Chapter 152

Chapter 152: Ending Future Trouble Forever

“This corpse-nurturing ground did not form naturally. It was constructed later by human hands. Although Yun Xi’s Thunder Tribulation damaged it and destroyed nine zombies that were not yet fully formed, I’m afraid that after we leave, those evil cultivators will keep using this place to nurture corpses,” Liu Hao Tian said, voicing what worried him most.

Yu Qing Cheng followed up, “From the current situation, we can be sure that evil cultivators have indeed reached into the mortal world. If we hadn’t happened to run into this, then in another fifty years, those zombies would have grown into something. When that time came, we’d need Golden Core Masters to hunt them down.”

Xia You also said, “I think there is a will of heaven in everything, so that’s why we were transported here. Next, we’d better gather more evidence that evil cultivators have appeared in the mortal world. When we return to the Cultivation World, we can report it to our sects and families and make them take it seriously.”

Yun Xi nodded in agreement. “Fellow Cultivator Xia is right. Words alone are not proof. Only with enough evidence can we prove we’re not crying wolf.”

Xia You chuckled and took out three palm-sized blue firefly jades from her storage pouch, handing them to the other three.

Yu Qing Cheng said in delighted surprise, “Those are?-recording jades?”

Xia You nodded. “Yes. They are?-recording jades refined by my Xia family. They should help us.”

This was Yun Xi’s first time seeing a?-recording jade from the Cultivation World. It was basically a camcorder from her world, and this one looked even more exquisite.

The three of them fiddled with them for a while and hung the?-recording jades at their waists. That way, they could record what happened around them at any time. The?-recording jade was activated with divine sense, and it could record whatever its owner wanted without anyone noticing.

Liu Hao Tian decided to spend some time setting up a Blazing Sun Scorching Day Formation at the corpse-nurturing ground, drawing in the power of the sun to?? destroy the place.

The three of them all agreed. Since they had already broken this place, they should see it through and not leave any future trouble behind. Following Liu Hao Tian’s instructions, the three of them took their positions at the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise directions, then formed hand seals together and drew the noon sun into the formation.

After the formation was completed, to prevent it from running out of power later, they buried mid-grade spirit stones at the key points to keep it operating. It would absolutely be fine for at least fifty years.

After doing all that, the four of them finally remembered Di Kang Nian, that lecher.

When they returned, Di Kang Nian’s group was already nowhere to be seen.

Xia You looked around and said, “They probably woke up on their own and left. There are messy footprints and carriage ruts here.”

Yu Qing Cheng said, “They must’ve been shocked awake by Thunder Tribulation. Why didn’t that lightning just blast that lecher to death? That would’ve saved us the trouble!”

“It’s not that there’s no retribution. It’s that the time hasn’t come yet.”

“Then are we going back to Jin County?”

“Go back and see whether that lecher is making things hard for Magistrate Zhou. After all, we were offered up by the magistrate.”

“Fine. Mortals are such a hassle.”

Yu Qing Cheng muttered, and the four of them disappeared from where they stood.

Jin County yamen

Ever since Magistrate Zhou learned that the censor had left with the four beauties, he had been unable to sit still. He both hoped the four cultivators would solve the trouble of Censor Di, and feared Di Kang Nian would settle accounts later. So he kept sending people to ask for news.

At the exact Si hour (9 a.m. to 11 a.m.), the sky over the forests outside Jin County suddenly filled with lightning and thunder, and dark clouds blotted out the sun. Then lightning bolts struck down. It lasted for a little less than a quarter of an hour, and the commotion was terrifying. The common people in Jin County all saw it. Everyone discussed it, saying heaven had grown angry.

Magistrate Zhou nervously yanked out another whisker from his beard, because the place where the strange phenomenon appeared was exactly the direction Di Kang Nian’s group had gone. After the phenomenon ended, he immediately sent people to investigate, then waited in trembling fear for the result.

All the way until Wei hour (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.), he did not get a report back from the men he sent. Instead, he got Di Kang Nian’s group, fleeing back in panic.

As soon as Di Kang Nian returned to his lodging, he packed up at once. At Shen hour (3 p.m. to 5 p.m.), he left Jin County. He did not even send anyone to notify Magistrate Zhou. He left in a huge hurry.

According to a subordinate who tailed Di Kang Nian, the accompanying guards all seemed terrified. They ran even faster than their master, afraid something would catch up to them.

Magistrate Zhou stroked his beard and asked, “Did you see something frightening?”

The subordinate guessed, “No, but I think they were probably frightened by fierce beasts in the forest.”

Magistrate Zhou did not think Di Kang Nian would be that cowardly, but his men truly did not find anything. He waved his hand and dismissed the man.

Just when Magistrate Zhou was still racking his brains, Yun Xi and the other three suddenly appeared in front of him.

Magistrate Zhou immediately stood and saluted. “Greetings, four immortals. Di Kang Nian has already left Jin County.”

When Yun Xi and the others returned, they had already seen Di Kang Nian’s whereabouts. They could only say that people who did too many bad things all had small??.

“We already know. Since the trouble has been resolved, we’re leaving. I hope you will be a qualified magistrate in the future,” Yun Xi said.

“Yes. I will?? the immortal’s teaching,” Magistrate Zhou said.

Magistrate Zhou bowed again. When he raised his head, the four people before him were already gone.

When they left Jin County, Yu Qing Cheng disappeared for a while. After a moment, she caught up with the other three.

Yun Xi asked with a bright smile, “Sister Yu, what did you go do?”

“Found someone and settled an account. Now my mood feels a lot better.”

Yun Xi and Xia You exchanged a look. They guessed the unlucky one this time was probably Boss Shen of Qi Xia Pavilion. Cultivators held grudges too. Even Liu Hao Tian did not stop her, which showed that the two of them had definitely suffered at Boss Shen’s hands.

The truth matched Yun Xi’s guess. Over the next year, Boss Shen was haunted by nightmares and lost the most basic function a man had. He could not even focus on running Qi Xia Pavilion. In the end, he had to sell Qi Xia Pavilion and return to his hometown to recover.

Di Kang Nian’s group was even more unfortunate. On the road back to the capital, they were surrounded by a wave of refugees. Their belongings were robbed clean. They couldn’t even keep the clothes on their backs. In the end, they begged their way back to the capital. Not long after they returned, the Di family fell. Court officials who supported their clan all switched sides one after another.

All the evil things the Di family had done over the years were also dug up. Someone even risked death to submit an imperial petition. Even if they died, they still wanted to drag the Di family down with them.

The Di family’s fall came so quickly that they did not even have time to react. Only then did Di Kang Nian tell the clan elders about the?? that their ancestral graves had disappeared. The clan head could not catch his breath and died on the spot.

Not long after, Di Kang Nian was arrested and thrown into prison for bribery and extortion,?? the weak, and forcibly abducting young women. In his cell, other prisoners beat him to death.

The jailer casually wrote the two words “died of illness” after Di Kang Nian’s name, and that drew a period on his life.

Yun Xi did not know any of this, but she knew very well how terrifying the backlash was for stealing fate and fortune. The Di family was doomed to end badly.

After Yun Xi advanced to Golden Core, she became the leader of the group. When her divine sense spread out, she had already imprinted the entire map of the mortal world into her mind, so next, she was the one leading the way.

But Yun Xi was not only rushing along. When her divine sense spread earlier, she had found several places that seemed strange. After telling the other three, they all agreed to go investigate.