Openly killing an elder in the council hall was something Blood Shadow had not encountered in tens of thousands of years.
After all, although the Zhang Family and the Xu Family had openly and secretly fought before, their strengths had been roughly equal, and neither had been confident of swallowing the other.
Their clashes had only ever been minor skirmishes. Dragging the other side's second-in-command into the mire was truly unprecedented.
Xu Qinghe asked, "Shadow Master, how should this criminal's corpse be handled?"
"How were such cases handled in the past?"
Xu Qinghe replied, "When elders committed countless evils in the past, they were publicly executed outside Blood Shadow City's south gate.
If their crimes were especially heinous and stirred public outrage, their corpses would also be displayed outside the city."
Zhou Luan nodded. "Handle it according to the rules. Leave it to the Punishment Hall.
The urgent matter is to make up for the missing assets. The disciples who suffered losses must also be fully compensated."
All the elders answered in unison.
Zhou Luan left the council hall and headed toward the Zhou Family Courtyard.
After entering the courtyard and activating the formation, she burst into laughter. "That old fellow Zhang Dingming has finally hit a wall. Many of the Spirit Stones Zhang Dingyi admitted to embezzling were handed over to the Zhang Family, and Zhang Dingming received no small share himself.
When Zhang Dingyi was about to reveal the matter of exterminating Zeng Chou's entire family, Zhang Dingming helped suppress it.
I never expected that old fellow to be so decisive. He actually slapped Zhang Dingyi to death right in the council hall.
He even promised to repay the Spirit Stone deficit in the treasury, hoping we would not kill them all.
According to the sect rules, Zhang