Because of his cultivation method, Chong was the most adept among the Court Executives at veiling heavenly secrets and muddling the heavenly count.
For instance, when great powers from the Outer Layer had entered the Inner Layer in the past and the Profound Court sent people to suppress them, he would be asked to perform rites to conceal the heavenly secrets and sever others' perceptions. This would allow them to achieve twice the result with half the effort.
Having him disrupt the heavenly secrets merely to deal with some junior cultivators naturally posed no problem.
Yet by rights, this should not be done. In Celestial Xia, if one openly obstructed another's Dao path, even a Profound Venerable would face severe punishment.
But this time, he was not truly blocking their paths, merely delaying them for a month or two. To avoid future repercussions, once the matter was settled, he would naturally confess it to the Profound Court and voluntarily accept punishment.
He estimated that he would likely be docked several years of salary and made to stay behind closed doors to reflect for several years, during which he could not take part in any Court deliberations. But for the sake of the greater picture, he felt he could bear it.
In truth, beyond this, what concerned him more was the karmic burden of heavenly secrets.
If any of those he obstructed achieved something in the future, they would certainly detect this and make trouble for him. That burden would have to be borne by him alone.
After considering it carefully, he raised his head and said, "Fellow Daoists, I can agree to this, but I can only cut off their Dao opportunities for several dozen days at most. If it goes on any longer, it cannot be done, lest even