Moon Emperor

Chapter 498 Book of Life and Death

After everything was settled, Su Yan finally began to fulfill his duties as the "immortal envoy". He first went to the Emperor's Palace in the city and summoned the Ten Palaces of Yama.

Originally, this Tianzi Palace should be the office of Emperor Fengdu, but because this location has been empty for thousands of years, the place has been covered in dust for a long time. Normally, Yama in each palace does not dare to overstep, only when the real immortal from the upper realm comes down to inspect. Only then will this hall be opened.

As the long-lost "temporary owner" of the Emperor's Palace, Su Yan was of course sitting on the Mingyu Dragon Chair at the top of the stairs.

He lightly clapped his hands, and waiting outside the palace, King Qin Guang, King Chu Jiang, King Song, King Wu Guan, King Yama, King Bian Cheng, King Taishan, King City, King Ping Ping, King Zhuan Lun, and the ten Yamas entered the palace in an orderly manner. .

They wear high crowns on their heads, hold jade sceptres, and wear robes of various colors, whether black, blue, red, or white. Their appearance can be upright, mighty, black-faced, or blue-faced. They all look majestic. .

As soon as they entered the hall, all the kings of hell bowed to the top of the hall and bowed, "Ten halls of hell, please see the patrolling immortal envoy!"

Su Yan nodded slightly. He acted very neatly and quickly. After ordering everyone to stand up, he said directly without asking any questions: "The hell kings of all palaces will report their duties one by one in order."

"Whenever one person reports his work, the other nine people who are listening can raise their hands and raise questions if they find any lies or errors."

As soon as these words came out, most of the Yamas in the palace became nervous. Only King Qin Guang got the details of his daughter in advance, so he was not too panicked.

Everyone was a little surprised. Isn't this too formal? According to past practice, even if the immortal envoy is perfunctory, he will still ask questions one by one. Whenever this happens, the Yamas in each palace will answer carefully, for fear of making mistakes.

"I won't say much more. As long as it doesn't involve issues of principle, I can turn a blind eye to things that have passed."

It has to be said that Prince Li is still a little nervous. After all, he has greatly offended the immortal envoy this time. He only hopes that the other party will not be too harsh. If he is not sure of the other party's thoughts and is afraid of being punished, he will Thinking of paying a bribe.

This made King Chu Jiang retreat in confusion, and even began to regret his "confession strategy".

King Chu Jiang, who was the first to bear the brunt, trembled. He could understand the meaning of this sentence: The fairyland is about to return, and the heaven will reappear. By then, the good days of their princes, the high emperor and the emperor will be over.

People like King Chu Jiang and others actually have the opportunity to pull his hair. However, considering that King Qin Guang is related to the immortal envoy, and he will also have to report on his duties, isn't it asking for trouble to make enemies now? So they still chose to keep their mouths shut.

Although there was no hint of anger in Su Yan's tone, and instead was calm and calm, there was an invisible murderous aura in it, which made the empty-minded people in the hall stay silent.

"But from now on, if anyone dares to flout the laws of heaven, then what awaits him will be more than just taking off his black hat."

Next, except for one or two kings of hell who were honest and upright and had done impeccable things, such as the king of hell in the fifth palace, the rest immediately followed suit and basically copied the template of King Qin Guang, and all ended up safe. Pass.

It’s nothing more than that, how many more cases have been adjudicated and how many dead souls have been dealt with over the years can be said to be basically scripted, with nothing new; of course, there is also a part of self-criticism, but most of them are indifferent.

"But now that I'm here, the status quo won't last long. I believe you know this very well, right?" Su Yan's words were slightly colder than a warning.

"You may be wondering why after more than a thousand years of important inspection, I don't pay every penny, but choose to put it down gently."

The other kings of hell pricked up their ears and listened. This was also one of the most concerning things in their hearts.

Is it because King Qin Guang is Su Yan’s great-grandfather?

King Chu Jiang didn't have time to think about it. As soon as the former retreated, he had to go up and report his duties.

"You are not supposed to know about this, so there is no need to ask."

After hearing this, Su Yan didn't ask anything, just shouted: "Next one."

The others saw that he looked like an old god, and couldn't help but cursed secretly: "Old fox!" Related households!

As the master of the first palace, King Qin Guang was naturally the first to stand up and report on his work. This black-faced prince had a quite decent appearance, and he was very strict when reporting on his work, which made people feel a little dozed off.

Unexpectedly, after he carefully memorized the draft, Su Yan said without even looking at him, "Next one."

Compared with King Qin Guang, King Chu Jiang's report was much more "sincere". Although he also made exaggerations, he still admitted several mistakes that could be regarded as stains, and said that he would do his best to make up for it and be willing to be punished.

The Ten Halls of Hell each looked at each other. In the end, King Chujiang took advantage of his familiarity with the Immortal Envoy and mustered up the courage to step forward. He bowed first and then said: "Dare I ask the Immortal Envoy, what happened in the Immortal Realm these years?" What happened?"

This surprised them, but at the same time they were a little puzzled. Why was the immortal envoy so easy to talk to this time?

Just when they were doubting, they saw Su Xianren calmly said: "Do you have anything to ask?"

After a moment of silence, the Ten Palaces of Yamas responded in unison: "I understand!"

Seeing this, Su Yan also breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't have that much free time to slowly calculate the merits and demerits of each palace; but since he was in this position, he couldn't just indulge in it, lest these people get worse in the future, so Proper beating is still necessary.

In fact, King Qin Guang had a private exchange with Su Yan yesterday. These princes of hell are still a bit pushy. Under the premise of having colleagues supervising each other, although they have made small mistakes over the years, they are all without principles. It's okay to just let it go.

And if we really want to talk about it, the matter of Miss Jiang Yiyi, the daughter of King Qin Guang and Su Yan's grandmother, secretly reincarnated into the human world, is rather serious in nature.

If Su Yan wants to be truthful, he must first attack his own people, otherwise how can he convince the public?

The way it is handled now is already considered a relatively good way.

Now that the tone has been set, Su Yan basically goes through the motions with Tenth Hall Yama, such as reading through files, inspecting various posts in the underworld, and randomly checking the number of prisoners in hell.

Of course, the people below don't know that, whether they are middle- and high-level officials, or the black and white impermanence, bull-headed and horse-faced people at the bottom, they all go to great lengths to welcome the inspection of the immortal envoys, for fear of making some mistakes and being punished by their superiors afterwards.

After a round of inspection, Su Yan felt that he was quite popular. No matter where he went, he was greeted with awed looks.

This experience was a bit novel. Fortunately, no one came out to stop the driver or complain, otherwise Su Yan would not be able to just sit idly by. In fact, when looking through the files, the immortal envoy should take a look at the book of life and death. In other words, this book is the most important file in the entire underworld.

But Su Yan deliberately ignored this link. Even if the Tenth Palace Yama reminded him, he would only wait until the end.

This made the princes who were already relieved feel a little uneasy in their hearts. They wouldn't wait until the end to attack again, right? But this is the book of life and death! How dare they touch this thing? Even if they want to make trouble, they can't make it out of thin air.

With such doubts, Yama of the Tenth Palace finally accompanied the immortal envoy to inspect various places and returned to the Emperor's Palace.

Su Yan still sat at the head of the table, and he said calmly: "Send the book of life and death."

The Ten Palaces of Hell were well prepared for this matter. King Qin Guang took a photo out of thin air and grabbed an ancient book with a black cover and blood-red characters written from top to bottom as "Book of Life and Death".

He personally presented this book to Su Yan with great respect.

In fact, even King Qin Guang didn't quite understand Su Yan's intention. Although the great-grandson had said that he wanted to read the book of life and death when they met yesterday, he thought it was just a formality and didn't ask any questions.

Su Yan also didn't want King Qin Guang to be too difficult to deal with. After all, the other party was now the Lord of Hell in the underworld. Other matters could be compromised, but this change of life and death was already related to his responsibilities.

If he agrees, it is a serious dereliction of duty; if he does not agree, it will hurt the feelings of his family.

It would be better not to put him in a dilemma from the beginning, and then just stand in line with other colleagues. If everyone agrees, then agree, and if everyone opposes, then oppose.

The show was finally about to begin, and Su Yan was still looking forward to it. He reached out and took the book. As soon as he took it, he felt that the weight was much lighter than expected, almost no different from an ordinary book.

As for the breath, there doesn't seem to be anything special about it? But it seems to be vaguely connected to something far away.

Su Yan casually opened the book of life and death, and could see that the catalog pages were divided into ten categories of living beings: heaven, earth, gods, humans, ghosts, cockroaches, scales, hairs, feathers, and kuns.

He clicked on the genus Homo, and the pages of the book turned by themselves, jumping to the page corresponding to the genus Homo.

This seemingly thin book actually records the names and longevity of countless living beings. Its number of pages is endless, and it is increasing every moment, but you can't tell from the outside.

Looking at the names of many strangers on the page in front of him, Su Yan continued to do it. Although he had no experience in reading the book of life and death before, he thought the operation logic would not be too complicated.

After thinking about it, Su Yan silently recited [Zhao Yan'er] in his heart and wrote the name silently on the book of life and death with his fingers.

Sure enough, the pages of the book continued to turn, and when it finally stopped, the page in front of Su Yan was all Zhao Yan'er. He turned several pages in a row, but they all had the same name.

This gave Su Yan a headache. Are there so many people with the same name? ?

He tried to touch one of the names, and the other names immediately disappeared. The selected one was enlarged, and a number appeared in the upper right corner of the page: Soul No. 769,114.

Under the three words [Zhao Yaner], there is also a line of information: Human race, you should live to be sixty years old and die well.

Then this was definitely not the Yan'er Su Yan was looking for. He thought for a moment, but still did not ask the Tenth Hall Yama, which would easily expose him as a fake immortal envoy.

Su Yan continued to write silently on the book of life and death, Zhao Yaner, whose father's name was Zhao Beigu, was a monk and was born in Qingcheng Palace.

After adding these additional filtering conditions, the book of life and death continued to flip through more than a dozen pages, and then one of the names enlarged on its own. The information is as follows:

Zhao Yan'er, soul number one hundred and three thousand three hundred and sixty-one, human race, should have lived to be thirty-six years old, and died for love.

To be honest, when seeing the four words "dying for love", Su Yan still had a subconscious tingling feeling in his heart, as if he had returned to the moment when Yan'er died in his arms.

He took a deep breath, and was about to pick up the pen on the desk, wipe out the thick ink, and change the book of life and death, when he suddenly felt that something was not right?

So Su Yangang took his hand back, and he flipped through several pages in confusion, but nothing seemed wrong. So he tried to find his name again, but he couldn't find it! !

Yes, although there are countless Su Yans with the same name in this book of life and death, none of them match his information.

This shocked Su Yan. What was going on? Because his origin is too special, or maybe the general situation has hidden the secret secretly, so his name is not included in the book of life and death?

Or is it because this book of life and death is completely fake!

Thinking of this, Su Yan's face couldn't help but darken. He did not hesitate to fully open the Immortal Eyes, with three feet of divine light shooting out of his eyes, and carefully examined the book from the inside out.

Seeing this scene, Yama of the Tenth Palace became even more nervous. What's going on? ?

After reading it carefully, Su Yan put down the book of life and death in his hand and looked at the people below with cold eyes, "This is not the original, you are using this to fool me?"

Yes, the book of life and death in front of him cannot be said to be fake. It is actually connected to the real book of life and death, but it is just a [copy].

It is equivalent to a real book of life and death, and more than 99% of its contents are authorized. Under normal circumstances, there is no difference between checking the copy and checking the original, because the information between the two is exchanged in real time.

However, there is some extremely special information that can only be obtained from the original copy; and if you want to modify the copy, you can do whatever you want, it will be restored as soon as you close it, and it will not really affect the original copy at all, let alone affect it. It’s the law of the underworld in the underworld.

Seeing that this was the reason for the dissatisfaction of the Immortal Envoy, all the Tenth Palace Yamas were a little surprised. Before King Qin Guang could say anything, King Chu Jiang stood up and explained: "Your Excellency, the Immortal Envoy, with the authority of our Tenth Palace Yamas, we can only Call copy."

"And in the past, when the immortal envoys inspected the lower realm, they usually checked the copies and did not go out of their way to retrieve the originals."

Su Yan was a little surprised in her heart. Is the underworld so strict about the management of the book of life and death? He remembered that when he watched "Journey to the West" before, it wasn't so complicated!

Well, Journey to the West is not the same world as the world I am in now; and in Brother Monkey's underworld, there is more than one book of life and death, but "five or six books and ten types of books". It is normal to be different.

Su Yan thought for a moment and said, "Due to some special reasons, I need to retrieve the original version for reference now."

Unexpectedly, before Su Yan could make up a convincing reason, the Ten Palaces of Yama all shook their heads, "There is no way."

This gave him an ominous premonition.

(End of this chapter)