Naturally, Chen Wei did not believe a single word Martial Virtue Star Lord said.
Lax discipline? Straying down the wrong path?
Who was he trying to fool, a ghost?
By laying the evidence on the table, Martial Virtue Star Lord had made his intentions plain: sacrifice the rook to save the king. He wanted his two so-called godsons to shoulder all the blame so he could pull himself clean out of the mire.
Chen Wei certainly was not willing to let that happen,
but for now, he really had no good way to move against Martial Virtue Star Lord directly.
Investigations had to proceed one step at a time.
Taking down a fourth-rank Registrar or a military commander-even a Golden Immortal-was straightforward: with conclusive evidence, he could arrest them and be done with it. But moving against a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal who commanded troops, a veteran Star Lord of the Heavenly Court, had far greater ramifications.
The tangled web of powers behind Wude would never sit idly by.
And that was exactly what happened.
Chen Wei's Voice Transmission Jade Talisman had not stopped buzzing. Immortals from all corners of the Heavenly Court and senior officials from every department were calling to sound him out. Even Taibai Jinxing had Daluo Golden Immortals dropping oblique questions about whether the Censorate was planning some major operation.
The more tempers flared and undercurrents churned,
the more it proved that they had hit a tough nut and struck at the core interests of certain high-ranking immortals. They were already close to the truth behind those rotten accounts.
Rather than beat the grass and startle the snake, better to lure it out of its hole.
With that thought, Chen Wei set the documents in his hand on the desk, strode around it, and caught Martial