Great Jun Reveals Its Divine Might

"Clear your name and wash away the grievance?" Li Shun seemed to have heard the most absurd joke under Heaven. So enraged that he laughed instead, he snapped, "Reckless destruction without cause—isn't that exactly how you Jun Family lunatics operate? The evidence is ironclad. What else is there to investigate?"

"Brother Li, that is not quite right." Sun Lang's expression did not change as he solemnly cupped his hands and argued back.

"Though our Jun Family upholds the belief that all things flow and that immortality is a crime, Great Jun has laws governing its own operation. We would never, like mindless beasts, manufacture meaningless destruction out of thin air."

"Only those malignant tumors who seek to halt the years and interfere with the cycle of life and death are heretics we deem necessary to erase!"

"Since the Imperial Tomb no longer exists, Former Tomb Commandery is now merely an ordinary land inhabited by mortal beings, with its own cycle of birth, aging, sickness, and death. Such wanton slaughter and devastation instead forcibly interrupt the natural evolution of this Heaven and Earth. It is an enormous desecration and disrespect toward [Great Jun]!"

"Even taking a step back, if Senior Brother Shen were truly alive, with his pride, he would never lower himself to vent his rage upon the innocent people of Old Tomb. If he wished to act, then even if he were reduced to dust and ashes, his blade would surely point directly at the last remaining burial mound of the Imperial Tomb!"

"Besides, Senior Brother Shen already perished amid tribulation fire. How could he return from death without any warning? And after returning, how could he act so openly, as though possessed by madness? It is truly suspicious."

Faced with Sun Lang's neither servile nor overbearing, flawlessly reasoned