"So this is all well and good?"
Lin Ke laughed in anger.
These people truly had no idea how close they were to death.
"An Imperial Academy Doctor, are you?"
Lin Ke thought for a moment, then asked the Imperial Academy Doctor softly, "You're Murong Xu's younger brother and Murong Mu's second uncle?"
At those words, the Imperial Academy Doctor's brow suddenly twitched.
Something's wrong!
Something's very wrong!
He could not help scrutinizing Lin Ke again. Lin Ke's composure struck him as unnatural!
Could he really be the son of some high official or powerful noble? the Imperial Academy Doctor wondered.
Yet he racked his memory and could not find an official so young.
Or rather, all the young officials currently in the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty's Imperial Capital were his students, graduates of the Imperial Academy.
If he isn't an official, he must be the descendant of some prominent family!
Could he be an illegitimate son, or perhaps...
Several possibilities suddenly occurred to the Imperial Academy Doctor, making him frown.
Meanwhile, with the Imperial Academy Doctor backing him, Murong Mu grew arrogant. "Hahaha! You wretch, you ambushed me, and now you dare look so calm? I'll have all nine branches of your clan exterminated!"
"My son, don't be rude," his mother admonished beside him. "There's no need to exterminate all nine branches of such a person's clan. That would tarnish my standing on the Daoist Register... just execute his entire household."
"You're right, Mother." Murong Mu nodded, his eyes gleaming.
Seeing what a grave crime Lin Ke had apparently committed, the surrounding townspeople whispered among themselves, their expressions varied.
"What a terrible crime! Won't his whole family be killed?"
"Not just his family! They won't spare so much as a dog. They'll even shake the yolks apart inside the