Li Qingxian walked up to Lu Warden and said, "Bring Zheng Gaojue out, or I'll beat you until you bring him out."
Lu Warden sighed softly, then turned and walked inside.
"A few of you, come in with me," Li Qingxian said.
He Lei gestured and followed him with more than a dozen Entry Rank Night Guards.
Zheng Hui followed behind, his eyes red with emotion.
Before long, Li Qingxian and the others emerged with a man.
The tall, burly Zheng Gaojue had disheveled hair and bloodstained clothes. Whip wounds covered the skin exposed through the tears in his clothing.
The Night Guards' eyes blazed with fury at the sight.
Li Qingxian had fed him a spirit medicine from the Elixir Origin Sect inside, so he was already out of danger.
Just then, someone outside shouted, "Such audacity! Breaking into the Ministry of War's Military and Horse Bureau prison-are you trying to rebel?"
The Night Guards parted, revealing an Eighth Rank civil official standing outside the main gate, glaring at them. He wore a green robe with an oriole rank badge.
"Was it him?" Li Qingxian asked.
"It was him!" Zheng Hui and his son Zheng Gaojue answered together.
"Seize him and drag him back to the Imperial Prison for interrogation!" Li Qingxian barked.
"You..."
Several Entry Rank experts lunged forward. A string of silver characters suddenly appeared around the official, swirling into a lotus-shaped barrier of light that protected his entire body.
"Stop! We can talk this over!"
Li Qingxian raised a hand, and more than a dozen Thunder Talismans ignited.
Boom, boom, boom...
More than a dozen arm-thick bolts of lightning shot forth like thunder serpents and electric pythons. In a blink, they struck the official, pierced the Lotus Literary Treasure's defenses, and hit him with what little