Uncle Nine: I became Master Qianhe, and my fame resounded throughout the Daoist sect.

Zhang Dadan was trembling with rage. He was about to rush forward and fight Master Tan when suddenly his wife's face appeared in his mind. He turned to look at his wife and questioned her, word by word, "Were you willing, or were you forced?"

"Hmph, of course it's voluntary. Who wants to spend their whole life with a fat, penniless loser like you? You're dirty, smelly, and disgusting!"

"I think you should just agree to Master Tan's demands, divorce me, and become his dog so he can find you a wife!" Zhang Dadan's wife snorted contemptuously.

In the end, she even acted as if she was doing it for his own good.

Hearing this, Zhang Dadan's anger surged uncontrollably, like a flood bursting its banks.

"You adulterous couple deserve to die!"

He ran straight to the kitchen, grabbed a cleaver, and pounced on Master Tan like a hungry tiger. Master Tan, powerless against Zhang Dadan's rage, was utterly helpless and was quickly felled to the ground, blood splattering everywhere.

He wasn't possessed by a deity by Qian Kaiyong, so how could he possibly fight Zhang Dadan?

Seeing Master Tan die so tragically before her eyes, Zhang Dadan's wife turned ashen with fright, and Zhang Dadan raised his knife and slashed mercilessly once again.

Clearly, he would show no mercy to this adulterous couple and they had to pay the price!

Adulterers and adulteresses deserve to die and must be killed!

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After killing the man, Zhang Dadan walked out of the house like a deflated balloon, looking utterly dejected.

Chizuru stood quietly outside, like a sculpture, waiting.

He didn't comfort him, because comforting him would only make things worse.

Damn it, his own girlfriend ran off with someone else, that's why he drank and ended up here. What's there to comfort? If he could comfort people, he wouldn't be drinking himself.

"Master Qianhe, do you have a fire? I need to borrow a fire." He said wearily and weakly.

"Yes, just shout 'Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!' and the talisman will ignite." Qianhe said, as if by magic, tossing out dozens of fire talismans and handing them to him.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Dadan gripped his fist tightly, stared at his house, and gritted his teeth, saying, "Hurry, hurry, as the law commands!"

In an instant, the fire talisman in his hand burst into flames like a fire dragon.

Zhang Dadan swung the talisman with all his might, and the fire talisman shot out like a meteor, instantly engulfing the entire house in flames.

Zhang Dadan's house stood alone, with no other houses around; otherwise, the fire would have surely spread to other houses nearby.

That's why he did it; otherwise, he wouldn't have burned down the other houses if they were still there.

From that moment on, he decided to embark on the path of cultivation.

Being a rickshaw puller is like being a dog begging for mercy; there's no hope of ever getting ahead.

It would be better to follow Qianhe's suggestion and cultivate Taoist arts with his senior brother Lin Fengjiao, which might give him a chance to stand out from the crowd.

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Chizuru stood with her hands behind her back, looking on with an indifferent expression.

If this happened in modern times, he would definitely spend the rest of his life in prison, or even be executed.

However, this was the Republic of China era!

Many people naively believe that traveling back to ancient times will bring them smooth sailing.

Do not make jokes!

Even the "people" whom the emperor spoke of as the most important were not ordinary citizens, but nobles.

Only with the support of the nobility can an emperor sit securely on the throne.

Take 757 AD as an example, which was the third year after the An Lushan Rebellion broke out.

Emperor Suzong of Tang dispatched Guo Ziyi to the Uyghurs to borrow 100,000 troops to help the Tang Dynasty quell the rebellion and recover lost territory!

In order to get the Uyghurs to help, Emperor Suzong of Tang offered these foreign soldiers an irresistible condition: after the deed was done, they would be allowed to run rampant in Chang'an for three days, burning, killing, and looting the city's indiscriminately!

In fact, in the eyes of ancient emperors and the ruling class, the common people who made up the vast majority of the population were hardly considered human.

In their eyes, Mencius's saying "the people are the most important" might only refer to the gentry, bureaucrats, and landlords.

Those unfortunate commoners, tenants, vagrants, slaves, and street vendors were not included in this category of "the people are the most important".

This was undoubtedly the first treaty in history that ceded sovereignty and humiliated the country, and Empress Dowager Cixi was merely copying it.

So stop fantasizing about soaring to great heights by traveling back to ancient times. If you do, you'll either starve to death on the streets or become a servant or slave hidden by landlords.

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After everything turned to ashes, Qianhe led Zhang Dadan to an inn to rest for the night before leaving.

However, at that very moment, something came rushing in from the east, west, south, and north like a whirlwind from afar.

Seeing the cardinal directions, Chizuru knew perfectly well that they had succeeded.

"Master, it really was my uncle who was behind this! He was using Maoshan magic to harm people, and he was even raising ghosts!" A-Dong said anxiously.

"It's a demon, judging by its aura, the kind that has killed a lot of people!" Axi added immediately.

The reason they were moving so fast was so that they could deliver the message to their master as soon as possible.

Otherwise, given the speed of those three evil spirits, they would probably have arrived before them.

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