Chapter 503: Just Because Of One More Look At You (2/2)

Ye Hongyu suddenly smiled, and said in a calm but peremptory voice, ”You know clearly that it's just an excuse to banish all of you. The real reason is quite simple. I don't want to see you any more for you once looked at me in that way.”

Zi Mo suddenly understood.

Last spring, Ye Hongyu was very weak due to breaking the realm. There had been rumors that Commander Luo had obtained the approval of the Hierarch Lord and was ready to propose marriage to her. Being the case, the cavalry commanders headed by Chen Bachi looked at her differently. Some were greedy like Chen Bachi, some pitied her like she was a frail beauty and others mocked her for her future prospects.

They were not hostile and not all of them were malicious. However, when they looked at the Great Divine Priest of Judgment in that way, it was a sin which should be punished.

Zi Mo was desperate. Looking down at the smooth ground, he said ironically, ”We have made so many meritorious services for the Divine Hall and you want us dead just because we looked at you in that way several times?”

”One more look is enough.”

Ye Hongyu smiled and said, ”What makes you think that I would let you leave Peach Mountain alive if not for the meritorious service?”

Zi Mo looked at her and said tremblingly with his last hope, ”My lord, we can still serve the Divine Hall... serve you. We want to serve you. Please have mercy on us. We will make amends for our mistake.”

Ye Hongyu was a little tired. She held her jaw, leaned and said, ”I said you are not guilty. So there is no need for you to make amends. I just don't want to see you again.”

The officer once again stepped forward. He watched the commanders and said calmly, ”Take your punishment later. The lord has been merciful toward you. You will all get an old horse for plowing and some silvers for settling down.”

Hundreds of people bowed to the ground and shuddered in the hall. No one dared to oppose the decision. Zi Mo slowly clenched his fists. Other commanders could not help but lift their heads.

Ye Hongyu did not look at them at all.

The officer looked at them as if he had not sensed the changes in their emotions. He continued expressionless, ”You shall not step into West-Hill Divine Kingdom again, shall not mention to anyone that you once served the hall, and you shall not bear a grudge and talk nonsense. Death will come to you if you violate any of these.”

Zi Mo looked around. Those commanders avoided his stare after hearing the ruthless verdict. After a while, the struggle on his face turned into self-mockery. He sighed and then slowly fell to his knees, receiving the grim punishment in pain.

Holy and indifferent light appeared in the Divine Hall. Zi Mo was screaming in pain like an angry beast. Other commanders shouted bitterly one after the other.

They worked diligently for their entire lives and finally entered the Seethrough state. However, today their cultivation was destroyed, making them completely ordinary.

Gradually, calm was restored in the black hall and became even more horrible.

The empty hall was inhumanly lonesome.

Ye Hongyu calmly sat in the b.l.o.o.d.y black jade throne.

The seat was large. Sitting in it seemed to be uncomfortable.

But she felt rather comfortable.

The devout officer knelt before her and said in a low voice, ”My lord, Zi Mo and the other commanders are indeed very mighty and you can expect their loyalties. It is a pity that they will be expelled along with Commander Luo...”

Ye Hongyu slightly bowed her head. She held her jaw like she had been sleeping.

”There's no need to worry about a defeated opponent. Someday in the future, I will kill them. So why should I care about their feelings?”

”No one has noticed that the world is changing and it will change into a new place where Grand Cultivators of Knowing destiny State might be killed at any time, not to mention a Seethrough cultivator.”

In the late spring of the 16th year of the Tianqi era, 3447 of the West-Hill calendar, a total of seven cavalry commanders lost their cultivation and were expelled from West-Hill by Ye Hongyu, the new Great Divine Priest of Judgment, and were banned from returning to the West-Hill Divine Kingdom. Those commanders who used to be c.o.c.ky, now left Peach Mountain with an old horse, some silvers and their own squire like lost dogs.

In the records of the West-Hill Divine Palace, they had committed obscure sins which were concluded into one word--depravity. They were called the Fallen Knights.

But people who witnessed everything in the West-Hill hall knew clearly that the real reason of their ruthless punishment was because of one more look. A look at the girl last spring.

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