Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 216

Chapter 216 Typical Figures of the Great Zhou Law

The moment Dong Wuwei proposed the Three Bonds of Order, he was destined not to become the leader of the Human Emperor Palace, let alone the fact that he was willing to sacrifice his own son.

He was a man willing to do anything for his ideals.

Jiang Li guaranteed that if he recruited him to the Human Emperor Palace, he would work harder than Zhang Konghu and receive more year-end spirit stones than any other leader.

But his ideals contradicted Jiang Li’s.

Dong Wuwei aspired to be Dong Zhongshu, but Jiang Li was not the Emperor of Han.

“Your thoughts are too vast and complex. Perhaps some other emperor would agree with your ideas, but not me.” Jiang Li concluded, and left. Dong Wuwei

felt a mixture of emotions when his ideal leader rejected him outright, as if his lifelong pursuit had been cut short, leaving him with no way forward.

Twenty years of preparation had been for nothing.

Dong Wuwei sat in a teahouse, sipping cup after cup of cold tea.

“Father,” Dong Wuwei’s son found his father, who was sitting in the teahouse.

In the impression of Dong Wuwei’s son, his father has always been ambitious, idealistic, and ambitious. He has never seen him lose his mind.

Dong Wuwei gave birth to his child after he retired, and did not tell his son about his origins.

“Xi’er, is my philosophy wrong?” Dong Wuwei asked subconsciously.

Dong Xi did not answer.

Seeing his son silent, Dong Wuwei felt a little relieved. No matter how he did, at least his son still thought he was a good father without any shortcomings.

So he encouraged him: “You don’t have to worry about it. Think about it carefully, even if it’s a small mistake.”

Dong Xi shook his head: “Father asked Xi’er to speak, Xi’er naturally had to speak, but Xi’er felt that you made too many mistakes and didn’t know where to start. I was just sorting out my thoughts.”

Dong Wuwei was stunned.

Dong Xi did obey his father’s orders, but he never thought it was right.

“For example, your idea that the ruler is the leader of the ministers, assuming that the ruler is always wise and that as long as the ministers obey the ruler, the country can be governed well, is one-sided.”

“You only see the relationship between the ruler and the ministers, not the relationship between the ruler and the people.”

“After the monarch dies, a son inherits

the throne, but the country remains the same.” “But after the people die, the country’s fortune disappears, its meaning loses, and it will cease to be a country. This shows that the people are the foundation of the country.”

Dong Xi’s thinking was somewhat naive and contained some fallacies, but the underlying philosophy it embodied was vastly different from

Dong Wuwei’s. Dong Wuwei then realized that he had only used his son as proof of his own altruism and had never truly understood him.

He realized he was wrong, deeply wrong.

His son was not a tool, nor a vessel for his ideas; he was a person with his own thoughts!

“Stop talking,” Dong Wuwei’s voice trembled.

Dong Xi quickly fell silent, thinking he had said something wrong.

“Do you… still want to cultivate? Father can help you.”

The precious ten years Dong Xi had wasted could be fully compensated with Dong Wuwei’s skills at the Fusion Stage.

Dong Wuwei began to reflect on himself: Was the philosophy he had upheld all these years correct? Had he misinterpreted his ancestor, Dong Zhongshu, or was it that his ancestor was wrong in the first place?

He couldn’t wrap his head around these things for a while, so he decided to stay here, make amends to his son, care for his wife, and teach his students.

Jiang Li, who had hidden his aura, witnessed this scene before truly leaving to search for his next backup leader.

…

The second backup leader was a free cultivator.

Having reached the Fusion Stage as a free cultivator, his aptitude was evident.

Furthermore, after reaching the Fusion Stage, this free cultivator had neither established a clan nor joined a faction, remaining a lone cultivator.

He and Jiang Li were from the same hometown, a native of the Great Zhou.

This free cultivator had long been renowned; Jiang Li had heard of him when he was only at the Foundation Establishment Stage; he was a renowned Fusion Stage cultivator.

Now Jiang Li had reached the Mahayana Stage, and he was also a renowned Fusion Stage cultivator in the Great Zhou.

When Jiang Li approached him, he found him conversing, or rather pleading, with a Great Zhou official.

“Please, please erase my criminal record. Commander Liu of the Human Emperor Palace just contacted me a few days ago and listed me as a candidate for commander.”

“What if the Human Emperor thinks I’m a good commander and then, seeing how many crimes he’s committed, decides to give me the job? I’d be so disappointed!”

“Du Ping, you’re from the Great Zhou, you know the rules.” The Minister of Justice looked at Du Ping with embarrassment. He was an old acquaintance, known to every citizen of the Great Zhou.

The Drunken Immortal Du Ping was a well-known lawbreaker, imprisoned more often than he entered his home. He was hailed as a model of Great Zhou law, a pioneer of lawbreaking, and so on.

The Great Zhou government often used Du Ping as an example, demonstrating that even cultivators in the Fusion Stage could be imprisoned if they broke the law.

The example Jiang Li had heard of in the Great Zhou was this:

Du Ping, a cultivator in the Fusion Stage, went on a drunken rampage, stripping n*ked and rolling around in the street, seriously disrupting social order and causing a negative impact. For violating public security laws, he was fined 500 low-grade spirit stones and detained for ten days.

The Ministry of Justice reminds that drinking under the influence will also be punished. Drink responsibly and don’t be like Du Ping, who enjoys the effects of alcohol and deliberately fails to work off the effects.

Du Ping, a cultivator in the Fusion Stage, bought counterfeit liquor and demanded a tenfold compensation from the merchant. The

merchant compensated him with ten jars of counterfeit liquor, and Du Ping, enraged, smashed the merchant’s shop. The merchant was ordered to recall the fake liquor and be imprisoned for three months. Du Ping, who damaged property and violated public security regulations, was detained for fifteen days.

The Ministry of Justice reminds people to seek legal help when encountering difficulties and not to act impulsively and violate the law.

There are many such examples.

After Jiang Li left Da Zhou, he paid little attention to this cultivator who was on the Da Zhou Ministry of Justice’s blacklist.

He remembered that the Ministry of Justice had a project discussing how to prevent Du Ping from committing crimes.

“Rules, I know, I know,” Du Ping chuckled, pulling out a storage ring and handing it to the Minister of Justice. “Here are eight thousand high-grade spirit stones.”

The Minister of Justice, visibly shocked, slammed the ring to the ground. “Du Ping, how dare you bribe me! You’re trying to harm me!”

Any official of the Great Zhou caught accepting bribes would be sentenced to imprisonment.

“No, no,” Du Ping quickly denied. “Then the rule you’re talking about is…”

The Minister of Justice glared. “Of course, if you’ve broken the law, don’t even think about erasing the case file!”

“Doesn’t that mean I can’t join the Human Emperor Palace?”

“You lose your mind when it comes to alcohol. I’ve always told you to drink less and be less impulsive, but you always say you won’t next time.”

“When I was a constable, the first thing I caught was you for a drunken offense. Now I’m the Minister of Justice, and you’re still breaking the law!”

The Minister of Justice pointed to three piles of case files nearby. “These are all the crimes you’ve committed over the past few hundred years!”

If they were destroyed, wouldn’t his criminal record be wiped out? Du Ping was itching to make his move.

The Minister of Justice sneered, “Don’t blame me for not reminding you. Destroying case files is a crime, even more serious than breaking the law. Besides, they’ve all been copied with the Jade Butterfly, so destroying them is pointless.”

Du Ping was dejected.

(End of this chapter)