Origin Xia and Celestial Xia each examined the jade slips. Whether it was Councilor Lan or Daoist You, neither showed anything on their faces.
Daoist You read through the entries one by one. Not only could they reveal how much Origin Xia currently understood about Celestial Xia, they could also expose where flaws had occurred.
Fortunately, judging from this alone, Celestial Xia had responded quite properly and had not revealed too much. However, the matter of the alien god was mentioned within, claiming that this god had been planted by Celestial Xia.
As an envoy, he had also been informed of certain matters.
This was indeed Celestial Xia's doing, but after looking through it, Origin Xia could only make verbal accusations; in the end, it had no substantive evidence.
For demon gods were elusive and insubstantial, existing within the hearts of their believers. Naturally, no tangible existence could be found.
To eliminate a demon god, one had to kill all its believers.
In truth, Origin Xia was fully capable of slaughtering all the lower-level believers and replacing them with another batch. In fact, some had already been preparing to begin the purge.
Yet some raised doubts. What if such gods still existed after this batch had been exterminated?
The answer was to keep killing, until none remained.
In the end, more people opposed such a course. Some believed that apart from their own servants, the disciples of the various worlds who had gone to Celestial Xia to enjoy themselves were also followed by many attendants. Killing everyone within Origin Xia's territory would be useless; the other side would need to be purged as well. That was what led to the later thorough investigation.
Yet others believed that if this had truly been spread by Celestial Xia, then so long as