"Fang Yun!" Zong Ganyu roared, his fury erupting as though that single roar could destroy the city and overturn all of Yueyang Tower.
Fang Yun gave Zong Ganyu a cold glance and said, "I am handling the internal affairs of our Jing Kingdom. Those uninvolved, stand aside. Guards!"
"Mo Jiang reporting!" Fang Shouye came forward.
"Ge Million, head manager of the Qing River Trading Company, has used his identity as a merchant as a cover to collude with Qing Kingdom officials, directing his nephews and the company's people to wreak havoc in Xiang Prefecture and attack the Jing Kingdom. His crimes are heinous indeed! Seize him and throw him into prison to await trial!"
"Yes, sir!" With that, Fang Shouye led a band of tiger-and-wolf soldiers straight toward Ge Million.
Ge Million hastily retreated, while the other Qing Kingdom officials and scholars rose one after another to stand in front of him.
The Qing Kingdom people soon blocked Fang Shouye, preventing him from arresting Ge Million.
The Qing Lord abruptly flipped away the table before him, pointed at Fang Yun, and said furiously, "Fang Yun, do not push us too far! During the literary assembly, you repeatedly insulted our Qing Kingdom's people. After it ended, you killed our Qing Kingdom's goodwill envoy. Now you even intend to arrest our merchant. You utterly defy law and heaven! I have already reported you to the Sacred Academy's Hall of Punishment for killing a Human Race Metropolitan Graduate, an aristocratic family's adopted son!"
"I have reported it as well!" a Qing Kingdom Grand Academician said coldly.
"I, too, have reported it!"
Numerous Qing Kingdom officials voiced their support for the Qing Lord.
At the Sacred Academy, in the Hall of Punishment.
Gao Mo, the pavilion elder on duty, sat in his study with