Chapter 47: Seven Examiners (Part 2)
Shen Lan followed closely behind, afraid of being a step too slow.
Sang Jing saw Bei Shan and understood. For this kind of evil act done with metaphysical arts, the Xuanmen couldn’t arrest and convict people. In the end, it had to be handed over to the Special Investigation Team.
Sang Jing calmed her mind and formed a hand seal. “By my command, wind and fire, mountains collapse and trees wither. The yin sinks to the nine earths, and all generals gallop. I hold the righteous command, the master of demons and ghosts. My head turns to the Big Dipper, my feet tread on the rivers and lakes. Hear my righteous command, and immediately descend in your true form. Follow my command, and quickly capture the evil spirits. In my name, I summon the soul-reaping emissaries of Fengdu, swiftly, as per the statutes and decrees!”
Shen Lan stumbled and almost fell to the ground. She looked up at Sang Jing in shock.
Who are you summoning!???
Tan Wei and Chu Minghua stood up straight. Although they knew that Sang Jing could use the Wuchang warrant of Hei and Bai Wuchang, how could she just summon them at will?
Bei Shan had seen it before and was not so surprised, but she was still nervous and couldn’t help but rub her hands.
In an instant, a cold aura spread out. A gloomy and solemn Ghost Gate rose from the ground, and two ghostly figures walked out from it, one black and one white, holding soul-reaping chains. On their tall hats were written ‘A Lifetime of Seeing Wealth’ and ‘Peace Under Heaven’ respectively.
The soul-reaping emissaries of Fengdu, Hei and Bai Wuchang.
A group of Celestial Masters lowered their heads to look at their feet. Even if they were curious, they didn’t dare to look at the legendary soul-reaping emissaries. Perhaps it was an instinctive fear deep in their souls that made them have to lower their heads.
“Sister Hei! Long time no see.”
A bold voice suddenly sounded in the silent air.
Shen Lan’s pupils quaked. It was that ghost of Sang Jing’s.
She called Hei Wuchang ‘Sister’!!??
Hei Wuchang coughed lightly and patted her own clothes at Xie Yu.
She was at work. This was different from being at the incense shop. This was her main job; the incense shop was a side job.
Xie Yu whispered “oh” and nodded.
Hei Wuchang looked at her with satisfaction, then turned to look at Sang Jing and the three ghosts behind her.
She hissed. She saw some pity in the eyes of the two little ghosts, but it quickly disappeared. She had seen too many ghosts who had died tragically, and her emotions were already well under control. She just felt sorry for these two little ghosts for being so young.
Bai Wuchang looked at the Wuchang warrant and found the information of the three ghosts. The cause of death and their past had also been recently updated. “Do you need us to take them down?”
Bai Wuchang looked up at Sang Jing and saw Sang Jing raise her hand, point to her ear, and say, “I can’t hear you.”
Hei Wuchang turned her head abruptly and instantly appeared beside Sang Jing. Noticing that her ear had been injured by ghostly energy, she raised her hand and drew out the ghostly energy that was wrapped around it.
So scary. If this good girl was injured, it would be a disaster.
There were some sounds in her ear, but they were not yet clear. Sang Jing smiled at Hei Wuchang. “Thank you.”
Hei Wuchang looked at her helplessly, then at the other people beside her, and whispered a reminder, “Be careful when you do things. Don’t always get hurt.”
“I know,” Sang Jing also whispered back.
This time was purely an accident. She hadn’t expected the little girl’s voice to be so loud.
“Then these few ghosts, we’ll take them away?”
“Wait, take us somewhere,” Sang Jing said, briefly telling Hei Wuchang about Li Zimei’s family’s matter.
Hei Wuchang seemed to have been so angry she had to laugh. “It’s been a long time since I’ve met someone who deserves to die so much. Let’s go.”
Sang Jing didn’t go with them. She gave Hei Wuchang a tracking talisman, which could directly track the traces of that substitution talisman and find Li Chengliang.
Before leaving, Li Zimei asked Sang Jing if she and her two children would still be a family in the next life.
Sang Jing told her, “Fate has its own course.”
After sending off Hei and Bai Wuchang and Li Zimei’s family, Sang Jing turned back and saw the few people with complicated expressions.
Shen Lan was supporting Fan Yin. She heard her own voice ask weakly, “Little sister, who on earth is your teacher?”
Which big shot’s student is this, so powerful, summoning soul-reaping emissaries with a single move.
Sang Jing pursed her lips. She hadn’t actually known her teacher’s identity before. Her teacher had never talked about her past. Sang Jing only knew that her teacher was a very, very powerful Ghost Master in her life. It was only when she saw her teacher on the first page of the Xuanmen family tree that she realized how powerful her teacher was.
But if she said her teacher’s name, would these few people believe her? Sang Jing looked at Tan Wei. Tan Wei knew, and she seemed to have believed it.
Sang Jing looked at them. “Ji Zhi.”
A clap of thunder on a clear day, which made Shen Lan’s mind go blank. She grabbed Fan Yin’s hand and clutched her chest.
“Sister Shen Lan, what’s wrong with you?” Fan Yin still didn’t understand the weight of the name ‘Ji Zhi’.
Shen Lan’s eyes were blank, and her hands and feet were weak. “My heart is not comfortable. It seems to have stopped for a while.”
Bei Shan was beside Tan Wei. She laughed. “Haha, I remember I wasn’t mistaken. Her teacher is Ji Zhi.”
Tan Wei turned her head and looked at her silently, feeling that she looked a little silly.
“Team Leader Bei Shan.”
“Hmm?”
“Is the Special Investigation Team short of a family tree? I’ll get you a copy when I go back.”
“Huh? Why? We have our own staff list. What do we need your Xuanmen’s family tree for?”
“Alright then, I’ll just show you the first page.”
Bei Shan gave her a baffled look, then went to the side to answer a phone call.
Their Special Investigation Team had to work overtime tonight to collect evidence of the Li family village’s use of metaphysical arts to harm people, so as to convict Li Chengliang’s family.
On the way back, Tan Wei was driving. Under Fan Yin’s questioning, Shen Lan gave her a brief introduction to two people: the founder of the Dao, Yun Zaiqing, and the founder of the Ghost Dao, Ji Zhi.
Fan Yin knew the name Yun Zaiqing. Her name and portrait were everywhere in the Xuanmen, and she would often offer incense and pray to her.
“In this world, when there were only Celestial Masters, a person single-handedly created the art of raising ghosts, calling herself a Ghost Master. She used ghosts to help people and to cultivate the Dao. Most of the talismans and magical artifacts for controlling and commanding ghosts that Ghost Masters use now were made by that person. That person let the world know that ghosts also have good and evil. Later, Ghost Masters and Celestial Masters were collectively called Xuan Masters. She was also a close friend of the founder of the Dao, Yun Zaiqing.”
Fan Yin stared straight ahead, her eyes blank. This person was Ji Zhi.
While Shen Lan was talking, Sang Jing was also listening on the side.
So her teacher was so powerful. No wonder her teacher’s wife could be such a high-ranking ghost official in Fengdu.
Then she couldn’t embarrass her teacher even more!
Sang Jing’s eyes suddenly became firm. She would do her best in the assessment, and she would also make this ‘graduation project’ of Xie Yu perfect!
*
The Ghost Gate opened and closed. Hei and Bai Wuchang took Li Zimei and her two children to the Li family in Yuyang.
At this time, the Li family was in a mess. Li Chengliang had jumped from the fourth floor and had been smashed to pieces on the spot. His mouth was also full of broken glass, and the sharp glass had pierced his mouth, causing blood to flow out. Because he had landed on his head, half of his head had been smashed, and he was deader than dead. The front of the Li family’s main gate was splattered with blood and white brain matter.
“She really didn’t lie to me,” Li Zimei murmured, looking at the dead Li Chengliang on the ground, her eyes filled with satisfaction.
He deserved to die!
“Chengliang! Chengliang!” The people in the house heard the noise and ran out. Seeing Li Chengliang’s exploded head, they rolled their eyes and fainted.
“Master! Master! Save my son! I’ll give you money! I’ll give you all my money!” Li Chengliang’s father, Li Yang, was on the verge of kneeling to the old man beside him.
This old man was the one who had given Li Chengliang the substitution talisman. He was also the one who had helped the Li family suppress Li Buyan’s soul at the bottom of the well and prevent her from coming out. He was also the one who had set the fire in the Li family.
Now that Li Chengliang was in trouble, it was clear that someone knew about the matter. If he wasn’t so deeply involved with the Li family, he would have left in a huff.
But when he heard Li Yang say he would give him all his money, the old man was instantly greedy. The Li family had earned a lot of black-hearted money over the years.
“I’ll try to see if I can keep Chengliang’s soul.”
Li Yang didn’t care about anything else. Hearing him say this, he quickly nodded. “Alright, alright, alright.”
The old man took out a magical artifact and talismans and began to perform a ritual. He pulled Li Chengliang’s soul out of his body, but he hadn’t expected Li Chengliang’s soul to suddenly start to self-combust. Li Chengliang screamed in pain and reached out to the people in the house. “Dad… save me… save me…”
The fire was fierce, and in the blink of an eye, it had swallowed Li Chengliang’s soul. Seeing that it was about to burn him, the old man, in order to protect himself, had to give up on bringing back Li Chengliang’s soul.
This fire did not immediately burn Li Chengliang to death, but made him struggle in pain, unable to be freed, unable to live and unable to die.
In the end, it burned for a full half an hour before Li Chengliang finally fell silent, his soul completely dissipated. And the Li family could only watch helplessly as Li Chengliang died in pain.
This night was not over yet. The sound of police sirens came from the distance.
Li Zimei saw Li Chengliang’s end and saw the Li family being taken away. Now she completely believed Sang Jing’s words.
The people of the Li family would all face retribution one by one and would not have a good death.
“It’s time to go,” Hei Wuchang said, extending her hand to Li Buyan.
Bai Wuchang took Li Chengxi’s hand.
They also didn’t use the soul-reaping chain on Li Zimei. Her great revenge had been avenged, and the hatred in her heart had dissipated.
As for Li Yan, who was left in Li Family Village, although she had been killed by Li Chengliang with a substitution talisman, it could not prove that she was innocent in the matter of that year. The Special Investigation Team would take her back and finish the work of this matter.
The next morning, the black-hearted Li Group of Yuyang was on the trending list. Some sharp-eyed netizens saw the Li Group and immediately connected it with Sang Jing’s livestream last night.
Posts instantly flooded in, and someone even posted a photo of Li Chengliang’s death. Although it was taken down in a few minutes, it was still seen by many people.
So Sang Jing’s name was on the trending list again.
#LiGroup,SangJing#
#WhiteWhaleLiveSangJing#
In the conference hall of the Xianling City Xuanmen office.
Shen Lan was digesting what had happened last night with panda eyes.
She had seen Hei and Bai Wuchang, summoned by Sang Jing. Sang Jing was Ji Zhi’s student. Which Ji Zhi? The founder of the Ghost Dao, Ji Zhi!!!
When Hua Changge came in and saw her like this, she was startled. “Oh my, what’s wrong with our beautiful Miss Shen Lan? Were you scared by a ghost? Your makeup is such a mess, and you haven’t even washed it.”
Shen Lan nodded stiffly. “Yes, I was scared.”
She had almost had a heart attack.
Hua Changge turned her eyes and saw that Fan Yin also looked listless, and then Chu Minghua.
The three of them looked very strange.
“What’s wrong with you guys? And, why were all seven chairmen called over in the middle of the night? What big event happened that required all seven of us to be present?” Hua Changge tapped the table. “If you don’t give me an explanation, this isn’t over.”
Last night, in the middle of the night, Shen Lan had frantically @ed them in the group, telling them that they must come to Xianling today, and it was a must. She said there was a huge matter.
Coincidentally, Hua Changge was in the neighboring city and was the first to arrive. She hadn’t believed Shen Lan when she said it was a huge matter, but even Chu Minghua was like this, so it seemed it really was a huge matter.
A while later, Tan Wei came in.
Hua Changge raised an eyebrow. “Where’s your Chairman Xia?”
Why is the vice-chairman always doing the work?
Tan Wei pulled out a chair and sat down. “Chairman Xia couldn’t make it back. He asked me to be the acting chairman for now.”
An hour later, the remaining two chairmen arrived.
The highest council of the Xuanmen was all here.
Chu Minghua sat in the main seat, her voice a little hoarse. “Today, we are going to be an examiner for one person.”
Tan Wei was silent. Shen Lan raised her hand and covered her face.
They were probably not worthy.
“Wait, the seven of us are assessing one person? Are you kidding me?”
