Qingling, Li Chengzong, Zhu Jun, and others rushed in from outside like lightning.
Both Qingling and Zhu Jun were holding guns. Qingling immediately stood beside Li Bingjie, while Zhu Jun rushed to Xu Xiaotian's side.
Li Chengzong frowned and looked around.
Before they could ask any questions, Li Bingjie, who had just come to her senses, blushed and quickly went to pick up Xu Xiaotian, who was still looking bewildered. Then, with her head down and her face red, she said, "It's okay, it's okay, Qingling, let's go back first." As she spoke, Li Bingjie had already started walking out.
All three looked puzzled.
However, Qingling didn't think about it and followed him out directly.
Zhu Jun and Li Chengzong exchanged a glance, understanding each other perfectly... There was nothing to be surprised about; it was probably that little rascal from before who had pulled off another amazing feat.
The white Audi A4 drove out of the courtyard, onto the highway, turned left and headed west towards Jingniang Lake.
Inside the car, Xu Xiaotian finally realized that he had probably made a big mistake and said something he shouldn't have. Otherwise, given his mother's usually gentle nature, she wouldn't be so angry.
Ouyang Ying, sitting to the side, kept smiling with her lips pursed, and would laugh so hard she almost fell over!
Li Bingjie's face turned as red as a ripe apple. She pursed her lips but couldn't say anything, since Qingling was driving in front.
Qingling was very puzzled. She didn't understand what was wrong with Li Bingjie today. She seemed to have done something wrong. Her face was red, and she looked angry, ashamed and annoyed. Who had provoked her?
Finally, seeing his mother's unhappy expression and his usually adored Aunt Ouyang beaming with joy, occasionally giving him a strange look, Xu Xiaotian's innate protective instincts kicked in. No matter how close Ouyang Ying was, she couldn't be closer than his own mother. So, ignoring Qingling's presence in the car, Xu Xiaotian glared at Ouyang Ying, waving his little arms, and threatened, "If you laugh again, laugh again, and when my dad comes back, I'll make him bully you..."
How did I say it again?
I'll never rest until I say something shocking!
Upon hearing this, Ouyang Ying froze, her pretty face instantly turning bright red. Embarrassed, she hurriedly flew away, as if trying to find a crack in the ground to disappear into. However, she had barely flown away when she received a whispered call from Li Bingjie, her voice tinged with schadenfreude, "Little sister, come back... why are you running away?"
Ouyang Ying felt that this escape was somewhat like trying to hide something obvious.
She had no choice but to awkwardly fly back to the car, her face still flushed, but she forced a nonchalant smile and teased Xu Xiaotian: "I'm not afraid, your dad wouldn't dare bully me."
Li Bingjie's expression had already changed. Although she still had a slight blush, she no longer had the shyness she had before. She laughed and said, "It's fine that you bullied his dad..."
Ouyang Ying became increasingly embarrassed.
"This is so... boring."
Completely bewildered, Xu Xiaotian pouted, turned around and lay down in his mother's arms, closed his eyes and went to sleep. He felt that adults were often very strange things, and he couldn't figure them out.
Li Bingjie and Ouyang Ying were completely speechless.
At this moment, they all shared a common thought: from now on, no matter what they do, especially certain things, or what they say, especially what they just said, they must avoid mentioning this little guy.
If these words were to reach Xu Zhengyang's ears, he would be utterly ashamed.
It was a very interesting and heartwarming little episode in my life.
In the mortal world, what even immortals cherish and admire is the life composed of these colorful, wonderful, and interesting interludes.
...
Meanwhile, Xu Zhengyang was sitting quietly in the pavilion in the back garden of the State God's Mansion, his eyes slightly closed. His divine sense was engaged in a series of negotiations and struggles with the spiritual senses of the two incredibly powerful artifacts, the Nine Provinces Record and the Heavenly Laws.
The tactic of making an example of someone has indeed worked. Since the political turmoil in Japan at the beginning of the year, no foreign agents or spies have been able to monitor, track, or investigate Xu Zhengyang.
However, the death of Chika Kiji happened suddenly, and Xu Zhengyang simply adapted to the situation and issued a series of orders, which brought about a series of changes and caused a huge uproar in the world that was even more ferocious than the revelation of the Guliya incident. It directly led to the near destruction of a country, economic shocks around the world, and a critical situation.
However, as a deity, this is a grave violation of the heavenly rules and regulations!
This enraged the Heavenly Laws, which had previously made significant concessions to Xu Zhengyang, leading them to repeatedly expend their limited divine power to punish him. It seemed they would rather force Xu Zhengyang into rebellion and cause the Heavenly Laws to collapse and be destroyed than compromise their long-standing rules!
The Chronicles of Kyushu had repeatedly reminded Xu Zhengyang that he could not continue down the wrong path and could not continue to violate the Heavenly Laws.
Fortunately, Xu Zhengyang pulled back from the brink and stopped, thus averting a huge disaster.
That means the Heavenly Laws almost collapsed; at the same time, even if Xu Zhengyang didn't die, he would definitely be severely injured, and the Nine Provinces Record would disappear along with the destruction of the Heavenly Laws.
Xu Zhengyang could not bear such consequences.
He didn't want to actually force the Heavenly Laws to collapse, because then he would have to expend an unknown amount of divine power to build the Heavenly Laws artifact. Moreover, he had no idea how to build such a powerful artifact as the Heavenly Laws.
In the past few days, his divine consciousness has been negotiating with the Heavenly Rules and the Records of the Nine Provinces.
As the most powerful and rigid divine artifact, the Heavenly Laws naturally recorded all the Heavenly Laws Xu Zhengyang had violated since assuming divine office, listing them one by one with meticulous detail. Of course, some violations were minor, others major, and some had been erased from the record due to previous heavenly tribulations.
The Records of the Nine Provinces also lists a series of events to prove that Xu Zhengyang, as a deity, was diligent in his divine duties, performed many good deeds, did countless good things for mortals, accumulated a great deal of merit, and demonstrated the divine power that had long since faded away in the mortal world. He gained true faith from the mortal world for the Heavenly Court, for all the gods, and even more so for the Heavenly Laws.
Without these, what use would your broken Heavenly Laws be, even if they existed for hundreds of millions of years?
What use is it to humans?
The two sides were at loggerheads, but the argument was not so extreme as to anger the Heavenly Laws. Both Jiuzhoulu and Xu Zhengyang were presenting facts and reasoning, hoping to persuade the rigid divine spirit of the Heavenly Laws.
Xu Zhengyang thought this was very promising, after all, last time he said he was going to rebel, and the Heavenly Laws were able to change their minds and make a compromise.
However, this time the Heavenly Laws were exceptionally firm; they absolutely forbade the gods from causing such great calamity in the human world.
Moreover, it seems he might self-destruct at any moment, taking Xu Zhengyang down with him.
Xu Zhengyang felt increasingly regretful.
Even without the heavenly laws specifically targeting him, he still felt remorse. After all, as a deity, acting out of personal selfishness, taking revenge, killing, issuing warnings, and achieving his goals was one thing. But at the time, once he acted, he couldn't control his excitement and ordered Li Haidong and the ghost messengers to wreak havoc in Japan…
That felt great, I vented, I'm awesome.
How many innocent people could be implicated?
Leaving aside Japan and the rest of the world, the damage to the domestic economy has also affected a large number of ordinary people.
That's why Xu Zhengyang sincerely apologized to the Heavenly Laws and seriously reviewed his mistakes. He even said that he could be demoted three levels as punishment to make amends for his wrongdoing.
However, the Heavenly Laws were still dissatisfied.
By now, Xu Zhengyang, who was originally a hothead, has really been angered!
He slammed his fist on the table, glared at his opponent, and yelled, "Then tell me what you want to do? How can you be so ungrateful? You're asking for it... Go ahead and explode, whoever's afraid is a coward! Do you think I'm made of clay?"
The Heavenly Law was enraged! His spiritual senses flashed.
The atmosphere above the Earth is ever-changing, with countless weather phenomena.
In early February of that year, there were two days when global temperatures changed strangely, unusual celestial phenomena appeared, and the climate was abnormal.
This has led to extreme weather conditions in many parts of the world.
Xu Zhengyang was even more furious: "Damn it, you don't dare anymore? You've dragged this out for two days, so you'd better draw a line and I'll play with you. Let's see what kind of world you've made it into, how many people have been harmed, and how much damage you've caused. You still have the nerve to talk back to me?"
The Heavenly Laws finally backed down.
Then let's demote him by three ranks.
Xu Zhengyang glared fiercely, refusing to be demoted even a single rank! As the God of the Human Realm, without the Heavenly Emperor's decree, even the Emperor himself cannot arbitrarily revoke my position! You try demoting me and see!
Then, from now on you can't violate the Heavenly Laws anymore...
The Records of the Nine Provinces hurriedly intervened, saying: "That's how it should be, that's how it should be."
Xu Zhengyang sneered, "I can only promise that before becoming Emperor, I will not cause such great chaos in the mortal realm again..."
The Heavenly Laws were very stubborn about this and refused to compromise.
Finally, through the mediation of the Nine Provinces Record, an agreement was reached: the Heavenly Rules would remain unchanged, and Xu Zhengyang could do as he pleased as long as he did not violate the bottom line; the bottom line was that he would no longer cause trouble for any human nation.
Xu Zhengyang had no objection to this.
This agreement is riddled with loopholes and has too many loopholes.
Volume Six, Chapter 352: What will happen to future generations?
When his consciousness returned to his physical body, Xu Zhengyang looked at himself and the furniture in the room, which were covered in a layer of dust. This indicated that no one had come to disturb him in the past few days.
In other words, this seclusion did not take too long.
Otherwise, someone would have come to clean the house every day, bathe me, and feed me. A thought flashed through my mind, and I glanced at my watch. Hmm, 9:15 AM.
It was only a little over ten days of seclusion.
Reflecting on the ten-day negotiations with the Nine Provinces Records and the Heavenly Laws, Xu Zhengyang couldn't help but feel a pang of regret. Had he known things would turn out this way, he wouldn't have bothered with all that trouble. It was precisely because of his own self-reproach and guilt that he sincerely confessed and apologized. But the Heavenly Laws were stubborn; even though he clearly didn't have the guts or the desire to self-destruct, instead of knowing when to back down and backing down, they stubbornly refused to listen.
What happened in the end?
It ended badly. They came up with a rather absurd agreement, what was the point? It wasted over ten days of my time.
However, Xu Zhengyang thought about it again and realized that there are many similar things in this world...
Holding meetings large and small for both big and small matters, discussing them back and forth, wasting time, money, resources, and manpower, ultimately resulted in the same thing: adding fuel to the fire to boil a pot of water, boiling it, adding cold water, boiling it again, and it was still just a pot of water... at most, it just turned from cold water to hot water.
It was a huge undertaking, but in reality, it was all for naught; the only result was a massive waste.
As Xu Zhengyang came out of the house, he was still thinking about the reasons for this situation. It was nothing more than a push and pull, with no one wanting to take responsibility; or no one thinking about fairness, but instead having the idea of taking advantage, as if they would be at a loss if they didn't get a little benefit.
Who ultimately suffers the loss? It goes without saying.
With that time, they could have accomplished so many useful things already.
As soon as Xu Zhengyang emerged from the main room, Li Chengzong and Zhu Jun saw him and quickly approached. However, they were unsure how to greet him: "You're back?" "You're out?" "Awake?"
Neither seems right; they all feel awkward.
"I'm going to take a shower in the backyard..." Xu Zhengyang didn't mind at all. He smiled at the two of them and said as he walked towards the backyard, "Zhu Jun, get me a set of clothes and take them to the backyard."
"Okay," Zhu Jun replied quickly.
Li Chengzong immediately called Li Bingjie, who had previously instructed him to inform her immediately if Xu Zhengyang came out of the house.
Wang Yonggan had already scurried over, bowing low as he reported, "Sir, everything is fine at home. Madam brings the young master to see you every day..."
"Hmm." Xu Zhengyang nodded, then asked, "Is there anything else?"
"No, nothing's wrong, nothing happened at the manor..."
"Then why are you following me? To watch me take a bath?"
Wang Yonggan shuddered in fright and quickly said, "No, no, I wouldn't dare. There's something else I haven't told you yet."
"Hmm? What is it?"
"The family of Inspector Chen Chaojiang... gave birth to a big, healthy baby boy yesterday afternoon around 2 PM." Wang Yonggan said with a chuckle. "Miss Ouyang came over to tell me yesterday. Apparently, the madam asked her to come and tell you that you've returned, so she should inform you as soon as possible."
Xu Zhengyang was stunned: "She gave birth?"
"Yes, yes, it's born, hehe, hehe," Wang Yonggan said cheerfully.
"Okay, okay!" Xu Zhengyang smiled and nodded, saying, "Alright, I'll take a shower and change my clothes, then I'll be right there..." Xu Zhengyang quickened his pace towards the bathroom, but stopped at the door, turned back, and pointed at Wang Yonggan with a grin, saying, "You immediately contact Judge and Su Peng, and start arranging for some ghost messengers to take turns protecting the safety of the supervising spirit officials' families. Go now!"