While Jiang Dali was meeting the Regent King in the Regent's Palace, an operation to convict and arrest the Wan family began after the Zundao Department issued an arrest warrant. Personally carried out by Hu Fei, the master of Lingyun Pavilion, it immediately drew the attention of other well-informed top families and the civil and military officials.
Hu Fei, master of Lingyun Pavilion, brought only Huaxue, who had joined Lingyun Pavilion only recently, to the Wan family to carry out the arrest.
Two people were arresting a top family after convicting them. Even though Hu Fei was the strongest of the Sacred Dynasty's Four Pillars, such a thing would have been unimaginable in the past. Yet today, this was destined to be an arrest with no suspense.
Because the skies of the Sacred Dynasty had changed.
Everyone and every force with a keen nose had sensed it.
While the other five top families—the Liu, Lin, Feng, Wu, and He families—had all chosen to wait and see, the Wan family, which had just been severely intimidated by the Marquis of Might and admitted its crimes, had no room to resist the Regent King's will. Nor did anyone or any force dare plead on its behalf.
Or rather, even if someone dared plead with the Regent King at this time, that person was still unconscious. And even if he truly awoke, whether he would be willing to put aside his old enmity with the Wan family and plead for them was another matter entirely.
The He family.
Pavilions and towers, small bridges over flowing water, artificial hills and waterside kiosks appeared and disappeared amid the neatly trimmed woods.
Dressed in casual clothes, He Jin stood within a hexagonal pavilion. Below him, flowing water gathered into a pool, where a hundred goldfish of