Today's second update: Chapter 1756! 2/4!
According to Xu Kun's original plan, the first two of these four matters should have been completed the day before yesterday, and he should have begun the third: unsealing the fortune of the Heavenly Reaching River.
However, after learning about the Mind Seals the Angel Race had implanted in the Sea of Consciousness of the Western Regions' subjects, and thinking of the fate Zhan Rourou might have faced if he had not come, he could not bring himself to ignore it.
To outsiders, when it came to conquered lands, it did not matter whether the people truly submitted in their hearts. As long as their bodies submitted, that was enough. Kill the excessive ones, relocate the obedient ones inland, and slowly tame them.
If it were a normal racial annexation, that approach would indeed work. But the Angel Brand would not disappear with the passage of time. Even if it lay dormant for a while, once these people relocated among the human race, each of them would become a dangerous element!
The Angel Race using them to absorb their soul power was secondary. What Xu Kun feared most was that once these people scattered among the human race, they would break up into small groups and become carriers of infection.
Through the believers they controlled, the Angel Race could continue developing followers and gradually infiltrate the entire human race. The consequences would be unimaginable.
Many of the human race's current methods for detecting traitors were ineffective against an indirect method of control like the Angel Brand. If the scene Xu Kun envisioned ever came to pass, it would be nearly impossible to guard against.
You could not tell who was an Angel believer, but at critical moments, they would follow their "Lord"!
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