The Confucian Way to Sagehood
Chapter 937

The Heavenly Way Comes Full Circle; Retribution Never Fails

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In the illusion realm, the Jing Kingdom had fallen. Some of its scholars, even members of the Left Prime Minister Faction, had either rediscovered their consciences or found their lives worse than they had been in the Jing Kingdom. They had thrown out one piece of evidence of wrongdoing after another, forcing the Hall of Punishment to investigate.

There had been a great deal of evidence in the Book Mountain Illusion Realm, but some of the crimes had occurred after Fang Yun ascended Book Mountain and had been extrapolated by it. Afraid those events might never happen, Fang Yun left them out and recorded only evidence of crimes that had already occurred.

These men had all been personally promoted by Liu Shan. Even though the Left Prime Minister no longer wielded as much power as before, they would not abandon him, remaining steadfastly at his side.

Once they fell, Liu Shan would lose half his domain in Mi Prefecture!

This would truly shake the foundations of the Left Prime Minister's power.

After finishing his letter of denunciation, Fang Yun recorded its contents with his official seal and sent copies separately to the Sacred Academy's Hall of Punishment, the Jing Kingdom's Censorate, and its Grand Secretariat.

Then Fang Yun copied it out three more times and ordered the copies sent urgently to the capital. One would be delivered to the Hall of Punishment.

Fang Yun gazed out the window, a cold smile on his face.

*Liu Shan, you were clever all your life, only to blunder at this moment. You underestimated the information in my hands. I originally held these things back for fear of crossing forbidden lines, but the moment you forced me into Ning'an, intending to wipe me out and ruin my Palace Examination, I resolved to find the

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