"Third Elder Xian Wulin!"
The Fifth Ancestor's listing of everyone's crimes was not the end, but merely the beginning.
He shouted out charge after charge without pause.
As members of the upper ranks, how many of them could truly claim clean hands?
Without the slightest exaggeration, if a thorough investigation were conducted, not a single Shuiyue Mountain higher-up who was found guilty would likely be allowed to keep living.
The Fifth Ancestor had clearly pulled quite a few strings behind the scenes.
Yet even Qin Shaofeng, or the Xian Wuhuan couple who had long wanted to slaughter people with their own hands, could not utter a single objection.
The Fifth Ancestor had simply been too impartial.
After the long string of charges was read out,
out of one hundred and forty-seven elders, only nine survived by sheer luck.
Even the Fifth Elder's own son was sentenced by him to execution without pardon.
With such ruthless measures, who could say another word?
A full three days passed.
Only then did the Fifth Ancestor finish taking stock of Shuiyue Mountain's truly heinous upper ranks from the past thousand years, including Xian Menghan, the Great Elder's beloved son.
There had been nearly one hundred and forty elders.
Adding the protectors, deacons, and high-ranking experts of every affiliated lineage, the total exceeded seventeen thousand.
With so many people executed, Shuiyue Mountain immediately lost more than half its experts.
Neither Shuiyue Mountain's ancestor nor the other ancestor-level figures spoke up for anyone.
When the more than ten thousand people, including over nine thousand sentenced to death, were all bound and forced to kneel in the square, even Qin Shaofeng's heartbeat accelerated severalfold.
"Whoever harbors grievances, whoever wishes to report someone, speak now!"
Rather than immediately announcing the executions, the Fifth Ancestor shouted loudly.
Those who