Panic gripped everyone.
The entire Tianshui City Qin Family was in turmoil.
Some gloated, some wore worried faces, and others were terrified that they would be arrested next.
And it was not just the Tianshui City Qin Family.
Mass arrests had begun at the Qin Family Residence in the Holy City as well.
Many Qin Family Disciples posted as Inspectors across the cities of the True Martial Continent were also being arrested.
Nor were the arrests limited to those 1,263 people. Many others had been seized too.
They were the people on the list in the Jade Slip Barto had investigated and given to Qin Hao.
Meanwhile, news spread like wildfire that the Qin Family would personally hold a trial in the Holy City in half a month. The entire True Martial Continent was in an uproar.
No one had expected Qin Hao to come down so hard on the Qin Family, invoking family law to judge them himself.
Ordinarily, even if someone knew members of their own family had committed crimes, they would not go this far. They were blood relatives, after all; at most, they would receive a warning and some punishment within the family.
But Qin Hao was judging them personally and had invited the powers of the True Martial Continent. Clearly, this was no mere warning...
The Qin Family Dungeon, Holy City.
The dungeon was enormous, yet it usually stood empty, little more than a fixture.
Now, however...
Barto had used a Divine Ability to expand it. The original dungeon could never have held so many people.
Thousands were imprisoned inside it now!
An elegantly dressed middle-aged man hurried through the dungeon. He had an imposing bearing and a formidable cultivation level, having reached the Half-Step Creation Realm.
As a Half-Step Creation cultivator, he held