The Game with Fairies

Chapter 267: The Dirty Adult World

“...These are the sect documents I’ve gathered. Take a look at them.”

In the dim prison cell, Shen Yan held up an oil lamp and spoke softly.

Li Muyang took the thick stack of “evidence” she handed over, raising an eyebrow: “These are my crimes? Is it appropriate for you to show me these documents?”

Shen Yan sighed, “If you were to be convicted, you would have to see these anyway.”

“They record 72 pieces of evidence that you coerced innocent people and persecuted sect members, as well as abused torture.”

“Go through them and inform me of the details, and I’ll try to help clear your name.”

As Shen Yan spoke, Li Muyang flipped through the evidence by the light of the oil lamp.

But the more he looked, the more he shook his head.

“The evidence is detailed and as solid as iron...”

After quickly going through the evidence, Li Muyang looked at Shen Yan and said, “I have nothing to argue. Based solely on this evidence, I indeed appear to have violated the sect’s rules and persecuted our members.”

The group within the Blood Lotus Sect that set Li Muyang up had obviously prepared thoroughly.

All the evidence was detailed and substantiated. Li Muyang couldn’t find any flaws.

Each judgment document was personally signed by Li Muyang.

Although Li Muyang hadn’t coerced confessions or deliberately persecuted the innocent, the evidence alone made it seem as if he had.

Hearing Li Muyang’s response, Shen Yan fell silent for a moment.

This intelligent woman quickly understood the situation.

“...Someone in the Hall of Enforcement has been bought off.”

Shen Yan narrowed her eyes in thought, looking at Li Muyang: “Think back to the disciples involved in these cases from the Hall of Enforcement. Who were they?”

To clear Li Muyang’s name now, they had to find the people behind the scenes who framed him.

But Li Muyang just smiled and shook his head, saying, “You haven’t said, if my crimes are proven true, how will the sect leader deal with me?”

Shen Yan pondered for a moment before replying, “According to the sect rules, you won’t be executed. For members above the rank of Banner Master, physical punishment comes first.”

The higher the cultivation of a sect member, the more costly it is to resurrect them after death.

Therefore, the higher-ups in the Blood Lotus Sect are mainly subject to physical punishment.

Fang Yingtian would not fail to see that this was a setup and would not easily sentence Li Muyang to death.

But physical punishment is also terrifying.

Shen Yan added, “The sect leader said he won’t deal with you. He asked me to clear up this matter, to catch all those stirring trouble in the shadows, and then...”

Shen Yan’s eyes turned slightly cold: “Expel all these people from the sect and erase them from the world!”

The usually gentle Shen Yan rarely showed such a cold demeanor.

Li Muyang smiled and nodded in agreement: “These people are not only targeting me but also the sect leader.”

Fang Yingtian’s reaction was consistent with Li Muyang’s understanding of the Blood Lotus Sect leader.

Cunning and deceitful, and also has a ruthless hand. He is by no means an idiot who is easily led around.

Li Muyang being hated and framed by so many was not due to personal vendettas.

Those people hated Li Muyang as well as Fang Yingtian, who implemented new sect rules.

In the past, the Blood Lotus Sect was scattered, with each branch fighting on its own, and the Helmsmen and Incense Masters were the bosses of their own territories, living comfortably.

Now, under Fang Yingtian’s unification, they had to follow Fang Yingtian and Shen Yan’s orders, and the new sect rules and the newly established Hall of Enforcement made them uneasy.

The Helmsmen who couldn’t adapt, along with their Banner Masters and confidants, had long held grievances.

Framing Li Muyang was also a protest against Fang Yingtian.

But Fang Yingtian was so tough that he intended to eliminate all these dissenters in one fell swoop...

The Blood Lotus Sect leader had the power to expel the souls of the sect members from the Four Directions Cauldron, depriving them of the ability to resurrect after death.

This time, to erase the dissenters... honestly, Fang Yingtian, the Blood Lotus Sect leader, really uses a strong hand.

This framing of Li Muyang and the action against the Hall of Enforcement involved many Helmsmen and Banner Masters.

If all these people were to be dealt with and erased, it could shake the foundation of the sect.

But Shen Yan’s gaze was ice cold.

“The sect leader said, ‘To secure the outside, we must first stabilize the inside.’ Now that our sect’s endeavors are just beginning, these people have become unruly and are trying to oppose us. If we don’t eliminate them all, they will only cause greater disasters in the future.”

“If you want to establish an enduring group, you must first clear away the internal dregs!”

Li Muyang nodded as he listened to the words relayed by Shen Yan.

Good, the Blood Lotus Sect is about to descend into chaos.

Fang Yingtian, who believed he had secured his footing, began to centralize power.

He intended to take action against those Helmsmen and Incense Masters who had been acting like tyrants, accustomed to being local Emperors.

It was uncertain how many of these Helmsmen and Incense Masters would perish this time.

Li Muyang didn’t harbor much resentment towards those who had framed him, but if the Blood Lotus Sect were to fall into chaos, it would be beneficial for both him and Yan Xiaoru’s actions.

After careful consideration, Li Muyang gave several names to Shen Yan, who then left with the documents.

She would use these names provided by Li Muyang to investigate the framing and entrapment against him.

In the dark prison cell, with Shen Yan’s departure, only Li Muyang remained.

Leisurely, Li Muyang returned to the corner, sat down, and closed his eyes.

“The Blood Lotus Sect is about to descend into chaos...”

With Fang Yingtian’s approach, those rats would definitely not sit by idly.

The Sect Leader of the Blood Lotus Sect and his Helmsmen and Incense Masters were too preoccupied with their internal strife to guard against threats.

This gave Yan Xiaoru of the Demon Refining Sect the opportunity to sever the connection between the Four Directions Cauldron and the earth’s veins, allowing the Demonic Sect to counterattack...

What a pleasant thought.

The more chaotic the Blood Lotus Sect became, the happier Li Muyang was.

He cheerfully entered the game and saw Shen Miao, dressed in white, sitting on the eaves in the distance, her eyes wide open as she stared into the void, obviously using her special vision to observe the events unfolding in the world.

It took a couple of calls from Li Muyang before Shen Miao snapped back to reality.

“Wow! Brother-in-law, the schemes and plots of these people are so complicated!”

Through the perspectives of Fang Yingtian and Shen Yan, Shen Miao must have known that this incident was more than just framing Li Muyang.

There was a deeper power struggle behind it.

For a simple and optimistic young girl, the power struggles of these important figures were too complex and dangerous.

Li Muyang smiled and said, “That’s how the dirty adult world is.”

Compared to that, playing games is simpler.

At least in the game, monsters don’t scheme and plot against you.

If you can beat them, you win; if you can’t, you lose.

“Let’s go, we will continue challenging the Vermilion Bird.”

The giant Emerald Blade Mantis waved its sharp blade arms, beckoning the girl to come over.

Now that he had received reliable information that the Sect Leader of the Blood Lotus Sect would not deal with him, Li Muyang was content to stay in the prison and play games.

As for the turmoil outside, it had nothing to do with him.

He detested this kind of power struggle and preferred to stay as far away from it as possible.

In the misty ghost city, the giant Emerald Blade Mantis leaped forward with Shen Miao, crashing into the Vermilion Bird’s secret realm.

In the maple forest ablaze with flames, a giant Vermilion Bird cried out, its wings covering the sky, as fire instantly rained down like rain...