I refuse to accept this!
Upon hearing those words, the senior executives in the gallery stared wide-eyed, nearly suspecting there was something wrong with their hearing.
Yuanshi Tianzun had told the ten elders of headquarters, "I refuse to accept this"?
He really intended to challenge headquarters, to challenge the highest echelon of power within the Five Elements Alliance.
In the more than twenty years since the Five Elements Alliance had been established, had anything like this ever happened?
In their eyes, headquarters was the core of power, the sacred hall of Spirit Realm Walkers, lofty and untouchable, with the power of life and death entirely in its grasp. Yet headquarters' authority was beyond question.
The executives instinctively looked toward the elders on the jury, only to see the rulers who wielded great power wearing expressions of both astonishment and fury.
Apparently, it had never happened.
"What right do you have to refuse?!" Dog Elder sprang up and stood atop the table, shouting, "You dare refuse headquarters' judgment? What qualifications do you have? Take him down! Take him down at once!"
He seemed furious beyond measure, baring his snow-white teeth. Emotions too complex to decipher churned in his button-like black eyes.
The guards took several more steps forward.
At the same time, hurried footsteps echoed through the corridor outside the courtroom. A large group of guards was rushing over.
"Yuanshi Tianzun!" Huang Taiji said in a low, stern voice, "Stop talking. Plead guilty!"
When Yuanshi Tianzun had furiously killed Wei Yuanzhou, the ten elders of headquarters had already realized that this genius was untamable. Every ruling class in the world hoped that the people and subordinates under its control would be docile sheep.
A genius born with a rebellious streak would only be trouble. He had to be tamed, disciplined.
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