Zhao Ci didn't wait for me to speak before saying, "If the Hall Master can't get out, neither can I, Zhao Ci."

"My projection is like this, and so is my true self."

"In fact, I'm probably going to go before the Hall Master."

I said calmly, "It's not that you're going before me, but that all the experts from the Reincarnation Department around you are going before me."

As I spoke, the white cloths on the faces of all the corpses in the Wuxiang Heaven fell off, their faces already reborn with flesh and blood, turning into the appearance of living people.

The instruments of torture in the Wuxiang Heaven all began to operate at once. The sounds of blades, flames, hot oil, and other cruel punishments being applied to human bodies rang out simultaneously. Countless screams instantly filled the limited space of the Wuxiang Heaven.

I took the opportunity to shake my arms, and the sound of the iron chains breaking echoed from my hands.

The corpse that had been transformed into my appearance was screaming madly.

I cupped my hands and said, "Brother Zhao, thank you."

Zhao Ci was slightly stunned and said, "What do you mean?"

I responded, "Others who enter the Wuxiang Heaven are bound to die. When I enter the Wuxiang Heaven, not only will I not die, but I can also achieve Tiangang cultivation."

"So, I have to thank you."

On the surface, I was calm and collected, but my hands hanging by my sides were clenched into fists: "You should know that my master is Jiu Gui."

"However, I've never mentioned it in front of you, Gui Wu's other identity: Xue Hai Seng (Blood Sea Monk). Or Xue Hai Yao Seng (Blood Sea Demonic Monk)."

"In his early years, Gui Wu, under the name of Xue Hai Yao Seng, stole countless Buddhist treasures and killed countless people."

"Later, in order to escape the pursuit of the government, he faked his death and returned to secular life, and then re-entered the martial world as Yu Yanzi, Gui Wu's later identity."

"Who would have thought that Yu Yanzi, a second-rate bandit, was actually the Xue Hai Yao Seng who was besieged by hundreds of Buddhist experts and didn't die?"

I paused and said, "You should know that any secret technique involving Buddhism, whether orthodox or evil, is ineffective against Xue Hai Yao Seng, right?"

"I might as well tell you another secret."

"Xue Hai Yao Seng not only cracked the Wuxiang secret technique long ago, but also has a skill to wash away sins with the Wuxiang secret technique."

I pointed to the corpse hanging on the wall and screaming: "The Wuxiang secret technique is to exchange the dead for the living, and to add the punishments that the living should receive in the underworld to his body while he is in the Yang world."

"I reversed the Wuxiang secret technique and turned him into me. Let him die under torture, and the sins and karma on my body will be cleansed."

"At least, while I'm alive, those karmic debts won't come looking for me again."

"As for after I die? Hehe... I guess no wronged souls will dare to come looking for me either."

"So, I have to thank you."

Can a person's sins and karma be offset?

The answer is: yes.

To put it more clearly, if a person commits a crime because of theft, can he still be considered guilty after he is released from prison?

Of course not, you can only say that he committed a crime. Because he has already received his due punishment.

If, in the language of術道 (shudao, the path of magic), it would be:

As long as the crime a person commits is not a heinous crime that is not enough to be compensated even by extreme punishment, if he is punished in the Yang world, he will not be punished again in the underworld.

Conversely, if the punishment in the Yang world is too light, he will have to be punished again in the underworld.

Gui Wu came from Buddhism and always believed in karma.

He also knew that he had killed countless people, and even being executed by Ling Chi (death by a thousand cuts) in the Yang world could not offset his sins.

So he had been thinking of ways to escape karma.

Once, by chance, he encountered a demonic monk of equal fame using the Wuxiang secret technique to kill people.

He also figured out a way to reverse the Wuxiang secret technique.

However, the result of the anti-Wuxiang secret technique disappointed him greatly.

This kind of secret technique can only be used in the Yang world, temporarily blocking the calamities brought by karma in the Yang world, but it has no effect in the underworld.

What's worse, Gui Wu's secret technique doesn't work at all unless he encounters the Wuxiang secret technique.

Gui Wu killed a demonic monk for nothing and didn't get much benefit. Disappointed with this kind of secret technique, he didn't even bother to name it.

He passed the secret technique to me just to prepare me for encountering that Wuxiang secret technique when I was walking in the martial world.

Unexpectedly, by chance, this seemingly useless secret technique saved my life.

Zhao Ci was stunned for a few seconds, then suddenly laughed and said, "So that's how it is, so that's how it is... It really is that man proposes, Heaven disposes!"

"I lost unfairly, but not unfairly."

"Hall Master, you said just now that you won't resent Yue Zhu because of me, that should count, right?"

I said in a deep voice, "What I say always counts."

"That's good!" Zhao Ci breathed a long sigh of relief and said, "The passage behind me leads directly to the bottom of the dungeon. There are no obstacles in the middle."

"Hall Master, I wish you every success."

I faced Zhao Ci and cupped my fists solemnly: "Brother Zhao, farewell!"

"Thank you for seeing me off, Hall Master!" A smile finally appeared on Zhao Ci's face.

By the time Zhao Ci lowered his head, his figure had already begun to slowly dissipate.

I waited for Zhao Ci to disappear before pulling Su Su and Ye Yang into the passage behind Zhao Ci.

After running a distance, Su Su suddenly said, "Li Po, were you seeing Zhao Ci off just now? I feel like there's some kind of understanding between you?"