Death Does Not Erase Vengeance

Not long after Cheng Rang fled, a streak of escaping light came hurtling through the air from the direction of Shangyu County.

"County Lord! County Lord, are you harmed?!" The newcomer was none other than Shangyu County's commandant, Zhang Mu.

Since Li Shun began serving as acting county magistrate, they had crossed paths, but in truth, each had kept to his own side of the river.

When he first heard that someone intended to challenge and debate the new county magistrate atop Three Elders Peak today, he had shared everyone else's mood of waiting to watch the excitement. Yet he had never expected to later hear in shock that a rebel had suddenly risen up and attacked someone.

Zhang Mu knew full well who this acting county magistrate was.

A successor of the Confucian School's Spring-Autumn Brush lineage, the grand-disciple of the current Censor-in-Chief Dong Chunqiu, and moreover the only imperial clansman presently known to the world...

It was precisely because of all these identities that he could serve as acting Shangyu County magistrate despite being a commoner.

The instructions of Supervising Censor Kong Zhao were still vivid in his mind. By the time Zhang Mu arrived, his head was already drenched in sweat.

If this Acting Magistrate Li died in office...

Then the officials of every rank in Shangyu County would likely be finished as well.

Thus, the instant he received the news, he had thrown aside all official business and rushed through the air in a near frenzy.

"Commandant Zhang, thank you for your concern. I am unharmed for the moment."

Only upon hearing Li Shun's voice did Zhang Mu finally breathe a sigh of relief.

But when he saw Li Shun's face, pale as gold paper, his heart lurched once more.

"County Lord..."

Li Shun weakly waved