"However!
This subordinate recently received intelligence and discovered that some cultivators within the Association, in order to compete for battle merits, and seize the treasures in the hands of renegade cultivators...
actually disregarded the Association's rules and slaughtered renegade cultivators on the spot even after they had surrendered and abandoned all resistance. Their methods were ruthless, without the slightest bottom line."
"Furthermore, based on the intelligence received, it is suspected that some Half-Venerable powerhouses have tacitly permitted this from behind the scenes, or even secretly instructed and indulged the cultivators under their command to act in this manner."
As she spoke, Ming Xiang Half-Venerable gently turned her fair little hand. Spirit Light flashed at her fingertips, and a Jade Slip, lustrous throughout and covered in runes, appeared out of thin air in her palm.
Faint Spirit Energy lingered around the Jade Slip, clearly containing detailed intelligence.
Holding the Jade Slip in both hands, she bowed slightly and said respectfully:
"President, this is the detailed intelligence this subordinate has gathered.
It records the names of every cultivator who violated the rules, their affiliated factions, and their specific actions. Please examine it."
Hearing this, Cheng Buzheng was not surprised. His expression remained as calm as ever, as though he had anticipated this long ago.
When he had ordered the Half-Venerable powerhouses of the Cultivator Association to lead teams in pursuing and eliminating the renegade cultivators, he had already considered such a possibility—
after all, where the water runs too clear, no fish can live; the Cultivation World had always been a place where the strong devoured the weak.
The treasures and cultivation techniques in the hands of renegade cultivators were temptations no cultivator could easily resist.
Besides, if he did not give those Half-Venerable powerhouses some unseen benefits, some chance to seek