The Jinyi Youth who had been crippled at Shadow City's gates and left sprawled on the ground publicly bore the title of the Judgment Hall Master's nephew. In truth, however, he was the Judgment Hall Master's illegitimate son, hidden for decades without the slightest word ever leaking out.
This was an utmost secret, ruthlessly suppressed by the Judgment Hall Master. Throughout the Shadow Church and all of Shadow City, from the Church's upper ranks to ordinary cultivators, not a single person knew of this shameful blood relationship.
It was precisely this protection, unknown to anyone, that allowed the youth to run rampant in Shadow City, bullying men and abusing women, committing every imaginable evil. Time and again, he caused monstrous trouble, yet the Judgment Hall Master quietly suppressed and smoothed over every incident, never once letting anything slip.
But this time, everything had come to a complete end.
Shiheng had personally stripped him of his lifetime of cultivation and severed all his meridians, reducing him to a cripple. Even if he survived, he could only eke out the rest of his days like a walking corpse, with none of his former arrogance remaining.
To the Judgment Hall Master, who valued his dignity and bloodline above all else, such an outcome was no different from outright death-even more humiliating, in fact.
When his subordinate cultivators brought the news back to the Judgment Hall, a cold aura capable of destroying heaven and earth instantly swept through the towering hall shrouded in endless shadows.
Inside the hall, the Judgment Hall Master sat upon a pitch-black throne, his robes billowing without wind. The utter agony of losing his son and his towering fury completely overwhelmed the reason and composure he had cultivated throughout his life.
He was a supreme expert at the very pinnacle