Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 217

Chapter 217 Practice Makes You Prove

. The Great Zhou Dynasty distinguished between breaking the law and committing a crime in a very detailed manner, while other countries conflated them.

Breaking the law involved violating civil laws and public security regulations. Committing

a crime involved violating criminal laws.

“But if you drink alcohol and then deliberately work off the effects of the alcohol, what’s the point of drinking?”

“I didn’t ask you to work off the effects of the alcohol, but you should not take advantage of it and act recklessly!” The Minister of Justice corrected Du Ping. “Also, have you been flying drunk again recently?”

“Yes, according to the regulations, I violated Article 165 of the Public Security Regulation Law and will be detained for 15 days. When do you plan to lock me up?” Du Ping knew the Public Security Regulation law by heart, possessing an extraordinary understanding of the law. He was also more familiar with the Great Zhou prison cells than any other prison warden.

Some eager wardens even sought out Du Ping to consult him on legal matters and prison management.

The Great Zhou Dynasty forbids flying before the effects of alcohol have subsided, as this can easily lead to a cultivator losing control of their body and crashing to the ground,

potentially hitting someone.

Du Ping frequently violated this rule, and was very familiar with it.

“It’s been changed now. The Emperor deemed this behavior too egregious, so he changed the prohibition on drunk flying from a public security law to a criminal law. In other words, you’re not breaking the law, you’re committing a crime. According to the regulations, you’ll be imprisoned for six months.”

Du Ping was stunned. “When was it changed?”

“It was promulgated on the first day of last month, and implemented on the first day of this month. You were flying drunk on the second day. If it weren’t for your shocked expression, I would have thought you were committing a crime.” The Minister of Justice spoke frankly.

“I just like drinking, not breaking the law!”

“Huh? Who knows?”

Jiang Li thought that after five hundred years, Du Ping should have calmed down. Now it seemed that this great cultivator who had dared to defy the law had repeatedly made the same mistake and refused to change.

This showed his unwavering willpower.

The Minister of Justice was also troubled by Du Ping. The fact that a cultivator in the Fusion Stage had honestly accepted punishment certainly demonstrated that before the laws of the Great Zhou, cultivators were equal to mortals, but it wasn’t good for you to be constantly in and out of prison.

Treating the prison as a home does not reflect the punitive nature of the law at all, and where does it put the face of the laws of the Great Zhou.

The greatest achievement of the Minister of Justice is to punish monks in the Fusion Stage hundreds of times.

His greatest stain is to punish the same monk in the Fusion Stage hundreds of times.

The Minister of Justice is even thinking of asking Du Ping to leave the Great Zhou.

Please let our Ministry of Justice take a break.

Du Ping rejected the request of the Minister of Justice and said firmly, I am a member of the Great Zhou in life and a ghost of the Great Zhou in death. It is impossible for me to leave!

The Great Zhou is my home and I love the Great Zhou.

Du Ping violated all the laws on public security, from soliciting prostitution to gambling to street fighting.

The Minister of Justice couldn’t believe that a monk in the Fusion Stage would suppress his cultivation and fight with gangsters after drinking.

As a fellow monk in the Fusion Stage, I feel ashamed for you.

The Minister of Justice felt that Du Ping was a disgrace to monks in the Fusion Stage.

The Minister of Justice also proposed to Ji Zhi a new law, called the Du Ping Law, specifically to punish Du Ping, but Ji Zhi refused, arguing that there was no law specifically for one person.

Now that Du Ping was no longer violating public security laws, he was beginning to advance into criminal law. “

Please, heaven, send someone to take care of this evil creature.

” “Du Ping?” Jiang Li appeared.

“Jiang, Jiang, the Human Emperor?” Du Ping was overjoyed to see Jiang Li, as if he were meeting his superior.

As a cultivator in Jiuzhou, everyone aspired to become the Human Emperor. If they couldn’t achieve that, joining the Human Emperor Palace was also a dream for many cultivators.

Du Ping was no exception.

“Human Emperor.” The Minister of Justice saluted Jiang Li.

He was a close confidant of Ji Zhi and had been present many times when Jiang Li sought him out.

“Are these all your crimes?” Jiang Li walked over to three stacks of case files, each one as tall as a man, and flipped through them. He felt that Du Ping’s life could be summed up in one sentence.

He had diligently cultivated for the first half of his life, only to spend a few more years in prison in the second.

The Minister of Justice reminded Jiang Li, “There’s only one and a half stacks of Du Ping’s case files from five hundred years ago.”

“You’ve broken the law quite a few times,” Jiang Li sighed.

“That proves I’m law-abiding,” Du Ping explained.

Jiang Li was speechless. Indeed, Du Ping always dutifully accepted his punishment after breaking the law; punishment was part of the law, so he could be said to be law-abiding.

“Most of your

problems are caused by alcohol.” “I practice a technique that involves alcohol, and I can’t practice without it

.” Du Ping’s problems weren’t serious. Among cultivators in the Fusion Stage,

he could barely be considered decent. It wasn’t that someone with minor offenses was unacceptable. For example, Commanders Ma and Zhuo had already been arrested once in Dayong for selling unhealthy books.

If they lived in the Great Zhou, they would have been imprisoned as many times as Du Ping.

But Jiang Li still wanted a normal Fusion Stage cultivator.

He felt that among the cultivators above the Fusion Stage in the Human Emperor Palace, only Commander Liu and himself were normal.

“If you can avoid committing crimes while drunk, you can be admitted to the Human Emperor Palace.” Jiang Li relented slightly. “For fifty years, you must have no new criminal record.”

Du Ping gritted his teeth and said, “Alright!”

Fifty years isn’t a long time for a cultivator in the Fusion Stage; at most, it’s just fifty years of seclusion!

“Fifty years of seclusion don’t count,” Jiang Li reminded him.

The Minister of Justice said, “The Human Emperor is worrying too much. Du Ping can still commit crimes by drinking alcohol even in seclusion. You can look up Volume 127 of the Du Ping File.”

Jiang Li found the case file the Minister of Justice mentioned. It stated that Du Ping had a drinking urge during his retreat, sleepwalked out of his retreat, and traveled thousands of miles to the tavern to drink. He then drifted away and continued his retreat without paying any spirit stones.

The jar of wine was worthless, not criminally worthy of criminal prosecution. Otherwise, the Minister of Justice could have punished him for theft.

Although it wasn’t theft, theft was present, so he was punished according to the Public Security Administration Law.

“…”

Jiang Li felt Du Ping would never leave prison.

After Jiang Li left, Du Ping bent over to write a letter. The Minister of Justice curiously asked, “What are you writing?”

“I think there are some areas in the Great Zhou laws that need revision. The punishment for drunk flying is too harsh and doesn’t conform to the principle of proportionality between crime and punishment. I’m writing to the court to offer my opinion, suggesting a suspended sentence or a reduced prison term.”

The Great Zhou welcomed the public’s opinions and suggestions on the law.

The Minister of Justice was speechless. His centuries of violating the law had given him a deep understanding of the law, and he had repeatedly written to the court to point out errors in the law.

The Great Zhou even wanted to award him a banner to commend his contributions to the law.

“Here, it’s done.” Du Ping handed the letter to the Minister of Personnel.

The letter was ten thousand words long. The Minister of Justice read it through. It was written in a clear and easy-to-understand manner, making sense from both the four-element theory and the three-tier theory.

He felt that Du Ping’s understanding of the law was so profound that anyone who didn’t know him would have thought it was written by a monk from the Great Zhou Imperial Academy specializing in law.

What’s this? Knowledge gained from books is always shallow. To truly understand something, one must practice it. True

knowledge comes from practice.

(End of this chapter)