Tang Lan's command was like a drop of water cast into boiling oil, stirring up a violent reaction throughout the Holy Spirit Cult's hidden network in Rosette City. Tao Zuo truly was a qualified "mouthpiece" and agitator, making full use of his new identity as Faceless Lord's spokesperson.
Along with the resources and connections under his control, he skillfully spread Tang Lan's claim that "traitors were sacrificing cult members to open the Evil God's portal," building it up layer by layer.
Those Holy Spirit Cult members who had been won over by Faceless Lord's displayed "generosity," "wisdom," and now his "exposure of a shocking conspiracy"—or, it could be said, had been somewhat brainwashed—began fervently supporting this mysterious "Faceless Lord" of their own accord. To them,
"Faceless" had not only brought them tangible benefits. More importantly, he had "saved" them, preventing them from becoming sacrifices for traitors seeking to offer them to the Evil God, just like their "brothers" in Black Iron City had done without ever knowing why! This perception of a life-saving debt and a guiding hand swiftly turned into intense loyalty and shared hatred of the enemy.
Furthermore, some of the more radical leaders and small groups, or those eager to prove themselves before Faceless Lord, began voluntarily forming squads. Relying on their familiarity with the southwestern borderlands and their knowledge of other Evil Soul Masters' patterns of activity, they quietly left Rosette City and headed to the areas around Black Iron City, actively hunting down and killing the Evil Soul Masters who had participated in the Black Iron City sacrifice.
In their eyes, those people from Black Iron City were no longer "brothers," but lackeys of traitors who had betrayed the Holy Cult and intended to kill them! Hunting them down was both carrying out Faceless Lord's