"Unreasonable? That's putting it mildly. I saw a tenth-rank Night Guard with my own eyes—he was fine when he left his cell, but when he came back, a layer of skin had been peeled off him. Literally peeled off. In my dreams last night, I kept hearing his screams drilling around in my ears. And there was another one, right there in our cell block with us the whole time, never went out. Then, right while a bunch of us were eating lunch, that guy went bang and exploded, splattering blood and flesh all over everyone's bodies and faces. Can you imagine the feeling of finding an eyeball floating in your porridge? I've guarded rivers, I'm not scared of anything, but what if a swarm of red thread-worms crawled out of that eyeball, shrieked at us, and tried to drill into our eyes? Right now, my very bone marrow is aching."
Everyone fell silent.
He Lei continued, "There's more, things I can't even say at the dinner table. If Qingxian and Lord Zhou had been a few days slower making their move, I wouldn't have made it back in one piece, either. The Devil Sects really are absolute pieces of shit! From now on, whenever the Night Guard takes part in an expedition against the Ministry of Justice, I'm definitely riding out!"
Han Anbo said slowly, "That's why everyone needs to undergo a cleansing inspection through a literary cultivator's Righteous Qi after leaving the Heavenly Prison."
He Lei nodded, silently draining his fourth cup.
Jing Guan smiled. "Still, the Ministry of Justice got what they deserved. A third-rank grand expert was executed on the spot. I hear that lately, Devil Sects all across the country are pulling their horns in. Even those Devil Sect provinces have suddenly turned a lot