"I, I just started learning the law this year, and I have two women at home, both unharmed and healthy. This is my first time coming to this place, please spare my life! Spare my life!"
A young man, probably terrified out of his wits, instinctively pleaded for his life, overpowering all rational thoughts, as he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, in a pitiful and disheveled manner.
The voice was as calm as an ancient well, without a hint of emotion, and said, "Cultivators' Precept: Forbidding the use of Taoist skills for lewdness... Do you have any objections?"
"None!"
"Good!"
Another one.
"Cultivators' Precept: Forbidding the use of Taoist skills to harm human life... Do you have any objections?"
"None!"
"Cultivators' Precept: Forbidding the use of Taoist skills to torture living beings, to coerce or intimidate... Do you have any objections?"
"None!"
From the beginning to now, only the voice was heard, the person unseen.
