Heavenly Mountain Child Elder: ...
Li Qiushui: ...
Dao Mei and Jiang Jin Jiu: ...
Ye Weiming's Sudden and Unexpected showy move had indeed left everyone speechless. But upon closer thought, there was nothing wrong with it.
Arresting Heavenly Mountain Child Elder and taking her back to the Divine Constable Bureau might have seemed absurd, but from Ye Weiming's perspective, it was the only choice that could reconcile both his sense of good and evil and the mission requirements.
Heavenly Mountain Child Elder had committed evil deeds, so naturally she should be punished. Yet the mission he had received required him to protect her safety until she completed her third great ordeal of rejuvenation.
On the surface, the conflict between the two seemed impossible to reconcile.
But if Heavenly Mountain Child Elder were arrested and brought to justice, both could be handled perfectly.
Once Heavenly Mountain Child Elder was arrested, she would fall under the Divine Constable Bureau's protection. Even as a criminal, the Bureau would not permit anyone to harm her life at such a time.
As for how to judge the evil deeds Heavenly Mountain Child Elder had committed?
Ye Weiming figured that, as a constable of the Divine Constable Bureau, all he needed to do was bring her back. The trial could be left to the capital's authorities, Dali Temple, or even Venerable Huang personally.
During that process, Ye Weiming only needed to make a few arrangements and postpone the trial until after her third rejuvenation was complete.
According to the system rules, as long as Ye Weiming fulfilled the mission description's requirement to ensure that she did not face mortal danger before her rejuvenation was finished, he could claim his mission reward. For NPCs, this was an inviolable ironclad rule. No matter how dissatisfied Heavenly Mountain