The Holy Spirit Cult's response had truly given Xu Tiance a headache.
Just as he had predicted, the Holy Spirit Cult soon vanished without a trace, holing up in its headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest.
Although the searches conducted by the Body Sect and the Sun Moon Imperial Family had rooted out large numbers of Evil Soul Masters hiding in Mingdu and destroyed branches of the Holy Spirit Cult, these were merely small fry the cult had abandoned. Its core members had remained largely unaffected.
Moreover, with the Holy Spirit Cult holed up in the Evil Demon Forest, they had no good way to deal with it for the time being.
Forcing their way into the Evil Demon Forest would inevitably bring down the Evil Eye Tyrant Ruler upon them, and they currently lacked sufficient means to deal with the Holy Spirit Cult's high-level forces. More importantly... even if the Sun Moon Imperial Family took such action, the Holy Spirit Cult was unlikely to abandon its headquarters in the Evil Demon Forest and relocate elsewhere.
The only thing they could do now was make the Holy Spirit Cult's assassination of Prince Purple Brilliant, Xu Tianran, public and expose its crimes one by one. This would make the Sun Moon Imperial Family's stance clear to the cult while turning it into a rat crossing the street, with everyone shouting for its death.
Unable to think of any other way to deal with the Holy Spirit Cult for the moment, Xu Tiance simply stopped thinking about it.
The Holy Spirit Cult probably would not rear its head again anytime soon. Of course, there was no telling what that madwoman Ye Xishui might do.
Thus, for this soul ring hunting trip, Kong Deming had brought along a truly lavish lineup.
It consisted