Six Doors, Vermilion Robe Building, inside a screen that separated the inner and outer rooms.
Sima Shi stood before the screen, looking at Zu Cunshen, the somewhat awkward "Acting Gold Badge Constable."
Zu Cunshen was tall, his hands hanging low and pressed against his robe. One clutched a stack of white papers—the latest intelligence, selected for immediate reporting to the Chief Constable.
But he did not present it right away. Instead, he said in a low voice, "Chief Constable, the mission Su—Chief Constable Su assigned me... should I continue with it?"
That was, the campaign against the rampant heretical sects.
The earlier orders had already been issued, so he was uneasy, afraid Chief Constable Sima might have other plans.
Sima Shi held one hand behind his back and said solemnly, "The heretical sects threaten Great Jin at its roots. This is a matter of life and death. Chief Constable Su handled it appropriately. Just do as he instructed. My promise still stands."
Zu Cunshen quietly let out a breath of relief and handed over the intelligence. "Chief Constable, this includes rumors spread by the Luo Sect and Suxian Dao."
"What rumors?" Sima Shi took the papers and looked them over carefully as he asked offhandedly.
A trace of bewilderment and shock remained in Zu Cunshen's voice. "Suxian Dao claims Chief Constable Su possesses a divine weapon, the Orange Yellow Fire Saber. The Luo Sect's rumors confirm this, and add that Chief Constable Su also has a time-related treasure hidden away. The Building of No Benevolence's lord died by its hand..."
Possessing a divine weapon, concealing a time-related treasure, and killing the lord of the Building of No Benevolence, who wielded a divine weapon—each of these three revelations was more shocking than the last.
He could only feel that Chief Constable