He also learned through his contact with Young Master Nan that the arrests of everyone involved had not stopped. They were now searching everywhere for Shi Chun's former associates, the people from the Eastern Nine Plains.
Those people had scattered in all directions. Some had already been arrested, while the hunt for the rest continued. Finding them would probably be much easier than finding Shi Chun.
As long as Shi Chun remained at large, those people would all be executed as well when the time came.
In short, anyone connected to Shi Chun who lacked sufficiently powerful connections or backing would be implicated and arrested.
These developments deeply shocked not only Shi Chun but also Wu Jinliang, who was watching beside him. It felt absurd, as though one day had passed in the Nether Realm while a thousand years had gone by in the world outside.
At first, when he heard that many people had been arrested, the only person Wu Jinliang voiced concern for was Duan Xiangmei. If there was truly nothing they could do for the others, then they had no choice. With things this serious, surely they could not sacrifice their own lives too? When life and death were at stake, were they not allowed a little selfishness?
But he had never imagined that even their old brothers from the Eastern Nine Plains would be implicated.
He remembered how, back at Mount Wukang, the Eastern Nine Plains group had come looking for Chuntian. Everyone had seen how cold and heartless she had been, how clearly she had drawn a line between herself and those people. Anyone knew that taking them hostage would not give them leverage over Shi Chun. The ties had long since been severed, so why arrest them?
Of course, Young Master Nan had made