Geng Ge said, "Absurd! County Magistrate Fang, do you know the price of those words? When the Lei Family, as a Void Sage Family, failed to present congratulations to a Void Sage, it triggered the Three Rites Fire. By saying this, you are denying the grand Heaven-sacrificing ritual and denying the Human Race's Way of Ritual! You will not be able to keep your title of Void Sage!"
Shen Ming sneered. "County Magistrate, these two women barging into the Heaven-sacrificing ritual was merely an accident. If they confess their guilt, there may yet be room to turn things around. But if you openly defy the Way of Ritual, do not blame your colleagues of Ning'an County for impeaching you! Gentlemen, do you dare submit a memorial with me?"
"I shall go as well!" County Deputy Tao Dingnian declared.
"Of course, we shall follow!"
The crowd responded one after another.
Ao Huang watched Fang Yun nervously, afraid that Fang Yun would do something outrageous.
In others' eyes, Fang Yun might merely have been a somewhat arrogant Void Sage, but in Ao Huang's eyes, Fang Yun was a true god of slaughter. Ao Huang simply could not imagine anything Fang Yun would not dare to do.
Yet Fang Yun's expression did not change. He continued using his Official Seal to draw upon the Literary Qi of the Temple of Sages, forming a powerful force that twisted the blade in Yang Yuhuan's hand into a sheet of iron before releasing her from its restraint.
Fang Yun swept his gaze across the scene, stroked Little Fox, and smiled. "They came here to offer writing to the Temple of Sages—to pray to Heaven and offer writing!"
"Uh?"
Everyone was stunned. The practice of offering writing had always existed; it had begun as early as the