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Another woman scrutinized me as well, her gaze seeming to see straight through my heart. "The Deliberation Bureau is a vital department that controls an entire district. You actually did something like this and still want to escape?"
"You won't get away!" The fierce-looking man held a black iron tablet in his hand. It seemed to be some sort of iron decree or alchemical tome—something so strange that I had never seen its like before.
The last one was an old man. He stroked his beard with a smile, but a cruel glint showed in his eyes. "Guan Zuo usually takes quite a while interrogating people. Every time, he drags things out. Never mind the immortals under me—even I can't get anyone from him easily. But now that his Deliberation Bureau is finished, we can skip all that time spent taking people in for questioning. The Hall of Penal Law has become much more efficient."
I looked at the sinister, ghostly old man and discovered that black energy emanated from him. He was actually a cultivator with a ghostly body. It seemed the Hall of Penal Law really was managed by the ghost race. Now that something had happened to the Deliberation Bureau, the heads of the various offices would certainly come. After all, the Deliberation Bureau, Court Deliberation Bureau, and Imperial Deliberation Bureau were the Divine Court's judicial bodies, and the Six Departments had to deal with them frequently.
These four should be immortals from the Six Departments, on the same level as the Court Deliberation Bureau. Judging by their cultivation, they had to be at least sixth-grade.
"Old Chen, you can't blame Guan Zuo either. Whenever the Deliberation Bureau encountered an important case, it had to watch the Court Deliberation Bureau's expression. Enough. Since we're all nearby,