Chai Hao slammed down the imperial pardon and declared that Chai Huangcheng had been beaten to death after his property was seized, while Chai Jin had been tortured into a confession and locked away in the death cell. A fifth-rank prefect could drive a former imperial house to ruin, and after the Liangshan heroes accepted amnesty, any petty official could lord it over them. Lu Zhishen, Wu Song, and Lin Chong all stood up to oppose the amnesty. Song Jiang's face turned black as the bottom of a pot. Chai Hao's blade skimmed past Song Jiang's scalp and sank into the back of his tiger-skin chair. Lu Junyi recognized him as the last disciple of their master, Zhou Tong. The greatest fighter in Liangshan was none other than Master Chai.
