Land God Li truly had no idea what a pleasant surprise was.
All he felt now was terror.
Embezzling three hundred thousand years of merit-if that enormous charge stuck, never mind a mere land god of Cangwu Mountain, even the Ten Kings of Hell could not shoulder such karma.
If he actually admitted it, he probably would not even get a chance to reincarnate as an animal.
His divine soul would be annihilated outright, forever beyond rebirth.
Land God Li's legs buckled, and he slid to the floor, desperately kowtowing and begging for mercy. "Lord Chen! This lowly official remembered wrong! Nothing of the sort happened! Truly! I was blind, my heart was smothered in lard! The man in that Recording Stone wasn't Lord Ma. My eyes were playing tricks on me!"
He had changed his tune.
With life and death on the line, the script wasn't worth a damn.
Chen Wei did not even lift his eyelids. He ignored him entirely.
Ma Muzhi grinned at those words. After years navigating the Heavenly Court, he knew the art of following the stick up to strike the snake inside out. How could he pass up a chance to kick someone when he was down?
"Remembered wrong?"
Ma Muzhi pointed straight at Land God Li's nose, raising his voice. "You brought a forged Recording Stone to the entrance of the Discipline Inspection Court and beat the Grievance Drum loud enough to shake the heavens! Now you think you can brush it all aside with 'I remembered wrong'?"
"Lord Pang, under the heavenly laws, what crime is it to forge evidence and falsely accuse a superior?"
Pang Long kept both hands tucked inside his sleeves, his expression impassive, playing along without leaving a single gap. "At minimum, removal from the Immortal Register and