The Great Zhou court dealt swiftly and severely with all those implicated in the invasion by the hundred-thousand-strong Devil Race army.
In less than five days, the two Wind Patrol Envoys personally selected by Grand Celestial Master Wu Yu and approved by Benevolent Sovereign Ji Long had taken up their posts, bringing with them ample manpower and mountain-like pressure.
Unfortunately, although Benevolent Sovereign had driven these two nails into place and the two Wind Patrol Envoys had assumed office, Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu had neither the time nor the energy to "entertain" them.
The invading hundred-thousand-strong Devil Race army hung over Western Patrol Envoy Xi Qiangu's head like a great mountain, pressing him into endless headaches and making life miserable for the Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters and wind scouts under the Western Patrol Envoy.
Every Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunter and wind scout under the Western Patrol Envoy had scattered in every direction, using every conceivable means to search for traces or hiding places the hundred-thousand-strong Devil Race army might have left behind.
Above ground and below, through mountains and trees, beneath the earth and in hidden rivers—they were only short of rubbing apart every grain of soil to search it.
Even Ye Zhen's Second Route Wind Patrol Office was no exception. More than half its manpower had to be sent out to join the search; at the very least, they had to put on a show.
It had already been a month since Chi Jingshan, the Left Aide of the Western Patrol Envoy, had been beheaded on the spot.
This miserable existence for the Heavenly Patrol Divine Hunters and wind scouts under the Western Patrol Envoy had continued for a month. Everyone's eyes had been worked red as rabbits'.
In truth, it was not only the Western Patrol Envoy's