The next morning, Yun Yici went to the Law Enforcement Hall as instructed by the notice she had received the previous night.

This was her first time visiting the Hall of Law Enforcement.

The Law Enforcement Hall is a separate palace, just like the Religious Affairs Hall and the Academy Hall, but from the outside, its color scheme is somber and almost blends into the surrounding mountains.

There were very few people here. She occasionally saw one or two disciples coming and going, both with tense faces, looking extremely serious.

Fortunately, Yan Jing must have made prior arrangements, because as soon as Yun Yici stepped into the main hall, a disciple dressed in black came to greet him.

After confirming her fate tablet, the disciple led her to the back hall.

The disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall who was walking in front of her remained silent and unsmiling, and was about to lead her into a dark passage that could only accommodate one person at a time.

The moment Yun Yici watched him walk into the secret passage, a fire instantly lit up inside, and at the same time, a faint, eerie scream echoed from the darkness.

Although her pause was brief, the disciple walking ahead with a blank expression still noticed it.

He turned to face Yun Yici and finally spoke his first words: "Elder Yan does not like to be disturbed by outsiders, so his office is located next to the interrogation room and the execution room."

He had already said this four times before, and this was the fifth time. If nothing unexpected happens, there will be five more times.

Yun Yici said he understood... Understood my foot!

She had always thought that the Enforcement Hall was where disciples were punished for violating the sect rules, which involved torture.

Huai Chuan said, "Nanhua Sect can be considered a super sect. To maintain its order, it can't do without some ruthless methods behind the scenes."

Yun Yici followed the disciple and chatted with Huai Chuan along the way: "I'm just curious, what kind of crime would one have to commit to be locked up here?"

Huai Chuan said, "Like your senior brother."

Yun Yici: "Ah? My senior brother?"

Huai Chuan said, "Once your senior brother E's beast is exposed, he will probably be considered a demon cultivator with ulterior motives who has infiltrated the sect. Being locked up here would be a good thing."

"There's also the crime of stealing someone else's skills. If he doesn't have a powerful backer or a legitimate reason, he could be executed on the spot."

"I've always been curious. Your senior brother has white hair and red eyes, and even I can tell he's different from you all with just a sword. How come everyone ignores his demonic features?"

Yun Yici said, "I was curious about this question before. Later, I heard Senior Sister Lin Jin mention it once. She said that Senior Brother Mu originally had black hair and black eyes. He was always sick after being brought back. After recovering from his illness, he turned into this."

According to her guess, Mu Yunjian initially wanted to pretend to be a human, but he was exposed one time and couldn't explain it, so he simply gave up.

Huai Chuan said, "This is too casual. I feel like everyone is just pretending to be stupid because of your master."

"However, the relationship between humans and demons is much better now than it was in my time."

The two communicated privately in the secret passage with their swords, and soon the disciple in front led Yun Yici to a dark room.

He pushed open the door and stood outside, gesturing for Yun Yici to come in.

The light shining through illuminated the dark passageway.

Fortunately, the voices of Lin Jin and the others came from inside the room a moment later, and Yun Yici stepped inside with peace of mind.

Upon entering, she discovered a hidden world inside, brightly lit and spacious, a stark contrast to the darkness outside. This was likely due to the luminous pearls adorning the walls.

At the head of the table was a desk piled high with various official documents, and below it were ten desks similar to those in the academy. Lin Jin and the others had already found their seats.

Lin Jin saw her and laughed, "Junior Sister Yun, you must have been startled. I was also startled when I first arrived."

Liu Wan was a little embarrassed, "Because the Academy Hall is under renovation and there are too many people at the Clan Affairs Hall, we couldn't find a suitable place, so Elder Yan Jing simply moved ten tables and desks here."

"Elder Yan just arrived and said that he can finish what he wants to say today, and tomorrow will be the official start."

Besides Lin Jin and Liu Wan, Ning Tinglan and Xie Qianjue also arrived early.

Yun Yici nodded and found an empty table next to Lin Jin to sit down. She did a quick calculation and realized that it wasn't long before the time she was notified yesterday.

Not long after, the door that had been closed after she entered the room opened again, and the disciple who had led the way earlier led the other five people in intermittently.

Once everyone had arrived, Yan Jing also came.

Today, Elder Yan was dressed in black robes with gold embroidery on the hem, which made him look more ruthless than when he was teaching them.

Yan Jing did not sit down, but stood in front of everyone, and with a wave of his sleeve, he created a landscape ink painting above.

"Today I'll talk about something different from usual."

After he finished speaking, the people below sat up straight and waited for him to continue.

"Let's start with the twelve sects that participated in the trial."

The ink painting floating beside Yan Jing began to slowly change as he spoke, eventually transforming into the shape of a map, with the mark of the Nanhua Sect in the center.

Scattered in the distance from the Nanhua Sect's mark are eleven other different marks and symbols, representing other different sects.

"You all know about the twelve major sects, right?"

Everyone nodded. After recalling the events and combining them with the plot of the original book, Yun Yici quickly came up with a general overview and characteristics of the sect.

Nanhua Sect: Primarily focused on sword cultivation.

Wuji Dao Sect: There are many sword cultivators, but there are also many cultivators who use other weapons, a mixed cultivation group.

Xuanle Sect: Primarily focused on music cultivation, their attack methods consist of various musical instruments.

Zenyin Temple: Primarily focuses on physical cultivation, with secondary cultivation in formations.

Bagua Sect: Those who cultivate divination, like Xie Qianjue before, are obsessed with metaphysics.

Heavenly Doctor Valley: Medical practitioners, most of whom are skilled in poisons.

Talisman Sect: Primarily focused on talisman cultivation.

Wenxin Academy: Confucian cultivators, who enter the Dao through calligraphy and painting, use the same brush as talisman cultivators, but talisman cultivators draw runes, while Confucian cultivators emphasize righteousness and integrity.

Nine Weapon Sect: Weapon Cultivator, traveling with Rong Xuan.

Pill Cultivator: Pill cultivators have almost no offensive power, but are extremely wealthy. Powerful pill cultivators can command other cultivators to fight for them.

Beast Taming Sect: Many battle pets.

Shuiyue Sect: Proficient in illusion magic.

Yan Jing said, "First, we need to eliminate one of the 'Hanging-Bi Sect' members."

As soon as he finished speaking, the small Bagua symbol on the map was moved aside.

Seeing this, Xiong Biao asked in confusion, "What is 'Guabizong'?"

Yan Jingdao said, "Guabi means to lie flat, which means that you don't need to consider them. The Bagua Sect follows the natural order and has always been at the bottom of the rankings in previous years, lying down very peacefully."

Of course, Yan Jing's contempt was only directed at these junior disciples of the Eight Trigrams Sect. The powerful divination cultivators who grew up later could even contend with the Heavenly Dao.

However, these young disciples who are not yet fully grown, at the mere Foundation Establishment stage, can only be considered to be able to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune at best.

After speaking of the Eight Trigrams Sect, Yan Jing added, "It is best to be on good terms with the Medicine Valley and the Pill Sect; do not offend them lightly."

Everyone knows these two things. After all, when people are cultivating immortality, who can guarantee that they will never need to seek medical treatment or medicine in their lifetime?

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