Within Cloud Dream Marsh.
Two inexplicable currents began to sweep through it.
One came from above. Less than a month after the Cloud Marsh God issued its first divine decree forbidding fighting, another decree descended with crushing force.
Nor was the decree all that came. Lesser demons directly under the Cloud Marsh God were also dispatched to supervise.
Harming mortals and fighting one another were both capital offenses under the current lockdown.
In one more extreme case, word merely got out that two demons had challenged each other to a fight without even coming to blows. By the next day, one of those who had issued the challenge could never challenge anyone again.
At present, anything concerning mortals or fighting in Cloud Dream Marsh went straight to its highest authority. The sheer severity was truly appalling.
Ordinarily, even the Cloud Marsh God would have been deeply displeased by such overbearing demands, and there were great demons who coveted its position. Yet at this moment, not a single one of Cloud Dream Marsh's foremost demons objected.
Instead, they even helped the Cloud Dream God enforce the crackdown.
Naturally, news began circulating about such an unusual situation.
Rumor had it that Zheng Zhaoling, the Current Core Disciple of Cloud Dream Pavilion, had put immense pressure on the Cloud Marsh God. The details were unknown, but she had reportedly driven it to contact every elder in Cloud Dream Pavilion who had once been acquainted with its mother.
Each favor called in meant one fewer favor remaining, especially when the person they were being used against was Zheng Zhaoling.
Barring anything unexpected, she would surely take charge of Cloud Dream Pavilion in the future.
That showed just how critical the situation had been, though the intervention had also worked.
Cloud Dream Marsh would remain