The Reason for Mobilizing Such a Force to Exterminate Evil Soul Masters

His territory stretched across the central and western regions of the continent.

The Northern Border bordered the Heaven Dou Empire. To the west, the Ming Dou Mountains formed its boundary, facing the Sun Moon Empire from afar.

Marching through Star Luo Empire would not only avoid the rugged mountain roads along the Heaven Dou Empire's western border, but also allow them to rely on Star Luo's level official roads and preserve the army's advance speed to the greatest extent possible.

The moment the force entered the Northern Border of the Star Luo Empire, Chen Xuan abruptly changed course and ordered the army to detour through the remote mountain regions.

Most of the Evil Soul Master strongholds previously marked by the Inspection Bureau were located along the main roads.

But Chen Xuan knew that the truly troublesome remnants of the evil soul faction, those with the deepest roots, were never out in the open.

Remote mountain ranges, uninhabited borderlands, and nameless villages absent from maps were the breeding grounds where Evil Soul Masters hid and lay low.

Sure enough.

Scouts from the Evil Lord Soul Engineer Corps ventured deep into the mountain valleys and uncovered seven or eight hidden small strongholds in succession.

Yet the ones entrenched there were all low-ranking Evil Soul Master grunts below the Soul Emperor level.

Some were coercing villagers as they frantically packed supplies to flee, while others were still committing atrocities, utterly unaware that disaster was upon them.

Before they could react, the scouts had trapped them inside their cave dens.

The interrogation results were all identical.

These low-level Evil Soul Masters had little seniority and ranks too low to qualify for Message Soul Tools.

Naturally, they had received no retreat order from the upper ranks of the Holy Spirit Cult.

Their superiors and the