The smashing, looting, and pillaging by people from the Qing Kingdom had been suppressed by local bailiffs and garrison troops, and a number of people had been arrested. Xiang Prefecture seemed to have regained its peace, but soon people from the Qing Kingdom posted mocking remarks on the Discourse Ranking, sparking a war of words between people from the Jing Kingdom and the Qing Kingdom.
In Sage Kong's Literary World, which received little attention from the Saint Origin Continent, an exceptionally brutal purge began in the Chu Kingdom.
Even in the Qin Kingdom, with its harsh laws, and the lands of the Yan Kingdom and Zhao, which revered the spirit of wandering knights, many scholars could not believe that the new King of Chu would go so far.
More than thirty percent of the Chu Kingdom's royal clan were struck from its genealogical register, reduced from royalty to commoners. Most were those closest in blood to the former King of Chu.
The middle and upper ranks of the Chu Kingdom's officials underwent a sweeping replacement. Some curious onlookers discovered that every person or lineage that had relentlessly hounded the Pearl River Army or the Pearl River Marquis Residence in the past suffered a heavy blow this time. Some were stripped of their titles; others had their estates confiscated.
However, those lineages that had offended the Pearl River Army or the Pearl River Marquis Residence but had shown restraint received only minor punishments, without suffering wounds that reached muscle and bone.
This purge in the Chu Kingdom directly affected seventy percent of its officials and indirectly affected them all. Every prefecture, every administrative district, and even every county was submerged beneath this unprecedented wave.
A purge on such a scale had never occurred in the history of the Literary World. Scholars