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May 3rd.

Dao Palace Garrison, Jinhuai City.

In the scorching city at midday, few people ventured out. Yet the front courtyard hall of the Dao Palace garrison was bustling with voices. Several hundred Qi practitioners had gathered around the notice board, silently reading the latest announcement posted there.

The announcement was extremely long, over two thousand words, yet it conveyed only two points. First, the realm had suffered war for too long, the common people had endured unbearable hardship, and cultivators' infighting had claimed the lives of innocent civilians. Therefore, from this day forth, cultivators of all sects were forbidden from engaging in further conflict. Violators would be treated as Evil Cultivators.

Second, the wars had caused banditry to run rampant throughout the land. Cultivators everywhere were called upon to carry out encirclement and suppression of bandits in their respective regions. The notice also listed the merits that could be earned by eliminating bandits, which could be exchanged for cultivation methods, pills, and magical artifacts.

The low-level Qi practitioners had no idea what this meant, but once the news spread, the major powers that had only recently entered the Southern Cultivation World understood perfectly well.

Fuming Prefecture.

Near the Two Rivers waters in the north stood an unnamed mountain. It now had a new name: Red Mountain. After disciples of the True Sun Sect moved in, the mountain that had once been lush and jade-green became a blazing red expanse.

Deep within a dojo wreathed in Fire Spirits atop Red Mountain, Daoist Le Xin reclined comfortably in a lounge chair beneath the fierce summer sun. His manner was relaxed and carefree, the very picture of untroubled ease.

Suddenly, a fiery-red figure appeared beside his chair.

It was Daoist Hua Yun!

"Senior Disciple Sister, what brings you to this little place