"Upon investigation: Dongyang Shen, the current Head of Household Affairs Priest of Fire Spirit Hall, had engaged in favoritism and malpractice, violating prohibitions by reallocating controlled supplies thirteen times without the Hall Master's seal."
"Further investigation confirmed that during his tenure, Dongyang Shen, the current Head of Household Affairs Priest, had exploited his authority for personal gain, purchasing supplies above market price and pocketing more than one hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones.
He is hereby stripped of his post. Under the laws of the Ancestral God Hall, those who embezzle over one hundred thousand shall be sentenced to fifty years of hard labor! Effective immediately, he is exiled to the Black Wind Forbidden Grounds for penal labor!"
Within Fire Spirit Hall, Zou Hu, commander of the Hall Master's guards under Ye Zhen, announced the decree of Fire Spirit Hall's newly appointed Hall Master in a rigid, formal manner.
This was the conclusion Ye Zhen's people had reached after entering the Ancestral God Hall and investigating for the past seven days.
At the side, Dongyang Jin, Fire Spirit Hall's First Deputy Hall Master, looked as though fire were about to blaze from his eyes, yet there was nothing he could do.
When he looked again at Dongyang Shen, the Head of Household Affairs Priest kneeling on the ground, he wore an expression of bitter frustration at his failure to live up to expectations.
Reallocating controlled supplies had been done at the Dongyang Family's behest, and there was still room to explain it away.
But exploiting his authority to embezzle over a hundred thousand High-grade Spirit Stones left Dongyang Jin shocked and furiously incredulous.
This Dongyang Shen had utterly disgraced the Dongyang Family. They had only just elevated him to the position of Head of Household Affairs Priest, and he had gone