Supreme Warrior in the City

Chapter 462: Chapter 461 The Reason in the Sky

Su Yang watched Chen Benhao and the girl drive away together, a slight smile also crossed his lips.

As he turned to leave, who would have known that the moment he turned around, he would see a man in white standing behind him.

Ye Jiansheng!

Su Yang’s heart skipped a beat. Although he had come full of passion to help a friend and had fought with Chen Benhao, in the end, he was meddling in Ye Wantong’s marital arrangement.

Ye Wantong herself was unwilling to marry, but the marriage was after all arranged by the Sword Saint. Which is to say, the Sword Saint himself approved of it!

In other words, Su Yang had disrupted the marriage arranged by the Sword Saint himself.

Under such circumstances, how could Su Yang not be nervous upon suddenly meeting the Sword Saint?

Ye Jiansheng, still carrying that Sword Box on his back, stood with his hands behind him, looking up at the bright moon in the sky, as if he hadn’t noticed Su Yang.

Not daring to move, Su Yang stood not far in front of the Sword Saint.

After a long while, Ye Jiansheng finally lowered his head to look at Su Yang, ”So, are you not running?”

Su Yang glanced at the Sword Box behind Ye Jiansheng: ”Could I have run?”

”Since you know you can’t run, then why did you still do it?” the Sword Saint countered.

Su Yang took a deep breath and said, ”Don’t you think that Su Tianyu went too far? For such a matter as an engagement, he didn’t come personally but sent a distant cousin to stand in for him instead. Sword Saint, are you truly willing to marry your daughter to someone who doesn’t care about her at all?”

”You know nothing at all!” Ye Jiansheng shook his head: ”It’s not that Su Tianyu doesn’t value this matter, but that he can’t come!”

”He can’t come?” Su Yang raised an eyebrow at Ye Jiansheng: ”What could be more important than his own wedding?”

Ye Jiansheng asked quietly, ”Su Yang, what do you think of the Smiling Buddha?”

Surprised, Su Yang didn’t know why the Sword Saint was asking this but still shook his head: ”Too bloodthirsty, and too hypocritical!”

”Indeed, the Smiling Buddha is very bloodthirsty,” Ye Jiansheng said: ”Before he achieved the Land Fairy Realm, he killed nine thousand six hundred and eighty-seven people.”

”What?” Su Yang’s eyes widened. Was this number so precise? And the Smiling Buddha had killed so many?

”The Smiling Buddha kills without reason, without distinguishing right from wrong, just according to his own whims,” the Sword Saint said. ”He once slaughtered an entire village just because he was in a bad mood. Whether it was infants in arms, the elderly over seventy, or even nine-month pregnant women, he killed them all without mercy!”

Su Yang’s brows furrowed instantly. The Smiling Buddha was rather ruthless, wasn’t he?

”But in the last battle at Beiguan Town, he didn’t kill you. Do you know why?” the Sword Saint asked again.

”Why?” Su Yang was puzzled; he was also very curious about the reason.

With the Smiling Buddha’s strength, he could have easily killed him in the battle at Beiguan Town. But the Smiling Buddha only infused his power into those people’s bodies, letting them fight against him. What did that mean?

”In fact, after the Smiling Buddha reached the Earthly Immortal Realm, he only killed two people over the span of decades,” the Sword Saint said.

”No way?” Su Yang’s eyes widened: ”Did the Smiling Buddha change his ways after achieving the Earthly Immortal Realm? That’s impossible! The way he killed those people last time, he didn’t seem to be the merciful type. Ah, wait, that’s not right. Last time in Beiguan Town, many people were killed by him!”

Ye Jiansheng said, ”Those people died while they were fighting you, not because he killed them.”

”Nonsense, if he hadn’t infused his power into their bodies, would those people have died from being unable to bear it?” Su Yang said urgently.

Ye Jiansheng shook his head, ”If you hadn’t fought those people, they wouldn’t have died. Therefore, this blame cannot be placed on Smiling Buddha!”

”What kind of logic is that?” Su Yang was dumbfounded. Was this some kind of joke?

”This is called Heavenly Dao!” Ye Jiansheng looked up at the sky and said softly, ”It is the reasoning of the heavens!”

”The reasoning of the heavens?” Su Yang was astonished and also looked up at the sky, ”What kind of heavenly reasoning is that!”

Ye Jiansheng said, ”Let’s take the same situation, with Smiling Buddha’s murderous nature, after he advances to the Earthly Immortal Realm, if there are no constraints, do you think the number of people who will die by his hands will increase or decrease?”

Su Yang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, ”Are you saying that there are restrictions on Earth Immortals?”

Ye Jiansheng glanced at Su Yang and said softly, ”You finally understand what I mean.”

Su Yang’s expression changed instantly; he finally understood what was going on.

It wasn’t that Smiling Buddha was unwilling to kill people, but that he was restricted. There must be some rule that Smiling Buddha could not overstep, which is why he could no longer kill people.

After Smiling Buddha became an Earthly Immortal, in the span of several decades, he only killed two people. If he had continued with his former murderousness, who knows how many he would have killed after becoming an Earthly Immortal.

This shows that the restriction is indeed very effective. If there were no such restrictions, and Earth Immortals were unrestricted, what would happen then?

”What exactly is this restriction?” Su Yang asked.

”The restriction is the Heavenly Dao,” Ye Jiansheng said softly, ”It is the reasoning of the heavens, the rule of the heavens!”

”The heavens’?” Su Yang frowned and looked up at the sky again, ”What about the heavens?”

”The Law Enforcers of the heavens!” Ye Jiansheng said, ”Every Earthly Immortal will have their essence locked on by a Law Enforcer. Earth Immortals cannot kill recklessly those below the rank of Earth Immortals. Once they do, a Law Enforcer will arrive personally. For minor offenses, they might be taken to the Heavenly Prison to be imprisoned for a hundred years; for serious offenses, they might be struck down on the spot!”

Su Yang was flabbergasted, ”There are even Law Enforcers in the heavens? Where do... where do these Law Enforcers come from?”

”The Law Enforcers of the heavens, of course, come from the Heavenly Palace!” said Ye Jiansheng.

”The Heavenly Palace?” Su Yang was shocked once more, ”Is there really a Heavenly Palace? Are there Immortals? Is there... a Jade Emperor?”

”I do not know that,” Ye Jiansheng said, ”All Earth Immortals know of the existence of the Heavenly Palace. When you advance to the Land Fairy Realm, a Law Enforcer will arrive to inform you of the rules of Earth Immortals. However, no one has ever been to the Heavenly Palace, nor does anyone know what it looks like inside.”

Su Yang was still in shock, pondering if the gods and immortals from mythological legends were real. Are there truly immortals in the heavens?

”What do these Law Enforcers look like?” Su Yang asked curiously, ”Do they look like immortals? Or, perhaps, like aliens?”

Ye Jiansheng was speechless for a moment, saying, ”They look just like normal people; there’s no difference!”

”Really?” Su Yang said in disbelief, ”But those are Law Enforcers from the Heavenly Palace, shouldn’t they look like immortals?”