Chapter 3716 — The Hall Master Gongyang Jun
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The young man's gaze swept to the several Law Enforcement Hall experts, and taking in their bedraggled state, he frowned slightly and spat out, "A pack of useless trash!"
With that, he raised a hand and waved it through the air. The overwhelming pressure crushing down on the men vanished in an instant, and the pressure formation returned silently to its initial state, as though it had never been driven at full power at all.
Only then did the Law Enforcement Hall experts claw their way back from the brink of death. Without even pausing to steady their breathing, they scrambled to prostrate themselves before the young man, intoning with utmost reverence in unison, "We pay our respects to the Hall Master!"
Below the platform, the assembled newcomers exchanged bewildered glances. Those with a little more worldly experience had already guessed the young man's identity—none other than the renowned current Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, Gongyang Jun!
Rumor had it that this Gongyang Jun was a prodigy acknowledged as one appearing but once in several centuries in the Tri-Tier Pavilion. Thirty-eight years of age, yet his strength already rivaled that of elder-level masters. He was the youngest Hall Master in the history of the Law Enforcement Hall—and at the same time its most iron-fisted and cold-blooded one, without peer.
Wei Zhao had heard the long-suffering senior brother speak of the man before. Barely three years in office, and by sheer force of will he had forged the faction-riddled Law Enforcement Hall into a single unbreakable bloc. More crucially, in those three years, two elders of the Tri-Tier Pavilion had already been cast down into the dust by his hand on various charges!
And this—this was something his predecessors had failed to accomplish in decades!
To hear of him was not to know him; the man was truly no simple figure. Wei Zhao sighed inwardly—then suddenly noticed something odd about Li Zhengming, not far from him. He seemed... nervous?
Wei Zhao was baffled. Gongyang Jun was a lofty figure of the highest order. In theory he and Li Zhengming—a mere heaven-tier great-perfection newcomer—should have no point of intersection whatsoever. What was there to be nervous about?
But on second thought, given Li Zhengming's background, there had been the matter of the Qiushui Manor massacre all those years ago. The Law Enforcement Hall, cowed by the shadow hand behind it—a certain elder surnamed Li—had not pursued the investigation further. But back then, Gongyang Jun had not yet taken charge of the Law Enforcement Hall!
Had it been this iron-fisted man Gongyang Jun in charge of the case at the time, the outcome might have been entirely different.
What Wei Zhao did not know was that the turmoil in Li Zhengming's heart at this moment had nothing to do with regret that Gongyang Jun had not been in charge then—it stemmed from a far more horrifying reason!
Yet until he obtained sufficiently great power, even a hatred as vast as heaven's reach could only be buried deep in his heart, without betraying the slightest hint of abnormality. For otherwise, what awaited him would surely be utter annihilation!
Li Zhengming suddenly turned and cast a meaningful glance at Wei Zhao. In his understanding, there was no one in the Tri-Tier Pavilion's future who could stand toe-to-toe with a prodigy like Gongyang Jun—but if it were Wei Zhao, the man who had repeatedly pulled off astonishing feats, leading the way and growing into his own in the days to come, then perhaps there was the faintest sliver of a chance.
Let us hope Wei Zhao can lead the way and soar to the heavens, just like that Divine Physician and Sage Alchemist Zhang Lifeng who rose from their secular world!
"What happened here?" Gongyang Jun's tone was calm, devoid of the slightest ripple of emotion—yet it carried a strange, domineering pressure that left no room in anyone's mind for the thought of disobeying him.