The most awkwardly placed people at that moment were none other than Lian Zhen Star Lord and Li Xuantong.
Not long ago, the two had been hiding in the shadows, plotting together against Chen Wei and the Censorate.
One devised the schemes; the other showed his face.
Now their scheme had been overturned, and the pair had become mortal enemies, each trying to drag the other down.
Sun Wukong cared nothing for any of that. He lifted his chin toward Li Xuantong. "All right, the Lian Zhen Star Lord you wanted is here too. Lord Li, tell us how you were wronged!"
"Yes..."
Li Xuantong's tongue tied itself in knots. He was used to bowing and scraping before the lofty Star Lords. When it came to openly breaking with one, the servility in his bones made him instinctively shrink back.
But then he reconsidered.
He had already lost his life. What else was there to fear?
Sell him out!
"It was Lian Zhen Star Lord!" Li Xuantong steeled himself, his eyes reddening as he burst into furious accusations. "He secretly ordered this lowly official to give false testimony and frame Lord Ma of the Censorate! And the Lunar Mansions Government Office really does have a shortfall of three hundred thousand years' worth of merit! He orchestrated all of it himself!"
Once those words came out,
they exposed the Lunar Mansions Government Office's dirty secrets from top to bottom.
Lian Zhen Star Lord's eyes widened at the accusation. Pointing straight at Li Xuantong's nose, he roared, "Nonsense! In broad daylight, beneath the clear skies of the Heavenly Court, how dare you behave so outrageously!"
His shout rang out, full of force.
The assembled Immortals reacted in different ways.
The civil-official Star Lords nodded and stroked their beards, murmuring in agreement. "Exactly.