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"Are you guys planning to rebel?" Zhao Gongming's cultivation was deep. With a single shout, the entire plaza became a lot quieter.

His brows were knit together tightly. This was clearly the first time in a thousand years that the Sword Sect had created such a situation.

Servant disciples besieging the Punishment Peak?

Although these service disciples did not have much cultivation base? However, there were a lot of them. Even if all the inner disciples of the Earth Sword Sect were to enter, they might not be able to stop the attacks of these service disciples.

With so many ants, how could he bite an elephant to death?

And after all, they were all people from the sword faction. Right now the sword faction's power was declining and had already become the bottom of a first-rate sect. Even some second-rate sects did not put the sword faction in their eyes.

If there was a large scale internal conflict in the sword faction, then there might be some sects that had ill intentions towards the sword faction. For example, the people from the Arctic Demon Sect would take the opportunity to attack the sword faction and the sword faction could disappear at any time.

Therefore, this matter had to be handled well.

Seeing that the service disciples had all quieted down, Zhao Gongming continued, "No matter what happens, our Punishment Hall will give everyone a satisfactory answer. Please calm down."

Chen Yao took a step forward and walked out of the crowd. Li Wanshan was being dragged by him as well.

Standing at the very front of the crowd, Chen Yao cupped his fists and said to Zhao Gongming, "I've heard that the Punishment Hall's Master, Zhao Gongming, is a man of his word. I've come today to seek justice."

Not to mention the service disciples, even the inner disciples could not be recognized by Zhao Gongming. However, Zhao Gongming had to recognize this Chen Yao.

In the upper echelons of the sword faction, there was almost no one who didn't know Chen Yao, because Chen Yao was someone whose talent was on par with the Martial Ancestor.

The sword faction had originally wanted to train Chen Yao as a seeded competitor, but no one had expected that during the inner sect competition not long ago, Chen Yao's Dantian would be crippled by Liu Wuya.

Liu Wuya's attacks were extremely fierce and ruthless. Clearly, he already had a premeditated plan. He didn't even have the time to stop the referee before a rare genius died like that.

And this magistrate was none other than Zhao Gongming himself.

It was obvious that Liu Wuya intentionally destroyed Chen Yao's dantian, but this was an inner court competition. It was a battle that fit the rules, so no one could do anything to Liu Wuya.

Zhao Gongming originally wanted to punish Liu Wuya, but there was a powerful Liu Wuya supporting the Elders Guild. That person's strength was something even Zhao Gongming feared.

Therefore, Zhao Gongming felt guilty towards Chen Yao in his heart.

"Chen Yao, although I, Zhao Gongming, am responsible for your Dantian being destroyed, this is a private matter between us. Bringing so many Sword Sect disciples here to cause trouble is a bit too much."

Hearing Zhao Gongming's words, Chen Yao was startled for a moment. However, he soon recovered from his shock. It was evident that Zhao Gongming had misunderstood him and misunderstood him.

Thus, Chen Yao explained, "Pavilion Master Zhao misunderstood me. I didn't come here for the matter of my Dantian being crippled, and if it was really because of that matter, then the person I found was Liu Wuya and not you. Besides, if it was a personal matter of my own, I probably wouldn't be able to order tens of thousands of service disciples around.

"Hmm? "You can tell me." Zhao Gongming frowned slightly. Not to mention that he owed Chen Yao, based on the current situation, even if Chen Yao had a high position and power, even if he had a deep cultivation base, he would still have no choice but to give Chen Yao a chance to speak.

Thus, Chen Yao told Li Wanshan about how Li Wanshan had squeezed out all the servants and how he had planned to kill him. Even the tens of thousands of servants and disciples were enraged.

Listening to what Chen Yao said, Zhao Gongming started to frown deeply.

"How dare you, Li Wanshan! As a Deacon of the Servant Peak, you dare to bully a fellow sect member for committing crimes? What crime do you think you deserve?" Zhao Gongming's angry shout almost made Li Wanshan, who was kneeling on the ground, faint.

Without waiting for Li Wanshan to speak, Chen Yao first said, "Hall Master Zhao, with your identity, you can naturally think of this service peak's deacon as someone who is very useful, and the people who can assume this position are probably all promoted by someone in the upper echelons of the sword faction. So by doing this, he must have obtained the approval of the upper echelons."

It wasn't that Zhao Gongming didn't know clearly in his heart, the disciples of the Servant Peak were all accepted from the secular world, mainly to deal with some of the sword faction's miscellaneous matters, and they could also obtain some benefits from this. If one wanted to become a deacon of the Servant Peak, it would be impossible to say that there was no one in the upper echelons of the sword faction, and that person's identity was definitely ridiculously high.

Although Zhao Gongming was a person who distinguished good and evil, and rewarded and punished for their actions, this matter involved a lot of things. Right now, the sword faction was in chaos, and their foundation was a big problem. If the upper echelons disagreed, it would bring a lot of trouble to the sword faction.

His original intention was to deal with Li Wanshan and pacify Chen Yao, which would be the end of the matter. However, from Chen Yao's point of view, he didn't think the matter was big enough.

Just as Zhao Gongming was hesitating, Chen Yao said, "Pavilion Master Zhao, you can't be afraid of the people behind Li Wanshan, right? You have to know that you're the sword faction's standard. If your spine is bent, then our sword sect will be finished.

Chen Yao's words were truly a bit outrageous. However, everyone remained silent. That was because his words were reasonable and irrefutable.

Zhao Gongming's heart also shook. That's right, he was wholeheartedly considering for the sword faction. He wanted to turn big and small, but if this continued, the bug hidden in the sword faction would become more and more arrogant.

A ten thousand year old tree, no matter how flourishing it was, if the root died, there would be a day when it would crash to the ground. He was the Sword Faction's enforcer, so he had to get rid of these worms.

Zhao Gongming looked at the kneeling Li Wanshan and said, "Li Wanshan, I'll give you a chance. Tell me who ordered you to kill Chen Yao, and where is the finance you exploited?"

Li Wanshan gritted his teeth and fearfully said, "The Liu Family, it's the Liu Family. Outer disciple Liu Qing told me to kill Chen Yao. And most of the benefits I got were given to Liu Qing."

"Liu Family, Liu Qing?" Hearing this name, Zhao Gongming's face was filled with rage.

Among other things, just because the sword faction had been turned into a small sect by the Liu Family all these years, it was more like an influential family of the Liu Family. Because the Liu Family had an Old Ancestor who held an important position at the highest level of the sword faction, the Liu Family slowly infiltrated into various parts of the sword faction.

Last time, Liu Wuya crippled Chen Yao's Dantian. Because of that ancestor, Liu Wuya was fine.

Just thinking about it made him angry.

"Bring Liu Qing here. I want him to confront Li Wanshan in a confrontation. If this is true, I will definitely let him have a taste of my sword faction's pain of having ten thousand swords pierce his heart."