Volume Five: Ancient Legends Chapter Sixty-One: I Judge You in the Name of Justice

Stepping out from the divine statue in the temple, Chen Chen surveyed the mortal realm with his will, tallying something within the world of men.

He was searching for that sinner who used computers, manipulated karmic energy, and devised all manner of excuses to plunder other people's wealth and women.

Whether the laws of this world governed such matters was one thing, but having walked among mortals, he had indeed witnessed countless such cases that required his thorough investigation and handling.

As Chen Chen walked through the mortal realm, that sinful entity offered various justifications for its sins.

The being wished to escape punishment, but unfortunately, whenever evil deeds were committed, corresponding retribution would unfailingly follow.

Good rewarded with good, and evil met with evil—this remained the enduring theme of heaven and earth. Or rather, the rewarding of virtue and the punishment of vice remained the fundamental code of survival in the mortal world.

Where earthly laws failed to intervene, the heavenly statutes and decrees would.

Those individuals who played with karmic energy and computers, seeking out and utilizing every conceivable excuse and method to scheme against others and covet their spouses, finally walked in trembling fear toward the judgment of their mortal lives.

Those sinful entities had committed numerous offenses in the mortal realm, only to find themselves, in this lifetime, judged by the multitudes and condemned as criminals awaiting punishment.

Some entities had once offered a suggestion: since his spouse had been seized, and the sinful perpetrator happened to be relatively young and attractive, would he consider taking her for himself?

In truth, however, one must not lose sight of the core issue. The matter at hand was that someone had resorted to unscrupulous means and committed evil everywhere just to carry out such acts.

It was not a question of whether one would consider such an arrangement after falling victim to such crimes.

Those who committed evil were bound to suffer corresponding retribution.

Chen Chen searched the mortal world, and after a thorough quest, he finally laid eyes upon the figure of that sinner.

He was a keyboard warrior of the dark forces, using petty tricks and flimsy pretexts to try and steal away another's beloved.

Pity that this time, he had met his match—an adversary who refused to play by the rules, choosing instead to settle scores with blades and firearms, and letting fists determine superiority for those who remained unconvinced.

That man had shed his former weakness; the person who had plotted against him now fell squarely within the zone of his surveillance. Whenever a computer was used for evil, he watched; whenever a computer was used for evil, he took notice.

Even those who came into contact with the culprit, engaging in illicit transactions, were dealt with accordingly.

Never mind what kind of income or achievement such so-called work brought. Once an act that provoked the wrath of both gods and men was committed, one had better be prepared to have their throat slit.

As Chen Chen walked the mortal realm, some of those who impersonated him fancied that by imitating his likeness, they could confuse right and wrong among men.

In truth, everything was already recorded in the accumulation of their past deeds, and they would have to face the retribution they rightfully deserved.

What exactly Chen Chen was, even he himself sometimes did not know.

At times, a part of his consciousness would interface with the heavenly dao system to process the criminals he encountered.

Living in the mortal world, everyone ought to be prepared to face such punishment one day.

There was no room for human sentiment here; if such behavior were not checked, the mortal realm would remain a world where evil deeds went unpunished. Prompt action was imperative.

To stop at nothing in pursuit of desires—such a heart was guilty and deserved to be executed!

Such behavior was disgraceful. Upon receiving the news, some of the victims' families began verifying the culprit's actions.

Had this person truly committed such deeds? Had he truly plotted against his beautifully virtuous wife? At this point, more forces intervened to deal with this faction of mortals.

The victims were numerous, and the database of information compiled by Chen Chen had always been frighteningly precise.

This time, Chen Chen withdrew his consciousness that had blanketed the heavens and began transmitting information across the mortal realm. The mighty figures of the mortal world began mobilizing troops and generals to apprehend those dark forces and criminals.

There was no negotiation to be made, nor any talk of trade-offs or costs. The only question was: when faced with such factions and such sinful entities wreaking havoc in the mortal world, what would we, as living human beings, choose to do?

This was a moment of testing to see whether a living soul retained a shred of its own temperament and normal human thinking.

As Chen Chen walked the mortal world, he discovered that his will and his book-spirit avatar would sometimes manifest other consciousnesses that had infiltrated from elsewhere—a truly dreadful experience.

Those used for good could perhaps be weighed and measured to perform some kind deeds for humanity.

As for those used for evil, even the machines would not be spared. The mortal world had never shown mercy to sinful entities who perpetrated illegal evils to such a degree; whenever eradication was called for, they were swiftly eliminated.

Chen Chen continued his work in the mortal realm. Those entities who ran amok, attempting to use their own methods to force Chen Chen into reincarnation so as to escape accountability, were finally discovered.

How they would be dealt with and what they would face one day—perhaps in the near future, they would meet their own retribution.

Chen Chen would never grant a chance of survival to those entities in the mortal world who preyed upon whichever woman looked attractive, plotting to traffic and trade them away to others; he stripped away their prospects utterly and completely.

Dark forces still abounded in the mortal realm.

As it happened, in this current round of reckoning, they were all netted one by one. Those who arrested them were none of other than the plane enforcers.

Plane enforcers were a group of beings in the mortal world dedicated to arresting criminals, judging sinful entities, and ridding the world of those steeped in heinous crimes.

The guilty intent of those sinners was glaringly obvious, their malevolent wills still radiating outward.

Permeated with a desire to argue for themselves, they sought to make a final defense for the crimes they had committed.

In truth, the mortal world could sometimes become clean and refreshingly pleasant. Even if those evil entities possessed human bodies, high levels of education, and advanced computer hacking technology, they still could not escape their guilt.

Following this came the arrest of the lackeys associated with her.

There were many matters in the mortal realm that required ruthless and unyielding handling. As Chen Chen walked the mortal world, his mission was to bring light to humanity. Since he was the embodiment of justice, he naturally had enemies.

Darkness was the object he was destined to banish.

Evil was the sinful entity he was bound to punish.

Chen Chen acted as an enforcer, briefly meting out justice here and there.

The man who liked to plot against other men's wives and reduce them to prostitutes was still committing evil, so Chen Chen could not stop his hand. Transforming into someone close to the culprit, he drove a blade straight into the sinner's waist.

After finishing this task, Chen Chen discovered that there were still accomplices left in the mortal world—people of the same ilk who shared his mindset in committing such acts.

Naturally, that person could not escape the net of the law either. He had once masqueraded as an enforcer of the mortal realm, colluding with those very factions and even serving as a middle-to-high-ranking figure within that syndicate.

And then there were their lackeys in the mortal world, who had captured many ignorant young girls.

As the god presiding over this journey of life and judgment, Chen Chen's duty remained abundantly clear.

Afterward, there were still a few individuals Chen Chen wished to reckon with. Those who borrowed his book-spirit avatar to rescue entities who deserved to die were the ones he detested the most.

Therefore, when dealing with them, he showed no mercy. Life and death were already settled amid the release of vengeance.

To ensure their own survival, many living beings in the mortal world would accuse others first in order to evade investigation.

This time, more enforcement teams joined the battle. The dark forces and evil syndicates were so vast and deeply hidden that it was time to unearth them one by one and wipe them out in a single sweep.

There were many impeccably dressed individuals in this world. Born into the mortal realm, very few people could ever perceive their true nature.

Yet their deeds, and the accumulated weight of their journeys, would make people sense that these individuals were entangled with such matters and had once played the villain.

They merely hid it deep within their hearts while dressing themselves in respectable attire.

Chen Chen continued to cooperate with the enforcement or rather execute the law himself in the mortal world. Such turbid souls within humanity could only be eradicated to ensure swift relief, thereby restoring a clear and bright universe, and bringing justice and fairness back to the mortal world.

There was no need for elaborate wit to contend in the mortal realm; sometimes, the world merely required endless justice to deal with sinful bodies.

As the saying goes, the righteous and noble spirit of the mortal world endures forever. The way to ensure that eternal endurance was none other than to raise the blade and strike down all evil.

Chen Chen still had a mission to fulfill in the mortal world. Those foolish human beings remained oblivious until their dying breath that all things were brought upon themselves by their own deeds.

It was not a matter of how others had arranged their survival; one need only recall those demons who had once rounded them up, organized them into dark syndicates, and deployed them across the mortal realm to carry out such deeds.

Everything had already been sown long ago, and many such dramas still played out in the mortal world.

Some were not mere theatrical performances; the real mortal realm was truly like this.

Faced with such evil factions and dark forces, the enforcement teams had merely to execute their duties and remain faithful to their posts.

Chen Chen's journey was that of a deity searching out the factual truth of the mortal realm.

Throughout his existence in the mortal realm, he played his assigned role.

One day, all living human beings would understand and experience such a journey.

Were those organizations that used computer technology to weave evil schemes and plot against other people's women evil? Were they dark? Did they deserve to be eradicated?

As Chen Chen walked through the mortal realm, he had once caught sight of a banner hung in the human world.

"Eliminate evil, promote virtue, and resolutely eradicate wicked forces."

It was a banner hoisted by the human enforcement teams in the human world, declaring their stance and attitude.

It was also a creed meant to teach the younger generation there how to conduct themselves as human beings in the mortal world.

Now had truly come the time for Chen Chen to step onto his proper path and cooperate with the heavenly dao system to resolve this matter.

Living in the mortal world, everyone had encountered unbearable acts of evil.

Chen Chen was no exception; there was little room for compromise, and no unwritten rules could help one escape this calamity.

The only path to survival when evil forces arrived was to resolutely refuse to bow one's head to them.

There were still many factions and living beings in the mortal realm, and many of them remained mere bystanders. As a deity on this journey, Chen Chen's task was to uncover the sins, sinful hearts, and sinful thoughts hidden within layer upon layer of grievances.

Once the sinners were thoroughly judged, those once-glorious evil forces would eventually vanish like smoke into thin air. Along with the factions and teams that supported them, they were bound to lose their energy and influence, collapsing completely into ruin.

If there existed a force in this mortal world that operated not righteously, but merely to pursue private gains with utter disregard for whether its actions defied heaven and earth or provoked the wrath of gods and men, then such a force deserved to be eradicated.

If there existed a syndicate in this mortal world that ran amok and committed evil everywhere without facing retribution, then since retribution was absent, the retribution dealt by others had arrived.

If there existed a layer of higher-ups in this mortal world who overlooked their entire territory, watching the people within commit heinous crimes while failing to govern effectively, then such administrators were perhaps incompetent and no longer fit to hold their positions.

If there existed a batch of middle managers in this mortal world who, due to the limitations of their own development, temporarily lacked the ability to correct themselves and knew only how to accumulate wealth through unscrupulous means, then they had to be investigated, their criminal evidence uncovered, and dealt with according to the law.

If there existed a batch of low-level people in this mortal world who were the most wretched and impure of beings, corrupted and exploited time and again by evil due to their ignorance of the ways of the world, ultimately transforming into sinful life forms, then such life forms needed to be dealt with promptly.

Sometimes, they were so poor they believed money was everything, knowing only how to sell themselves for wealth.

They remained utterly oblivious to the rules of the game in the mortal world: as long as one's conduct was upright, one's mindset positive, one's labor diligent, and one's wicked human nature discarded, then even if one lived on plain boiled water day after day, one would still be considered wealthy in the eyes of others.

Most of the above were mere deductions; walking the mortal world inevitably required dealing with various factions.

When engaging in struggles within the mortal world, one inevitably exhausted all methods and had to take certain actions.

When dealing with personal grudges, whether to show mercy during combat was perhaps something already decided as a precedent back when each party gained or lost power.

That was the test of whether human beings still understood grievances and animosity, and whether they needed to act like men and let their opponents know the consequences of such actions.

When handling official business, one had to clearly distinguish where everyone belonged and how to deal with illegal and undisciplined behavior.

Chen Chen was in the mortal world, and this time his patrol of the mortal realm was perhaps a continuation of his role as the embodiment of justice, sent to judge evil.

As for the dark forces arrayed against him, what kind of people had such wicked factions offended, and what had they done to warrant such severe punishment by justice?

Those who relied on scheming and plotting to manipulate and retaliate against others—some were handled like puppets in the mortal world, and they would ultimately end up as nothing more than a handful of dust in this world.

In this battle, evil was destined to be utterly slain.

The judgment of justice would endure forever in the mortal world. As a human being of flesh, blood, emotion, and a sense of justice, one had to possess a certain temperament and take a firm stand when dealing with evil deeds.

If you find it unbearable, do not bother talking about how to handle it; simply seize them and strike them down—that is what makes a person truly human.