The Xiezhi Guillotine Opens! No Rank Punishment!

The bleak autumn wind swept along with the autumn rain, pattering down.

The long line of prison carts stretched endlessly along the official road.

The prison carts had been specially made, resembling iron boxes, so no one could see who was inside. Above each prison cart was mounted a coffin, and streams of Netherworld Death Qi emanated from within, suppressing the iron-box prison carts.

In the sky behind the procession, streaks of azure light flashed, with figures standing within them.

They were all Great Scholars from the nearby cities.

"The rumors are true. General Chen really is showing no mercy." One Great Scholar sighed. He could sense that the Great Scholars imprisoned inside the iron-box cages were all at the same cultivation level as him.

"I heard they're the Noble Families and Sacred Clans' Great Scholars from the Qi Shui An Family, along with the Great Scholars who helped the Qi Shui An Family resist arrest." Another Great Scholar shook his head. "There are fifty-four of them in total. Look—the number of prison carts matches exactly!"

"Speaking of which, when General Chen was still in East Cang, he wrote 'Autumn Winds and Falling Stars at Wuzhang Plains' in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I went to East Cang with the former Minister Wen back then. When I met General Chen, he was still an obedient, well-behaved junior."

"How did he suddenly become so fierce?"

"Old Yu, look carefully. That's the Martial Dao Master and the Pillar of the State, Minister of Law!" one Great Scholar said. "He's no longer the young lad he was back then."

The Great Scholar surnamed Yu froze for a moment. "That was only half a year ago..."

"That's not the point." A Great Scholar shook his head. "I'll be heading back first."

"You old bastard,