It is an unwritten rule of engagement between nations that envoys should not be executed. For missions stationed in foreign lands like these Southern State Mansions, the personnel are treated as envoys, and under normal circumstances, no one would easily provoke them.
That was what the people of the Southern State Mansion told the search party, but the searchers refused to budge. They claimed that a dangerous criminal had assassinated a Seven-Star elder of Weixi Mountain and fled all the way here, entering the Southern State Mansion—therefore, they had to search the premises!
He Xiaoyao had already heard the commotion outside from deep within the mansion. He promptly told everyone to pack their bags and used the Black Jade to guide them out of the compound one by one.
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