Chapter 3699: (˙o˙) Looking back, the mortal world had already faded into the distance
"!!"
Hearing his junior brother's voice, Zuo Lengchan spun around.
His eyes blazed as he fixed a death stare on Ding Mian, standing in the doorway. Then, as if he meant to vent all the fury in his heart, he roared:
"My nemesis!"
"I finally see it clearly. Yue Buqun and the Huashan Sect are the nemesis of me, Zuo Lengchan, and my Songshan Sect!"
"Over the past six months or so, my Songshan Sect has repeatedly laid careful plans, exhausting every possible scheme, yet..."
"He's foiled them time and again, escaped us again and again, and cost us men and suffered losses for Huashan again and again. We've even had plenty of occasions where we tried to steal a chicken only to lose the rice used to lure it!"
"How am I supposed to swallow this?!"
"Let's not even talk about the martial arts tournament. This time, I thought we could use the imperial court to wipe out the Huashan Sect and Yue Buqun, this thorn in my side, once and for all, and finally vent my anger!"
"But what happened?"
"In the end, we still fell short?!"
"Huashan and Yue Buqun were suspected of treason, and then, just a few days ago, they committed the unforgivable crime of killing imperial soldiers!"
The Great Ming Code, under the section on criminal law, clearly stipulated that anyone involved in plotting rebellion—that is, trying to overthrow the imperial court—would be executed by slicing, regardless of whether they were principal or accomplice!
Treason meant betraying the imperial court, defecting to an outside power, or taking up arms against the authorities. The ringleaders were to be beheaded, while accomplices were to receive a hundred strokes of the rod and