The next instant, the skin of the Children's Education Bureau official cracked like a sheet of ice breaking apart.
Literary qi streamed from the cracks, and thick, snowy-white frost formed over his eyebrows, robes, and cap.
Crack!!
Crack!
Crack!
Brittle cracks rang out from his body, as though he were a block of ice about to shatter after hitting the ground.
Meanwhile, the Great Confucian from the Punishments Department had no time to worry about his colleague.
His expression changed as he looked at the cold wind slicing toward him, and he cried out despite himself, "This attack... strikes directly at the great Confucian literary heart!"
Without the slightest delay, he turned his hand over, produced a square official seal, and flung it forward.
"How dare you! You dare use the Punishments Department's official seal at a time like this!" To his surprise, Li Chungang flew into a rage. "Do you realize that damaging an official seal is a crime you cannot possibly bear?"
Yet even as he spoke, the seal had already positioned itself between Lin Ke and the man from the Punishments Department.
Whoosh!!!!
The cold wind howled past. The official seal instantly lost all its radiance and fell, striking the ground squarely and burying half a corner in it.
After knocking down the seal, the cold wind did not stop. It continued howling toward the official from the Punishments Department.
"Legal decree: Strict Enforcement!"
The Great Confucian's heart began beating powerfully, producing a rumble like thunder.
White light a foot long burst from his eyes, and it seemed as though a bolt of thunder was about to erupt from deep within his throat.
At the same time, a force from heaven and earth sealed the space three feet in front of him.
A Great Confucian of the