Chapter 214

Li Wei kowtowed to him repeatedly: "I know I was wrong. Magistrate Zhang Ping, I am sorry to you. But the things back then were really all done by the Guiyuan Sect, I really had no choice! Will you spare my life? I promise!"

He raised a hand and swore to the sky: "I swear, from now on I will turn over a new leaf! I will scatter all my family property! I will give all the money I have taken in bribes over the years to the people!"

"From now on, I will be a good official, a good official like you. Zhang Ping, you are a good person, a good official. A good person should always have a compassionate heart, so please forgive me once, Zhang Ping!"

"Good person? Always have a compassionate heart?" Lao Gui laughed, and as he laughed, the fierce light in the bottom of his eyes slowly emerged, "Don't you forget, I am a demon, not a human!"

Saying this, he suddenly raised his hand and waved, his sleeve brought out a huge air wave, instantly blowing Li Wei away, and then he hit the antique shelf, shattering precious porcelain all over the floor.

"I really want to smash your skull with one palm. But to let you die so easily, how can I be worthy of the thousands of souls in Ping'an Town?"

Lao Gui floated closer, and the shadow falling in front of him covered Li Wei bit by bit.

Li Wei kept vomiting blood, in so much pain that he couldn't make a sound, and when he looked up, he only saw the old man's eyes turn into a weird scarlet color.

"Sleep, there is the deepest terror and the most miserable way to die in the dream. Look, those people you harmed, they are all waiting for you in the dream."

"Spare..." Li Wei rolled his eyes, and his consciousness sank into the dream.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself appearing in Ping'an Town.

Yin wind blew, and dark clouds covered the sun.

Countless ghosts bared their fangs and brandished their claws, circling around him, shouting over and over again:

"Return my life, return my life!"

"Corrupt official deserves to die, deserves to die!"

"Eat his flesh, drink his blood!"

Countless ghosts, like angry wasps, frantically tore at his flesh.

Although it was void in the dream, the feeling of being eaten alive was real.

Finally, his soul was detached from his body in extreme pain.

But just as it floated out, it was swallowed by Lao Gui in one bite.

At this point, Lao Gui got his wish and took revenge for himself and the people.

He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, turned around, and bowed solemnly to Lin Qingyue: "Thank you for the opportunity you gave me."

Lin Qingyue said: "Since your obsession is over, go to reincarnation. You were an honest official in this life, seeking welfare for the people, and accumulated a lot of merit. In the next life, you should be able to have a good reincarnation."

Lao Gui suddenly knelt down to Lin Qingyue: "Miss Lin, I know you are going to eradicate the Guiyuan Sect. That Guiyuan Sect harms the people and has committed monstrous sins. Please let me follow you to eliminate evil!"

"No need." Lin Qingyue refused coldly, "You are already a demon ghost; if you die again, you will dissipate."

"This old man is not afraid!"

At this time, Dongfang Qi flashed in from outside the door and asked: "Are you ready? The shielding array outside is about to fail, and the girls detained in the Li Fu are also coming over."

Lin Qingyue's gaze fell on Lao Gui: "Do you really want to follow us? Are you not afraid of death?"

Lao Gui nodded heavily: "This old man has already died once, what is there to be afraid of?"

Lin Qingyue thought for a while and said: "You possess Li Wei's body; tonight you will use his identity to take me and Dongfang Qi into the Guiyuan Shendian."

Lao Gui nodded, and his soul "swooshed" into Li Wei's body.

Soon, Li Wei "came back to life."

Although his appearance was still that chubby look, the expression on his face became a bit kind.

Appearance comes from the heart, it is indeed true.

At this moment, there was a "dong dong dong!" knocking sound at the door.

Lao Gui, Dongfang Qi, and Lin Qingyue exchanged glances, and then asked in Li Wei's tone: "What is it?"

"Sir, the batch of girls just now has finished bathing and changing clothes, please take a look."

Lao Gui put on airs and said: "Dawdling, you have worn out this official's interest! Get out!"

"Yes!"

The footsteps outside gradually moved away.

Dongfang Qi said to Lin Qingyue with satisfaction: "Lao Gui acted well, worthy of being an official."

Lao Gui said: "When I was an official, I wasn't like this. I just remembered the tone Li Wei used to speak to people before, and tried to imitate it."

Next, several people discussed the action plan for the night in the room.

In the evening, Lao Gui found another reason to take the opportunity to release all the detained girls.

As for that batch of boys and girls... to avoid suspicion, they were temporarily left in the Li Fu.

Afterwards, Lao Gui, Lin Qingyue, and Dongfang Qi had a full meal in the Li Fu, and then tidied up their clothes and went to the Guiyuan God Temple.

Night fell, there was no starlight in the sky, no moonlight, and the world was pitch black.

The bustling Shendian square during the day was empty at night.

Raindrops fell and soon became dense. The heavy rain washed away the filth of the world, but could not wash away the greed of the human heart.

Beggars wanted to huddle under the eaves of the Shendian to hide from the rain, but the patrol soldiers' whips were fiercer than the divine oracle, whipping them until they fled in a panic.

How holy is the Shendian, how could it allow these "lowly bones" to defile it?

But who remembers that among these beggars, some were once rich people who knelt and offered whole boxes of gold and silver?

They stripped their family property and offered it up, but they didn't wait for the god's salvation, instead letting themselves fall into the endless sea of suffering.

Even if they were soaked through by the heavy rain at this moment, huddled in the mud, their eyes looking at the gold tiles of the Shendian were still devout to the point of stupidity:

It is my sin that is too deep, it is that I am not sincere enough, it is not the god's fault...

The Bishop said:

The suffering endured in this life is all the sins committed in the previous life; the more suffering you eat now, the thicker the blessings in the next life. Do not covet temporary enjoyment, and do not covet gold, silver, and worldly objects. Only by cutting off worldly desires can you cultivate more blessings and obtain eternal happiness.

But those poor people who were blinded, they couldn't see the night pearls on the eaves of the Shendian shining dazzlingly, and they couldn't see whose pockets the gold and silver offered on the altar filled!

What is a god? What is a human?

What is the next life, what is this life?

Who can distinguish and explain clearly?

It is just that someone, using faith as shackles, draws the suffering of this life into a big cake for the next life, coaxing poor people to offer everything they have.