Being Targeted

A manager at an artifact-refining workshop had switched the names on Li Su's and his younger brother's door plaques.

Hearing this absurd cause, no one could laugh at this moment.

The entire enforcement squad was punished. Including the enforcement elder, they had a hundred years of wages deducted and would work without pay. It did not sound like much, but howls from the Enforcement Hall echoed for an entire night—those of that elder.

For a fully functional Interception Sect disciple, what difference was there between docking his pay and killing him?

If even the elder suffered so badly, the enforcement disciples who had directly taken action fared even worse. They were stripped of their enforcement disciple status and demoted to regular disciples. Outer sect, regular, inner sect, true transmission.

The time and cost required to rise through each stage were immense beyond imagining.

Nor was that all. They were also burdened with hard labor.

Everyone received between three and ten years—a punishment rare even among punishments.

The entire Enforcement Hall was not only given a lesson, but ordered to rectify itself. Half of its income for the next five years was deducted. Almost every day, new wails joined in, ringing out for several hours.

Those who had laid hands on Li Su had suffered like this, so the true culprits naturally met an even more miserable end.

The man himself and his younger brother were directly beheaded and publicly displayed.

Even the owner of the artifact-refining workshop was called to account.

When that Grand Luo emerged, his face was black as coal. He immediately ordered the entire artifact-refining workshop to undergo rectification. Though it had been caused by individuals, it was undeniably a management loophole that had allowed someone to exploit an opening.

As for Li Su, the party involved,