Slay a Heaven-and-Earth Grand Confucian! Strip a Million Scholars of Their Qi! An Irrevocable Break!

"Peng Dog."

"Come here and die!"

Xu Qingxiao's furious roar rang out.

The pit had been dug, and the man had jumped in. Now it was time to fill it.

With that single cry of "Peng Dog, come here and die!"

His voice instantly resounded throughout the Capital. Inside the Heavenly Prison, a mighty force dragged Scholar Peng here by sheer strength.

Both were Heaven-and-Earth Grand Confucians, and Xu Qingxiao was no weaker than Scholar Peng.

At that very moment.

Like a stray dog bereft of its home, Scholar Peng was dragged before Xu Qingxiao, his expression terrified and his eyes filled with shock.

He stared at Xu Qingxiao.

Why hadn't the Literary Artifact killed Xu Qingxiao?

This was impossible. He was certain Xu Qingxiao had cultivated an Unorthodox Art. The intelligence could not be wrong.

It absolutely could not be wrong.

Nor could anything possibly be wrong with the Literary Palace's Sage Artifact. Once it detected the Unorthodox Art within Xu Qingxiao, it would force out his demonic nature, causing it to manifest.

Then, before the eyes of All Under Heaven, Xu Qingxiao would fall into the Demon Dao, and he could use the Literary Palace's Sage Artifact to kill Xu Qingxiao outright.

That had been his plan, and the outcome he had expected.

Now that outcome had vanished. Scholar Peng could not believe any of this.

Xu Qingxiao had proved his innocence once again.

And the price was that he himself had to relinquish his rank as a Heaven-and-Earth Grand Confucian.

Not only that, Xu Qingxiao, who had been at a disadvantage all along, would instantly seize the high ground and gain the right to judge and punish every one of them.

Xu Qingxiao had not been the Great Wei Literary Palace's primary target, merely someone swept into