The Judicial Heavenly Lord's ceremonial procession set out, but it did not return directly to the Heavenly Court. Instead, it headed toward the East Sea.
Jiang Sheng explained, "I still have business in the East Sea on this trip. Once matters there are settled, I'll take you up to the Heavenly Court."
Demon Monarch Hewei nodded. "Everything will be as the True Lord commands."
Looking at Demon Monarch Hewei sitting quietly to the side, Jiang Sheng leaned back slightly against the warm-jade Four Symbols wall and narrowed his eyes. The person was arrested by the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion, and the case was judged by the Thunder Department. On the surface, there's nothing wrong with that—but that is precisely the key problem!
After Jiang Sheng came out of seclusion, he had read through every file. Over the past five hundred years, every time the Three Offices and Five Capitals descended to the lower worlds to subdue demons, there were archived records. Regarding how many fiends Yaochi Capital had captured in the lower worlds, how many demons it had eradicated, where the incidents had begun, who had reported them, and where the approvals had come from, everything was recorded in detail. Yet when it came to that Heyin, the wording was vague. There was only one sentence in the file: In addition, one fiend from another world was captured.
Beyond that, there was no other explanation at all. It did not mention Heyin's origins, nor did it mention whether Heyin had revealed his identity.
If one said Yaochi Capital had deliberately set a trap and used underhanded means against him, Jiang Sheng would not believe it. Leaving aside the fact that the capital lords and left and right deputy capital lords of the five capitals of the Judicial Heavenly Lord Mansion