Yue Qianmen was one of the Zhongzhou Sect's ten highest-ranking elders in the Void Refinement Realm.
His cultivation was the highest of anyone present, as was his seniority. Only the monk Du Hai could stand alongside him, so his questions naturally carried considerable force.
The Duke of Lu's expression remained unchanged. "No one is allowed to enter the Demon-Suppressing Prison. Even when prisoners are summoned for questioning, puppets are responsible for bringing them out."
In fact, prisoners sent into the Demon-Suppressing Prison had already been squeezed utterly dry by the Pure Heaven Bureau and the various sects, so they were rarely summoned for questioning.
It was merely that certain evil cultivators had cultivation realms too high, and certain demon cultivators were too powerful, to be killed easily. They were therefore sent into the Demon-Suppressing Prison to await death.
Yue Qianmen sneered. "The situation that day was so desperate and dangerous. Could you not even make an exception?"
"Rules are rules. Never mind you or me-even if True Person Tan came in person, he could not enter the Demon-Suppressing Prison."
The Duke of Lu said expressionlessly, "In fact, if no one had entered the Demon-Suppressing Prison for all these years, how else could the world have remained unaware that the Azure Dragon had eaten so many people?"
The rhetorical question seemed ordinary, but it was anything but.
Everyone thought that the duke truly deserved his position as the Divine Emperor's foremost favorite, to take such a hard line even against the Zhongzhou Sect.
Yue Qianmen thundered, "The Dragon God sacrificed so much for the continent's peace. What does swallowing a few evil creatures amount to? Besides, that was part of the agreement all along."
"The original agreement contained no provision for eating living people. Otherwise, who in the Imperial Court, the