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The night is dark, and a gloomy and dilapidated palace.

Although it was early summer, the temperature in the palace was unusually low, and there were pits of stagnant water on the muddy ground, and there were even ice cubes in the water.

There are several green lanterns floating around the main hall, reflecting the miserable green of the main hall, and the edge of the green light, there are faint copper pillars, chains, iron hooks, knives, axes, saws and woks and other torture instruments, the copper pillar helps a person with a head hanging all over his body, and there are several heads and miserable white skeletons hanging on the chains hanging in the air, swaying and colliding back and forth in the dark, making a rattling sound, and the surrounding ghost pupils and cold breath, the hall exudes an extremely eerie and terrifying atmosphere.

In the center is a huge bronze dome, in which a flame burns, and under the dim green lanterns around it, the flames emit a miserable green light, making the whole hall look more and more eerie, as if in hell.

Directly above the main hall are hung three bloody ancient seal characters of the Yama Palace.

Under the plaque of the Yama Palace, there is a big black case, a big black chair behind the big case, a middle-aged man wearing a black robe, wearing a crown and a pale face, sitting on the big chair with a majestic face.

With a clattering sound, the bull head and horse face dragged a man in official robes into the main hall with chains like a dead dog, and then threw the man into the icy muddy water with a pop.

"Wake him up!" The middle-aged man sitting on the big chair said in a cold tone.

With a basin of rising white smoke water splashed on the man's body, under the stimulation of the cold and biting ice water, the man's body lying in the muddy water twitched violently a few times, and then slowly looked at his eyes, opened his eyes in a daze, and saw a scene that made him so frightened that his liver and gall were broken.

"Smack"

Seeing that the man came to his senses, the middle-aged man wearing a crown on his head picked up a piece of startling wood on the desk and lined it up, and asked in a majestic and low voice, "Who is being detained today?" Why do you want to alarm this king? ”

The strange man in white clothes and white hat with a mourning stick in his hand bent down and reported: "King Yama, this person's name is Yan Le......"

"Bold, a mortal dares to steal the title of this king, and quickly plunge into the Nine Shadows Dading to refine and die!" King Yama was furious.

The strange man in black clothes and black hat holding a book hurriedly said in a hoarse and low voice: "King Yama is angry, this person is called Yan Le, not Yama!" ”

Only then did the king of Yama become angry, and he looked at the strange man in white clothes and white hat with a long tongue and said, "Bai impermanence, straighten out the long tongue when you speak in the future!" ”

The strange man in white clothes and white hat twitched a few times, and said as if he was holding a ball of batter in his mouth: "Yes...... King Yama, this person is a warden in the yang world, but the crime is extremely evil and killed hundreds of people, the minister has received a report from the ghost guards of the reincarnation tower for several months, there are a large number of people who have not lived a long life and die mysteriously and wail day and night unwilling to reincarnate, disturbing the law of reincarnation, after the minister's investigation, it was found that everything was behind this Yan Le, so the minister detained his soul to listen to the king's disposal! ”

"Bang bold!" King Yama was furious, and the shocking wood in his hand slapped hard and stood up, "Yan Le, as an official of the Yang Realm, actually committed such a heinous crime, killing hundreds of Yang Immortals, messing with the laws of the underworld, black and impermanent, how to deal with it according to the laws of the underworld?" ”

"According to the laws of the underworld, Yan Le deserves to be served by the eighteenth layer of hell, this person privately made and changed the documents of the yang world, deceived the king, it is a crime, when he enters the hell of pulling out the tongue and pulls out the tongue, this person has a wife in the family, but he is still insulting the slave girl outside, this is the second crime, when he enters the scissors hell to cut off his yang root, this person is Zhao Gao's son-in-law, but secretly suspects and curses, it is for unfilial piety, this is the three crimes, when he enters the Iron Tree Hell and undergoes a thousand knives to kill hundreds of innocent people, and creates unjust souls to disturb the reincarnation, it is for the four sins, when he enters the mirror hell to show his original form, After that, he shall not be reincarnated as a human being, this person slanders, frames, and insults others, this is the five crimes, and when he is sent to the steamer hell, in the 7749th year, this person secretly kills the officials of the criminal department, and conceals the truth, which is the six crimes, and when he enters the bronze pillar hell, he is tied to the bronze pillar and burned in the fire of the nine secluded lands for 9981 years......"

Hei Wuchang held the book in his hand, and read out Yan Le's sins one by one in an extremely hoarse and low, disorienting voice.

And Yan Le didn't seem to have completely woken up from the stimulation of the ice water after suffocation at this time, and looked at the eerie scene in front of him with a dull face.

"Enough of it!" The king of Hades was even more angry, and the shocking wood in his hand slammed on the desk in a row, interrupting Hei Wuchang's words, "Such a heinous crime, don't use judgment, just torture it with the eighteen torture instruments of my Yama Palace, and be sure to grind its three souls and seven spirits into ashes!" ”

"Yes!" Hei Wuchang closed the book and turned around and ordered: "Bull head and horse face, drag Yan Le into the scissors hell, and cut off his yang root first!" ”

"Wow"

Yan Le, who was lying on the ground, only felt his neck tighten, and was lifted up by the two monsters again, and then dragged him into the darkness in the muddy water full of ice cubes.

"Spare your life!" Feeling the threat of death again, Yan Le grabbed the chains with both hands and let out a terrible wail as if he had suddenly returned to his body.

"Hehe, such a heinous criminal, how can this king spare you, and not torture you alive for 500 years, it is difficult to vent the hatred in this king's heart"

"Bang dang" Yan Le was lifted up by the bull and slammed it on a cold copper platform, and then a ghost pawn with a hideous face came over with a pair of scissors that was one meter long.

The dilapidated palace, the huge copper tripod, the floating green light, the terrifying torture instruments, the Hades of the underworld, the black and white impermanence, the bull head and horse face, the ghost pawn, the unjust soul, the eighteen layers of hell, the cold and miserable and gloomy, the ears full of ghosts crying wolf howls, all around are broken skeletons, at this time was dragged to the cold and cold copper platform, looking at the grim grinning ghosts whose teeth were cracked to the back of the neck, Yan Le's mind completely collapsed, his body trembled, and a stream of yellow urine came out of his lower body.

The bull head and horse face locked Yan Le on the bronze platform, stared at the fist and shouted loudly: "Execution, cut off the yang root first!" ”

In the darkness, a ghostly pawn armed with a sharp knife emerged and stabbed his crotch open.

"Click"

The ghost pawn holding the big scissors cut it with his hands, Yan Le couldn't see it, only saw a stream of blood spurting up and a sharp pain in his lower body, and suddenly let out a scream like killing a pig, and he passed out as soon as it was dark in front of him.

"Splashing cold water" With a low drink, there was a loud bang, and another basin of cold ice water was splashed on Yan Le's body, and after a few minutes, Yan Le opened his eyes again, and saw the two ugly faces of the bull head and horse face that were still hideous and terrifying, and still the two pairs of lifeless eyes the size of a fist.

"Continue the execution, cut off ten fingers!" The hoarse voice of Black Impermanence sounded like it came from the Nine Hells.

"Click, click, click," the ghost pawn waved his scissors again and cut one of Yan Le's hands.

"King Yama spare your life, spare your life! Those people are not the ones I want to kill, they are Zhao Gao...... It was Zhao Gao who instructed me not to kill me...... Don't kill me......"

Yan Le was finally awakened by the sharp pain in his lower body at this time, the terrifying scene in front of him and the story told by the old man in the Silver Moon Pavilion, his mind was completely occupied by fear, his cloak was trembling violently with mud all over his body, and his face was already distorted and pale and he couldn't see the shape of any normal person.

"Stop" Hades waved his sleeves, then slowly walked to the edge of the copper platform, looked at Yan Le who was locked on it and asked coldly, "What you said is the truth?" ”

"Yes, yes, it's the truth, all this was arranged for me by Zhao Gao, I ...... I was scared, but I didn't dare not go! Yan Le was like a drowning man suddenly grasping a life-saving straw.

"According to the ghost pawn report, thirty-four members of Ma Boyuan's family died in Daijun, but Zhao Gao arranged for someone to do it?" Hei Impermanence asked in a hoarse voice.

"Yes, Ma Boyuan is indeed Zhao Gao looking for someone to assassinate, he ...... He asked me to collude with the officials of the Criminal Department and the Yanmen County Guard, secretly modify the migration order, and trick Ma Boyuan's family into killing and throwing corpses in the wilderness after they went to Daijun! Yan Le nodded vigorously.

"Yongpo's family of twenty-two was also killed by Zhao Gao?"

"Yes, Yongpo's family was exiled to the Northlands, deceived into the barren mountains with a fake migration order, killed and thrown into the river valley!"

"What about Tong Jing's family of eighteen?"

"Cao Kun's family of twenty-five ......"

"They...... They are all ...... It's all ...... Zhao Gao instructed someone to kill! Yan Le was already terrified to the point of collapse at this time.

There were always seven or eight of these people who were killed, and they were killed in different places, and Yan Le thought that what he did was very secretive, but it had only been two or three months, and the king of Yama in the underworld had investigated it clearly, so he only knew how to nod desperately.

"The book of life and death is with this king!" The king of Hades stretched out his hand and took the book handed over by Hei Wuchang, glanced at it and said: "Yan Le, I see that you have not lived a long life in the book of life and death, and you should not have died, but you have done a lot of evil, and if this king does not kill you, the souls of a total of 179 people, such as Ma Boyuan and Yongpo, will not want to be reincarnated, today this king will give you a chance, if you give a clear account of Zhao Gao's murder of these people, I will press this sin on Zhao Gao's head, and detain him to the underworld for you to endure five hundred years of torture and suffering, And you can go back to the yang world and live a few more years, would you like to? ”

"Yes, yes!" Yan Le nodded vigorously, his neck being grazed by chains.

"Okay, then let's talk quickly, don't miss a single thing, if you hide it a little, you will suffer together with Zhao Gao!"

"The king of Yama is above, and the villain will never dare to hide it in the slightest!"

"Come on, pen and ink are waiting!" Hades sat down after returning to the big case with a swing of his sleeves.

Yan Le, who had escaped death, was lying on the cold copper platform like a pile of mud at this time, and then poured beans into a bamboo tube to instruct Zhao Gao how to operate in it, and explained to the more than ten officials involved, and a ghost official with a long beard and a pale face sat next to him and wrote hard.