Under the mountain-like pressure, everyone instantly relaxed. The people in military uniforms were holding up all right, but several who looked like engineers had their legs go weak. If not for the people beside them supporting them, they would probably have dropped straight onto the ground on their backsides.
Who could have imagined that Lord Governor would play such a joke on them? It was simply far too terrifying a joke.
Zhang Su himself also let out a breath. Though Great Xia Knights who killed without cause still had to pay with their lives, in truth, the number of Knights in all of Great Xia who had paid with their lives for killing ordinary people was absolutely fewer than the Shadow Demons of the Devil Race he had heard of. If Governor Cheng Honglie had truly slaughtered everyone present in a fit of rage just now, then aside from Zhang Tie, probably no one would have been willing to seek trouble with a Governor on behalf of a group of ordinary Warriors. Or perhaps people would have found all sorts of reasons to prove the "necessity" and "legitimacy" of Lord Governor's actions at that time—such as discovering Three-Eyed Society spies among the crowd, or that he himself had shown disrespect to Lord Governor, or that Lord Governor had pursued a Blood Demon here and accidentally injured them by mistake... Wherever there were people, authority and power would wield an immense influence. That was determined by human nature; it was the same everywhere.
These thoughts flashed through Zhang Su's mind. He took a deep breath. "I can take Lord Governor to see the Sect Master, but the Sect Master is currently about two hundred kilometers away. I wonder what means of transport Lord Governor wishes to use. Shall I notify Torch