Counterattack System appeared when I'm already At The Mahayana Realm

Chapter 761: Chapter 760: Cycle of Cause and Effect

Jiang Li and the First Emperor brought Xianren to Jiuzhou.

“Currently, Jiuzhou needs to establish order to fight against the rules of destruction. Your existence becomes a stumbling block to set up the order.”

“You’ve had smooth sailing all along, all arranged by the system, not having experienced real pain. Start over, see if you can return to the Mahayana.”

“Seal the flesh,” Jiang Li said with the Heavenly Charter, sealing Xianren’s body.

Words following the Law are inevitably subject to the authority of the Heavenly Dao, unable to directly degrade Xianren’s body to the original level without sealing it.

“System, extract.”

Xianren’s body emanated a white glow, gradually detaching from his body.

This was more strenuous than Jiang Li’s peeling off his own system and helping the First Emperor remove his, casting a more prominent halo.

The two’s halos were only the size of a fist, while Xianren’s completely wrapped around his whole body.

As the halo continued to be extracted, Xianren’s Mahayana Realm became an empty shell.

After Jiang Li destroyed the system, he conveniently stole all of Xianren’s Mahayana cultivation, this spiritual energy was so heavy that if all placed in Jiuzhou, it could turn the spiritual energy into spiritual water and turn the Jiuzhou continent into the Jiuzhou Ocean.

Jiang Li sealed this spiritual energy and handed it to Bai Hongtu. It could either gradually increase the concentration of spiritual energy in Jiuzhou or distribute it to other worlds when establishing order, both were fine.

Although Bai Hongtu also performed non-conservation of energy, the speed of creating spiritual energy out of thin air was limited.

Xianren found that he was hollow inside, the faint spiritual energy was only a bit stronger than that of mere mortals, which was negligible.

Qi Cultivation Level Four, this was Xianren’s current cultivation level and also the cultivation level at the beginning of his transmigration.

Such a cultivation level in Jiang Li’s Jiuzhou was at the very bottom among mortals.

“You cannot reveal your true identity,” Jiang Li put another shackle on Xianren.

“Go where you should go.”

Jiang Li waved his sleeve, the scene around Xianren changed, and he arrived at a strange place.

“Where is this?” Xianren found his shiny suit replaced by tattered and sweaty clothes, and he was holding a hoe in his hand.

Slap—

A fiery whip struck Xianren, hurting him so much that he grinded his teeth, “If my body wasn’t sealed, how could I have come to such a plight, do you know who I am! I am…”

Xianren wanted to reveal his true identity, but the words just wouldn’t come out.

Seeing Xianren still raving, the overseer whipped him a few more times.

“Newcomer, don’t play dumb, you better mine for old master honestly if you can’t dig enough, don’t expect to eat today!”

“You’re violating human rights!” Xianren was furious, his lowest point still hadn’t pushed him to be a mine slave.

What is a mine slave? If there’s no stroke of luck in your life, you can never leave the mine until you die of old age.

Bai Hongtu once told Xianren that there were none in Jiuzhou on the surface, but in fact, many mines had them. He suggested that Xianren should abolish the mine slavery system. Xianren said it was ok, and then he didn’t take care about it anymore.

It seems that Jiuzhou still had the mine slavery system, the implementation by the Imperial Palace was not thorough.

Only now did Xianren truly realize what Bai Hongtu meant by “difficult to implement the system”. He didn’t think much of it at the time, merely saying that it was always difficult to implement a system, but it can be overcome.

“What the hell is human rights? Do you think this is Dazhou?”

“This is the Great Yong Dynasty, the fief of Second Miss Qinghua Rain; here, everyone but the Second Miss is a slave!”

“Qinghua Rain?” Xianren memorized this name. Before the Eight Wastelands, he once played a fool to catch the tiger and saved the Second Miss Qinghua Rain of the Qing family.

What a beautiful woman Qinghua Rain was, kind-hearted and pleasant. How could she possibly make people mine?

After the overseer left, Xianren quietly asked someone nearby, “Why did Huayu make people mine?”

The bystander gave a big jump: “How dare you address the Second Miss in such a way? This is how only Jiang, the Human Emperor, can address her, if you get to know about it, it would be either death or injury!”

Soon after, the same person explained: “This is what I heard. The Second Miss is the youngest concubine of Jiang, the Human Emperor. She is not highly cultivated and cannot compete in the harem. After Jiang, the Human Emperor’s disappearance, she is more worried about this situation. As a result, we, the mine slaves, have to come here to extract the Hongyan stone, refining it into the Hongyan Pill to enhance attractiveness.”

The bystander was stunned, never having expected Qinghua Rain to be this kind of person.

It made sense though. He and Qinghua Rain only had a brief encounter. How could he know about her true character?

If she really was a considerate person, why would she casually use someone as a human shield on the street?

Had this human shield been an ordinary person, he would have died by now.

After a long pause, he stuttered, “H-have you ever thought about rebelling, not being mine slaves anymore?”

The man laughed: “Haven’t you heard that more than ten years ago, the Imperial Palace held a grand campaign to get rid of mine slaves, but it was all thunder and little rain. If the Imperial Palace couldn’t accomplish it, how could we?”

“Moreover, there’s nothing to rebel against. There is food, drink, fun, and spiritual energy here. It’s just that one cannot leave the mine for a lifetime and can’t find a woman. You get used to it.”

“Not to mention, we are safer here than in the Tianyuan Emperor Dynasty.”

“To know others is to know their faces, not their hearts. How could they understand each other after just one encounter?”

As days went by, the idle person was unfamiliar with the mining process. He had not dug enough for several days and hadn’t eaten until today when he finally earned the right to eat.

“How is the mining going?” A familiar voice came, it was Second Miss Qinghua Rain.

“In reply to the Second Miss, I will surely mine enough Hongyan stone before the Alchemy Master arrives.”

“Qinghua Rain, it’s me.” The idle man greeted with excitement upon seeing Qinghua Rain.

Qinghua Rain looked at the unfamiliar idle man, not knowing why this mine slave acting so crazily. She glanced at the idle man with disgust, without responding.

The foreman understood the Second Miss’s intention, had some men heavily beat up the idle man, enough to make him bedridden for a few days.

If he was bedridden, he couldn’t mine, and if he couldn’t mine, he wouldn’t get to eat.

Being in the mine without the strength to dig, one could imagine the consequence.

Luckily, the idle man’s physique was sealed but not completely. He could recover from his injuries quickly.

A few days later, the idle man dug up a poisonous stone and was unfortunately poisoned. A kindhearted co-worker gave him a pill.

“Thank you.”

“You’ll have to repay me. Also, don’t thank me. If it weren’t for the Human Emperor providing funds for the Spirit Medicine Sect to research civilian pills, lowering the pill’s prices, I wouldn’t have been generous to buy you medicine. If you want to thank, thank the Human Emperor.”

The idle man fell silent.

…

The First Emperor watched the idle man’s experiences for the past few days using the Heavenly Vision: “Did you intentionally send this waste to the mine?”

Jiang Li shook his head: “Not deliberately. The cycle of causality is at play. His past behaviours are ’causes’, and I am just letting him experience the ‘effects’.”

“He will not be trapped in the mine forever. A greater ‘effect’ will find him, making him repay the effects of his actions.”

“Performing good deeds will bring good effects, while performing bad deeds will bring bad effects.”

“From his actions, it seems unlikely that any good effects will find him.”

“Emperor Bai Hong, although the idle man has disappeared, his influence is still present. In a few days, you can announce his death, so those acting under his name will not be as arrogant.”

“Yes,” Bai Hongtu nodded.

Without Jiang Li’s explanation, the First Emperor could see his underlying meaning: with the idle man’s death, his harems could do as they pleased without worrying about the idle man’s opinions.

To some in the harem, this was a form of liberation.