Golden Silkworm Gu King

As Huo Hai sent out a book, a storm began to sweep outward from the Imperial City Academy. No one noticed that the patrols coming and going had quietly grown far more numerous.

Many others concealed their identities altogether and entered the crowds in plain clothes. What they shared was a strange crystal ball they usually carried. That very day, they found several people in the Academy who carried Demonicized Spiritual Power. Each was brought in under one pretext or another.

Whenever possible, the Academy used special methods to purge the Demonicized Spiritual Power and Demon Seeds from them. But some had been Demonicized too deeply for the Academy to cleanse. Those people could only be made to disappear in secret.

The faces of the Imperial City Academy's leaders turned grim when they learned how many had been found. The Academy might be the cradle of Southern Cloud Kingdom's future and therefore of particular interest to the Demon Spirit Masters, but this many people being Demonicized was still a grave matter.

As the Imperial City Academy took action, so did other places. The Imperial Clan and the Four Great Families joined in, and the operation gradually spread across all of Southern Cloud Kingdom. Demonicized people were discovered one after another, then quietly dealt with.

Some who sensed that something was wrong fled overnight, hiding deep in the mountains and forests or escaping to other countries. Huo Hai had no idea that the book he had casually given them as a warning had destroyed a secret plan the Demon Burial Mound had long maintained. The plan had been to covertly turn the Southern Nations into a base for Demon Spirit Masters.

Huo Hai had no mind to concern himself with any of that. Some people did come to his door on