Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 756 - 214: The Girl in the Coffin! Great Flame Holy Fire Guard! (9600 words~)_5
As these few sentences were shouted, the other intruders in the mansion swarmed about like hungry wolves, ceaselessly capturing people.
They first controlled all the maids and house servants in the courtyard, and then set their sights on Fan Wu and the others.
The gazes of most were drawn to Yun Jiuqing and the white-haired girl, who stood out starkly within the Great Yan Dynasty.
After all, amongst the women of the Great Yan Dynasty, they were quite distinctive, their skin much lighter than the others.
Yun Jiuqing was extremely displeased by such staring.
If it were only pure admiration, she wouldn’t have felt anything. After all... if one is beautiful and goes unadmired, she’d wonder if the person was blind, or perhaps there was a small issue with their orientation?
But the way they were looking at her was not just admiration—it was blatant covetousness, without any attempt to hide the greed in their eyes.
This is the Holy Fire Guard of the Great Yan Dynasty? This is a governmental body akin to the Ministry of Heaven’s Will?
Why do these people not seem like good folks?
Yun Jiuqing furrowed her brows.
At that moment... the tall member of the Holy Fire Guard declared, "Take these maids and those three women aside, and these men capture them all! Save the prettiest two and Liu Weng’s wife for the Chief Flag Officer. Lock the rest in the dungeon!"
"Yes, Little Banner Master!"
A pack of Holy Fire Guards lunged toward Fan Wu and the others to capture them, until the fair-lady of the mansion roared, "What are you doing? You have no evidence, why are you arresting us? You haven’t even released my husband yet!"
"No evidence?" The Holy Fire Guard’s Little Banner Officer stared at the beautiful lady, his face twisted with a mocking and malicious smile, "Do you know the crime your husband has committed? He committed treason!!!"
After declaring that, he sneered, "You’re his wife; you can’t escape association! And everyone in this house, you are all accomplices to the rebels!"
Following those words, the beautiful lady was momentarily dumbstruck.
"Treason... impossible! Absolutely impossible!" The lady exclaimed in shock, "Who my husband is—don’t I know better? He would never commit treason! You are the ones making unfounded accusations, scheming to frame and blame others!!"
"Since you claim my husband committed treason, where is your evidence? Where is your evidence?!"
"Hmph! If we turn your residence upside down, we will surely find evidence!" The Little Banner Officer snorted coldly, then bellowed at the other Holy Fire Guards, "What are you dallying for?!"
"But... Master... those people..." a member of the Holy Fire Guard said, drenched in cold sweat, "they... they are no ordinary humans!"
"What do you mean no ordinary humans?" The Holy Fire Guard’s Little Banner Officer turned to look at the speaking guard.
And then he froze.
Because... before the neck of his subordinate, a Red Jade Short Sword hung suspended! The point of the Red Jade Short Sword aimed straight at his subordinate’s neck!
It was as if an invisible arm held up the short sword, keeping it stably afloat.
Simultaneously.
He also saw that several other subordinates were caught in a tense standoff, unable to move.
Each of his men’s shoulders was adorned with a paper talisman emanating a faint golden glow, as if at any moment, they could spontaneously combust.
In other words, in the time he spoke, all of his subordinates had been controlled.
None dared to move!
The Holy Fire Guard’s Little Banner Officer had not anticipated this turn of events. He had brought his men here following an order from the Chief Flag Officer—the order was that Liu Weng, locked in the dungeon, had been accidentally killed, and he was to find a way to take care of his whole family.
Receiving such an order, he naturally executed it, thinking of charging them as rebels, which would allow him considerable leeway.
Even if they were to be exonerated later, it wouldn’t matter; it was normal to preemptively eliminate suspected rebels.
"Better to kill a hundred by mistake than let one guilty party go"; this principle applied very well within the Great Yan Dynasty.
He had already thought of all sorts of excuses for later.
—Due to concerns that rebels might greatly harm the citizens of Heling County, in great urgency, without much thought, they simply had to eliminate the rebels beforehand.
Such an explanation... as a rationale for actions at the heart of the Imperial Court, was invariably useful at any time. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
But he never expected... to encounter this situation right at the doorway!
Damn!
Where did these Cultivators come from? He had previously thought these people were just ordinary citizens.
But they turned out to be Cultivators!
And...
Strong ones at that!
To control all of his men unnoticed, what kind of cultivation and skills did that require?
Incomprehensible!
Realizing the situation was quite awry, the Holy Fire Guard’s Little Banner Officer urgently voiced out loud, "What do you intend to do? Do you know who we are? We are the Holy Fire Guard of Heling County! Do you know who I am? I am the revered Little Banner Officer of the Holy Fire Guard of the Great Yan Dynasty!!"
