There were four seats in the main hall. Apart from the three Qi Refining cultivators already seated, the remaining one belonged to Jiang Che.
Jiang Che cupped his hands toward everyone and sat down, then looked down at Zhao Bo from his elevated seat.
Zhao Bo knelt with his head lowered, his expression hidden from view.
Cui Xuezhao spoke, explaining the whole affair to Jiang Che.
Early that morning, invoking his status as an Azure Mystic disciple, Zhao Bo had publicly reported Deacon Cao Jian under his own name. He accused Cao Jian of squeezing the county's cultivator lineages dry with limitless levies; embezzling the outer sect's public revenue; privately reselling [Azure Peace Heavenly Music Qi] to line his own pockets; and concealing the fact that Duckweed Marsh was nearly exhausted, meaning they would certainly fail to gather the eight portions of Spirit Essence due to be delivered to the sect in three years...
He had shouted these accusations before a hall full of disciples. Cao Jian had slammed the table on the spot, declaring that this madman was spitting blood to slander his superior, and had moved to beat him to death right there.
But Zhao Zhisong had stopped him.
The two Qi Refining cultivators had nearly come to blows.
Cui Xuezhao had desperately tried to persuade them to stop. If their own deacon and steward fought inside an Azure Mystic Hall Department, what kind of disgrace would that be? They would drag the entire Azure Mystic Sect's reputation through the mud!
Thus, blood had not been spilled on the spot.
Although no fight had broken out, the matter was now out in the open. They had to discuss it and determine who was right and who was wrong.
And so Jiang Che, the Inspector representing the sect's will