Chapter 150: Thunder Punishment Technique

“To put it simply, this thunder punishment technique is a trick. Compared to the thunder technique that uses one’s own body to attract thunder, it is much easier, but the power is much greater.”

“Much more powerful?”

“The thunder will not stop until it has cleansed the evil from the object. How powerful is this technique?”

“There is such a technique? Why didn’t my master…”

“Forget it. I never thought you would use the Thunder Punishment technique one day. Because the conditions for using it are too harsh, if you encounter such a situation, I’m afraid you won’t have the chance to use this technique before you meet with an accident. Moreover, I only know a little about the Thunder Punishment technique. I didn’t have time to explain these secret techniques to them…”

“Master… he… was still…”

“He was too protective of you. I never thought you would use the Thunder Punishment technique one day. According to my character, I would never let you be in such danger. But things are unpredictable. Who can completely see through the flow of time?

“…”

Chengyi, listen carefully. The reason why the Thunder Punishment technique is said to be harsh is because there are two conditions that must be met in order to activate it. The first condition is that the person must have committed a heinous crime, so much so that even the gods and ghosts will avoid them. The second condition is that the person must be at the top of the world and have become evil. To put it plainly, the thunder punishment is originally a means for heaven to punish evil. If a person meets the above two conditions, even if we Taoists do not use the thunder punishment technique, when the time comes, heaven will punish them by sending down thunder punishment. However, nothing is absolute. When the time comes, it may have already caused a bloody reality in the world. Therefore, heaven has passed down the thunder punishment technique, and we Taoists can use it to punish evil in advance if we meet the conditions.

“It sounds simple, as if any Taoist can do it. Why is the name of this thunder punishment technique rarely heard?”

“Simple? It’s not simple. How many people in the world can truly reach the heavens? They either have extraordinary spiritual power or are born with outstanding spiritual awareness. You are a true child, and you were born with outstanding spiritual awareness. In addition, you are in a spiritual state, so you can exert yourself without limits. Only then can you barely use the technique of thunder punishment. Just like Yucuizi, who was a ghost rakshasa and helped the city lord complete the act of defying heaven. He himself had to bear so many blood debts before he could barely qualify for being punished by thunder.

“I see.”

That’s it! Lightning punishment is nothing out of the ordinary. Even I, a Taoist, will face it. Because we practice Taoism, we are originally going against the heavens and fighting for our lives. Naturally, we have to pay a price. If we can withstand lightning punishment, we will naturally make further progress. But if we can’t… it’s just that we have no sins, and no one can cause lightning punishment for us. But the heavens are afraid that the powerful characters of sin will also survive lightning punishment through some means, and passing down this lightning punishment technique is also a way for us to do God’s work. Taoist priest, Taoist priest, Taoism always comes first.

At the moment when the master gave the order, I thought about the technique of thunder punishment. I looked at Yucui with hesitation. At the moment, she was holding Xincheng and crying, but her face was clearly intoxicated with happiness. If I really used the technique of thunder punishment, according to the nature of the technique of thunder punishment, once it was triggered, it would never stop until the sins were cleared. I was afraid that Yucui would be even more miserable than being scattered to the four winds.

So, I clenched my hands in a gesture, but hesitated.

“Foolish boy, everything is just a choice. There are so many tributaries in the long river of life. It is only a matter of one’s thoughts to turn a tributary into a mainstream or a mainstream into a tributary. That thought is her fate, and who can change it? Under the law of heaven, retribution is not unfair. You pity her, but you also pity other living beings. The heart of the Tao is also a little bit of a fair heart. Go ahead! It’s just her fate.” The voice of the master came to my ears, with a hint of the vicissitudes of life in the indifference.

I was a little dazed and couldn’t tell at the moment whether the just and seemingly emotionless master was my master or the gossipy, vivid one full of love and humanity was my master.

Or maybe it was both?

The order of the sect cannot be disobeyed! I finally closed my eyes and pressed the hand gestures of the Thunder Punishment technique.

At that moment, I heard a voice that finally sounded a little anxious: “Yucui, why don’t you wake up? When will you be confused?”

This voice is the voice of the city lord! Is it finally anxious to see one of its most powerful generals fall into the illusion? It has never behaved like this after all the ghost generals have died.

It seems that it values Yucuizi very much, but Chengxin… When I thought of this, I suddenly stopped performing the spell, opened my eyes, and saw that Yucuizi was still holding Chengxin tightly with her eyes closed. Her tears had long since stopped flowing, and a smile of happiness was on the corner of her mouth.

Cheng Xin was also holding Yu Cuizi, gently patting her back with his hand, and his eyes were filled with a calm and contented happiness.

I sighed inwardly, but my master said, “Don’t worry about any movement, even if you cast a spell.”

Seeing that Chengxin was fine, I was relieved, but I was also wondering whether Yucui had been hypnotized so deeply that she could no longer hear, or whether she simply didn’t want to hear.

I couldn’t understand, and at this time, the slightly mocking voice of the master had already entered my ears: “Can’t you hold back? Are you willing to wake up from a dream? Or do you want to force me to act?”

Wake up from a dream? I sensed that there was something wrong with this phrase, but the next moment, with the movement of the hand gestures, I had to deeply concentrate, or rather, I had to concentrate more than I had ever done in my life.

My spiritual awareness seemed to spread smoothly under the influence of the magic, but in this absolutely quiet world of thought, there were no five senses, so I didn’t know how long it had been.

Under the deliberate extension and repeated stimulation of my spiritual awareness, I finally seemed to have touched a certain door, or not a door, but just a threshold that divides heaven and earth. This was the first time that I had encountered something that could not be visualized in the world of spiritual awareness, but I dared not be curious.

It was because the moment my spiritual awareness approached it, I was shocked by the vicissitudes of time and space, and was overwhelmed by the eternal and indestructible aura. Where would I dare to be curious?

In the dark, I seemed to hear countless voices, but it was as if one voice echoed in my soul. It had no specific language, but I understood that it expressed one meaning. What was it?

This is what my master told me. At that time, will I have a feeling?

“At that time, you will have a sense of it! When you have a sense of it, you can directly submit a report and get permission, and you will naturally be able to use the technique of thunder punishment.”

It was time to submit the report. I quickly knelt down and began to write the report, using the highest form of Taoist etiquette. At that time, although I was wholeheartedly, the only thing that came to mind was the happy smile on Yucui’s lips.

In a kind of contradictory mood that I can’t explain, I somehow finished the report, and there was a long silence. After I don’t know how long, I finally caught its consciousness again. It was telling me that the matter had been clearly investigated and was accurate.

How clear was the investigation? Did it even find things that I didn’t include in my report? After all, I didn’t know what the mayor’s plot was.

Faced with this existence, I have a lot of questions. What is it? Who is behind it? What does it represent? I have used many times the art of summoning spirits and many times the art of conjuring demons, but I have never had such a mysterious feeling, nor have I ever had so many questions.

Only because I felt like I was getting close to the real heaven!

However, I was not allowed to think too much. After its consciousness was transmitted, my spiritual awareness was naturally gently brushed away, and then returned to my body at a speed that I could not even detect.

When I opened my eyes, I was a little confused. This became an unsolved mystery in my heart, as if someone had told me that Chen Chengyi, the heavenly court really exists.

The master looked at me, as if he could see through me. He said softly, “The thunder punishment is coming. You should be ready.”

This command from the master allowed me to break free from the shock. It was even more shocking than the first time I used the spirit summoning technique. I began to feel dazed during the process of performing the technique, which was the first time that had ever happened.

I dared not be negligent. The thunder punishment technique attracted all the thunder from the sky, so I quickly used the secret formula to attract the thunder.

At this time, an invisible pressure from heaven and earth suddenly enveloped the place. There was no cloud cover or the dullness and appearance of an impending storm, but this invisible pressure made everyone gasp for breath, as if they were being scrutinized by heaven.

This pressure from heaven and earth seemed to make Yucui feel it too. She suddenly let go of Chengxin and looked at the empty ceiling on the top floor with some fear.

Chengxin looked at it sadly, and at that moment, the voice of the city lord echoed in the hall again: “Yucuizi, have you betrayed me? Are you still unwilling to wake up?”

A thunderous roar echoed through the sky. What would be the final outcome? I couldn’t guess at this moment.

However, this is not the end. At this moment, the sky and earth began to tremble. The ancestral hall had a hole in it when the master came, and now it was also falling down with tiles and other inexplicable things.

From the beginning, I felt that we would have a big battle, and there have been a series of strange phenomena here, which quickly subsided, but is it finally erupting now?

The thunder was about to fall, and I was completely confused, but the shaking between heaven and earth stopped again. The next moment, the sound of thousands of horses and soldiers could be heard outside the hall.

The face of the master became serious all of a sudden. The city lord seemed to be calling on Yucui Zi for the last time, shouting, “Yucui Zi, I can save your life. Why don’t you wake up?”