The city district where Spirit Void Hall stood was called Fengtai.
It was already one of the foremost major cities in Cheng State.
Here, there were two worlds, black and white. In the world of night, the rapidly expanding Life-less Cult stood divided against Spirit Void Hall.
One had fanatical believers who feared no death; the other had operated for years, its roots deep and entrenched.
On the surface, the City Lord's Mansion was naturally the highest authority here.
Cheng State's court had even made an exception and dispatched an Outer Tower cultivator to take office and hold the fort here, specifically to curb the further expansion of sectarian forces.
In neighboring Zhuang Kingdom, whose national strength was flourishing by the day, the threshold for serving as a city lord was only Inner Palace cultivation.
But Cheng State had its own national circumstances, after all.
On the one hand, these sects provided the state with vast tax revenues. On the other, they were also part of its national strength and bore the obligation to fight in times of war.
Thus, how to gauge the proper degree of suppression was a matter that greatly tested one's political skill.
The Life-less Cult and Spirit Void Hall also needed Cheng State's court to understand that they remained within the limits, with no risk of crossing the line.
As one of the Life-less Cult's Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Envoys, charged with developing believers in Cheng State, the Nether Earth Envoy was a religious backbone of the cult.
The Nether Earth Envoy had completed the Five Palaces and possessed Supernatural Power. It could be said that he had single-handedly crushed Spirit Void Hall until it could scarcely breathe. If not for that City Lord Li playing favorites, he would have driven Spirit Void Hall out of