"By order of Zhang Xing, Great Dragonhead of the right wing of the Exorcising the Dragon Gang:
Gao Jiang, Duke of the Northern Office, has long acted lawlessly and excelled at catering to his sovereign's wickedness! Twice he rebuilt the Heaven-Piercing Tower, each time more outrageously than before, working and crushing over ten thousand innocents to death. Defying the seasons, he drove tens of thousands of palace eunuchs and Palace Attendants south through the snow, leaving countless people freezing and starving. He holds human life as cheap as the benighted emperor does and deserves execution under the severest penalty, to set the record straight..."
"By order of Master Zhang San, Zhang Xing, Great Dragonhead of the right wing of the Exorcising the Dragon Gang:
There's this Gao Jiang, Duke of the Northern Office... chicken mountain handsome knows evil... worked tens of thousands of innocent people to death... this man treats human lives like dirt, no different from that muddleheaded emperor. He ought to be cut clean in two, to make an example!"
Little Zhou read a sentence quietly, and Heavenly King Xiong repeated it.
It was clear that shouting with True Qi was hardly strenuous for Heavenly King Xiong, who had reached Core Formation. The difficulty lay in what he had to shout... Heavenly King Xiong was not illiterate, but Zhang Xing's affected literary language did not suit him. He struggled through the first half, then simply improvised the second once he understood its meaning.
Of course, Zhang Xing did not mind. He had written this mixture of literary and colloquial language in the first place so that the officers among the opposing government troops would understand, and these men in charge, now dragons without a head, would tread carefully and behave... ultimately, though rules certainly mattered when it came