Chapter 451: Seeking mercy and saving lives requires strategy

Chapter 451: Seeking mercy and saving lives requires strategy

Chapter 451: Seeking mercy and saving lives requires strategy

A side hall of the Lingxiao Palace and the imperial study of the Jinque Palace.

Fairy Jiangyun and Fairy Yueying knelt tremblingly before the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother, and narrated in trembling voices the misfortunes they had experienced in the past three years.

The Jade Emperor had a blank expression on his face, but the Queen Mother had a gloomy face, as if she was brewing thunder.

Among the seven fairies, only Fairy Yuqiao is the little princess of heaven. The other fairies are just maids serving the Queen Mother. Their status is much higher than that of ordinary fairies, but they cannot be compared with princesses.

The two fairies were really scared. For the same mistake, the severity of the punishment would be very different if it happened to the little princess or the maid.

What's more, the Queen Mother is not a compassionate and easy-going goddess queen. A living example is Princess Longji. If she offends the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother, the eldest princess will be expelled from heaven and will be deified.

"You two lowly servants, you have brought shame to Yao Chi, and you still have the nerve to come back alive!" As expected, the Queen Mother angrily scolded: "Do you know your crime?"

In the imperial study, Wen Rui, Princess Longji and the three immortals Taibai Jinxing were present. Nezha, a half-grown child, was not qualified to listen to the adults and was driven away early.

Fairy Jiangyun looked pale and said sadly, "I know my crime. It's all my fault. As the head of the maids, I failed to control the sisters, which led to a disaster. Please punish me, Your Majesty."

After a pause, she mustered up her courage and said, "It's just that my sisters are young and ignorant, and they don't know the general situation. I didn't discipline them strictly, so I will only punish one of them and spare them."

"Humph! You still have worldly desires and are pretending to be a loving sister in front of me. You really don't know what you are talking about!"

The Queen Mother snorted coldly and said, "Your guilt is worth more than death and the destruction of your soul. Yet you are trying to take all the blame on yourself for the crimes of those slaves. You can't bear it at all!"

"Come here, first escort them to the Heavenly Prison, tie them up on the Immortal Execution Platform, and release flying swords to pierce their ribs a thousand times every seven days as a minor punishment. Once all seven fairies are found, we will punish them severely!"

Wen Rui had heard that the rules in heaven were strict and the punishments were severe. Now he had seen with his own eyes what it meant to be ruthless and not tolerate anyone.

Being tied to the Immortal Execution Platform and being tortured by flying swords every day is only a minor punishment. How terrible would the major punishment be?
It's fine that the rough man Sha Seng was punished like this, but the two delicate fairy sisters were treated equally, which fully implemented the rules of gender equality and yin and yang balance, but it's really a bit of a waste of nature...

"Mother, my sisters Jiangyun and Yueying have not committed such a crime. Please forgive me."

Princess Longji couldn't bear to watch, and quickly dodged to stop the palace guards who were trying to capture the fairy, and persuaded her: "In the final analysis, it was because Sister Yuqiao was young and ignorant, and was deceived by the villain. The other sisters also wanted to make amends in time and were anxious to get her back, so they were unfortunately captured."

"Without rules, there will be no order! If the gods do not follow the rules of heaven and act recklessly, a single thought can lead to disaster."

The Queen Mother said coldly, "You yourself are a living example. If you hadn't been rebellious and arrogant and disobeyed me, how could you have been expelled from Yaochi Golden Palace? You didn't reflect on yourself in the mortal world, and you finally reaped the consequences and were listed as a calamity, bringing shame to me!"

"After so many years, you still haven't made any progress. You can't understand the painstaking efforts of me and your father! Your sister is also a loser. Her character is not as good as yours. I am very disappointed!"

Long Ji pursed his lips, obviously hurt by the Queen Mother's ruthless rebuke. He lowered his head and his expression could not be seen, but his shoulders were trembling slightly.

"My lady, wait a minute and listen to me first."

Wen Rui couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he said, "We have to prioritize. We need to put off punishing the two fairies for now. Shouldn't the most important thing right now be to find the other five fairies as soon as possible?"

The Queen Mother cast her divine eyes on Wen Rui. Just an angry look made Wen Rui feel extremely oppressed. The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother always gave people the illusion that they were of high status but not very good at fighting. In fact, it was just because their status was too noble and it was too low for them to personally fight.

Moreover, the positions of this pair of God King and Queen are extremely important. One move of theirs can influence the three realms. That is why they sit on the throne as still as a mountain.

Wen Rui was unable to deal with the great demon kings of Xiniu Hezhou. If these two great gods led the army in person, they would probably be able to kill all the demons in one day, and Tathagata would not be able to stop them.

But once they lead the army in person, and the throne in heaven remains vacant for even a day, the Three Realms will inevitably become unbalanced and turbulent, their fortunes will be reversed, and endless disasters will befall them.

"Emperor Wen, what does it matter if I punish the maidservant of Yao Chi and retrieve the other five fairies?"

Wen Rui was not easily frightened. Back then, he was just a pure mortal, yet he dared to throw shurikens at a group of saints from eight hundred miles away. When the Golden Spirit Mother was angry, she was countless times more terrifying than the Queen Mother. He treated this little pressure as nothing more than a spring breeze.

His expression was very natural. He shrugged and said, "First, if an envoy is sent to question Tathagata, the two of them will be witnesses. Second, the seven fairies have been together for a long time and are very familiar with each other's fairy power fluctuations. The two of them can use fairy power to sense and help track the location of the missing fairy."

"If I am taken to the Heavenly Prison and tortured, I will be half dead and miserable. It will be disgraceful for me to meet Tathagata when I go to Lingshan to testify. When I help to find the fairy, my vitality will be greatly damaged and my sensing ability will be reduced, which will delay things a lot."

Wen Rui spoke clearly and logically, only citing objective facts and showing no partiality: "I am working hard on the front line, and Your Majesty and Your Majesty sent me two useless pieces of trash, and you are holding me back, creating difficulties when there are none. Don't you want to do this?"

Upon hearing this, the Queen Mother raised her eyebrows and said angrily, "How dare you speak to me like this!"

"Well, I'm telling you the truth, speaking my mind, and making sense. What do you think?"

Wen Rui's neck stiffened. "What? The Heavenly Court does not allow loyal and honest ministers to exist? They only keep treacherous and treacherous ministers like Taibai Jinxing who flatter and lick the emperor's hemorrhoids?"

"Back in the Shang Dynasty, my father and I spoke the same way to King Zhou and Daji. As the two most powerful tyrants and evil queens in the Three Realms, they could tolerate my father and son. Why can't you two?"

Straightening his back, Wen Rui's aura suddenly rose, as if the righteousness of heaven and earth was gathered in one body.

"I, I... You evil creature, how dare you defy the majesty of heaven like this!"

The Queen Mother was so furious that she could no longer hold back. She picked up the glass cup on the jade table in the imperial study and pretended to smash it at Wen Rui.

"You can't do it!"

The Jade Emperor's Qi cultivation skills were still better, and he quickly raised his hand to stop him: "Calm down, calm down, if we throw this lamp over, not only will it fail to kill him, but it will also destroy all the merits and virtues we have accumulated over the past ten thousand years, as well as our reputation for the next ten thousand years!"

Wen Rui was a little disappointed that the glass lamp didn't fall on him, but after all, it was just a small hole he dug casually, so it was normal that the success rate was low.

"Forget it. The king chooses his subjects, and the subjects also choose their king. If the emperor and empress of the heavenly realm only have this kind of temperament and are always hindering others, what is the difference between them and the court of the Shang Dynasty five hundred years ago?"

He curled his lips and said with a hint of meaning, "I have learned a lesson from this failure, so I will resign and no longer help the tyrant. You can torture your maid as cruelly as you want, use tortures such as burning with fire, pounding in a basin, cutting open the abdomen and digging out the heart, cutting open the abdomen and digging out the fetus, etc. As long as it has nothing to do with me, why should I care so much! Do whatever you want! Destroy it, I'm tired!"

(End of this chapter)