Chapter 340: Escape (1/2)

A week later.

The troops reached the designated villages and started investigating it. They found the peculiarity as soon as they sneaked into the village.

There are a lot of people who are wearing white robes and even the village guards who are responsible for keeping a watch at the entrance are doing the same.

The whole village seemed eerily silent as the only people who are roaming around are the white-robed people. The troops sneaked into the village at night, in order to not alert anyone and it turned out to be a great thing.

Because at night they witnessed something that blew their minds away. A fifty-year-old man who is a complete commoner entered a newly built large house and came out wearing a white robe. But this time, his body is releasing spiritual energy waves and at the same time absorbing the spiritual energy frantically.

Apart from that the rest of the normal cultivators are in a dazed state lying around in their houses. Some of them are killed, some of them hypnotized and some of them are completely tied up with restrictions in place.

The situation is the same in almost all the villages and in every place, there is a person who is wearing a white mask who is feeding pills to these commoners.

The Captains of the teams knew that situation is anything but good. They immediately left the village and informed Arc about the situation.

Arc suddenly felt his head go numb. He was feeling relieved that the crime rates in the villages have been reduced completely but it seemed that something major is going on behind his back and he doesn't know what it is.

”Capture the leaders of all twenty-one villages. I need all of them alive. As for the rest, try to arrest them and release the normal cultivators.

If they dared to resist, cripple their cultivations. There is no such thing as becoming an overnight cultivator and if there is something like that it is definitely not a good thing.

There seemed to be someone hatching a huge plan behind our backs.

After arresting them, place them in isolation, don't even let them talk within themselves.

Bring back the leaders as fast as you can.”

With those orders, the very next night, the troops took action and arrested the leaders. They put the rest of them in captivity and completely sealed their senses within the village. The troops were left behind to monitor them and the leaders were escorted by the Nascent stage cultivators.

The communication towers are also unlocked.

Arc who was supposed to go to the thunder god temple two days later didn't even think of going until he investigated this matter.

While he was waiting, something else is unfolding on the other side of the world.

In this week, the activities of the church were escalated to a new height within the eastern continent.

And slowly, the people are reaching out to every door and advocating the church of guide. They are preaching equality, fairness, impartiality which will be only granted once they joined the church.

The trio felt extremely vary. From what the healer said, Sam's health will get better in around three months.

So, they have to be wary for the next three months. But these church followers are making too much of a ruckus.

Watt sent the only shadow mice that he had in the beast pouch. It was sent to Watt when Sam infiltrated the beast faction. He sent the shadow mouse to the streets where the church followers campaigning door to door so that they could understand the situation.

When the mouse entered the house, it saw that the church members who are wearing the white robes walked inside directly without knocking.

The one in the front, held the commoner by his neck and forced a pill inside his mouth.

There are two more people inside the house, one of them is a lady who seemed to be in her forties and a son who just awakened barely.

They seemed to be having a feast at his awakening.

But the intruders made it completely hard for them to even smile. They forced the same type pf pill in the lady's mouth and forced a completely different pill in the boys' mouth.

After the three of them fainted, they even left a statement.

”It is hard to explain the situation to the ignorant. So, we took it upon ourselves to show you the correct way.

The 'Guide' is the only one who can lead us to a true and fair world. Please forgive us.”

The mouse didn't leave the house immediately, instead, it stayed till the three of them woke up.

The first to wake up is the couple. After waking up, they seemed to be in a daze but soon left the house.

After that, the boy also woke up and he also seemed to be in a daze.