Lord Wei's two attendants had accompanied him on missions to countless places. Wherever they went, they had always received the highest courtesies. After all, though Lord Wei was a Pacification Commissioner, he represented the Central Court. Today, they had truly seen it all: someone had dared to start a fight right in the main hall where Lord Wei was proclaiming an imperial decree.
This was more than a slight against Lord Wei; it was as if they didn't take the Central Court seriously at all. How could that be tolerated? When Lord Wei's two attendants made their move, Zhang Beiyue was overcome with despair. However bold he might be, he wouldn't dare fight a Pacification Commissioner sent by the Central Court. He immediately surrendered, though he continued to curse Xu Yi.
Xu Yi slumped to the ground, coughing up blood nonstop. The assembled immortal officials watched in alarm—not because Zhang Beiyue was so fierce, but because Xu Yi was so ruthless. The clash between Kuang Wenyuan and Xu Yi was no secret anywhere in the Traveler Department. Everyone had seen it clearly.
Everyone had assumed it would be a one-sided fight, and nearly all their sympathy had gone to the weaker Xu Yi. After all, picking a fight with the department's direct superior was practically suicide. And if Kuang Wenyuan treated everyone else the way he had treated Xu Yi, none of them would have been able to resist, either.
They all felt the same way, so naturally everyone thought Kuang Wenyuan had gone too far. But no one had expected that after just two or three exchanges, Kuang Wenyuan would be the one flat on the ground. He'd lost face and dignity alike—and even his life. At first, no one understood how Kuang Wenyuan could have been so enraged