Journey to the End of the Night Chapter 1702 - 1018: Reversal of Circumstances

"You just said that the notion of Corpse Poison counteracting the toxicity of the Thousand Cuts Elixir is your fabrication.

If Tan Guangjun confirms it later, you might be in serious trouble."

Baili An wiped the blood at the corner of his lips and smiled faintly: "There will be no trouble, tonight...we’ll catch the one who poisoned."

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Early the next morning, Wanggui Building reopened.

News spread inside the building that the true culprit who poisoned the Emperor has been arrested.

Tan Guangjun looked at the man bound by chains, kneeling in the hall, his expression chillingly cold.

The man’s face was almost buried in the ground.

Under the terrible influence released from the Judgement Divine Staff, his body trembled like a sieve, sweating profusely.

Tan Guangjun walked over coldly, the sharp tip of his staff suddenly fell, deeply piercing into the man’s ribcage.

His technique was ruthless, with no mercy.

The man let out a heart-wrenching scream, his head tilted back in agony, and a flickering Immortal Seal could be seen on his brow.

Tan Guangjun sneered: "Sure enough, he’s from the Immortal World."

He forcefully pulled out the staff, which dragged out a shining Immortal Bone, and another sharp scream followed.

He treated it as some dirty thing, shattering that Immortal Bone into pieces.

The person kneeling on the ground was already on the verge of death.

Tan Guangjun looked at Golden Immortal Feng Xu: "Now, I need an explanation from Lord Feng Xu."

If he was not mistaken, the immortal mark on the man’s brow was precisely an Immortal Seal personally bestowed by Golden Immortal Feng Xu.

The one who poisoned the Emperor turned out to be someone from Golden Immortal Feng Xu.

Feng Xu showed no sign of guilt, calmly said with lowered eyelids: "Tan Guangjun, this is a frame-up."

"Frame-up?" Tan Guangjun sneered.

He kicked away the man’s hand, and several dark elixir pills rolled out of his fingers.

"Lord Feng Xu wants to say that these elixir pills are not the Thousand Cuts Elixir.

This person sneaked into the Emperor’s quarters at midnight, mixed these pills in the tea for him to drink to nourish his body?

If so, then let Lord Feng Xu prove his innocence, take these pills for all to see?"

"Please speak cautiously, Tan Guangjun." Golden Immortal Feng Xu laughed lightly and calmly.

He walked over, crushing the rolled-out pills into powder with his shoe.

His face, deeply marked by age lines, emerged slowly from the shadows, his gaze seeming somewhat sinister and cold.

"Boom!!!"

The head of the Immortal Servant behind Golden Immortal Feng Xu unexpectedly exploded into a mass of blood.

Without time for a scream, the body silently collapsed.

Tan Guangjun’s body stiffened slightly, his long dark eyebrows stretching straight, anger surging in his eyes:

"Feng Xu! Do you realize what you are doing?!"

"Doing what?" Feng Xu’s gaze sideways, his eyes showed an unfathomable depth.

"Just cleaning up a rebellious traitor Immortal Servant."

This is simply arrogant, too excessive!

Tan Guangjun laughed angrily: "Ridiculous! Everyone knows Qi Guang is the closest person to you.

You want to absolve yourself cleanly with just a simple claim of rebellion, that’s too easy."

"What else does Tan Guangjun think?"

Golden Immortal Feng Xu lifted his eyelids and sneered: "Do you, with your mere Companion Spirit status, dare to convict a Golden Immortal?"

"You————"

"Even if you report to the Emperor, do you think the Emperor would believe that I would be so bold as to poison the Venerable Emperor?

This act would only bring countless sins upon me without any benefits.

Ultimately, Tan Guangjun, you wielding the Judgement Scepter, only because you were fortunate in your younger years.

You were bathed in divine light during the Emperor’s Spiritualization into a god, obtaining spiritual wisdom from an Immortal Stone by chance.

If not for serving by the Emperor’s side since childhood.

With your skills and intellect, what qualifies you to wield the Judgement Scepter."

Tan Guangjun felt like he was seeing Golden Immortal Feng Xu for the first time, finding this sinister and dangerous man before him extremely unfamiliar.

His expression was extremely unpleasant, glaring angrily: "Feng Xu! Just your treasonous words today are enough to have you walk the Thunder Execution Platform a hundred times!"

The Thunder Execution Platform is the nightmare of all immortals and deities in Heaven.

Even Immortal Venerable Zhu Zhan cannot guarantee to walk through it unharmed.

Yet Golden Immortal Feng Xu not only was unafraid but instead smiled faintly, with even deeper malice in his eyes.

"If I truly poisoned the Emperor, do you think you have the ability to bring me back to the Thunder Execution Platform in Heaven?"

He raised a slightly withered hand, placing it on Tan Guangjun’s shoulder, said with a light laugh:

"The power of the Judgement Scepter depends on the strength of the wielder’s immortal power, this staff, though remarkable.

If careless, I might indeed be heavily injured by you.

But have you considered, Tan Guangjun, what price must you pay to heavily injure me?"

Listening to the thick threat in his words, Tan Guangjun’s face lost all color.

"Tan Guangjun, think carefully, if it’s not me who poisoned the Emperor.

Without definitive evidence, you can’t convict me, but instead your faults become great.

Firstly, the Emperor would certainly accuse you of negligence.

Secondly, offending a Golden Immortal, Tan Guangjun, is not a wise move."

Tan Guangjun was shaking in anger, feeling this person was truly shameless.

"Qi Guang is the witness, the Thousand Cuts Elixir in his hand is the physical evidence, material evidence attested, how can it not be considered definitive proof!"