I am Xu Jin, a core disciple of the current generation of the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect

Xu Jin's gaze swept lightly over the rolling slopes covered in flowers before settling on the only cluster of buildings among them.

From a mortal's perspective, the complex could have been called enormous.

To his eyes, measured against other sects, it was so small it barely registered.

A single peak of the Profound Clarity Heavenly Sect was probably larger than this place.

Still, strength and size did not actually have much to do with each other.

Ever since Chu Xingchen had left, Xu Jin's independent investigation into the Western Ox-He Continent affair had rather reached a dead end. He did not know how Chu Xingchen had identified the mortals that [Demons] had turned into; at least, he really could not pry that out.

Many investigations ultimately ended with nowhere left to look.

Besides, the earlier commotion had been considerable. He had heard that the Evil Spirit Cult in Central Province had already been beaten into scurrying away with their heads in their hands by the Buddhist Sect, fleeing in every direction.

At first, when faced with the Buddhist Sect's merciless suppression, the Evil Spirit Cult had assumed they were there to rack up some prestige and merit. They had intended to take a few punches for nothing, let the Buddhist Sect enjoy themselves a little, and call it a day.

Instead, the Buddhist Sect had only grown more ruthless in their killing, taking the stance that you would either meet the King of Hell or meet their Buddha, and had begun frantically delivering the Evil Spirit Cult to the next life.

Their reach was also extraordinarily broad. This time, the Buddhist Sect even proclaimed their guiding principle to be-crush the big ones, exterminate the small ones.

Pouring boiling water into an anthill would have counted as mercy; they had started