage Huangfeng.

Tiger Vanguard said: “He also brought Elder Queming with him. Elder Queming cried miserably in the Netherworld Palace. For the next hundred lives, he can only follow Elder Wuxiang to experience tribulations and sufferings.”

Great Sage Huang Feng said, “He deserves it. As a monk, he is so wicked. The ones who are most guilty in this matter are him and Qin Yue.”

After saying this, Tiger Vanguard and Yellow Wind Great Sage saw that the time was almost up, so they said to Liu Jin in unison: “Master Liu Jin, please stay. We are going back to heaven.”

Watching Tiger Vanguard and Yellow Wind Great Sage riding on the clouds straight into the sky, Liu Jin bowed and saw them off. After a moment, she stood up and suddenly laughed. This laugh showed her carefree and detached nature, as if she was detached from the world.

Liu Jin turned around and looked at the Lingtai Guanguan Gate in front of her. She straightened her back, adjusted her Taoist robe, and then walked in with a square step.

(End of this chapter)