After receiving the transmission from the Li Prefecture Inspection Office, Zheng Jiu immediately took a flying vessel from Radiance Prefecture.
After disembarking at the landing platform, he did not pause in the slightest and headed straight for the branch office.
Under He Meng's guidance, he inspected every captive. Looking at the Mystical cultivators wrapped in clouds and mist like cocoons, he asked, "Are all the people from the Six Suchness Sect here?"
He Meng still wore a trace of excitement as he replied, "Reporting to the Inspector, when the incident occurred, every Mystical cultivator in the Six Suchness Sect—from Sect Master Jiang Chang to Elder He Gu'an and the one hundred and fifteen disciples below them—was caught. Not a single one escaped. They are all here!"
After a pause, he added, "There are truly quite a lot of them. The branch office's prepared metal prisons were nearly unable to hold them all."
Zheng Jiu stared at those people for a long time without speaking. He had not expected a Dao sect scarcely different from the Liangzhong Sect to collapse overnight—and he had heard that Zhang Yu alone had accomplished it.
Moreover, the time it had taken to wipe out this Dao sect was merely the stretch from when He Meng noticed the disturbance to when he led them up the mountain.
He asked, "Did they say anything?"
He Meng said, "Nothing. Since being wrapped in those clouds and mist, it is as if their state of mind has been suppressed by something. No changes in the outside world can stir any emotional fluctuation in them..."
At this point, he hesitated.
Zheng Jiu was sharp enough to notice. "What do you want to say?"
He Meng clasped his fists. "Inspector, Jiang Chang and He Gu'an are somewhat abnormal. Based on our