"Ling Xiu, the God of Mount Yi." In the nameless hall, Fang Jian sat on a sandalwood chair, looking at Ling Xiu below, and then called out.

Ling Xiu was neither humble nor arrogant, he bowed and said: "I am Ling Xiu, the God of Yishan Mountain, and I pay my respects to the Inspector of the Three Realms."

Fang Jian looked at Ling Xiu and said, "Among all the documents, letters, and archives of the White Stone Divine Mansion, apart from the normal documents of the Immortal Officials, I haven't found any evidence of you colluding with the White Stone Divine Mansion. Isn't this a bit strange?"

"Inspector, this is not surprising, because I have no connection with the Bai Shi Divine Palace." Ling Xiu said slowly.

Fang Jian asked, "Really? Didn't you take precautions long ago and destroy all the evidence?"

Upon hearing this, Ling Xiu bowed again and said, "The Inspector General can investigate. If they find any evidence of collusion between me and the Baishi Divine Mansion, I will be willing to accept the death penalty."

Fang Jian remained silent, then asked, "Lingnu, one of Xiyuan's four wives, is your sister, right?"

Ling Xiu responded, "My Lord, yes."

Fang Jian asked, "Then you marry your sister to Lord Bai Shi. Don't you have any other motives or demands?"

Ling Xiu replied, "Inspector, please understand. It was not me who arranged for my younger sister to marry the White Stone Divine Lord. She was determined to marry him. Moreover, the White Stone Divine Lord is extremely powerful and has the final say in the White Stone Realm. Even if I wanted to stop her, it would be futile."

"Did you ever try to stop it?" Fang Jian asked.

Ling Xiu replied, "Yes, I was firmly against my younger sister marrying the White Stone Divine Monarch. Even after my younger sister married him, I didn't have any contact with the White Stone Divine Mansion or the White Stone Divine Monarch except for official business."

Fang Jian nodded slightly and said, "I indeed have not found any evidence of your dealings in the Baishi Divine Mansion. Otherwise, I would not have arrested you, but executed you on the spot."

Ling Xiu bowed and said, "I believe I am worthy of the title of Mountain God of Yishan."

Fang Jian looked at Ling Xiu and said, "Whether you are guilty or not, that's not what you said. I just haven't found any evidence of your dealings with the Bai Shi Divine Mansion. I need to conduct a thorough investigation before I can make a final conclusion."

Ling Xiudao: "This is natural."

Fang Jian thought for a moment, then asked Ling Xiu, "Let me ask you again, since you have never been involved in any corruption with the Baishi Divine Mansion, then when you saw the White Stone Divine Lord commit such a heinous crime, why didn't you expose it to the Heavenly Court?"

Ling Xiu replied, "It's not that I don't want to expose the truth, but I can't. If I were to expose Lord Bai Shi, my memorial would be on his desk before it even reaches the Heavenly Court. By then, I'm afraid I'd be in danger. So, rather than destroy myself in this futile effort, I'd rather endure it for now and use my identity as the God of Yishan to protect more lives."

This is also a problem. If a lower-level immortal official wants to submit a memorial, it must go through the hands of a higher-level immortal official, especially an immortal official like Bai Shi Shenjun who is in charge of a world. He has the authority to submit all memorials from the Bai Shi world to the Heavenly Court.

"So how many lives have you protected?" Fang Jian asked.

Ling Xiudao said, "Within the Yishan territory, which is over 40,000 li in radius, there are 270,000 living beings, all of whom live without worries."

Fang Jian turned to Wang Ji and said, "You and Chuwu go to Yishan to investigate and see if what he said is true."

Wang Ji immediately accepted the order and said, "Your subordinate obeys the order."

After Wang Ji and Chu Wu left, Fang Jian looked at Ling Xiu and said, "If you really protected so many lives, even if you were involved with the Baishi Divine Mansion, this alone can absolve you of 70% of your sins."

Ling Xiu bowed in response, then looked up at Fang Jian and said, "Excuse me, Inspector, my little sister..."

"Her?" Fang Jian's face turned cold. "There's a lot of evidence against her. If all of it is proven, she'll be guilty of a crime that will lead to her being annihilated, both physically and spiritually."

Ling Xiu's face froze, then he sighed and stopped talking.

Seeing him standing there without saying a word, Fang Jian said, "What are you standing there for? Since you're here, please help me with my official business. I happen to be short of staff here."

Ling Xiu was slightly startled when he heard this, then he immediately bowed and said, "I'm willing to follow your instructions."

Fang Jian raised his hand and pointed to the desk to one side. "Go over there and compile the list of people to be purged from counter-revolutionaries for me."

"A list of those who are purging counter-revolutionaries..." Ling Xiu paused again. Purge? Could it be a case to purge those evil gods?

Thinking of this, Ling Xiu immediately accepted the order respectfully, then walked to the desk and sat down.

However, as soon as he sat down and took a look at the jade scroll, he was even more surprised. How could these be evil gods? They were clearly all immortal officials from the White Stone Realm.

Ling Xiu turned and reported, "Inspector General, these people are all immortal officials of the White Stone Realm. Why are we suppressing them?"

Fang Jian raised his head from the talisman in his hand and said calmly, "These people are aiding and abetting the tyrant, using their power to harm lives. As celestial officials in the Heavenly Court, they are doing things that go against Heaven and morality. Their harm is worse than that of traitors. Of course, they must be eradicated."

"..." Ling Xiu looked at Fang Jian in a daze, and then he realized that it seemed that this new Inspector of the Three Realms was a man of extremely tough means.

When Ling Xiu turned his gaze back to the jade scrolls, he was more and more shocked the more he looked.

"If we kill like this, almost all the immortal officials in the Bai Shi Realm will be killed!" Ling Xiu thought in horror. He looked at the names on the jade book, which almost covered 90% of the existing immortal officials in the Bai Shi Realm.

Ling Xiu immediately turned to Fang Jian and asked, "Inspector, isn't this excessive punishment? I'm afraid there are no more immortal officials left in the White Stone Realm."

This time, Fang Jian said without even looking up, "These people have been proven to have had dealings with the Baishi Divine Mansion, and their crimes are all recorded in the Baishi Divine Mansion's astronomical inspection case. They deserve death."

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