"Sorry, sorry!"
Chu Xisheng cupped his hands with a smile that never reached his eyes, a hint of apology in his voice. "I meant to help you two intercept that deranged assassin, but a little slip on my spirit pet's part let him escape. Please forgive me, everyone."
The two Chu Family Dao Attendants were beside themselves with rage.
This fellow was simply taking them for fools!
Had that Five-Tailed Wind-Born Beast been intercepting the assassin? It had clearly been blocking them!
Even setting that aside, several people had been following this fellow, none of them weak.
Even if the Five-Tailed Wind-Born Beast had failed just now, those people could have intercepted the assassin. Yet they had stood rooted to the spot!
Moreover, deliberately or otherwise, these subordinates of Chu Xisheng had blocked every gap in the entire corridor.
The Five-Tailed Wind-Born Beast had also kept a strand of divine intent locked onto the two of them from afar.
The older Dao Attendant pointed his sword at Chu Xisheng and the others, his gaze sharp and his aura icy. "Stand aside! That man is an imperial fugitive whom the Ministry of Justice has wanted for nearly a year, ranked three hundred and seventy-second on its Black Ranking. By deliberately obstructing us, are you secretly aiding that assassin and colluding with an imperial fugitive?"
Lu Luanli raised her brows slightly and immediately took a copy of the Martial Secrets Almanac from her sleeve to consult.
She soon turned to the Ministry of Justice's Black Ranking and found the name in three hundred and seventy-second place.
Iron-Faced Judge Luo Yang—formerly the seventh-ranked Household Guard of the Jingxi Chu Clan's Eldest Branch, aged thirty-two, cultivation at the Fourth Rank. He had defected from the Jingxi Chu Family a year ago, wreaking havoc in