The most unfortunate ones were the Mingguang Sect, San Sheng Sect, and Heavenly God Sect.

The halls outside the Three Sects were met with a calamity.

In one day, they suffered a ferocious attack.

Because some halls had long been suspected, for such a long time, the Guardian Halls in various places were biding their time, as long as you don’t move, I’ll let you be.

If you move, I will strike with thunder.

Or set a long line to catch the big fish.

But under this strict order, results had to be produced. Under high pressure, it was time to cast the net.

Moreover, martial arts experts joined in the battle, making Zhao Shanhe sense something.

He felt that the opportunity had come, so he launched an all-out operation.

In one night, eleven halls of the Three Sects were destroyed, leaving no personnel behind, everything turned to ashes.

It was halls, not sub-branches!

In other words, all the semi-dark and semi-light halls were eradicated.

Then they hunted down the fish that slipped through the net.

The most unfortunate was the San Sheng Sect, a Hall Master managed to escape but was pursued, ran frantically back to the headquarters, and then exposed the headquarters.

Thus, the San Sheng Sect was fiercely attacked by the Guardian Southeast Headquarters and the Southeast Guardian. Fortunately, the Hu Sect Formation existed, able to hold them off; but the San Sheng Sect Leader, Guan Shan Du, panicked, desperately seeking help.

Thus, the Weiwo Orthodox Southeast Headquarters mobilized on a large scale to support, and the two sides launched a fierce battle before the San Sheng Sect’s headquarters.

At the same time, San Sheng Sect’s Guan Shan Du led his people to break through, being escorted by masters from the Weiwo Orthodox Southeast Headquarters while being pursued by Guardians.

After the battle, the San Sheng Sect headquarters was destroyed, and the families left behind who couldn’t keep up with the escape were collectively captured and became prisoners.

Those who stubbornly resisted were all executed.

More than seven thousand martial artists of the San Sheng Sect died an unnatural death.

The Southeast Guardians also suffered numerous casualties.

Entirely three connected large mountains were nearly shaved from the middle of the mountainside.

Guan Shan Du led the main forces of the sect to escape, entering the prepared backup headquarters and was furious.

This loss was too unfair.

And the Weiwo Orthodox on that side also grew furious, beginning to counterattack. They deployed through the night; the Baixuezhou and Fengxue City Guardian Halls were directly destroyed, under the Hall Master, all Guardians were killed without exception.

Then, Weiwo Orthodox members dissolved and vanished quietly.

Two Guardian Halls turned into ruins!

The same night, allied with the Guardian camp, the Flying Tiger Gang, Three Mountains Alliance, Business Castle, and Tian Jian Sect, four groups (or sects), were directly massacred.

More than two thousand people died completely.

The Bibo Town Guardian Hall also faced an attack that night; if not for a mysterious masked expert suddenly appearing, Bibo Town Guardian Hall would have been finished too.

But even so, the losses were still significant.

Moreover, the Bibo Lake outside Bibo City was blasted directly, causing a break in the dike, resulting in the downstream becoming a vast ocean, and water reaching three feet deep on flat land in Bibo City!

The Weiwo Orthodox’s counterattack was swift, efficient, cruel, and venomous!

The occurrence of such a tragedy shocked the world!

Suddenly, the entire southeast was on high alert, and everyone was nervous.

In just three days, the events happened so quickly, it was dazzling.

The Ningxue Sword sat in the southeast.

In anger, Zhao Shanhe mobilized the entire southeast collectively, besieging Weiwo Orthodox in an all-out war.

The great battle in the southeast seemed to be looming. The situation become more severe with each passing moment.

Not only martial artists and Guardians, but even ordinary people could feel the tense atmosphere.

Everyone hastened back home before the day was over and dark.

Some families who had already dug cellars straightforwardly slept in them every day; those who hadn’t dug hurried to dig...

But most of the families had dug cellars.

After all, in such times, everyone was already very familiar with avoiding danger.

...

Fang Che, during these days, as it was calm initially, simply began to vigorously reorganize the sub-branches, going on duty during the day and turning into the Starlight Master at night to demonstrate power.

The more than six hundred newcomers felt like they had escaped a miserable sea only to end up in hell every day.

Or say they were in hell in the morning, a miserable sea in the afternoon, back to hell at night, and returned to the miserable sea at dawn...

Going back and forth!

After several days of continuous torment, not to mention wanting to be a demon, even their will to be human was nearly gone.

They saw no hope at all: because they didn’t know when this inhumane training would end.

The earlier one hundred and six were split up and taken out for an escort mission, revealing more issues, and upon return, all one hundred and sixty-four of them were tied to the punishment stakes collectively.

Education and training began once more.

And it was much more brutal than before!

Tian Wanqing invented a method of punishment, sealing people’s cultivation, tying them with elastic ropes and hanging them on trees, exposing their butts, and then placing a sharp needle underneath, with its tip coated with an itching potion.

When hung still, their buttocks just touched the needle but were unable to pierce the skin by a narrow margin.

Tian Wanqing named it "Tian’s Itchy Pit."

Everyone praised it highly.

Tian Wanqing initially wanted to put a loach directly underneath in the middle position, but others compassionately stopped this.

"Don’t go too far, what if it goes inside? It’s disgusting. Just put a thick enough cone in the middle! A blunt one, who’s got ice cultivation techniques? Come ice the tip."

Then someone questioned those being punished about the Law Codes content and escort agency precautions.

Failing to answer or being too slow resulted in a whip lash.

Upon struggling, the rope would contract and then fall.