382: The blood and tears behind, the evil of the bandits, the collapse of order

"Your Excellency, this natural disaster is so terrifying. If it is not contained and allowed to spread further, the consequences will be endless..."

Zhao Hu said, and the others nodded in agreement. Although this natural disaster does not move, once it swallows more and more people, it will expand rapidly and become a forbidden zone.

"Your Excellency, there might be another hidden reason behind this. This red-clothed woman hates officials so much; could it be that a high-ranking official in the Three Prefectures caused them to suffer like this?"

"We can use this as a Breakthrough to open up the situation!"

Fu Yunxuan said.

Chu Jiang also had the same thought; there is no hate without reason. It seems that this natural disaster has been forming for quite some time.

"Let's go!"

Chu Jiang's figure was like lightning, and everyone followed, stepping into the eerie village once again.

They headed straight for the Liu family's old house.

"Young lady, what injustice have you suffered? You can tell my people!"

"My Lord is the Imperial Inspector of the Three Prefectures, specifically here to resolve the chaos in the Three Prefectures!"

Fu Yunxuan said, looking at the red-clothed woman behind the room.

"You don't need to be so hypocritical. No official is a good person; they are all liars! Die!"

The red-clothed woman raged again, completely ignoring any explanations, and terrifying Evil Qi swept in all directions once more.

Boom!

Sword light and blood shadows.

The Demon Slayer Blade was unsheathed again, and the red-clothed woman was slain once more.

The eerie village was destroyed again, turning into a Corpse Mountain of blood.

"She is now consumed by hatred and won't listen to you!"

Chu Jiang said indifferently.

When the village reappeared, it was still that peaceful paradise.

Chu Jiang charged in again.

He killed her ten times in total.

The red-clothed woman's face, for the first time, showed a hint of paleness. Does this guy not need to expend magical power to use Saint-Grade blade techniques?

Her recovery could no longer keep up with Chu Jiang's speed of slaying her.

If this continued, after a few more dozens of times, she would completely vanish.

Her face turned cold, and she said, "In this area, I am immortal. Don't waste your effort. I don't want to kill you right now, so leave!"

"Who said this Lord cannot kill you?"

"If you are immortal, why does your recovery time get longer each time?"

"If I continue, ten times, twenty times, thirty times, how long can you last?"

"These thousands of villagers will completely vanish with you. You wouldn't want them to suffer the fate of Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, would you?"

Chu Jiang said indifferently.

If it weren't for Chu Jiang's Peerless Blade, which had already transcended to Saint-Grade, an ordinary person really couldn't outlast her.

"You..."

The red-clothed woman seemed to have been hit where it hurt, and a flicker of wavering flashed in her eyes, knowing that Chu Jiang's words were not empty talk.

"My Lord is an Imperial Envoy personally dispatched by Your Majesty, holding supreme military and political power over the Three Prefectures. He has even mobilized troops that guard the Imperial Capital to resolve the chaos in the Three Prefectures."

Fu Yunxuan also sensed the red-clothed woman's hesitation and pressed on while the iron was hot.

"Really?"

The red-clothed woman's eyes were filled with suspicion, and her voice trembled slightly, but it seemed she had no other choice.

"Mm!"

Chu Jiang put away his Demon Slayer Blade and said, "You shouldn't be from this village, should you?"

The red-clothed woman calmed herself and then said, "I am Li Qingxue, the Sect Master of the Danxia Sect, one of the Four Great Sects in Liangan County, Yue Province."

No wonder, he thought, how could there be such a beautiful woman in a village? It turns out she was originally the leader of a major Sect.

Li Qingxue hesitated for a moment but still revealed the secret in her heart.

"Three years ago, my Junior Brother and I became Dao Companions. The mountain bandits from the Soul Severing Mountain Range came uninvited, and the Third Master, Ghost Face Scholar, took a liking to my beauty..." Li Qingxue's eyes held monstrous hatred, her voice extremely choked, even with a hint of a sob: "If I didn't give in to him, he would slaughter my Sect and leave no one alive!"

"Of course, I refused, but that beast threatened me with my Junior Brother, forcing me to agree, and even tried to violate me in front of my Junior Brother... My Junior Brother, unable to bear the humiliation, self-destructed all his cultivation to cover my escape!"

"I fled to the Yuezhou Demon Suppression Division, begging them for help to suppress these mountain bandits. They readily agreed and dispatched a large number of people."

"As a result, upon arrival, the Demon Suppression Guards did not attack the mountain bandits. Instead, they captured me along with the bandits."

"They said I was attempting rebellion, and the Danxia Sect deserved to be punished!"

"The female Disciples of the Danxia Sect were captured by them and became tools for their lust, tormented to death even in front of their Dao Companions. As for the men, regardless of age, they were all massacred!"

"Including the dozens of villages attached to the Danxia Sect, all were ravaged and turned into dead lands!"

"Afterward, my Danxia Sect was branded with the crime of treason, accused of colluding with demons and mountain bandits, and was annihilated by the Demon Suppression Division."

Chu Jiang's expression changed slightly. There was a mountain bandit rebellion in the Three Prefectures, but the local authorities had never reported it, only claiming they were scattered bandits posing no threat.

Now it seems, these were not scattered bandits at all, but utterly ruthless and evil bandits, organized and powerful.

The Danxia Sect, as a major local Sect, was unable to resist the bandit attack.

These utterly inhumane evil demons and bandits killed everyone, whether from major Sects or ordinary commoners, purely to vent their evil thoughts.

Even the Demon Suppression Division was involved, being one of them.

These Three Prefectures could no longer be described as merely 'rotten'; order had collapsed, and there were no bottom lines whatsoever.

The Demon Suppression Division, hailed as the last pure land, was in cahoots with the enemy. Who else in this world could be trusted?

Fu Yunxuan's face was icy cold. As a woman, she could deeply understand this pain—the love for her Dao Companion, the responsibility to her Sect, an impossible choice, simply driving people to a dead end.

Her hand holding the blade was trembling, wishing she could slay these beasts with a single strike.

"My Dao Companion died tragically. I watched with my own eyes as my Junior Sister, Senior Sister, and other female Disciples were humiliated, yet I was powerless!"

"I hate, I hate these mountain bandits, I hate the officials, and I hate myself even more for not having enough power in this chaotic world to protect my Dao Companion, to protect my Sect, leading to this tragedy!"

"I am unwilling! I want revenge! I want to kill all the corrupt officials under heaven! I want to avenge the thousands of lives of the Danxia Sect!"

"I want all those evil bandits in the Hengduan Mountains to die..."

Li Qingxue roared with hatred, her eyes frighteningly bloodshot.

Everyone fell silent.

No wonder Li Qingxue harbored such immense resentment and malice towards officials. There was a reason for it.

She had initially thought the Demon Suppression Division was a lifeline, but they had instead pushed her and the Danxia Sect into an bottomless abyss.

Anyone in her situation would develop boundless hatred.

No one questioned why she indiscriminately sought to eradicate all officials under heaven, regardless of right or wrong.

A person consumed by such deep hatred has gone mad, no longer caring about anything.

The fault was not hers, but the world that drove her to this point—the mountain bandits, the Demon Suppression Guards who colluded with them, and the treacherous individuals behind the scenes who brought disaster upon the nation.