Chapter 318 Collapse of Faith
The next morning, Li Nuo went out an hour earlier than usual.
In the morning he would teach the Six Arts to the students of Wansong Academy, and in the afternoon he would go to the Ministry of Justice to investigate cases.
When he was in Daxia, he had nothing to do.
When he arrived in Zhao State, he was so busy that he couldn't stop.
It’s like going back to the time when I had to fight for my life every day.
Seeing that Li Nuo had to go out at dawn and would not come back until dark, even Zhao Zhiyi felt a little embarrassed and wanted to share some of the burden with him, but there was nothing he could do that no one could replace.
All she could do was accompany him throughout the whole process.
After finishing the morning classes at the college, the three of them had lunch together in the college cafeteria.
The food in Wansong Academy is very good, with a variety of dishes and balanced nutrition. More importantly, the students don’t have to spend a penny on their meals, as the Fourth Prince covers their meal expenses.
"Hello, sir."
"Hello, sir, ma'am."
Li Nuo only taught twenty students at the beginning, but later when he was teaching, even outside the classroom was full of people.
Over the past few days, all the students at Wansong Academy knew him.
When the three of them were having dinner together, they heard several students talking about something.
A strange thing happened in the capital of Zhao State.
In full view of the public, a 30-year-old strong man was walking on the street and inexplicably turned into an old man in his twilight years.
There are rumors outside that there is an evil spirit causing trouble in the country, making people panic.
Song Yiren was surprised and asked, "Is there really a demon?"
Li Nuo looked back and saw that what those students said sounded very serious.
Although every country has its own stories about demons and monsters, they are limited to vernacular novels and have never been confirmed.
However, someone who can do such a thing is not necessarily a monster.
Yin-Yang School can also do this.
The power of Yin-Yang magic is not only that it can predict fate, but also that it can change fate.
A high-level Yin-Yang master who has the ability to deprive ordinary people of their lifespan at will.
It’s just that the Yin-Yang School is very taboo about interfering with other people’s fate and generally does not do so.
Song Yiren bit her chopsticks and murmured, "They can also take away other people's lifespans, so can the Yin-Yang family live forever?"
Zhao Zhiyi smiled and explained, "Miss Song has misunderstood. Although the Yin-Yang family can deprive others of their lifespan, they cannot own this lifespan. It's like you warriors, you can destroy others' cultivation, but you can't take their cultivation for yourself..."
Song Yiren looked at Li Nuo, and Li Nuo nodded slightly.
The Sixth Princess was right. Ordinary people knew very little about the Yin-Yang School.
Not only can they not live forever, but because they have revealed too many secrets of heaven, the high-level Yin-Yang masters have a much shorter lifespan than the strong men of the same level from other families.
Anyone who reveals the secrets of heaven will be punished by heaven.
From ancient times to the present, countless people have pursued immortality, but no one has achieved it.
It is easy to shorten your lifespan, but it is extremely difficult to increase your lifespan.
Only the Yin-Yang Masters can control fate. If a person wants to extend his lifespan, there must be a Yin-Yang Master above the sixth level who is willing to give him his own lifespan. But which Yin-Yang Master is willing to do that?
The most amazing thing about the code is not that it can acquire other people's abilities, but that it can increase one's lifespan.
Speaking of which, if he practiced Yin-Yang School, there would be a huge benefit.
Theoretically, his lifespan is infinite.
As long as crime exists in this world, his life span will continue to increase.
Even if we share some of it with others, it doesn't matter. Just catch some thieves and judge some cases and the money will go back up...
But the prerequisite is that he has the sixth level of Yin-Yang cultivation.
After lunch, Yiren went back to the embassy to practice martial arts.
Li Nuo and the Sixth Princess came to the Ministry of Justice.
The Ministry of Justice has a backlog of hundreds of old cases, and these are only the cases near the capital that are under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, not including unsolved cases at the local level.
The oldest of these cases is more than twenty years old.
Because the case had not been solved, it had been piled up in the case library of the Ministry of Justice.
For cases that remain unsolved for more than twenty years, files are routinely destroyed.
It is actually quite difficult to investigate these old cases.
After all, too much time has passed, some of the witnesses are no longer alive, and there is no evidence, so there is no way to start...
Zhao Zhiyi thought so too, but Li Nuo simply summoned all the people involved in the case to the Ministry of Justice, asked them some questions, and then took the case files to the embassy for study. The next morning, he was able to reveal the identity of the criminal.
He can't find the murderer in all cases.
But a clearance rate of more than half is also very shocking, and these are old cases from more than ten years ago.
Another day ended and Li Nuo walked out of the Ministry of Justice.
After getting acquainted with the officials of the Ministry of Justice, Li Nuo discovered that the officials of the Ministry of Justice of Zhao State were generally of lower cultivation level than those of Da Xia.
The Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice of Daxia, even if he only relied on daily accumulation, had the cultivation level of the fourth realm.
But the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice of Zhao was only at the third level.
The Minister of Justice's cultivation level is only at the fourth level, which is not as good as Li Nuo's.
Although the higher the level of the officials in the Ministry of Justice, the worse the public security in the country, but the public security in Zhao State was not yet so good.
During his time in Zhao State, Li Nuo also conducted investigations.
Although Zhao State did not have a golden medal for immunity from death, it still had redemption of punishment. Officials and dignitaries who broke the law could be exempted from punishment by paying a fine. Therefore, almost no officials and dignitaries were punished. Naturally, the officials of the Ministry of Justice of Zhao State had no shortcut to improve their cultivation.
Daxia has a redemption penalty, but no one dares to use it.
After my father became the Minister of Dali Temple, he expanded the imperial examination from 50 to 100 candidates per session, and now the number of imperial examinations has to be increased.
Among them, countless officials and dignitaries lost their heads.
Although he did not practice legalism, officials in the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple who practiced legalism were able to benefit from it and make progress without doing anything.
To put it bluntly, the court of Zhao State was missing a Li Xuanjing.
This is a good thing for Li Nuo.
With so much experience, it is more than enough to reach the fifth level.
The old cases he solved in the past few days added nearly 500 days to his lifespan, and his cultivation also increased a lot. Unfortunately, after today, there are no more cases to solve.
Li Nuo got on the Sixth Princess's carriage, and the carriage drove towards the embassy.
Inside a teahouse on the street.
The two Yin-Yang masters of the sixth realm were speechless for a long time.
With every day that passes, his life span increases by more than a hundred days.
It was as if there was a Yin-Yang master who transferred more than a hundred days of life to him every day.
The skinny old man was silent for a moment, then said, "Every time he solves a case, his life span increases by a few days."
The fortune-teller stroked his beard and said, "Nonsense, do you even need to tell me that? The key is... why?"
The skinny old man didn't say anything.
Yeah, why?
Why can solving cases increase one’s lifespan? Is there any inevitable connection between the two?
The theory of yin and yang cannot explain this situation at all.
There is no theory that can explain it.
This made both of them doubt what they had learned throughout their lives.
The fortune teller said, "This isn't the strangest thing..."
He was silent for a moment, then said, "The strangest thing is that his life span is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter, without any regular pattern..."
At that time in Daxia, after discovering this matter, he told his fortune every day.
He began to doubt the Yin-Yang magic and almost went insane, so he hid in the State of Zhao.
But he didn't expect that the man would linger around and chase him here again.
The skinny old man took a deep breath and murmured, "Could it be that there really is someone beyond my destiny?"
The fortune teller looked at him and asked, "Do you think so too?"
The skinny old man shook his head and said, "I don't know."
Throughout his life, he firmly believed that everything was fate, and even the actions of the Yin-Yang School to change fate were within the greater fate.
But in this person's case, the Nangong family's theory of fate cannot explain it.
His faith also collapsed.
At this time, the fortune-teller slammed the table and said through gritted teeth, "Never mind, people outside of destiny really exist. Isn't this a good thing? If all destinies are already predetermined, what is the meaning of the process in between? Is there really a creator in the sky? Do you also think that our world is fake?"
The skinny old man exhaled slowly.
Just as the old man from the East said, the existence of people beyond destiny is not a good thing, is it?
Even if what the ancestors of the Nangong family believed were all wrong, at least this world is real.
But soon, a look of pity appeared on his face, and he said, "I really want to see how far this person beyond his destiny can go. Unfortunately, I won't be able to see that day..."
The fortune-teller looked at this old friend with whom he had quarreled all his life, and a trace of sadness emerged in his heart. After thinking for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't act pitiful in front of me. At most, I will give you half of my lifespan!"
(End of this chapter)
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