Chapter 4: God of Justice
"This Soul Binding and General Summoning spell is actually a sixth-tier spell, higher than the Yi Mu Jue?!"
Li Anran was a little surprised.
The skills and spells are divided into nine levels from low to high, with the first level being the lowest and the ninth level being the strongest. The higher the level, the higher the level cap.
And only when you have cultivated to a certain level will it appear on the system panel.
The Yi Mu Jue is a cultivation technique obtained by the predecessor in an ancient Qi-refining cave. It can be cultivated to the realm of celestial immortals. According to the system's judgment, it is only considered a fifth-level technique, and the upper limit of the level is five!
What he comprehended from this incomplete sermon of the immortal was the "Binding Spirits and Sending Generals" which could actually reach the sixth level!
"Who is that immortal who is preaching? He is so powerful! Who is he preaching to?"
Li Anran was very curious.
At this time, a sound of footsteps came from inside the sky prison.
Looking up, the person who came was the heavenly soldier who had left his post to talk to Gao Laosan.
At this moment, his face was full of joy, and it was obvious that he had got what he wanted.
Li Anran looked him up and down, then showed a look of realization.
"No wonder they dare to be so unscrupulous!"
After learning how to summon spirits and send generals, Li Anran became much more sensitive to the negative energy of souls.
Only then did he realize that the heavenly soldier in front of him was not an ordinary cultivator, but a Yin god!
Yin God refers to a deity without a physical body but only a soul!
All 365 gods on the Investiture of the Gods List can be classified into this category.
The heavenly soldier in front of him should be the elite soldier who died in the catastrophe of Conferred Gods.
They are not qualified to ascend to the throne of true gods, but they are all famous people on the List of Gods, and after their death a wisp of their soul will be listed.
It’s a real iron rice bowl!
"Boy, I've already told Gao Laosan that from now on you will be my soldier. You just have to do whatever I tell you to do, got it?" Tianbing said proudly.
"Yes, sir."
Li Anran acted submissive and obedient.
These heavenly soldiers who were listed on the Conferred God List were immortal, but they could never improve their skills and could never escape.
To some extent, they are the most miserable beings in heaven, almost like the unjustly dead ghosts in the underworld who will never be reborn.
There is no benefit in offending them.
If you bow your head and surrender, at most you will be ordered to do some tasks like standing guard, guarding the gate and escorting criminals.
And these are exactly what he wanted.
Seeing Li Anran's good attitude, Tian Bing felt a little embarrassed and softened his tone: "You don't have to call me sir. My last name is Wang Zhen. You can just call me Brother Zhen."
"Brother Zhen." Li Anran readily followed suit.
Standing guard at the gate was a boring job in itself, and since one of them tried to win him over and the other tried to flatter him, they soon became close friends and started calling each other brothers.
Li Anran also knew Wang Zhen's background clearly.
Just as he guessed, Wang Zhen was originally an elite soldier under the command of General Qiu Yin, the mighty general guarding Qinglong Pass of the Shang Dynasty. He died in the battle of Qinglong Pass together with Qiu Yin.
Qiu Yin was named Guansuo Star by Jiang Ziya to guard the Heavenly Prison, and the soldiers who were on the list became jailers guarding the Heavenly Prison.
Gao Laosan has the same origin.
They belonged to the earliest group of heavenly soldiers.
It was not until a hundred years after the Conferred God Ceremony that the Heavenly Court began to recruit mortal monks to serve in heaven.
In Wang Zhen's words, the Jade Emperor felt that there were too many affairs in the three realms and that the Heavenly Court was short of manpower, so he went to the mortal world to recruit soldiers.
However, in Li Anran's opinion, it is more likely that the Jade Emperor discovered that these heavenly soldiers and generals and the gods were still forming cliques and factions for mutual support after they went to heaven, so he had to cultivate his own trusted team.
Let’s not talk about these for now.
After a large number of immortal officials, heavenly masters, heavenly soldiers and generals who were born as cultivators appeared in the Heavenly Court, not only did the original heavenly soldiers and generals begin to be marginalized, but even many of the divine positions of the righteous gods were gradually occupied by these immortal officials and heavenly masters.
But, there is one exception!
That is the Heavenly Prison!
The atmosphere in the prison was thick with evil and resentment.
Although Wang Zhen and other heavenly soldiers on the List of Conferred Gods are unable to practice cultivation and their strength is gradually failing to catch up with those heavenly soldiers who are born as cultivators, they are not afraid of the erosion of evil and resentful energy at all!
Therefore, the Heavenly Prison became the place in Heaven with the fewest monks and soldiers and the least likely to abide by Heaven's rules.
"Did you two offend someone and were sent to the Heavenly Prison?" Wang Zhen said with certainty.
Li Anran did not hide anything and told the story of how they were exiled to the Heavenly Prison because they did not bribe the officials of the God of Wude.
He also deliberately talked about how he was frightened by a monster in the cell, and then vowed to lock ten thousand monsters into the cell with his own hands.
"Ten thousand?"
Wang Zhen was dumbfounded, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Do you think the prisoners in the Tianlao are cabbages? Ten thousand of them? I have been in the Tianlao for thousands of years, and the number of prisoners I have personally sent to the prison is only three to five hundred!"
"Only three to five hundred were sent in after thousands of years?" Li Anran was stunned.
If this is true, he will have to wait until the end of time before he can come out!
Wang Zhen was even more speechless: "The prison is where the Heavenly Court detains serious criminals. Not just anyone can come in! And it's much harder to capture someone alive than to kill them directly. Who would do such a thankless task..."
Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, paused, and murmured, "After Yang Jian became the God of Justice, he liked to capture monsters and interrogate them in the Heavenly Prison first, and then send them to the Monster Slaying Platform to be beheaded for public display."
"God of Justice?!"
Li Anran was shocked. Isn't this the official position of Yang Jian in Heaven in The Lotus Lantern?
Wang Zhen nodded and said unhappily, "Why are we so polite to General Yao? Isn't it because his master has become the God of Justice? Yang Jian is a cruel and cunning fellow. Even if we run into him, we will be skinned alive if we don't die! You must be careful!"
Li Anran: “…Understood.”
In later generations, Yang Jian was known as the handsome and elegant God of War. However, his actions during the Conferred God Catastrophe made it no exaggeration to say that he was cruel and cunning to people in the Shang camp like Wang Zhen.
Wang Zhen thought for a moment and then said, "Since you want to send the monster to the prison yourself, I will help you."
"I will tell my old brothers later that if anyone sends a monster here, I will notify you and ask you to escort it. Ten thousand is unlikely, but one or two thousand is still a chance."
"Thank you, Brother Zhen!" Li Anran was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly.
Wang Zhen waved his hand: "You are willing to do these things, they can't thank you enough!"
The two chatted for a while, and then Wang Zhen found an excuse to slip into the prison to take some time off.
Li Anran had nothing to do, so he opened the book of punishments again and read the life story of another prisoner, the "Green-skinned Ghost King".
This is another fellow from Xiniu Hezhou.
He was a scoundrel in his lifetime and was beaten to death with sticks for committing adultery.
After his death, he turned into a fierce ghost and joined the army of a one-horned ghost king, causing trouble to the people.
Later, the One-horned Ghost King was wiped out by the underworld, but it escaped with its life and also obtained the One-horned Ghost King's evil method of devouring souls to improve its cultivation.
With the experience of the One-Horned Ghost King as a lesson for him, the Green-Skinned Ghost acted extremely cautiously and low-key. He transformed himself into a human form and hid in the human world for more than three hundred years, devouring thousands of souls before his tracks were exposed.
Afterwards, it successively injured the Yin messengers, mountain gods and land gods who were trying to capture it, and swallowed up several river gods appointed by the Heavenly Court.
It was not until the Meishan brothers took action that he was defeated and captured. He was escorted to the Tianlao and then locked up in a cell by him.
Through the life story of the Green-skinned Ghost King, Li Anran obtained the evil method of devouring souls to improve his cultivation.
But this evil method, which is harmful to heaven and will cause endless troubles, is of no use to him.
Li Anran did not waste any more time on the Green-skinned Ghost King. His eyes swept across the attribute panel and finally stopped at "Yi Mu Jue".
The Heavenly Thunder Attraction and the Soul-Conquering and General-Sending Techniques are obviously not suitable for practicing at the gate of the Heavenly Prison.
Although practicing Yi Mu Jue might lead to the erosion of evil and resentful energy, Li Anran still decided to give it a try.
He might have to stay in this prison for decades or even hundreds of years.
If I couldn't practice, life would be really boring and unbearable!
Li Anran carefully practiced the Yi Mu Jue.
The rich immortal energy from heaven instantly surged into his body, flowing along his meridians, and continuously transformed into his own magic power.
His efficiency is more than ten times better than what he could achieve in the mortal world!
This is also the reason why many casual cultivators are willing to come to Heaven to serve as heavenly soldiers!
At the same time, the evil and resentful energy in the Heavenly Prison also entered his body.
Li Anran looked solemn, but did not stop practicing.
Only when a complete cycle of exercises is completed can the practice improve one's cultivation level. Giving up halfway will mean wasting all previous efforts.
Time passes very slowly at this time.
Li Anran was always alert to the movement of the evil and resentful energy in his body, but he practiced his skills unwaveringly.
finally.
The week ends.
Properties panel.
The Yi Mu Jue changed from "6213/10000" to "6214/10000".
The cultivation level also changed from "24121/30000" to "24123/30000".
But Li Anran no longer had time to care about these things.
His eyes were red, and an uncontrollable desire to kill and destroy rose in his heart.
Li Anran immediately stopped practicing and mobilized his magic power to drive out the evil and resentful energy in his body, removing them from his body bit by bit.
It took Li Anran nearly half an hour to finally get rid of the evil and resentful aura, but it also consumed a lot of his magic power.
"This evil spirit is really powerful!"
Li Anran's face was a little pale, but he was mostly happy in his heart.
The magic power consumed in eliminating evil spirits is not much less than that obtained through cultivation, and it will also damage the body's meridians and affect the soul.
Each time you practice, you will need to spend more time to recover and adjust.
For others, this means getting half the result with twice the effort, and the gain does not outweigh the loss.
However, for Li Anran, being able to improve his proficiency in martial arts is still within an acceptable range.
While Li Anran was recovering, he was looking forward to new prisoners being sent over.
Unfortunately, until the shift change, no new prisoners appeared and nothing happened.
The same thing happened for nearly a month afterwards.
Li Anran has also gotten used to living without a mobile phone or computer. He practices martial arts every day, and then spends time getting rid of evil spirits and recovering and adjusting his body.
He could now fully understand why Wang Zhengao and the other three were so indulgent and depraved.
The days are boring and the most important thing is that there is no end or hope in sight!
Anyone would collapse!
Fortunately, he has a system and is full of energy every day!
Twenty-six days passed in a flash, and he finally accumulated enough experience points needed to level up!
