Chapter 120

"What?! Zhu Wushi escaped?!"

Listening to Wei Jinzhong's report.

Zhu Houzhao cried out in alarm, his face darkening in an instant.

The atmosphere in the hall instantly grew solemn.

"This old minister is incompetent, I beg Your Majesty to punish me!"

Wei Jinzhong lowered his head, his face full of shame.

A thick flash of regret passed through his eyes.

He should have thought of this long ago!

The Night Emperor had returned.

With Zhu Wushi's strength, there was simply no way to resist!

Apart from fleeing, he had no other choice!

In the end, he had still been careless.

Truly a fool to the extreme!!

"Hoo—"

"Forget it, this matter isn't your fault either."

"Even I overlooked it."

He took two deep breaths.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand.

Then, as if remembering something, he asked again.

"What about the others? They didn't escape too, did they?"

One Zhu Wushi, escaping was just escaping, it hardly mattered.

But if everyone else had escaped as well.

Then he absolutely wouldn't accept it!

After all.

The Great Ming's turmoil had long since spread throughout the Nine Provinces.

The ringleader could be said to have sensed the wind and fled directly.

If the others had escaped too.

Wouldn't the Great Ming become a laughingstock?!

Thus, he couldn't help but be tense.

"No!"

"The moment this old minister detected Zhu Wushi's escape, I immediately dispatched additional men."

"Right now, they are all being watched, awaiting Your Majesty's decision."

"Besides that, this old minister also discovered a list at the Shanzhuang."

"It records in detail the civil and military officials who colluded with that traitor Zhu Wushi. I beg Your Majesty to review it."

Wei Jinzhong explained.

He took out the list and presented it with both hands.

At these words.

Zhu Houzhao, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, instantly flew into a rage.

He took the list and gave it a cursory glance.

Smiling coldly in his fury, he said in a chilling voice.

"Good! What a pack of ungrateful dogs!"

"Pass down my order: by the names on this list, exterminate their ten clans!!"

His words brimmed with endless killing intent and bloodshed.

Wei Jinzhong instinctively shivered.

Looking at Your Majesty's expressionless face.

A chill ran through his heart.

Without a second thought, he answered aloud.

Taking the list.

He hurried away.

Great Qin, Xianyanggong.

"Even now, there's still no news at all."

"It seems those must be your people, yes?"

He murmured to himself.

A smile surfaced on Hearing Ying Zheng's face.

Though it was phrased as a question.

The tone within it was utterly certain.

Clearly.

Even without any evidence.

He firmly believed that the matter of Yang Guang was the work of the Qinglong Society!

But in an instant, Hearing Ying Zheng's brow furrowed again.

"But what is the deeper meaning behind this move of yours?"

"If you were scheming against the Great Sui, you shouldn't have let it fall into such chaos until now!"

He said.

The curiosity in Hearing Ying Zheng's eyes deepened.

However.

Before he could continue pondering, Zhao Gao hurried in.

"Your Majesty, Senior Bei Mingzi has returned."

"Summon him at once!"

Hearing Ying Zheng's eyes lit up.

He spoke without waiting a moment longer.

Very soon.

Under Zhao Gao's lead.

Bei Mingzi entered the great hall, his face somewhat pale.

"Is my dear minister gravely injured?"

Even though he had already learned from secret reports that Bei Mingzi had been wounded.

Yet upon seeing him in person.

Hearing Ying Zheng could not help being startled by his withered, listless demeanor.

One must know.

Bei Mingzi was an existence of the Heavenly Being Realm!

A truly top-tier combatant of the Nine Provinces!

In this current era when the Supreme Mythical Realm had yet to appear in the world.

The number of people who could defeat him would not exceed twenty.

And yet such a powerful expert.

Had suffered such severe injuries.

One could imagine just how bitter the situation had been at the time!

"Many thanks for Your Majesty's concern; this old minister only needs to rest for a few days and he'll be fine."

Bei Mingzi bowed slightly and offered a salute.

His voice sounded somewhat feeble and lacking in strength.

In fact.