Yang Wenwan and his three familial branches were taken from the execution grounds and escorted back to the Ministry of Justice to await a retrial.
The spectators loved these kinds of dramatic twists and turns. They began to wildly speculate: was Yang Wenwan truly a victim of injustice? Or were his crimes so heinous that exterminating three branches of his family wasn't enough, and only annihilating nine would be fair?
Countless low- and mid-level officials were also completely bewildered; not a single one could guess what was truly going on.
But in reality, only a handful of people at the center of power in this vast nation understood.
Yang Wenwan's fate wasn't decided by whether he had committed a crime or how severe it was. It wasn't determined by the Emperor's favor or displeasure, and certainly not by the "justice" the common people longed for.
Rather, it was the Magical Combat between the Immortal Sects.
