Why Did You Provoke Her? She Can Tell Fortunes!-Chapter 195 - 168: Duan Jia’s Fate

Finally home, Mu Yunchu could rest properly and directly slept the whole afternoon.

Just as she got up and was about to continue making the Five Emperors Coin, Li Shang suddenly asked, "By the way, Little Chuchu, will that poor woman face a terrible consequence?"

Mu Yunchu’s hand paused.

She knew Li Shang was talking about Duan Jia.

That day, Duan Jia had begged her to save her daughter.

But some things were beyond her power.

"Maybe."

...

In a certain chaotic and dim space, where mist thick like ink lingered in the deathly silence, towering and eerie halls soared high with bluish-black stone pillars rising from the ground.

A man dressed in a magnificent black robe, outlined with silver threads, sat quietly at the center.

His narrow eyes watched a certain spot without blinking, his thin lips slightly pressed, an inadvertent expression of sorrow and a sigh sufficiently conveyed that his mood was not very good.

His upright black hair hung silently by his side, swaying slightly with the breath of wind brought by someone’s arrival, only then confirming he was not a beautiful sculpture.

"You’re here."

The man looked listless, appearing dispirited.

"You seem to be in a bad mood?"

"Hmm." The man pouted, absentmindedly fiddling with his phone and heaved a deep sigh, "You wouldn’t know, I’ve recently seen a very interesting girl in the human world."

When he spoke, his usually disinterested eyes gleamed slightly.

"They seem to call it a broadcaster or something over there...though I don’t quite understand the meaning of the name. But her videos are indeed fascinating."

They brought much comfort to his monotonous underground life spanning millions of years.

"But she hasn’t broadcasted for several days now, no idea what she’s been up to."

Although the man seemed to be talking to the other person, he was really just talking to himself.

So, after speaking, he temporarily put this matter aside and began talking about the main business.

"I heard from Ah Hei and Ah Bai who reported in advance, saying you had two very special visitors on your side?"

The man in a white robe opposite was evidently used to all this, his expression unchanged.

He simply replied with a faint "Hmm." 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

After his voice descended, he waved his hand, and beside him appeared... to be precise, four people.

Two adults and two children.

The man in black clothes squinted his eyes when he saw them.

Quickly recognizing them, he said, "Oh, mother and child ghosts?"

"Haven’t seen these in a while."

Although he said so, there wasn’t a trace of rare excitement in his tone.

Moreover, he could immediately tell that these two mother and child ghosts carried life debts.

The one on the right had evidently more debts, "Is it so bad that she’s going to dissipate completely?"

"Otherwise, it’s better to just let her fend for herself."

The man in the white robe truthfully replied, "She seemed to have been manipulated by some cultivators during her time in the human world, and just as she was about to dissipate, it stopped."

As for why it stopped, he didn’t say.

Perhaps the other party’s mana had just run out, or it was intentional.

According to Black and White Impermanence, these two ghosts were tied to a path they naturally had to take.

So, they could only bring them back.

However, the punishment upon bringing them back needed to be decided by the King Yan before him.

King Yan pouted, casually pointed to the one on the right, "This one, cast down to the eighteenth level of Hell, let her experience all the tortures."

The mother and child ghost widened her eyes in horror trying to plead, but found herself unable to speak.

If she had known this, she would rather have dissipated completely.

The Judge listened, nodding as he noted in his book, evidently agreeing with the idea.

"Fair enough, as most of the time when she consumed those children, she was in a conscious state."

Given the count, she’d likely endure punishment for thousands of years before being able to reincarnate.

With a casual wave, the mother and child ghost vanished into the void.

Her fate already obvious.

"But this case seems a bit special." After dealing with the previous one, the Judge looked at Duan Jia, somewhat hesitant.

"Her life debt is less and she was in an unconscious state."

King Yan remained unmoved, "Regardless, murder is murder."

Such circumstances weren’t unheard of in their underground world.

However, after speaking, he found the person before him had not disappeared, which piqued his curiosity to look up.

"What’s the matter?"

"Someone left this." After answering King Yan’s question, he waved his sleeve. Then in the dark void, some scenes and words began to appear.

The scenes vividly depicted the process of Duan Jia being murdered and forced to become a mother and child ghost.

A trace of surprise appeared on King Yan’s face.

This was the first time they had encountered such a situation.

Even while recounting this strange incident, the Judge’s emotionless face remained unchanged.

After watching, King Yan seemed to murmur to himself, "Alas... but even so, it cannot change the fact she bears a human life debt."

In the countless millennia, the tragic figures he had encountered were countless.

If all were pardoned because of this, it would be unfair to those victimized children.

Suddenly, seeing something from what he held, he sighed deeply once more, then abruptly changed his mind, "Perhaps we should do this."

The Judge had remained still, seemingly anticipating he would change his decision.

"Complete abolition of punishment is out of the question, but I could moderately reduce it."

Recalling the content of the letter, "Her child will be spared from punishment."

In the end, he added, "Because her days in this life were too harsh, after accepting her punishment, let her reincarnate into a good family."

He even exceptionally informed her that the mother-son bond she didn’t enjoy long in this life would continue into the next life.

Though knowing she still had to undergo punishment, in light of such an outcome, Duan Jia was already tearfully grateful, tears streaming down her face.

After reluctantly bidding goodbye to her child, and thanking King Yan, Duan Jia then departed.

The Judge paused watching the void, then pensively looked at King Yan who continued to fiddle with his phone, saying nothing yet vaguely sensing something.

King Yan seemed utterly oblivious to his gaze.

Scrolling through, suddenly Whale Platform pushed another video to him.

King Yan remembered how recently Ah Hei and Ah Bai mentioned overwhelming work pressure, being unable to handle many ghosts.

Although in each area under Black and White Impermanence were individuals known as ’Ferry-men.’

If these Ferry-men dealt with ordinary ghosts or those not trained long, they managed alright, but with stronger ones, they couldn’t cope.

This issue had been known long ago.

It wasn’t a problem of recent days.

Over time, enabling scenes similar to this of hundred ghosts wreaking havoc.

Suddenly asking, seemingly out of curiosity, "Do you think if we recruit freelance personnel in the human world to help ferry souls, how about that?"