"Hall Master Mu, let me put the ugly words first. Once tomorrow passes, the Ministry of Justice and Heavenly Patrol Division's criminal investigation experts will have finished their reexamination of the evidence you used to accuse me.
I do not care what conclusion they reach. But if your Heaven Temple is determined to falsely accuse me to death and leave me no path to live—
Then tomorrow, I will submit the spirit projection recorded in this jade slip to His Majesty and the Ancestral God Hall. At the same time, my own people will spread the spirit projection in this jade slip far and wide."
Inside the posthouse, Ye Zhen spoke bluntly to Wood Hall Master Mu Xu, who had rushed over, his face stern. "At worst, we'll let the fish die and the net break!"
Ye Zhen enunciated those final four words one by one, his tone brimming with threat.
This made Azure Hall Master Mu Xu, who had only just arrived and finished watching the spirit projection, look incomparably grim. A trace of killing intent suddenly burst forth from behind Mu Xu. "Are you threatening this old man?"
"Threatening our Heaven Temple?"
"Do you know the consequences?"
A trace of derision rose at the corner of Ye Zhen's mouth. "Hall Master Mu, you may see it that way. This is my last means of preserving my life. If it were not to save my own life, I would not be willing to bring out something with such enormous implications."
"However, if you think that killing me will settle this matter once and for all and eliminate all future trouble, then you have thought me, Ye Zhen, far too simple."
"Before entering Luoyi, I had already anticipated this and made several preparations. If I die an unnatural death, someone