The City God of Ninghai County quickly bowed his sleeves and said, "The Supreme Immortal is wise. This purple strange horse is indeed the night horse in the underworld. The little god only knew about it after he became the City God of Ninghai County."

Xuan Kong smiled slightly and listened to Ninghai County City God continuing to tell the story of him going to the underworld exam.

The City God of Ninghai County then recalled: "The scenery I saw along the way was extremely strange. In a trance, I had already entered a city without realizing it. It was as prosperous as the capital Bianjing City."

Xuan Kong commented beside him: "This should be in Fengdu Ghost City."

The city god of Ninghai County looked at Xuankong, but he didn't expect that the immortal knew so much about the underworld. He nodded and said, "The little god was surprised and had no time to see it. He had already been taken into a palace, and the houses inside were extremely magnificent."

The palace archway has three big words "Jiulun Palace" written on it, but it is the place where the gods of the Holy Heavenly Lord, the most powerful true king of the Five Halls of the Underworld.

This font is the ancient astronomical world left by the Queen of Houtu when she opened up the underworld. Anyone who sees her can understand the meaning.

Therefore, the Confucian officials also understood something vaguely. He did not dare to neglect at the moment and hurriedly followed the soldiers to the side hall. In the side hall, there were more than a dozen Yin gods dressed in the clothes of the underworld judges, but they all looked very different from the common statues in the mortal world.

The Confucian officials didn't know who they were, but they speculated that their identities were judged by the underworld, so they didn't dare to ask more questions.

In the hall, two tables and matching stools were placed, with paper and pen on them. A Confucian scholar had already arrived and sat there for a while. Seeing this, the Confucian official believed that the soldiers who passed the message were not nonsense, and they really took him to take the exam.

I just don’t know what questions I want to take. Confucian officials are also knowledgeable and well-versed in Confucianism, and they all know the classics of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism.

So he strengthened his courage and walked over to sit side by side with the Confucian scholar who arrived first.

Not long after, the test paper fell from the sky. I followed it and saw the eight characters of the above question: "One person has two hearts, but one heart has no heart." The Confucian official frowned a little. The question was very strange and I didn't understand what it meant.

But when he looked up and saw more than a dozen Yin Judgs in the hall, he felt a vague understanding in his heart.

He looked at the first question in his mind, and then wrote the pen like a flying pen. He quickly wrote the article and submitted it. The judge in the hall read it on the spot. One judge said: "Although that little Confucian scholar is a bit pedantic, he still has the righteousness in his heart and can be a ghost immortal."

Another Yin Judgment looked at a sentence written by the Confucian official in his article: "Who can be selfless, not a sage? Even the Buddha in the West still has a angrily vajra statue, and even the great sage in the demon world has a soft and kind face."

In his last sentence, the Confucian official wrote: "If you have the will to do good, you will not reward even if you have good intentions; if you have no intention, you will not punish even if you have the evil."

The city god of Ninghai County was a little satisfied and said, "After seeing the Yin Judgments in the hall, they all praised me. At that time, they called me forward and said to the little god: Your life span has ended, and the Emperor Yama pity you and others who have learned have great integrity in your heart, so they have mercy on this exam. Now, there is a city god in Ninghai County on the shore of the North Sea. It is quite worthy of his position for his master's talent. Now that he has handed over this city to his master for his guardianship, he finally has a major event."

Xuankong was displeased when he heard the sentence written by the City God of Ninghai County. He thought to himself: "Wrong, wrong! Good is good, no matter what purpose it is, as long as you achieve good deeds, it is a good deed; and the same is true for evil, no matter whether it comes from the original heart. If you cause evil consequences, it is an evil deed."

But after all, he was listening to the story of the city god in Ninghai County, so it was difficult to disturb him. He just secretly thought about the test questions in the underworld in his heart: "One person, two hearts. Have hearts but no hearts?" Xuankong suddenly raised his eyebrows, remembering the Buddha's verse he recited when the seven ancient Buddhas turned into relics: "Good thoughts are in the heart, and bad thoughts are not good; Sakyamuni in black leads to the three realms..."

These two sentences are somewhat similar.

The more Xuan Kong thought about it, the more he became more and more ecstatic. When the city god of Ninghai County saw that the immortal was silent, he had to continue saying: "After hearing this, the little god suddenly understood the truth. Unfortunately, the little god and his friend Yi Jinlan made an appointment to live and die together. Now he has suddenly become a god from a mortal. Although it is a good thing, how can he bear to give up his old promise?"

So he fell to the ground and asked the judges to check the lifespan of his Jinlan brothers.

The judge was moved by the friendship of the Confucian officials, so he looked through the book of the life and death, found the page of the Confucian officials' rebellious brothers, and said: "Your brothers are all thieves on Taihu Lake. They don't accumulate much virtue but have deep karma. They can't be reincarnated in the next life and can only be reincarnated as rats."

The Confucian official and the other brothers were just in a similar mood and did not know their way of making a living. He could only cry and cry: "I am willing to give my merits to my brother, just to ask him to be a new person in the next life."

The Yin Judgments refused, for what they said: "The Book of Life and Death is transformed by the karma of heaven and earth, and we cannot change it."

The Confucian officials then asked the judges to show their compassion and let him reincarnate with his brothers and become a golden orchid for the next life. At this time, the main entrance of the side hall opened, and a white face, wearing a crown and a slate, hanging incense bags on both sides to protect his ears, and wearing ruffled lapels and wide-sleeved robe, walked in.

He was the emperor of the Five Halls of the Underworld. After hearing the words of the Confucian official, he took the life and death book from Yin Jue and wrote a few strokes and said: "I pity your loyalty. Your brother still has nine years of life. You can be at ease in Ninghai County for nine years. It is not only to accumulate virtue for you, but also to do good for your brothers."

The Confucian officials were overjoyed. He was shaken by the verdicts and sent him to ride a horse back to the world. After returning to the world, they began to prepare the coffin. Within a day, they were already exhausted and died. The true spirit flew to Ninghai County and became the local city god land.

The city god of Ninghai County pointed at Geng Qubing and said with a smile: "This scholar is lucky. If the immortal Xuankong runs for him, if he can get the recommendation of the Yin God of the Underworld, then even a living person is not without precedent."

Xuankong nodded, suddenly remembered something, spread his hand flat and appeared in his underworld's military talisman in his heart. He asked with a smile: "City God, is Xuankong's use of this military talisman enough to recommend Geng Qubing to take the City God exam?"

When the city god in Ninghai County saw the military talisman, he knelt down and said, "It turns out that the immortal is the guard leader of the Qin Guangwang, a palace in the underworld!" He pondered for a moment, then he leaned into Xuankong's ear and whispered: "Since that's the case, then the brothers Geng Qubing don't have to take the City God exam. The nine-year period of the little god will be able to directly pass the City God position to Geng Qubing brothers."

There is also such a good thing, but Geng Qubing didn't believe it. Xuankong also asked with a smile: "So how should Xuankong repay such a kind hearted City God?"

The city god of Ninghai County saw Xuan Kong seeing his thoughts and knelt down and said, "The little god's surname is Lu, and his name is Fang; the other four reincarnated brothers are Han Zhang, Xu Qing, Jiang Ping and Bai Yutang. Now he is reincarnated and he will be grateful to the immortals in the future. If it is convenient, he can help one or two."
Chapter completed!