Must Be Sacred Cut!

"I had only been in seclusion for a few months, and you people stabbed a hole this big in the sky!"

"Mingde Hall! Yes, Mingde Hall!"

The emperor's fury finally found a concrete outlet. "Where is Jing Hongchen?!"

"Have my Hall Master of Mingde Hall, the dignified supreme helmsman of the empire's Soul Tools, get out here before me!"

"That bastard first let Mingde Hall be invaded by a mere Body Sect, and now he privately detained students from Shrek Academy."

"He brought disaster upon us!"

"Where is he?"

"Should he not give me an explanation?"

No one answered.

The hall fell into silence.

"Where is Jing Hongchen?!" the old emperor's voice rose, clearly enraged beyond measure.

At this moment, an old minister belonging to the Imperial Family's Worship Hall stepped out tremblingly and reported back in a dry voice, "Your Majesty—Hall Master Hongchen—he is not within the borders of Ming City."

"According to reliable information, he secretly left the empire several days ago. His whereabouts—his whereabouts are unknown—"

"His whereabouts are unknown?!" The old emperor looked as if he had heard the greatest joke under heaven, trembling all over with anger. "What fine 'whereabouts unknown'!"

"Now that Sun Moon has been attacked at our very gates by those old bastards from Shrek, he was absent from his post and abandoned his duty without permission!"

"Did he run?"

"Who gave the order to detain all of Shrek's Exchange Students, torture them for confessions, and ultimately provoke Shrek into sending everything they had in retaliation?"

"Was it not Jing Hongchen acting on his own?!"

"If not for his stupidity and recklessness, how would we have so thoroughly enraged the fierce tiger that is Shrek, bringing an army to our gates and making me, making the entire Sun Moon Empire, suffer such