Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 764

Chapter 761 Causal Cycle

Jiang Li and the First Emperor brought Xian Ren to Jiuzhou.

“Jiuzhou now needs to establish order to counter the rule of destruction. Your existence is a stumbling block to that order.”

“You’ve had a smooth journey, all orchestrated by the system. You’ve never experienced true pain. Start over and see if you can return to the Mahayana stage.”

“Seal the body.” Jiang Li, uttering the Heavenly Law, sealed Xian Ren’s body.

Ultimately, his words were subject to the authority of the Heavenly Dao. He couldn’t reduce Xian Ren’s body to its original state; he could only seal it.

“System, extract.”

Xian Ren’s entire body emanated a white light, which gradually separated from his body.

This was more laborious than Jiang Li’s own system, or the system he helped the First Emperor to remove. The aura was also larger than either of theirs.

Their auras were only the size of a fist, while Xian Ren’s completely enveloped his entire body.

As the aura was continuously withdrawn, Xian Ren’s Mahayana stage became a castle in the air.

After Jiang Li crushed the system, he also extracted all of Xianren’s Mahayana cultivation. This spiritual energy was so heavy that if it were all placed in Jiuzhou, it would be enough to transform into spiritual water, turning Jiuzhou Continent into a Jiuzhou Ocean.

Jiang Li sealed this spiritual energy and gave it to Bai Hongtu, who could use it to increase Jiuzhou’s spiritual energy concentration in batches or distribute it to other worlds when establishing order.

Although Bai Hongtu had also achieved the non-conservation of energy, the speed at which he could create spiritual energy out of thin air was limited.

Xianren found his body empty. The thin spiritual energy he possessed was only slightly stronger than that of a mortal, practically nonexistent.

Xianren’s current level was the fourth level of Qi training, and it was also his level at the beginning of his journey.

This level of cultivation would be at the bottom of the mortal world in Jiang Li’s Jiuzhou.

“You cannot reveal your true identity.” Jiang Li once again placed a shackle on Xianren.

“Go where you belong.”

Jiang Li waved his sleeve, and the scene around Xianren shifted, bringing him to an unfamiliar place.

“Where is this?” Xianren discovered his bright, shiny clothes had been replaced with tattered, sweat-smelling clothes, and he still held a hoe.

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fiery whip lashed out, causing Xianren to grimace in pain. “If my body hadn’t been sealed, how could I have ended up like this? Do you know who I am? I’m…”

Xianren tried to reveal his true identity, but the words faltered on his lips.

Seeing Xianren still frantically raging, the foreman lashed him out a few more times.

“Newcomer, stop acting crazy and stupid. Dig the mines honestly. If you don’t dig enough, you won’t eat today!”

“You’re violating human rights!” Xianren raged. Even at his lowest point, he hadn’t fallen into slavery.

What was slavery? If you didn’t have the opportunity, you’d never leave the mines until you died.

Bai Hongtu had once told Xianren that while slavery didn’t exist in Jiuzhou, it existed in many mines. He suggested that Xianren abolish the system. Xianren agreed and left the matter alone.

It now appears that the mining slave system still exists in Jiuzhou, and the Human Emperor Palace’s implementation is incomplete.

Xianren only then truly realized what Bai Hongtu meant when he said, “The system is difficult to implement.” He had dismissed it at the time, saying that implementing systems always presents difficulties, but they can be overcome.

“What bullshit human rights? Do you think this is the Great Zhou?”

“This is the Great Yong Dynasty, the fiefdom of the Second Miss Qing Huayu. Here, except for the Second Miss, everyone is a slave!”

“Qing Huayu?” Xianren remembered the name. Before the Eight Wastelands, he had pretended to be a pig and ate the tiger, saving the Second Miss Qing Huayu of the Qing family.

Qing Huayu was such a beautiful woman, so kind and beautiful, how could she allow herself to be mined?

After the foreman left, the idler quietly asked a nearby person, “Why did Huayu allow people to mine?”

The bystander was shocked. “How dare you call the Second Young Lady that? That’s a title reserved for Emperor Jiang. If you knew, you’d be killed or seriously injured!”

Then the bystander explained, “I heard all this. The Second Young Lady is Emperor Jiang’s youngest concubine. Her cultivation isn’t high enough, so she can’t compete with the other concubines. After Emperor Jiang disappeared, she became even more concerned. That’s why we miners need to come here to mine Beauty Stones and refine Beauty Pills to enhance our charm.”

The idler was stunned. He hadn’t expected Qing Huayu to be this kind of person.

Come to think of it, he’d only met her once. How could he possibly know her true character?

If she were truly considerate, how could she just grab someone on the street and use them as a shield? If

this shield were any ordinary person, they would have been dead long ago.

After a long pause, he finally asked haltingly, “Have you ever considered rebelling and quitting being a miner?”

The man smiled. “Haven’t you heard about the Human Emperor Palace’s spectacular campaign to free themselves from the miners’ slavery over the past decade? It was all talk and no action. If the Human Emperor Palace can’t do it, how can we?”

“Besides, there’s always room for rebellion. Here, there’s food, drink, entertainment, and spiritual energy. It’s just that you can’t live without the mines and can’t find women. You’ll get used to it, and that’s just how it works.”

“If nothing else, at least it’s safer here than in the Tianyuan Dynasty.”

You can’t know a person’s heart by looking at their face. They’d only met once, so how could they possibly know each other?

Days passed, and Xianren, unfamiliar with the mining process, hadn’t dug enough for several days and hadn’t eaten. Only today did he finally have the right to eat.

“How’s the mining going?” a familiar voice called out. It was the Second Miss, Qing Huayu.

“To answer the Second Miss, we’ll definitely dig up enough Red Beauty Stones before the Alchemy Master arrives.”

“Huayu, it’s me,” Xianren greeted Qing Huayu excitedly.

Qing Huayu looked at the stranger, wondering what had gotten into this miner. She gave him a disdainful look and ignored him.

The foreman, understanding the Second Young Lady’s intentions, summoned a few men and gave him a beating that kept him bedridden for days.

If he couldn’t get out of bed, he couldn’t mine, and if he couldn’t mine, he couldn’t eat.

Without the energy to work in the mines, one could imagine what the consequences would be.

Fortunately, while Xianren’s body was sealed, it wasn’t completely sealed, allowing him to recover quickly.

A few days later, Xianren unearthed a poisonous rock and was poisoned. A kind coworker gave him a pill.

“Thank you.”

“I’ll have to pay you back. Also, don’t write to me if you want to thank me. If the White Emperor hadn’t allocated funds for the Spiritual Medicine Sect to research affordable pills, lowering the price, I wouldn’t have been so generous as to buy you pills. Thank the White Emperor instead.”

Xianren fell silent.

…

The First Emperor used his clairvoyance to see what Xianren had been through in the past few days: “Did you deliberately put this waste in the mine?”

Jiang Li shook his head: “It wasn’t intentional. Cause and effect are cyclical. Xianren’s past actions were the ’cause’. I just let him experience the ‘effect’.”

“He won’t be trapped in the mine forever. A bigger ‘effect’ will come to him and make him pay for the cause and effect.”

“Do good things and you will get good results. Do evil things and you will get evil results.”

“Judging from what he has done, there probably won’t be any good results for him.”

“White Emperor, although Xianren has disappeared, his influence is still there. In a few days, you can announce to the public that Xianren is dead, so those who act in his name will no longer be arrogant.”

“Yes.” Bai Hongtu nodded.

Even without Jiang Li saying it, the First Emperor could see Jiang Li’s other meaning: Xianren was dead, so his concubines could do what they wanted and no longer have to worry about Xianren’s opinions.

This was a relief for some concubines.

(End of this chapter)