Since the Rat King of the "Rock Flow Plague Rats" had dared commit such an act that stirred public outrage, there was no need to worry that the Spirit Palace would come looking for trouble after you killed them all. If what these rats had done were laid out in the open, it would also count as disrupting the stability of the Eastern Domain. If anything happened afterward, it would be the Spirit Palace's people who had to clean up the mess.
Thus, after you and Xue Que killed the Rat King and Queen of the Rock Flow Plague Rats, you turned and headed for their so-called underground rat kingdom...
The underground rat kingdom was not far from your previous location. After roughly four months of travel, you reached the depths underground and found its exact location. It then took you and Xue Que more than two months to slaughter every rat in the underground rat kingdom, large and small, without missing a single one.
It was not because you bore a grudge against these rats, nor because you feared that these lowly Demon Race creatures with muddled bloodlines could threaten you. Rather, their deeds were so vile that even you could not bear to watch.
Normally, you only executed the chief culprits. As for the rest, if they possessed even a shred of conscience, you merely had them swear an oath. Yet Qin Huang had once conducted deductions regarding this matter, and the results had been recorded in case files. Since you wished to broaden your horizons, you happened to read those files. The evil deeds they had committed alone could fill half a library, showing just how great the harm they caused was.
Even though Qin Huang had already dealt with the underground rats at that time, you