Damn it!
Though Shouye was usually fairly steady-tempered, being constrained at every turn by the identity of a demi-saint's successor still made him curse inwardly.
This was fucking irritating!
If not for the Holy Spirit Hall's people all having been deployed elsewhere.
If not for the person seated across from him being a demi-saint's successor.
Shouye would truly have had this Young Master Xu die within this domain. Only after sending people to investigate whether the Taixiang Xu Clan of the Northern Region had truly dispatched a Young Master Xu to East Heavenly King City would he allow the man before him to leave.
But that was clearly unrealistic.
He had no reason to detain a demi-saint's successor without cause for too long.
No one could bear that responsibility.
The current situation was a closed loop, a vicious cycle!
If the person seated across from him truly was Xu Xiaoshou, then his planning was far too thorough, far too farsighted! Could he have thought all of this through from the moment he entered the city? At one point, Shouye had even truly wanted to give up.
He felt that perhaps everything really was just coincidence, and that he had clearly questioned the wrong person.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the square table, Young Master Xu, whose dignity had clearly taken a hit after Shouye's forcible move, flung his sleeve in fury and snapped, "It seems that you seniors of the Red Robes are used to throwing your weight around in ordinary times, so you intend to use such coercive interrogation methods on me as well?"
"But if you seniors of the Red Robes cannot produce any open and proper evidence today, then forgive me for being unable to continue entertaining you. Everyone, please leave!"
Turning his head, Xu Xiaoshou