Upon hearing this, Xu Milu smiled and waved her sleeve, and immediately a basket of juicy, fast-growing polar tomatoes appeared on the ground:
"Gentlemen, there's no need for formalities. I have a matter to ask Seventh Master and Eighth Master today, which is why I've stumbled upon this place. Please forgive me. Last time, my junior brother mistakenly took a hungry ghost as kindling. He was really naughty and caused you two a lot of trouble. It just so happens that I recently acquired a batch of exotic fruits called 'tomatoes.' It's fate that we've met you two here. Why don't you try these novel fruits?"
The fruit was brightly colored and far larger than ordinary fruits, emanating a spiritual aura. The bull-headed man and the horse-faced man exchanged a glance, and their hearts stirred.
"Absolutely not! We have done nothing wrong and cannot accept such a generous gift from Madam Xu. Besides, nothing went wrong that day. How can we possibly accept such a lavish gift from Madam Xu?"
Horse-faced swallowed hard and declined repeatedly. These spiritual fruits only grow in places with abundant spiritual energy, such as Penglai Immortal Island and Kunlun Immortal Palace. They usually only tasted them at monster banquets. This was the first time they had ever seen so many spiritual fruits.
People like them, being insignificant, do not covet celestial fruits such as peaches of immortality. Even spiritual fruits are extremely rare. If they happen to get one, they share it and enjoy it to the fullest.
Upon seeing this basket of large tomatoes, Ma Mian's eyes widened even further.
Xu Milu naturally saw through Ox-Head and Horse-Face's pretense of refusal, and without saying anything else, she only said that she needed to find Black and White Impermanence:
"I wonder if Seventh Master and Eighth Master are here?"
The ox-headed man, who had been silent all along, nudged the horse-faced man with his shoulder, and the latter wiped his drool and spoke:
"The two of them went to the Southern Continent to capture the great demon and evil spirit. They should be back by now. If Madam Xu has time, please wait here for a while."
Horse-faced's eyes darted around, and suddenly a thought struck him:
"I wonder what business Madam Xu needs? My brother and I may not be very capable, but we are influential people in Fengdu City. Whether it's asking questions to examine souls, helping people avert disasters, or accumulating blessings and virtues, we can do it. If any of our relatives fall into the underworld, we can also take care of them."
I've been waiting for you to say that.
Xu Milu didn't put on airs. She simply pulled out a burning phoenix fire from her sleeve. When the fire died down, it revealed the half-dead soul of Aigard inside.
"So that you two envoys may know, some time ago I passed through the outer realm and saw this man bullying men and women, committing all kinds of evil deeds. He has done every evil thing in the world. However, he is protected by the gods of the foreign land, so even if he dies, he will not go to hell. I was so angry that I kidnapped the three souls and seven spirits of this evil man, and I want to ask Seventh Master and Eighth Master to throw him into the underworld to atone for his sins."
"It's just... such a trivial matter?"
Hearing this, Ox-Head and Horse-Face exchanged a glance, their expressions inexplicably relaxing, as if afraid that Xu Milu would make even more outrageous demands:
For example, you could look at the Book of Life and Death, do some personalized graffiti on it, or smash up the Yama's Palace – these are "trivial" things.
Xu Milu nodded: "If you two don't believe me, you can use the Mirror of Revelation to see the evil deeds this wicked man committed in his lifetime, and then it won't be too late to send him to the underworld to suffer."
Speaking of this, she wasn't sure if the Mirror of Revelation in the Journey to the West world could reveal the bad things Aigard had done, but she already knew a whole host of them.
“What’s so difficult about this? If I had known it was such a small matter, my brother and I could have handled it ourselves. Please wait a moment, Madam Xu.”
Horse-faced man reached out and took the wisp of soul, then left. He returned after a long while, his face grim, as if he couldn't wait to throw the soul into a vat of boiling oil.
"Indeed, he is a foreign soul. The Mirror of Revelation almost failed to reflect him, and for a long time, it remained a blank white. Fortunately, Judge Lu (Lu Zhidao) of the Punishment Division was also there, and he directly revealed the man's deeds in life: adultery with other men's wives and daughters, arson, murder, killing, animal cruelty, child abuse, embezzlement, bribery, theft, oppression of the people, unfair trade... He repeatedly committed these crimes and escaped punishment. This man is simply unforgivable!"
Horse-face rattled off more than a dozen charges against him, leaving even Ox-head, who was standing to the side, looking quite astonished.
"Would a foreign god really protect such a wicked person? What is the government of this foreign land doing, after committing such heinous crimes? Is this person some kind of royal relative, able to repeatedly evade the laws of the mortal world?"
Clearly, they had never seen such a wicked person to the core—capturing just one Egaard would have filled half a year's KPI for the eighteenth level of hell.
"The laws of foreign lands are unfair, and there are many villains like him. I think I will have to trouble you two messengers again in the future. Now that this person has arrived here, according to the laws of the underworld, what punishment should he be sentenced to? I want to write it down so that I can comfort the aggrieved party."
Even though she was prepared, Xu Milu still couldn't help but clench her fists when she heard the list of crimes presented by Ma Mian.
How can such scum be protected by angels? Do the gods in the magical world work while they're asleep?
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
The Minotaur was so enraged that smoke was practically billowing from its nostrils; it wished it could devour Aigard's soul alive right then and there.
"According to the laws of the underworld, this person should be thrown into the Copper Pillar Hell, where he will suffer the torture of being burned and branded for five hundred years. Then he should be thrown into the Knife Mountain Hell, where he will suffer the torment of climbing it every day for one thousand years. After that, he should be thrown into the Ice Mountain Hell, where he will suffer the torment of extreme cold for three thousand years. Then he should be thrown into the Oil Cauldron Hell, where he will be repeatedly fried in human oil for six thousand years. Next, he should be thrown into the tenth level, the Ox Pit Hell, where he will be trampled by livestock every day for nine thousand years. Then he should be thrown into the eleventh level, the Stone Press Hell, where he will be crushed by huge stones for ten thousand years. Then he should be thrown into the Blood Pool Hell for thirty thousand years. Then he should be thrown into the Volcano Hell for fifty thousand years. Then he should be thrown into the Stone Mill Hell for nine thousand years. Then he should be thrown into the Knife and Saw Hell for one hundred thousand years... Finally, he should be thrown into the animal realm, where he will not have a good end for ten lifetimes."
"It's only a few days in the mortal world. Once his sentence is over, I'll come back and take him back to where he belongs."
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