NABC Chapter 267 Idealist
Chapter 267 Idealist
The news of Li Muyang, the banner master of the Enforcement Hall, being arrested and thrown into prison, unsurprisingly, caused a huge uproar in Tianjiao City.
Countless people cheered, and some even went to the streets to set off firecrackers in celebration.
Many inns and shops in Tianjiao City, even hung red cloths and offered discounts to celebrate the event.
The entire city was filled with joy as if Li Muyang, this extremely cruel and evil official, being caught and imprisoned was a celebration for everyone under the heavens.
Shen Miao conveyed the outside world’s state of affairs to Li Muyang through the perspective of her elder sister.
The young girl was quite angry.
"These brainless fools! My brother-in-law is not a bad person at all!"
As the seal loosened, the girl’s emotions became increasingly realistic.
The shackles her father had placed on her were gradually losing their effect.
Shen Miao now experienced emotions beyond just happiness and joy.
She felt both angry and wronged by the scene outside.
However, Li Muyang just laughed and shook his head, "It’s nothing but a false image created by those rat-like people, bribing a few inn and shopkeepers to hold celebratory events, and spreading rumors to guide others into imitation, fabricating the illusion that I am a massive criminal with boiling public outrage."
These tactics of swaying public opinion were something he had seen countless times on the internet in his previous life.
Most people in the world are conformist and blind.
The joy of so many people in the city over Li Muyang’s imprisonment does not mean they truly hate Li Muyang.
It’s like that classic saying from the adults, the common folk do not care who gets beheaded; they are happy no matter who it is.
Li Muyang was completely indifferent to these reports, in fact, the bigger the commotion outside, the more he enjoyed it.
After Shen Yan left that day, she had been investigating and running around the city, trying to clarify the clues behind the event and root out the people who framed Li Muyang.
Li Muyang’s incarceration was a minor incident within the Blood Lotus Sect.
The aftermath triggered by Li Muyang’s imprisonment would turn into a massive torrent that would sweep across the entire Blood Lotus Sect.
Concerning this, Li Muyang, who was already incarcerated, sat calmly like an angler, quietly watching the drama unfold.
He played games in his cell, trying to break through the angles of the Four Symbols Great Array with Shen Miao, paying no heed to the storm outside.
Now that Shen Yan wanted to catch and execute those who were disobedient, the two sides stood opposed to each other, and who knew what that bunch of rat-like scum would do.
Li Muyang was smiling as he advised her, but Shen Yan just shook her head.
"If I retreat and show fear here, how can our sect’s teachings be spread far and wide?"
Shen Yan said, "The Sect Hierarch is right, the more rampant these dregs become, the more we need to eliminate them. If we let these dregs run riot, then in the future, even if the Blood Lotus Sect dominates one side, it will only become another Refinement Demon Sect."
Shen Yan’s eyes were firm.
Within the Blood Lotus Sect, there were not a few who truly believed in the sect’s teachings, and Shen Yan was one of them.
She genuinely strove for her belief in exterminating all cultivators under the heavens and returning the world to ordinariness.
Seeing that his persuasion was futile, Li Muyang did not try to persuade her further.
He was not an idealist, but seeing someone like Shen Yan who possessed a pure belief and struggled for it, he couldn’t help but respect her.
However, Li Muyang, locked in the great prison, couldn’t really help Shen Yan.
The only thing he could do was, during breaks from playing games, make more use of Shen Miao’s third-person point of view to ask and observe Shen Yan’s situation and provide strategic eye support.
Under Shen Yan’s strategies and investigations, those who framed Li Muyang were gradually coming to light.
Aside from those from the lower ranks, Shen Yan also got ironclad proof of a few flag bearers’ involvement in this matter.
These investigations and confrontations inevitably brought about strife and killing.
As Li Muyang was imprisoned and the Enforcement Hall’s activities subsided, Tianjiao City, which seemed to have calmed down on the surface, was secretly experiencing one struggle and killing after another.
The number of souls in the four-square cauldron increased by several dozens.
Although the number was small, they were all the backbone forces of the Blood Lotus Sect, indicating how bloody the external struggle was.
Shen Miao looked worriedly at her sister’s strenuous efforts outside, "Brother-in-law, can’t you really help? I feel like my sister is in so much danger..."
But Li Muyang was unperturbed, "What’s there to fear? At worst, it’ll just be a death. Followers of the Blood Lotus Sect aren’t afraid of dying, you can always come back to life anyway."
These followers of the Blood Lotus Sect, having been resurrected from death many times, were thus fearless, which caused great trouble for Shen Yan’s investigation.
Accordingly, it wouldn’t matter if Shen Yan died a few times either.
If that bunch of lunatics really tried to kill Shen Yan, it would be futile; it would instead give others leverage against them and might completely enrage Fang Yingtian.
Perhaps Fang Yingtian was just waiting for those scum to kill his niece, then he would seize the opportunity to strike.