Beneath the seemingly peaceful surface, undercurrents churned in the shadows. Because of what Huo Hai had done, he had touched a sensitive nerve among Bright Yang Kingdom's upper ranks, forcing them to take it seriously.
Secret investigations continued without cease, while all manner of open and covert struggles unfolded throughout Bright Yang Kingdom's Imperial Capital and its surrounding regions. Even the attention of Bright Yang Kingdom's upper ranks briefly shifted away from the Demon Spirit Masters and onto this matter. To these high-ranking figures, the interests of their Lineage and their own personal power would always come first. Compared to those, everything else was nothing but an illusion.
If their Lineage declined after defeating the Demon Spirit Masters, few Lineage elders would be willing to accept that. Rather than that, they might as well join the Demon Spirit Masters. That was why they had turned their attention toward Huo Hai, who posed a greater threat to their Lineage.
This string of overt and covert battles had not been without effect. When these people went all out, the power they unleashed was absolutely beyond what ordinary people could compare with. Three days passed amid apparent calm. During those three days, countless people were secretly arrested, and many simply vanished from the face of the earth. At first, the major Lineages and powerful factions uncovered numerous spies from other Lineages.
Even spies planted by other kingdoms were rooted out one after another. In the end, what shocked the major Lineages was that they had also found quite a few Demon Spirit Masters hiding in secret.
This discovery gave the Imperial Family and the major Lineages a tremendous fright. Bright Yang Kingdom had already conducted such a rigorous investigation, so how had Demon Spirit Masters still managed to slip in? As more and