In just a few days, the Dongxiang Cult had grown powerful beyond measure. As a result, the Wish Gathering Formation above the three cities accumulated Wish Power at an increasingly sluggish pace.
Xu Yi wasn't the least bit anxious. If anything, he was secretly pleased.
Xu Yi wasn't worried, but someone else was.
Night had just fallen. In that same underground chamber, the yellow-browed Sixth Senior Brother gathered several core members of the Black Lotus Cult's Dongshan Branch to discuss the matter.
Their discussion centered on the recently risen Dongxiang Cult.
"There's nothing to discuss. This is obviously Xu Yi's doing. That bastard is so devious, utterly lawless. H-how dare he guard the treasury and rob it himself?"
The speaker was Protector Zhang, whose beard was streaked with gray. The thought that Xu Yi had dared to act so brazenly and shamelessly filled him with indignation.
In his view, collusion between officials and bandits ought to be the Black Lotus Cult's exclusive privilege. But now someone had taken it to a whole new level, serving as the government while founding a heretical cult, reaching for both the white and black sides of the business. How could anyone be so shameless?
"If he wants to play dirty, we'll play by the rules. We'll go straight to the prefectural office and report the bastard, to sweep away the crooked ways festering in Dongshan Prefecture."
Qin Shousheng wore green and looked like a young man, but his voice was incredibly old. He was an evil demon who had possessed a body and started cultivating anew.
Protector Zhang and Qin Shousheng kept going on about "flouting the law" and "sweeping away the crooked ways in Dongshan Prefecture," giving the Sixth Senior Brother a massive headache.
He turned to the young man on his left.