Teacher, if you hit them, you can't hit me anymore!

As Wenzhong listened on, the fire in his eyes burned ever fiercer, Vicious Qi churning endlessly in his chest. At last, unable to suppress his towering rage any longer, he slammed down his palm!

Crack—

The solid, heavy Grand Preceptor's chair instantly split apart, wood chips flying and scattering across the floor.

"Good! What a fine Human Emperor!" Wenzhong's rage surged to his head, his voice shaking the great hall. "I was absent from court for no more than fifteen years, yet you slaughtered the pillars of the court and massacred countless loyal ministers! You have ruined Great Shang's century-old foundation until it is a devastated wreck, swaying on the brink of collapse!"

After his fury ebbed, Wenzhong looked upon the civil and military officials filling the court, his heart brimming with guilt and self-reproach. He solemnly bowed to them.

"Everyone, Di Xin is my disciple. The monstrous calamity he has wrought today and the grave crimes he has committed are all due to my failure to teach him strictly. I cannot evade the blame!"

"Please return to your residences and rest for now. Within three days, I will certainly give the civil and military court, Great Shang's realm, and all the common people under heaven an answer!"

Seeing this, the ministers hurriedly returned his bow and repeatedly tried to console him. "Grand Preceptor, your words are too grave! Those treacherous ministers and demon consorts bewitched the King; it has nothing to do with you! Rather, we are the ones who should be ashamed. We stood in court, yet lacked the strength to admonish our sovereign and protect the loyal and worthy!"

Wenzhong then carefully questioned them about many hidden details, thoroughly uncovering the origins and course of the court's chaos over the past fifteen years before waving his hand