As intelligence gathering progressed, more and more information about the evil martial artists and evil alchemists was compiled and laid before them.
The single word "evil" was enough to encompass the heaven-shaking atrocities these two groups had committed.
There was no need to elaborate on how evil martial artists mutilated living people in all manner of ways to cultivate wicked arts.
As for the evil alchemists, they incited others to destroy residential areas and slaughter commoners, clearing the way to plant Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
And among their crimes too numerous to be recorded even on bamboo slips, that was still the lightest.
Their most vicious deed was treating people as medicine fields, developing all sorts of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures made from "human ingredients"—blood river wheels, virgin boys and girls, flesh ganoderma, marrow of the primordial yang of eight hundred strong men, and more.
One unheard-of "medicinal material" after another made the Southern Border pharmacists turn ashen-faced. Even beasts could not commit such acts.
Was that not why, when it came to defiling and harming their own kind, evil martial artists and evil alchemists were crueler, more vicious, and more devoid of humanity than the Demon Race?
"Pass down my order. From now on, whenever you encounter anyone with the word 'evil' in their name, kill them on sight, regardless of their crimes!"
After Zhou You learned what had happened in Putuo Prefecture, he decisively gave the order: whether evil martial artists or evil alchemists, none were to be spared.
Those beasts—killing them a thousand times, ten thousand times, would not ease his hatred.
After Pharmacist Ku Tang arrived in Putuo Prefecture, he found himself in an environment overflowing with resources. Every material was within easy reach, so abundant that it could be squandered.
Such uniquely blessed