Purging the Traitors

A side courtyard of the Ling Family.

No sooner had the door been shut than a Ling Family disciple began cursing.

"The family head is way too timid! They're just a few human pills. Does he really need to act like the sky is falling?"

"Now that we've handed them all over at once, we'll have to cultivate the hard way from now on. Who can endure that?"

As soon as he finished speaking, a disciple in yellow beside him suddenly laughed and asked with a look of surprise.

"Don't tell me you really handed over every human pill you had?"

The man froze, staring at the others in astonishment.

"What else was I supposed to do? It was the family head's order. Don't tell me you didn't hand yours over?"

"Obviously not!" Another disciple sneered.

"Who would be that honest? Each of us kept one or two. Even if we have to quit, we need to do it gradually. If we stop cold turkey, our cultivation might even regress."

"Damn it! You're all too sneaky!" The man immediately caught on and cursed through laughter and tears.

"No wonder you were all secretly smiling when we turned them in. So you were waiting to fool me!"

The others immediately burst into laughter, patting his shoulders as they teased him.

"Hahaha, you're just too stupid..."

However, at that very moment, an incomparably terrifying pressure suddenly descended from the heavens. Like Mount Tai crushing down from above, it ruthlessly enveloped the entire Ling residence.

Immediately afterward, a cold voice rang across the skies above the Ling residence.

"The Secret Investigation Institute acts under imperial orders to investigate a case!"

The smiles on the faces of those in the side courtyard instantly froze.

The entire Ling residence erupted into chaos. Countless people rushed