A quarter of an hour later, the surroundings fell quiet.
All the fiends had been put to death.
Ding Huanchun had them carry the fiends' corpses back to the imperial city, while he himself came before Chu Zhiyuan.
"Mr. Chu, if not for your help this time, we wouldn't have been able to kill these fiends."
"Every man has the right to punish fiends." Chu Zhiyuan smiled and shook his head.
Ding Huanchun said, "This was our greatest achievement this year."
Chu Zhiyuan raised a brow.
Ding Huanchun shook his head. "We wish we could slaughter every last one of them, but these fiends are cunning and slippery, impossible to guard against. After striking once, they immediately flee without a trace, and we can't catch up."
"Troublesome."
Chu Zhiyuan nodded slowly.
He could guess that the military had certainly selected masters with supreme lightness skills and had considered using them to hunt the fiends down.
It seemed they had achieved little.
"If not for your help this time, sir, that demoness would have escaped again," Ding Huanchun said. "Leaving aside the City Guard losing face, even the Imperial Court's prestige would have suffered greatly."
Chu Zhiyuan said, "It isn't only the Divine Movement Sect, is it? There are other evil sects as well?"
"Not only the Divine Movement Sect." Ding Huanchun's expression turned grave. "The Spirit Flying Sect, Purple Illumination Sect, Mind Clarity Sect, and many other evil sects!"
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Have you figured out why they are doing this?"
"No." Ding Huanchun shook his head. "It's utterly inexplicable. They all seem to have gone mad."
Chu Zhiyuan frowned. "The Imperial Court is so powerful, yet after a year, it still hasn't uncovered the source of their madness?"
Ding Huanchun shook his head. "These evil sects are difficult to