"A Temporary Killing Permit—killing people won't be a crime?!"
Teacher Nangong froze at those words, then went pale with horror!
What?
The Immortal Estate actually issued a weapon like that to deal with the Feathered Immortal Cult?
Why?
Teacher Nangong racked his brains. He could not imagine how one simple terrorist attack had brought about something so terrifying!
After all, Temporary Killing Permits had been issued on a large scale only three times in the Immortal Estate's history!
Two of those times had been during sect wars!
During the Five Realms Unification War, the situation had been so dire that Temporary Killing Permits had been issued to suppress rebellions in the rear.
This was only the third time!
Why issue such a thing over a simple Evil Cult uprising?
Teacher Nangong's heart gave a sudden thud.
Issuing Temporary Killing Permits had to mean something as grave as a sect war had happened!
Could it be...
Was the Feathered Immortal Sage about to reach Spirit Transformation?!
That was the only possibility.
A Spirit Transformation cultivator had colluded with outsiders to plot the Immortal Estate's overthrow. That was why the Immortal Lords had intervened and issued Temporary Killing Permits to slaughter everyone in the Feathered Immortal Cult!
It also explained why the cultists had attacked Junior Colleges and Undergraduate Colleges at random, stirring up chaos across the Five Realms. Apart from those attacking the Spell Repository, none of them seemed to have any objective.
They were neither recruiting nor seizing territory.
Just killing.
Making chaos!
The more Teacher Nangong thought about it, the more frightened he became. He felt as though he had been swept into some enormous affair.
*If that was true, surrendering wouldn't help. The Immortal Estate would hunt down every last member of the Feathered Immortal Cult and the