Soul of Evil Spirits

"A powerful rising force, and an obstacle the Salvation Sect cannot afford to ignore," Venerable Victory over Heaven said succinctly.

The answer surprised Luo Qingqing somewhat. "But as far as I know, the residents there are all living quite well..."

Setting aside the Black Gate Cult's identity, everything they had done so far counted as a merit in Luo Qingqing's eyes. If the sect had not opened its granaries and distributed food all along, that grain would only have remained piled in the warehouses of a select few, never becoming a lifeline for the common people at the bottom, even if it rotted and grew worms. If they had not wiped out bandits and crushed the disorderly defeated troops, tens of thousands more would have died beneath the butcher's blade.

They had indeed saved many lives. Luo Qingqing had seen all of it.

That was why she had written in her letter that they should not rashly come to blows with the Black Gate Cult.

"Indeed. According to reports from our informants, even though the Jinxia Army is at war with the Bureau of Military Affairs, Qianxia City has not suffered much spillover. The people there live and work in peace; from the descriptions alone, it is practically another paradise beyond the world." The Venerable did not deny her words. "But in the face of calamity, none of that means anything. The greater their happiness beforehand, the crueler it will be afterward. Their good lives will only make the aura of evil spirits sweep in with even greater ferocity. Yet until they have experienced despair, they will never be willing to join the Salvation Sect. That is the root of the obstacle."

She had not said those words out of contempt or arrogance.

Luo Qingqing realized that she had considered