Before Chu Mo could speak, Yichu turned to Mo Yan and asked first, "What news was worth coming here in person?"
Mo Yan said mysteriously, "The Enforcement Hall has now gone over to the Sect Master completely."
"When has the Enforcement Hall ever not belonged to the Sect Master? Those people have neither real power nor backing. They were always toys in Xuanming's palm. There's no shortage of the likes of Huaqing among them."
Yichu scoffed, utterly disdainful.
"This time is different."
Mo Yan shook his head. "Because of the Huaqing affair, even that fellow Chen Feng has thrown his lot in with Xuanming completely. Elder Chen is the foremost figure with actual authority in the Enforcement Hall."
He looked at Chu Mo, his tone teasing. "As we speak, the Enforcement Hall is already gathering evidence of your crimes, fellow Daoist."
"Evidence of my crimes?" Chu Mo raised an eyebrow. "What crimes?"
"Fabricated ones, of course."
Mo Yan counted them off on his fingers. "Oppressing fellow disciples, embezzling sect property, abandoning your post, colluding with the Outer Dao, plotting treason... When someone wants to pin a crime on you, they'll never lack a pretext."
"Those charges can't hurt me," Chu Mo replied calmly.
Never mind whether the charges were true-even if every one of them was, his status as a Source-Wielding Dao Lord meant he would, at most, be fined some spirit matter, with payment deferrable at that. Mo Yan nodded. "They aren't planning to do anything serious to you, either. They just want to cause enough trouble to keep your mind off cultivation."
At this point, amusement gleamed at the corners of his eyes. "At first, I wondered why Xuanming was charging in so recklessly to make trouble for you. These methods seemed downright clumsy. But now that I've