(The Tang Old Master left out one of the four and a half words he feared. Also, Chen Changsheng and Xu You Rong plundered so much wealth from the Garden of Zhou. Where did it all go? I really did forget … I really am not sensitive enough to these things. I admit my mistake. In the future, I will be even more serious. In a few days, when Xu You Rong returns to the capital, I will go back and forth to look for it. I believe that I will find it very beautifully. As I said the day before yesterday, the updates will slow down in the next few days. It will continue until I confirm that I have enough, or until I return to the Qing Kingdom.)
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The office of the Department for Purging Officials was in the main alley of the Northern Military Department.
Although it was called an alley, it was actually a very wide straight street, able to accommodate two carriages side by side.
At this time, there were also two carriages in the alley, one in front and one behind. There was no one in the carriages, but there were quite a few people outside the alley. Moreover, as the news spread, more people would probably appear.
The people outside the alley were the spies of the various powers of the capital. They only dared to look at the estate from the entrance of the alley, not daring to approach.
The estate seemed very ordinary and did not give off any sinister feeling, but there was not a single person in the alley below the stone steps.
Chen Changsheng stood in front of the gate of the estate, taking out his name card and handing it over to an official. His expression and movements were rather stiff.
This was the first time he had handed over his name card to pay a formal visit.
He had never done something like this before, so he could not help but be somewhat nervous. Of course, the root cause of his nervousness was still the estate itself. Let alone him, Xuanyuan Po's breathing was also very heavy. Even the normally fearless Tang Thirty-Six was very quiet at this moment — in truth, after the carriage passed through the main street of the stone workshop and turned into the main alley of the Northern Military Department, confirming Chen Changsheng's destination, he had not opened his mouth to speak.
This estate was the office of the Department for Purging Officials, and also Zhou Tong's residence, the legendary Zhou Prison.
To many people, especially the subjects of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this estate was the most sinister and frightening place on the continent, even more frightening than Xuelao City in the land of demons.
Because Xuelao City was too far away, but Zhou Prison was right next to it.
The reason why this estate was sinister and frightening was naturally because of the powerful figure that lived within.
The name of Zhou Tong could stop children from crying at night. This was not some literary description, but something that had truly happened.
Other than that, there were many similar stories. It was said that several decades ago, the son of the current Minister of Rites had drunk too much wine in a certain brothel, and wanted to force himself on a famous courtesan to spend the night. Just as he was about to succeed, he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the door that Zhou Tong had arrived. The son of the Minister was so frightened that he lost control of his bowels, and from then on, he was unable to do anything else.
Of course, this did not mean that Zhou Tong was a good person willing to help the people of Jingdou educate their children or be willing to save women in distress. This only showed how terrifying his name was in people's hearts.
The entire world knew that Zhou Tong was a cruel and ruthless official, a sinister and evil villain who had harmed countless innocent commoners and unyielding officials.
It could be said that Su Li had killed far too many people with his sword, making him a target that many people wanted to kill. Then, everyone in the world wanted to kill Zhou Tong. Even the officials in the same camp as him sometimes wished for him to quickly die. There were even times when some people felt that the heavens had allowed a person like Zhou Tong to appear as a punishment for the human world.
According to the normal development of a story, a person like Zhou Tong would at most have a momentary momentum. He should have long since been executed by a heroic emperor, or perhaps transformed into a wisp of smoke by an otherworldly expert. But he did not.
This was because he was an extremely high-ranking minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, protected by countless soldiers and experts. Moreover, he himself was a Star Condensation expert. Crucially, he was the Divine Empress's most trusted dog.
There were countless people in the world who opposed the Tianhai Divine Empress's rule. About seventy percent of them did so because she was a woman, and the remaining thirty percent basically did so because of the evil deeds Zhou Tong had done. This was because no one was a fool. Even the most foolish common people, after so many years, should be able to see that Zhou Tong's tyrannical and evil was actually a manifestation of the Divine Empress's will.
The Divine Empress had already ruled the continent for more than two hundred years. Her methods of ruling could be considered perfect, but there were still countless people who opposed her.
She was keenly aware that as sovereign, she could not blindly conciliate. Thus, she needed a vicious dog, a swift blade, to tear and chop at those people who secretly opposed her.
On a deeper level, she needed a person to carry out her evil will.
This person was Zhou Tong.
He perfectly fulfilled the Divine Empress's requirements.
He had no childhood shadow, no entanglement of profit, no necessity. He simply enjoyed imprisoning people under the name of the Great Zhou's laws, torturing and abusing them.
From this perspective, Zhou Tong was actually a very pure person.
He was a pure evil person.
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Chen Changsheng had come to the Department for Purging Officials today precisely to see Zhou Tong.
From Xining Village to the capital, he had heard far too many things concerning Zhou Tong, so he couldn't help but feel somewhat nervous. Only when he pinched that object in his sleeve did he feel slightly better.
Brought into the estate by an official of the Department for Purging Officials, he had not expected that this rumored to be incomparably sinister and frightening estate would actually be so quiet and beautiful.
They were brought to a courtyard in the deepest part of the city.
The courtyard was not very large, with two crabapple trees planted within it. The trees were probably rather old, their branches already reaching over the courtyard walls, and a few pink flowers that had yet to fade could still be seen on them.
Xuanyuan Po turned his head, nervously taking stock of his surroundings.
Tang Thirty-Six slightly arched his brows, seemingly thinking of something.
Chen Changsheng, on the other hand, was recalling the buildings and environment he had seen on the road, attempting to calculate where Zhexiu was imprisoned.
He was currently at the peak of Ethereal Opening. In an ordinary sect or sect, he could already be considered an expert. Although he still could not sense the world, he already had some intuition in this aspect, especially after learning the Intellectual Sword from Su Li. But this seemingly ordinary estate clearly had an array that far surpassed his current cultivation level. Let alone finding where Zhexiu was imprisoned, the more he thought about it, the more he realized that he had even somewhat forgotten the path he had taken to enter.
Just at this moment, a voice rang out.
"Surpassing cultivation levels at Ethereal Opening to defeat Star Condensation, this is the first time in ten years that something like this has happened. This will assuredly shock the entire continent. Right now, you are in high spirits, your sword intent at its peak, and you drove straight into the main alley of the Northern Military Department. From a military point of view, this is very good. Isn't charging through a pass on a single horse a type of marching an army? But I've never heard that you were skilled in this. Now that I think about it, it was probably Su Li who taught you this on the road. "
The voice was very calm, very ordinary, but for some reason, upon hearing this person's voice, Chen Changsheng and the other two felt like they had seen a sea of blood.
In this sea of blood, countless women and children were weeping in despair, gradually sinking into oblivion.
Chen Changsheng knew that this was an illusion, so he was not nervous, even though he did not understand why this person had created this scene for him to see.
With a slight movement of his spiritual sense, like a cool breeze, he awoke and gazed at the middle-aged man that had suddenly appeared in the small courtyard.
The middle-aged man was naturally Zhou Tong.
His face was pale, as if he had not seen the sun for many years. His expression was calm, like that of a village teacher. His lips were extremely thin, making him seem especially callous.
He wore an official's robe, but there was no trace of an official's prestige, only a thick stench of blood.
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