It was not factional strife. Rather, the clansmen of the Demon Refining Palace's Yang Spirit cultivators had kept stuffing people in over the years, displeasing a certain immortal.
That "certain immortal" was, in fact, the one who had met Li Su and asked whether he was willing to become his disciple.
Apart from the master of the Demon Refining Palace, the palace had four Demon Immortals, also known as "Venerables."
The one Li Su had encountered was the Bronze Venerable.
The reason for this Daoist title was related to his divine ability: a bronze pillar that reached from heaven to earth. It could serve as a weapon or be used for suppression, and it was extraordinarily powerful.
This man came from the Demon Refining Palace's Enforcement Hall. Though he was a demonic-path cultivator, he was an ardent defender of the sect's rules.
Even after becoming an immortal and relinquishing his post as head of the Enforcement Hall, he had personally acted dozens of times over the past thousand years to punish those within the Demon Refining Palace who violated sect regulations. This had even included three Yang Spirit realm cultivators.
This internal purge had likewise been launched at the Bronze Venerable's behest, intended to wash away the parasites within the sect.
It was not only family-sheltered parasites like Li Su who were being purged. Those at the Foundation Establishment level were targets as well.
In truth, parasites at the Golden Core level were few; the sheer number among Foundation Establishment cultivators was astonishing. In this single purge, nearly two thousand Foundation Establishment cultivators had been swept away, while fewer than a hundred Golden Core cultivators were involved.
Originally, immortals would not personally descend.
So long as one could escape the joint assault of those three, one would have passed the