"Morning, Brother Yong."
"Hello, Brother Yong!"
"Brother Yong, are you free at noon? Let's have a meal together."
"Brother Yong..."
With unease in his heart, Cui Dayong stepped through the gates of the Discipline Hall.
The colleagues he encountered all greeted him.
Those familiar faces and warm smiles quickly settled Cui Dayong's nerves. His expression relaxed as he laughed and traded pleasantries with his colleagues.
To outsiders, the Discipline Hall was a place that inspired awe, even fear.
But after working there for over a decade, Cui Dayong had long since become a seasoned old hand, living quite comfortably.
Even the great upheaval above had not affected a minor figure like him.
After all, a major hall always needed people to handle the bitter work, the tiring work, and the dirty work!
Thinking of this, Cui Dayong's courage returned.
After answering roll call, he was about to look for Deputy Hall Master Cao.
But the moment he stepped outside, a dark, skinny cultivator approached him with two Battle Cultivators. "Cui Dayong, your crimes have been exposed!"
At those words, Cui Dayong shuddered all over, as though he had plunged into an ice cellar.
Cold from the top of his head to the soles of his feet!
"Xiao Wu!"
He understood at once and roared angrily, "You sold me out!"
No one knew one's own affairs better than oneself. Cui Dayong knew perfectly well that his background could not withstand scrutiny.
Once it was dug up, the inevitable outcome would be the Sin Slaying Platform.
He had imagined the day when his reputation would be ruined.
But he had never imagined that this useless little brother-in-law would be the one leading people to arrest him!
In Cui Dayong's eyes, the other man was timid, weak, and useless, able to gain a