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He wiped off the invisibility talisman on his forehead, threw away the bloody red robe, and curled up where Zhao Youshu was originally lying. Just now he had understood that he is an outsider and has no record in the book of life or death, so he cannot reincarnate. And his master is the Emperor Star, who will not go to hell after death, but return to heaven. If he got trapped in hell, he would never see his master again. 

However, if he returns to the human world, there may still be a glimmer of hope. Although not all the emperors in the mortal world have extraordinary backgrounds, there will always be an eternal lord, who may or may not be his master.

But even if there is the slightest hope, You Shu is willing to try. He dug open the wound on his shoulder, causing it to shed more blood, and then applied it on his buttocks. As soon as he finished disguising himself, the two yamen servants came back, and took him to the Wangxiang terrace, warning, “After you go back, be a good official and work for the benefit of people. If people beat the drum to sue you again, you won’t have today’s good luck. Our Lord Yama will personally arrest you!”

That masked official just now should be one of the twenty-four prison masters, and he can kill himself just by moving a finger. Then how powerful will Lord Yama be? You Shu has great confidence in his ability, but he will not be arrogant and hastily nodded in agreement.

The faces of the two yamen servants softened a bit, and they were about to throw him down, but they suddenly exclaimed in surprise, “How can there be a trace of Emperor star’s purple aura on him?”

“What’s wrong with that? Forgot who his ancestors were? It is said that the purple aura on Xia Qi’s National Teacher was even stronger, even reaching the point of controlling more than a thousand ghosts. This trace of purple aura must have passed down to current generations by previous ones to protect their lives.”

“It is precisely because of too much protection that these people have become even worse than animals. Go away! Be a good official after you go back, and don’t harm the common people anymore!” As soon as the words fell, the two servants let go. Before You Shu could react, he fell down from the high platform. Then he woke up with a jerk and found himself lying on a large carved bed.

He stroked his chest and checked his pulse again. After confirming that he had returned to the mortal world and gained a physical body, he immediately bit his fingertips, drew many exorcism charms on the white curtain, and laid a simple barrier before lying back heavily on the bed. 

The dragon energy in his body has been exhausted, and even a ghost with less than twenty years of cultivation can easily kill him, let alone a monster? Fortunately, he followed the old man to learn magic skills for half a year, otherwise he would be like a walking ginseng fruit that would get eaten sooner or later.

The warnings from the yamen servants echoed in his mind repeatedly, making him realize that the main task now is not to find the master, but to clean up the mess left by Zhao Youshu. If another commoner is wronged and dies, and goes down to the underworld to sue him again, then he could only wait for Lord Yama to personally arrest him.

He can’t even resist a small prison master, so how could he be the opponent of Lord Yama? You Shu shook his head and sighed inwardly. At last, he lifted the curtain and got out of bed, only to find that his buttocks were sore and seemed to be on fire.

“What’s going on?” He immediately opened his pants to check, only to find that the skin on his buttocks was red and swollen, oozing blood, as if he had been beaten hundreds of times.

But wasn’t it Zhao Youshu who was beaten? So how could it be his turn to suffer? He was quite confused, but then he thought that this body belonged to Zhao Youshu, so it was inevitable that he would suffer. Thinking of this, he gradually calmed down. 

Zhao Youshu left a lot of memories in his mind, which was convenient for You Shu, who had just arrived. He sorted out the memories and found the list of servants in the Zhao family, shouting loudly, “Xiangzi, Xiangzi, come in!”

Xiangzi is Zhao Youshu’s personal servant, and he sleeps in the room next door. He knew that the master had a lot of things to do at night, so he didn’t dare to sleep too deeply, and now he immediately ran to the door, “Coming, coming, this little one is here, what is your order, master?”

“Hurry up and go fetch a doctor, my buttocks hurt.”

“Ah? Alright, this little one will go right now!”

Xiangzi didn’t dare to ask more questions, so he went to fetch the doctor overnight. After a brief examination, the doctor said that it was a stick injury, and prescribed several bottles of medicine for it. Because Suichang County was a small place without any good doctors, You Shu had to make do with the medicine available here, lying on the bed for seven or eight days.

These days, he has sorted out the family background and life experience of “Zhao Youshu”. He is indeed a descendant of the Zhao family, with the names of Zhao Zhizhou and others recorded in the genealogy. It is a fine tradition of the Zhao family to name the good-looking descendants “Youshu”.

This Zhao Youshu was not only cute and smart when he was young, but he also passed the Tongsheng exam at a young age, winning the top spot at the age of eighteen or nineteen. But at this time it was no longer the Xia Qi Dynasty, but the Dayong Dynasty six hundred years later, the lord of the nation was surnamed Murong, so the Zhao family didn’t receive much preferential treatment, and Zhao Youshu was soon sent to a small county as a petty official.

Both of Zhao Youshu’s parents died when he was a child, and his family property was confiscated by his uncle. He barely survived only with the help of the villagers. Perhaps because he had experienced enough hardships since he was a child, he attached great importance to money. 

After coming to Suichang County, whenever there was a lawsuit, the one who gave more silver taels would be judged as the winner. Over time, the poor people in Suichang suffered injustice, they would rather hang themselves than go to the official to sue the villain, while the rich people became even more unscrupulous, preying on the poor.

After Suichang’s atmosphere was disrupted by him, he then intervened in taxation, exploiting the people layer by layer, leaving them no way to survive. People sold their children and became bandits, now knowing how many feudal lords there are now.

Last year when he went hunting in the mountains, he fell in love with a beautiful girl on his way back. It was only after inquiring that he found out that she was the younger sister of a rascal in Lijia Village, a village under the jurisdiction of Suichang County. This girl’s name was Li Ni and she was a famous flower in the whole village. Because of her outstanding appearance, her brother Li Ergou refused to let her marry casually, thinking that if one day she was favored by a nobleman, the old Li family would prosper.

An official in a small county was naturally a big nobleman in Li Ergou’s eyes. So as soon as Zhao Youshu sent the matchmaker to ask for the marriage, he agreed. 

From then on, he regarded himself as the brother-in-law of the county official and dominated the whole village. While Li Ni wasn’t a good person either, she was an extremely jealous woman, so whenever she saw someone who looks more beautiful than herself, or dresses better than herself, she would send an old woman to scratch someone’s face and take off their clothes.

Up to now, there have been five or six young girls who have been abused by her, and they all hanged themselves because they were ashamed to face others. Their families came to make trouble at the doorstep, but Li Ergou threw them out, threatening that he would go to the county government office with them to file a lawsuit. As soon as these words were spoken, everyone fell silent, and then went back helplessly.

The reason why Zhao Youshu fell into the Hell of law and order was precisely because he was jointly sued by those girls who committed suicide, and it was really because of his own crimes that he suffered. However, such a villain doesn’t have to pay for his crimes just because his surname is “Zhao”. It can be seen that hell is the same as the mortal world, and not everyone is equal.

You Shu secretly lamented that even though he was from the same family, he was completely unable to sympathize with “Zhao Youshu”. After recovering from his injuries, he must take good care of Suichang County, otherwise he will be arrested and sent to the underworld next time. If Lord Yama recognizes his identity as an outsider, he would probably never be able to see the sun of the mortal world again.

Amidst a sense of urgency, You Shu slowly healed his injuries, and lay down early at night, preparing to go to the county office tomorrow to work. But as soon as he fell asleep, his soul flew into the underworld and arrived at a magnificent hall. This palace was countless times more magnificent than the previous Fourth Prison. Although the sky above cannot be seen, there were scattered purple lanterns floating around. There were also heavenly horses, curled dragons, and the Emperor river circling and swooping, roaring and howling.

Upon seeing such a majestic scene, You Shu was taken aback for a moment, then he immediately bit his fingertips and drew many invisibility charms on his forehead, palms, arms, abdomen and other places. There was no doubt that this is the palace of King Yama of hell, the Lord of the Underworld. Otherwise the fourth prison master from before wouldn’t have knelt under the steps together with the other twenty-three prison masters.

You Shu cautiously walked over and hid behind a huge pillar.

Not long after, a rumbling sound came from the road that stretched to the end of the darkness and was full of flowers. It sounded as if there were many big carriages coming this way. You Shu held his breath and looked around, only to see several nine infants pulling a few prison carts, walking slowly towards the entrance of the hall. The prison carts held a middle-aged man, a middle-aged beautiful woman, and a young man in his early twenties.

Upon taking a closer look, You Shu shuddered. The man’s body was glittering with gold, clearly wearing a dragon robe; the woman was dressed in gorgeous attire, wearing a buyao, indicating that her status wasn’t low; and the young man was wearing a purple gold crown and a four-clawed python robe, struggling while calling himself a king. He’s probably the son of the first two.(buyao=hair ornament that only women of the royal family can wear)

Wait, isn’t it said that the emperors in the mortal world are not under the jurisdiction of the Underworld? What is the origin of the King Yama of this palace? How can he arrest the current emperor and empress along with the prince? As for why these people were arrested, You Shu wasn’t surprised. As the emperor, his crimes were magnified and became tens of millions of times more severe than the crimes that “Zhao Youshu” committed.

Flattering the courtiers outside and doting on treacherous concubines inside, only knowing how to extort money and seek pleasure; this emperor didn’t know how to govern the country and ensure the well-being of the common people. The chaos in Suichang County was not an exception, but rather a common occurrence. Under the rule of a fatuous and self indulgent emperor, there are still many corrupt officials like “Zhao Youshu”, enough to fill the Hell of law and order.

After flipping through the county annals and local newspapers, and summoning several inexperienced little ghosts to inquire, You Shu has fully understood the current situation of Dayong Kingdom. This is a decadent dynasty that has been declining for over a hundred years since its establishment. Without the emergence of a decisive and wise monarch, it will fall apart within a few decades. 

However, now, the disaster that threatens the nation may have been advanced. If Lord Yama sentenced the emperor to death, and the next successor lacked sufficient courage and means, the Dayong Kingdom would be in danger.

As he was thinking wildly, the gate of the palace rumbled open. A tall and muscular man wearing a black robe with a black and purple mask was sitting on the main seat. 

He said in an empty and cold voice, “The trial of the Emperor Murong Lian of Dayong, Imperial Concubine Sun Shi, Prince of Li Murong Xuan has started. All prison masters, take your seats.” As he raised his hand, the prison carts were crushed, and the three were summoned into the main hall out of thin air.

All the prison masters obeyed, and several groups of nine infants also flew into the sky with a roaring sound, creating a spectacular scene. Even a person like You Shu, who has seen the world, couldn’t help but stare with his big round eyes, deeply shocked by the majesty of this lord of the underworld.

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