Once Zhang Huan gave the order, Jiao Liangcai began his investigation.
The Curse Cult had been more active in Great Xia in recent years, but with the Administration keeping it in check, that increase was only relative.
Jiao Liangcai requested access to all records of Curse Cult incidents in the Seven Surrounding Cities over the past two years. In the end, he found only eighteen resolved cases involving the cult.
That worked out to roughly one Curse Cult incident per city per year.
It did not seem like much, but those were only the incidents that had been resolved!
Cases involving suspected Curse Cult activity or suspects who had never been apprehended numbered two or three times as many.
What Jiao Liangcai had requested were the resolved and archived Curse Cult cases.
The request had to go through a process, but Zhang Huan's backing sped things up considerably.
In less than an hour, all the procedures were complete, and Jiao Liangcai had the details of all eighteen incidents in front of him.
Of the eighteen Curse Cult incidents, two were major, four were medium-scale, and the rest were minor.
The Administration used a standardized classification system for incidents involving Yin Cultivation.
A minor incident involved a single Yin Cultivator causing the deaths of no more than ten ordinary people.
A medium-scale incident involved no more than three Yin Cultivators causing over ten deaths, or an incident in which fewer than three Investigators were killed or injured.
A major incident involved more than three Yin Cultivators causing over ten deaths, with Administration Investigators also killed or injured.
The incident in Lin'an City had involved over ten Curse Cult members, but because the death toll had remained within ten and no Administration Investigators had been killed or injured, it was classified as