Chapter 3716 — The Hall Master Gongyang Jun
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The Law Enforcement Hall experts prostrate on the ground exchanged glances, and one of them cautiously replied, "Reporting to the Hall Master, your subordinates were assigned to assist the Newcomer Pavilion in its assessment. The pressure formation lost control midway for reasons unknown. The cause is unclear."
"The cause is unclear?" Gongyang Jun's frigid gaze swept over the several men, and they felt their hair stand on end.
Had they not merely tampered a little with Wei Zhao and truly had no idea why the pressure formation suddenly went berserk, that single glance alone would have been enough to make them spill everything. As Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall, if Gongyang Jun wished to pry a secret out of their mouths, it was a trifling matter indeed.
"Your subordinates truly do not know," the men hurriedly replied, bowing their heads even lower.
Gongyang Jun said nothing, but judging by his expression, he had no intention of digging deeper.
After all, the pressure formation involved the layout of every building in the entire Law Enforcement Hall. For all its tremendous power, the slightest disturbance in any single part could affect the operation of the whole formation; loss of control was a common occurrence and hardly rare.
Only then did the several Law Enforcement Hall experts kneeling on the ground breathe a sigh of relief. Though nothing in what they had just said was a lie to Gongyang Jun, they had, after all, concealed the matter of Wei Zhao. If this Hall Master were to dig deeper, they would be lucky to escape with their lives—and even then, a layer of skin would be flayed from them.
Gongyang Jun swept a cold glance over the crowd from the Newcomer Pavilion and spoke: "The Law Enforcement Hall does not welcome idlers and stragglers. Since it is done, hurry up and drive these irrelevant people out."
At these words, the newcomers below the platform felt their breathing grow heavier, and a surge of indignation rose in their hearts. This fellow was formidable, true enough—but those words were far too arrogant, too dismissive of everyone present!
In an instant, every gaze focused on Hu Yunfeng. He was the Pavilion Master of the Newcomer Pavilion, their leader; at a time like this, it naturally fell to him to step forward.
Yet from first to last, Hu Yunfeng acted as though he had heard nothing at all—he did not dare so much as let out a peep.
True enough: the Newcomer Pavilion and the Law Enforcement Hall were both independent departments of the Tri-Tier Pavilion. Setting aside their respective strengths, in theory, as Pavilion Master of the Newcomer Pavilion, his status was on par with the other's as Hall Master of the Law Enforcement Hall. Moreover, this round of newcomer assessment had been approved by the Elder Council, so he had every right to argue the matter with the other man.
But the other party was the renowned Gongyang Jun!
In his eyes, Hu Yunfeng was at most an ant—a slightly sturdier ant. To pick a quarrel with a fiend of that caliber? What a joke! If he truly dared to do so, perhaps tomorrow the Law Enforcement Hall would summon him alone for a "visit," strip every secret from him clean as a bone, and then he could wait to die!
Having said his piece, Gongyang Jun did not spare anyone else so much as a glance. With a single flicker he was off the high platform, and the next moment he had vanished from everyone's sight.
The entire crowd unconsciously let out a breath, as though a great mountain had suddenly been lifted from their shoulders. In a sense, the pressure Gongyang Jun brought to bear on them rivaled even the pressure trial they had just endured—nay, surpassed it!