Falling Moon Prefecture.
The Heavenly Array Sect had become much more discreet in its affairs.
Nearly all the sects that had joined the rebels and besieged the Imperial City had been destroyed.
Among them, three top-tier great sects had been wiped out directly by the Imperial Court.
There had never been many top-tier great sects in the world.
Their numbers were limited to begin with.
First, the Heavenly Corpse Sect had fallen to the Origin Sect. Then, three more sects had been eradicated by the Imperial Court, causing the number of top-tier great sects to plummet.
Everyone in the cultivation world feared for their own safety.
However—
Though these sects were afraid, they dared not voice even the slightest complaint against the Imperial Court.
Things had been better before.
As the Human Emperor neared the end of his lifespan, he had stopped personally intervening in many matters, and the various sects had gradually forgotten his might.
Only after the Human Emperor returned from his feigned death, effortlessly slew four Demon Sages, and slaughtered every last rebel did they remember the supreme power he had once wielded.
Although the Heavenly Array Sect had not participated in the rebellion,
Du Chengwu, the Marquis of Falling Moon, had been one of its principal instigators.
Even if the risk was small, they could not afford to take any chances.
If the Imperial Court took a dislike to the Heavenly Array Sect while purging the rebels in Falling Moon Prefecture and destroyed it along the way, Mu Liang would have nowhere to turn.
As for whether destroying the Heavenly Array Sect without cause would provoke resistance from the cultivation world,
that might indeed have happened when Xi Yang occupied the throne.
But with the Human Emperor reigning now, who dared stick their neck out?
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