Chapter 406: Protecting Rules and Mysterious Star Gate

Under Dream Warmth, Xu Jin had figured out the promotion path of this former manager of the Relief Institute, Su Mingbai.

Should he laugh at this fool?

Or was he too smart!

When Xu Jin left two hundred taels of silver for him to take care of those eight disabled children, and even specifically said that he would come back for a follow-up visit in half a year, it was to remind him, to warn him.

He hadn't expected this fool to not pay any attention at all.

Because when he gave this instruction, Xu Jin's cultivation base was only at Meal of Mist fourth-layer.

Cultivators at the Meal of Mist Realm were everywhere in Jinshan Prefecture.

It didn't form even a shred of deterrence.

The day after Xu Jin and the others left, this fool turned around and used the two hundred taels of silver to buy a heavy gift to offer to his uncle.

Naturally, he gained his uncle's favor, and then because of the demon incident in Heshui County, there was a major reshuffle of officials, and he took the opportunity to move up.

With a word from his uncle, he was promoted to the third-in-command of Heshui County, the County Assistant.

It was just that his cultivation base was insufficient and didn't meet the hard requirements.

Otherwise, he could have even served as the second-in-command, the County Lieutenant.

And that wasn't all.

In the year since he took office, this fool had looted quite a bit, and then exchanged it for various cultivation resources, hard-stacking his cultivation base to the late stage of Forge Star.

According to his plan, he would loot for another year or two, then buy some heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and break through his cultivation base to the third-tier Refine Star.

Regardless of what kind of breakthrough it was, as long as it was third-tier Refine Star, he would meet one of the hard requirements for promotion.

At that time, with his uncle's word, let alone the second-in-command of Heshui County, the County Lieutenant, he could even serve as the first-in-command, the County Magistrate.

At that time, he would only gain more.

As for those eight children who had been abducted and mutilated, they had long been thrown to the back of his mind, not to mention throwing them to the successor official of the Relief Institute.

Because the County Assistant was in charge of money, grain, and materials, this fool directly deducted half of the money and grain allocated to the Relief Institute every month.

Not much, ten taels of silver per month, five hundred catties of rice and grain, he directly intercepted half.

The intercepted portion naturally went into his own pocket.

He didn't covet anything big.

He had the County Magistrate and County Lieutenant above him; he couldn't covet the big ones.

He only coveted the small ones, wherever he had the power to handle them, he had to covet a portion.

Saving a few taels of silver here and there, he actually managed to scrape together a fortune of over ten thousand taels.

"So you actually didn't listen to a single word of mine!"

After the interrogation, Xu Jin, whose lungs were about to explode with anger, directly woke this fool up and, using the slowest method, broke this fool's other leg and tore it off.

In the middle, Su Mingbai fainted three times, but was woken up by Xu Jin every time.

Su Mingbai, suffering torture, was also going crazy, "You... you wait! Wait until my... uncle comes, I will definitely grind you to dust!"

Xu Jin sneered!

Using the same method, he broke this fool's right arm and tore it off.

Slicing this fool into a thousand pieces wouldn't be enough to vent the fire in Xu Jin's heart.

He was just too greedy!

Two hundred taels of silver, even if you greedily took one hundred taels and used the other hundred taels on those eight children, it wouldn't have been like this.

Even if you greedily took one hundred and fifty taels and only used fifty taels, it would have been acceptable!

But this fool, he took it all!

After being promoted, he even turned around and deducted the daily supplies of the Relief Institute.

As for who the uncle was, Xu Jin had also asked.

It was somewhat unexpected.

It was an old acquaintance again!

And, he was indeed a high-ranking official, in Jinshan Prefecture!

Knowing who it was, Xu Jin wasn't in a hurry, waiting quietly.

While waiting, he was also processing this Su Mingbai!

A quarter of an hour later, a beam of starlight suddenly stepped down from the sky into Heshui County City, landing in front of Su Mingbai's mansion courtyard; the instant it landed, this person walked in with starlight flickering all over his body.

From afar, seeing Xu Jin's back, he suddenly stopped and said vigilantly, "Does your excellency know that private punishment of Great Chen officials is a serious crime, a capital crime!"

Xu Jin didn't even look back, saying coldly, "Vice Academy Head Feng, I didn't expect you to still have Great Chen state law in your heart?

That's truly rare!"

"Who are you?"

Having his name called out, the Vice Academy Head Feng, who had just arrived, had his expression change.

Xu Jin, carrying Su Mingbai, whose four limbs had all been destroyed, turned around like a whirlwind and sneered, "Vice Academy Head Feng, long time no see!"

"You!"

Looking at Su Mingbai's miserable state, Feng Shu's face changed drastically, anger rising in his heart, but the next instant, he recognized Xu Jin.

"You... you are Xu Jin, didn't you die?"

"You..."

"Since Vice Academy Head Feng still has Great Chen state law in your heart, then today, I will use Great Chen state law to govern you, so as not to be said that I am killing the innocent indiscriminately!" Xu Jin shouted.

"Xu Jin, whether I have violated state law or not is not for you to say!" Although he had heard of Xu Jin's reputation before he died in battle, at this moment, with Xu Jin saying this, Vice Academy Head Feng had a bit of confidence, "Instead, it's you, private punishment of Great Chen officials..."

"Hmph!"

Boom!

Xu Jin didn't want to talk nonsense with him; the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain instantly rushed out from his hand, intending to capture Vice Academy Head Feng alive.

Seeing Xu Jin make a move, Feng Shu's starlight rose all over his body, intending to resist.

But the next instant, under the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain, Feng Shu's star power, as well as the protective starlight around his body, melted like snow under boiling water.

In an instant, the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain bound Feng Shu tightly.

Even so, Xu Jin had held back, deliberately controlling the power of the Heavenly Gang Thunder Chain.

Otherwise, this Vice Academy Head Feng would have already turned into ashes!

Su Mingbai was stunned!

He was completely dumbfounded!

This was his great savior.

How could he...

Vice Academy Head Feng was even more dumbfounded.

He had heard of Xu Jin's deeds; his combat power was very strong.

But he was also a veteran cultivator at the peak of the fourth-tier ninth-layer.

He had thought he would be defeated, but he hadn't expected that he wouldn't even be able to take half a move before being captured alive!

This gap instantly caused endless despair to arise in Vice Academy Head Feng's heart!

If the gap in strength wasn't big, he would still have a chance to turn things around!

But if the gap in strength was too big, then...

Because in his understanding, the strength of power was actually the strength of background.

How could this Xu Jin's strength become so terrifying after not seeing him for half a year?

"Xu Jin, I am the Vice Academy Head of the Great Chen Jinshan Dao Academy; you doing this is to be an enemy of the Great Chen National Dao Academy..."

Slap!

Xu Jin directly whipped Vice Academy Head Feng's face with his Vice Supervisor token, directly leaving a brand, and also forcing Feng Shu to completely shut his mouth.

His heart was sinking lower and lower.

Vice Supervisor, how could his position be so high?

What kind of encounter did this fool have!

"Vice Academy Head Feng, since you keep talking about Great Chen state law, then let Great Chen state law judge you! I will take you back to the Jinshan Dao Academy." After Xu Jin finished speaking, he carried the captured Vice Academy Head Feng in one hand and Su Mingbai, whose four limbs were broken, in the other, stepped on the stars, and flew toward the Jinshan Dao Academy.

To tell the truth, Xu Jin didn't have much good feeling for this Vice Academy Head Feng, but he didn't have much malice either.

Back then in the Dao Academy, there wasn't much interaction; he just felt that this Vice Academy Head Feng was slightly bureaucratic.

He hadn't expected that he would actually raise such a beast-like nephew!

And he was the one who personally promoted him!

The reason he didn't kill him now was because Xu Jin was still adhering to the rules.

He didn't want to directly break the rules himself!

Directly killing a key member of the Dao Academy based on his own likes and dislikes was Xu Jin taking the lead in breaking the rules.

Trampling on Great Chen state law!

State law and rules, if trampled and destroyed, would have no impact on existences with great power, like Xu Jin, like the Grand Master and others.

But for ordinary people, it was disastrous!

State law and rules were the true protectors of ordinary people!

Xu Jin didn't want to destroy the protector of ordinary people because he wanted to protect ordinary people!

On the contrary, he wanted to make the protector of ordinary people incomparably strong!

He was a strong person, but he was even more a human, not a beast!

Xu Jin's speed was extremely fast; in less than a quarter of an hour, he flew to the Jinshan Dao Academy.

The instant he arrived, a fifth-tier aura shot into the sky; it was Commandant Tian Zhang!

Seeing Xu Jin and the person he was carrying, Tian Zhang was stunned!

"Commandant Tian, notify Academy Head Cao, and say that the National Dao Academy Vice Supervisor has arrived, and there is an important matter!" Xu Jin said.

"Yes." Tian Zhang accepted the order and immediately sent a starlight transmission, "Vice Supervisor Xu, the Academy Head says he needs a little time; he is dealing with an emergency situation outside."

"Emergency situation?" Xu Jin frowned, "Do you need support?"

An emergency situation that could make Academy Head Cao Chun, who had broken through to the fifth tier, go to deal with it probably wasn't simple.

"The Academy Head says, it's not needed for now; he will return in an hour." Tian Zhang said.

"Good, who is the current Supervisor of the Jinshan Dao Academy?"

"The current Supervisor is the original Hall Master of the Foreign Affairs Hall, Ceng Shuo." Tian Zhang said.

Once Xu Jin heard this, it was an old acquaintance again, and one with personal connections.

"Please come over, you and him together, first interrogate Feng Shu." Xu Jin said.

"Interrogate? May I ask what crime Vice Academy Head Feng committed?" Tian Zhang asked.

Xu Jin roughly explained it, and Tian Zhang was shocked and angry.

"Even embezzling the silver of the Relief Institute, how could there be such a person, and he could still be promoted!" Hearing this, Tian Zhang was furious and immediately turned to call people.

This personality of Commandant Tian Zhang hadn't changed at all.

Hating evil as much as he hated his enemies!

Half a quarter of an hour later, Supervisor Ceng Shuo arrived.

Seeing Xu Jin again, Ceng Shuo was pleasantly surprised.

This original Hall Master of the Foreign Affairs Hall, who had taken good care of Xu Jin, was as fat and happy as ever.

After simple pleasantries, they began to interrogate Vice Academy Head Feng.

Before the interrogation, Feng Shu had already prepared himself!

Had he done anything illegal or undisciplined?

He had!

Ever since the original Supervisor Cao Chun was promoted to Academy Head, and he, the Vice Academy Head, stayed in place with no hope of breaking through his cultivation base, Feng Shu had become somewhat self-abandoned.

Many things began to be handled with under-the-table dealings.

With his status placed there, his cultivation base placed there, and his seniority placed there, many things were simply too easy to do.

However, evidence!

Without evidence, what could they do to him?

Many things had no evidence!

Vice Academy Head Feng had already made up his mind to just bite the bullet and not say anything.

What could they do to him!

Subsequently, under Xu Jin's presiding, Supervisor Ceng Shuo began to interrogate relevant questions.

But Feng Shu just bit the bullet and didn't say anything.

He kept saying he didn't know anything!

He hadn't done it!

"Vice Academy Head Feng, do you think that if you don't open your mouth, I have no way to deal with you?" Xu Jin, who had been watching for a long time, suddenly sneered.

"I haven't done it, how do you expect me to open my mouth!" Feng Shu sneered.

"Supervisor Ceng, is there a recording jade tablet?" Xu Jin asked.

"Yes." Ceng Shuo said.

Recording jade tablets were relatively precious; ordinary people didn't have them, but the Supervisor here had them, as they often needed to keep evidence.

"Activate it."

"Yes."

In the hall, Vice Academy Head Feng sneered; so what if there was a recording jade tablet?

If he didn't say anything, they wouldn't be able to record a fart!

But the next instant, Feng Shu felt his head sink and fell asleep.

"Supervisor Ceng, I'm activating a star art to control him; you ask, and in this situation, he will answer whatever you ask."

"Good."

The next instant, Ceng Shuo asked a question casually, and Feng Shu answered it.

This scene made Ceng Shuo and Tian Zhang both shocked; there was such a method!

The interrogation lasted for more than half an hour.

The more they interrogated, the more shocked they became.

Even Xu Jin had initially thought that Vice Academy Head Feng was just taking some bribes and violating regulations to promote relatives.

But he hadn't expected that this fool would confess himself, actually providing intelligence to the Star Lord Tianyang Palace many times.

There were countless cases of corruption and bribery!

There were over a hundred cases of personnel he had deliberately suppressed and promoted!

It was shocking!

After more than half an hour, the interrogation ended, and Feng Shu woke up from his sleep.

Feng Shu was somewhat surprised; he seemed to have had a dream, but he didn't remember what the dream was!

"Vice Supervisor Xu, Supervisor Ceng, I haven't done anything illegal or undisciplined; you had better release me immediately, otherwise, my impeachment will be sent directly to the Grand Master!" Feng Shu said righteously.

"Still impeaching!"

Ceng Shuo sneered, "You confessed it yourself, see for yourself!"

Ceng Shuo directly projected the recording jade tablet for Vice Academy Head Feng.

After watching for only a few breaths, Vice Academy Head Feng broke into a cold sweat and collapsed to the ground!

"According to Great Chen state law, this Su Mingbai should have his home confiscated and be sentenced to slow slicing.

The handling of Vice Academy Head Feng requires the National Dao Academy to issue an official document, but according to the crimes he confessed, at the very least, it will be home confiscation followed by waist-chopping!"

"Report it."

"We still need the Academy Head to come and sign and draw his mark."

Academy Head Cao Chun hadn't returned yet, and Xu Jin didn't want to look at this beast-like Su Mingbai, so he simply strolled around the Jinshan Dao Academy, wanting to search for the aura that had set up the grave for his father.

After just one round, Xu Jin found the source of the aura.

An old acquaintance again!

Qian Xiaohu!

The little brother Qian Xiaohu he had taken in previously.

Now he had the cultivation base of the peak of Forge Star.

After the initial joy of the brothers reuniting, Xu Jin discovered the uncomfortable part.

Qian Xiaohu was timid and fearful in front of him.

Thinking about it, it was reasonable; they pointed stars together last year, and Qian Xiaohu was only at the peak of Forge Star now.

But Xu Jin was a figure who sat on equal footing with the Academy Head, and was even stronger than the Academy Head.

It was impossible to get along as before!

However, Qian Xiaohu being able to risk his life to set up a grave for his father when Xu Family Village was slaughtered could be considered as having feelings and righteousness!

They chatted for a while.

Xu Jin left behind one Three-Essence Calming Gold Pill, as well as a bottle of Three-Essence High-Grade Refreshing Pill and Three-Essence High-Grade Refine Star Pill that he had used previously but hadn't finished.

They had been thrown in the corner of the Sumeru space, and now they were just right to give to Qian Xiaohu.

It could also allow his cultivation base to improve by a large margin, and he would have hope of breaking through to the fourth tier in the future!

He could only help to this extent.

Helping any more wouldn't be a blessing but a disaster!

"Vice Supervisor Xu, the Academy Head is back!" Tian Zhang came over and said.

"Xiaohu, cultivate well; if you have time every year, tidy up the graves of Xu Family Village."

"Brother Jin, rest assured, I won't forget!" Qian Xiaohu said excitedly.

When Xu Jin rushed to the Dao Academy main hall, Academy Head Cao Chun had already checked the recording jade tablet, stamped the interrogation results with his seal, and sent them to the National Dao Academy, just waiting for the National Dao Academy's receipt!

Seeing Xu Jin at this time, although they had personal friendship, he handled official business first.

"Vice Supervisor Xu, please forgive me; deep in the Great Green Mountain, a suspected star gate entrance suddenly appeared, and I was afraid it was an alien star gate descending, so I went to personally inspect it, and returned late." Academy Head Cao Chun said.

This caught Xu Jin's attention, "A suspected star gate entrance, has it been confirmed, is it a star domain star gate?"

"It's not very certain at the moment! It looks like one, but also doesn't!

No alien races have come out!

But the few people who went in to explore have all lost contact!

I have already reported to the National Dao Academy to request support." Academy Head Cao Chun said.

Just as they were talking, Xu Jin's Star-Plucking Token suddenly vibrated!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 407 =====