"By the way, what does it mean when the Immortal Palace captures unruly demons and fiends?" Xiao Hua asked in puzzlement. "Does the Immortal Palace also meddle in the affairs of Cangxian Continent?"
"Cangxian Continent has ten thousand kingdoms and hundreds of millions of people," Fu Zhiwen explained. "The ordinary right of governance lies in the hands of those kingdoms' rulers. Naturally, the Immortal Palace does not interfere. Even when a nation's ruling power changes hands, the Immortal Palace pays it no heed! Even if forces different from Confucian cultivators emerge, the Immortal Palace may not necessarily intervene. But if such forces openly contend against the Immortal Palace, openly oppose Confucian cultivators, or openly slaughter Confucian cultivators, then... the Immortal Palace will certainly act to exterminate them! As far as I know, eight hundred years ago, there was a mighty bull demon within Yongzhou who wanted to establish an empire of his own and treated the common folk of Yongzhou as his blood food. That enraged the Immortal Palace, which sent soldiers and generals down to destroy the bull demon!"
"Oh, wasn't the bull demon a demon from the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons? Could the Immortal Palace simply kill it whenever it wished?" Xiao Hua asked, startled.
"The true demons of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons have always disdained coming to Cangxian Continent or the Pure Land. Any demons that appear in Cangxian Continent are not of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons' orthodox lineage! Moreover, the Great Sacred Hall of the Sacred Realm of a Thousand Demons once publicly declared that any demon entering Cangxian Continent or the Pure Land would be killed without mercy!" Fu Zhiwen said with a smile. "That was why the Immortal Palace showed no mercy to that bull demon."