By the time Su Jiu reached the Enforcement Hall, the place was already in utter chaos, like chickens flying and dogs leaping.
Su Mianmian stood brandishing a whip, throwing her weight around. "Yi Zheng! With Xia Jue gone, you let your subordinates arrest people at random! If you don't give me a satisfactory explanation today, I'll raze this place!"
Yi Zheng felt as though he was being tormented to the brink of madness. He had no idea which thoughtless subordinate had done this. Normally, when someone connected to the higher-ups needed to be arrested, he personally assigned the task. But he truly was being wronged this time, because he had never ordered anyone to arrest any Su Qingqing.
Several of his subordinates were also frantic, checking the registers to find out who had arrested Su Qingqing.
But an incense stick's worth of time passed, and they still had no leads.
One disciple searching the registers quietly sent Yi Zheng a voice transmission. "There's no record of any disciple going to arrest Su Qingqing."
Yi Zheng went still at that. Then, as though a possibility had occurred to him, his expression sharpened.
"Has anyone new been brought into custody today?"
Another disciple leafing through the registers shook his head as well.
Yi Zheng frowned at Su Mianmian and Su Bo. "Did you see Enforcement Hall disciples take her away with your own eyes?"
"I saw it with my own eyes!" The voice came from the doorway, from an unfamiliar female Outer Gate disciple.
But there was no one in the Enforcement Hall who failed to recognize the person standing beside her.
Yi Zheng felt his scalp prickle. One impossible-to-please terror wasn't enough-why had another come along?
He was now in the middle stage of Golden Core, but if he fought Su