"You forgot—we must view people and evil through the eyes of the Angel God," Lin Ye reminded her.
"If there was no cause or reason whatsoever, and he wanted to forcibly violate a beautiful woman just because he met her on the road, then someone like that deserved to die! The Angel God would think so too!" Qian Renxue said firmly.
She simply wanted to kill Bu Le.
"Heh, that statement really gave Qian Xunji a fine excuse," Lin Ye thought with a chuckle.
But now was not the time to talk about Qian Xunji. He argued, "Qian Renxue, leaving aside whether he would truly have forcibly violated us if we had been unable to defeat him, even if he would have, it would only have been attempted rape."
"Even if he had committed the crime of attempted rape, would he be sentenced to death under the empire's laws?"
Qian Renxue restrained some of her killing intent. "No. He would be sentenced to less than ten years in prison. If the circumstances were especially severe, life imprisonment."
"Even the empire's laws treat it that way. What the Angel God can see right now is, at most, attempted rape. Through the Angel God's eyes, it is not enough to warrant death, but he did intend to forcibly violate someone, so he cannot go unpunished."
Qian Renxue hesitated for a moment before finally giving up on killing Bu Le. "Fine, then make him lose what he prides himself on. Only then will he never violate women again!"
"I understand." Lin Ye decisively pulled out an ordinary longsword and severed Bu Le's manhood with a single stroke.
Splat!
"Ahhh—!" Bu Le clutched his crotch and screamed miserably.
"??" Qian Renxue froze slightly. "No, what exactly did you understand?! Why did you cut off that thing of his?!"
"Isn't that what he prides himself on?"
Qian Renxue's little face flushed red. "You! I... I meant make him cripple his martial soul!"
"I'll cripple it! I'll cripple it! Just don't kill me!" Bu Le desperately destroyed his own martial soul. "Aahhh!"
He lost his soul rings and Soul Power, becoming an ordinary person as he screamed in agony on the ground.
"Get lost!"
"I'm leaving! I'm leaving right now!"
Bu Le struggled to his feet in extreme weakness and fled with difficulty.
At that moment, Qian Daoliu's voice rang out from the surroundings. "Making him cripple his martial soul and severing his manhood has eliminated any possibility of him causing trouble again in the future. You handled the sin of lust well."
"The judgment of the sin of lust is complete."
On their first day, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue had completed the judgment of one sin. Six sins remained.
They did not linger and continued onward, entering Star Guard City.
Over the next half year or so, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue traveled through the Star Luo Empire. Aside from judging evil, they experienced many conflicts and battles along the way.
In particular, there were countless hooligans who came up to flirt with Qian Renxue. In just over half a year, they encountered more than ten groups of thugs who wanted to harass her.
Lin Ye had truly come to understand what it meant for beauty to bring disaster.
Without some strength, wandering around outside every day with a beauty of this caliber was truly dangerous.
The experiences of the past half year not only improved their strength, but also matured their mindsets considerably. They had seen the wickedness of society and the coldness of human nature.
Their relationship also deepened imperceptibly, growing better and better.
Lin Ye and Qian Renxue had also completed the judgments of the sins of greed, jealousy, and wrath.
For the sin of greed, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue judged a noble in a small city within the Star Luo Empire, one even smaller than Nuoding City.
This noble excessively extorted wealth from the common people, embezzled vast amounts of public funds, and used his power to oppress others, all to satisfy his greed for wealth, power, and beautiful women. He had committed all manner of heinous acts.
In the end, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue sentenced him to death and executed him on the spot.
The sin of wrath involved another noble from the Star Luo Empire, the young master of a noble family. His influence in the area was overwhelming, and he bullied men and women alike. Backed by his family's power, he acted like a local tyrant.
He was utterly unscrupulous, casually using violence to injure others.
Just because a citizen had accidentally bumped into him, the young nobleman flew into a rage and beat the man to death alive.
They heard that this was merely the tip of the iceberg when it came to the crimes this young nobleman had committed. Lin Ye and Qian Renxue likewise executed him on the spot!
Along the way, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue encountered far more than just these local nobles and officials who oppressed the common people, committed all sorts of heinous acts, and yet remained unrestrained.
Lin Ye had expected it long ago.
In a Douluo Continent world that combined Eastern and Western elements but was primarily built around Western ones, there were bound to be more villains in the empires than in Spirit Hall.
Under this imperial system of noble fiefs, the emperor granted regions or cities to nobles as their fiefdoms.
Nobles enjoyed every right within their own fiefs—administrative authority, control, military power, judicial authority, administrative management, finance, and taxation. Their power over their fiefs was far too great; they were complete local emperors.
As long as nothing major happened, the empire would not interfere.
One could imagine how, under such an imperial system, countless people would inevitably suffer injustice and oppression at the hands of the powerful.
Lin Ye simply had not expected the empire's corruption to be even more widespread than he had imagined.
The final sin, jealousy, involved two young men from a mountain village who went to a large city to make their fortunes. One of them struck it rich, becoming wealthy and winning the beauty's heart, even marrying several beautiful wives.
The other, who was doing only moderately well, became too jealous to bear it.
One day, he visited the rich man's home and took the opportunity to kill him. He even raped and murdered his several beautiful wives, his actions exceptionally vile.
In the end, Lin Ye and Qian Renxue tortured him as punishment before killing him with a single sword strike.
One bright, sunny morning.
Lin Ye and Qian Renxue rose early as usual and continued on their journey.
They were preparing to leave the Star Luo Empire and head into the Heaven Dou Empire.
The two talked as they traveled.
Lin Ye said, "We have now completed the judgments of four sins: lust, wrath, greed, and jealousy. Only deception, betrayal, and arrogance remain."
"And we have been out for nearly seven months. From here on, we need to move faster."
"Simply waiting to encounter evil people like this is too slow. We may need to actively seek them out."
Qian Renxue nodded. "Mm, I was thinking the same thing."
"We have trained outside for over half a year. That is enough. We should finish as soon as possible and return."
One month later.
The two left the Star Luo Empire and once again entered the border region between the two great empires. By chance, they passed through a city that was both familiar and unfamiliar to Lin Ye: Nuoding City.
The sign ahead indicated that Nuoding City was still five kilometers away.
"Nuoding City? I wonder whether Tang San and Xiao Wu have entered Notting Soul Master Academy yet." Lin Ye pondered to himself.
At that moment, Qian Renxue said beside him, "It will be dark soon. Although Nuoding City is only a small city, it is still better than sleeping outdoors. Let's go in and find a hotel to stay in for the night."
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