Yuwen Jing forced Xie Xun like this because he was certain that Xie Xun and Fengyu had never left the Capital City. It was they who instigated Feng Shu to leave the palace. Otherwise, Feng Shu would not have leapt from the city wall, nor lost her life. Yuwen Jing demanded blood for blood and wanted to have Xie Xun executed by slow dismemberment. He also knew that Xie Xun, as a descendant of a military family, would not remain indifferent. Today's arrests targeted the old retainers of the Marquis Zhenbei Mansion; Xie Xun could not stand by. If he did not show himself, all those clans imprisoned in the Jinyi Guard prison would be slaughtered. If he did appear, Yuwen Jing would never let him go. Even with Grandmaster Zhang and others guarding the prison gates, they could do nothing against the Jinyi Guard.
