Several years later, every criminal cultivator had been dealt with.
Those sentenced to death were executed, those sentenced to prison were jailed, and those ordered to pay fines paid them. Tushan Central Court regained its former efficiency, from the Agriculture Sect and Artifact Sect to the Formation Sect and beyond.
Ordinary people and Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators felt the change directly: the sects, immortal cities, and Lineages had suddenly become far more honest and upright.
The sects, Lineages, and immortal cities appeared to be separate institutions with different names. In reality, they were all subordinate to Tushan Central Court. Disciples could move freely between them, while elders, Lineage heads, and sect masters could be transferred at will. Even taxation and teaching were supervised.
The high-level spell cultivators breathed a sigh of relief, as if waking from a nightmare.
Only the sword cultivators were unhappy.
Reluctantly, they returned to their sects. Day after day, they refined their flying swords and cultivated, waiting for a public-order incident punishable by death.
"I suppose this has been a little hard on them..."
Jiang Ding gazed across the mountains and rivers through the Great Sun Boundary-Fixing Formation and sighed. "If they had a controllable opponent, the sword cultivators might flourish."
At present, Tushan Central Court had 151 Nascent Soul sword cultivators, fewer than it had three hundred years ago.
Education, flying-sword materials, and disciples' aptitude were all far better than they had been three hundred years earlier, yet the number of Nascent Soul sword cultivators kept falling. What the hell was going on?
For spell cultivators, it was the opposite. There were now more than five hundred Nascent Soul True Lords among them!
That was why Tianji Daoist, Ji Liuyue, and the others preferred peace to conflict. Only in peace could spell cultivators