"Excellent! True Lord Incense Accumulation understands the greater good. You have my thanks!"
Hong Tianming smiled when he heard Li Ling's words.
Li Ling immediately mobilized the Garrison Commissioners and Night Watchers throughout the Misty Wave Kingdom, launching a targeted purge of the West Sea's Demonic Path at the Heavenly Court's request.
After all these years, the arrogance of the West Sea's Demonic Path had been beaten down. But as the saying went, wildfire could never burn it all away; the spring breeze would bring it back to life. As long as soil in which the Demonic Path could breed remained here, more demonic cultivators would emerge after three or five years, seven or eight years. Over time, they would gather bands of outlaws in the wilds, menace the market wards, and cause considerable destruction.
More than ten years ago, Zhao Nian's case had implicated many elders of the Four Seas Commerce Guild's West Sea Branch Headquarters. For profit, people in the market wards harvested living victims and mutilated them, seized souls and stole spirits, long since abandoning every moral boundary. There were also Demonic Path disciples lurking here to bewitch people's hearts, some bold enough to swindle others in the name of the Incense Accumulation Sect.
Had that been all, those rogue cultivator markets and Demonic Path strongholds would have remained mere scabies on the skin. They would not have warranted such a large-scale mobilization, much less the dispatch of the Thunder Division's Vast Dharma Heavenly Lord.
What truly drew the Heavenly Court's attention was the emergence of a Nascent Soul Great Cultivator like Ye Hengsheng.
A great cultivator of that realm already possessed the power to completely reshape an entire region. They could not possibly ignore him and let him lay his plans unchecked.
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