"Everyone knows the answer to that question. But what caused the problem is a much grander question."
"Yes."
"How is the Divine Fate Sect doing?"
"The Town Yamen hasn't said it outright, but they've hinted that they don't want too many people in the Divine Fate Sect. Enough is enough."
"The Divine Fate Sect couldn't recruit everyone to begin with. The mayor knows perfectly well how stringent the requirements for Fate Cultivators are, so he won't suppress it. What about the Night Guard?"
"We've been following the guidelines you laid down. However..."
An inscrutable smile appeared on Han Anbo's face.
"What is it?"
"Quite a few Night Guards have come in over the past few days. Apart from a handful, most have joined our Patrol Bureau. There are now more than a thousand Night Guards, more than the townspeople in the Lower Mountain District. The people in the Upper Mountain District have been grumbling. They're eager for you to go up there."
"I didn't expect so many Night Guards to come in. The Grim-Faced Spider King really is formidable. What about the devil scions from Devil-Transforming Mountain and the Sand Devil Sect?"
"We haven't heard anything yet. They probably haven't come in."
Li Qingxian nodded, holding his Fate Disk as he observed the rivers and Rat Strongmen throughout Eerie Town.
"There's actually another matter giving everyone a headache," Han Anbo said.
"What happened?"
"Eerie Town has all sorts of motley groups. The most famous are the Ascension Sect and the Street-Lying Sect."
Li Qingxian nodded. He remembered seeing the Ascension Sect, constantly singing, "Blessing is a miraculous elixir, Blessing grants longevity," convinced that enough Blessing would let them ascend to immortality. Yet once they entered the Eerie Mist, every last one of them had been as steady as an old