The captured cultivators hung in midair, bound by restrictions and exposed to the eyes of three hundred thousand soldiers, utterly bedraggled.
On the light screen, Wei Ting's face, stern as iron and stone, clearly overlooked everything below.
His icy gaze swept over those ashen figures, and he spoke coldly:
"Before the Seven-Day Rest Period! Lord Zhou Yan, Circuit-Inspecting Governor of Minjiang Province, had already proclaimed the formation of the Gou Wu Whale Army! Every one of you received a jade slip containing the military regulations! He even explained them!"
His voice abruptly rose, carrying a heaven-scorching fury. "Black ink on white paper! Perfectly clear! Are your eyes blind, or are your hearts blind?!"
"You had only just joined the military and put on these Whale Army robes, yet you dared treat military regulations as nothing on Vajra Spirit Island!"
"Did you think heaven was high and the emperor far away? Did you think you had hidden yourselves well enough?"
"Fools!"
Wei Ting's furious rebuke lashed like a whip across everyone's heart:
"Let me tell you! The Profound Mirror Sky-Hunting Bureau stationed hundreds of people on Vajra Spirit Island alone! Watching your every move!"
"Your filthy dealings-murdering people on the Immortal Register to steal their treasures, ritually refining countless living beings, insulting and slandering His Majesty... every last offense has been recorded!"
"You have utterly disgraced our Whale Army!"
"Is something wrong with your brains? Vajra Spirit Island is right here under our Immortal Dynasty's rule, not somewhere far away, and plenty of its people are on the Immortal Register! What godforsaken backwater did you think this was?"
"And these are only the offenses they discovered. Plenty went undiscovered! Count yourselves damned lucky!"
"You things who don't know death when you see it!"
He swept his hand down, like bringing down