
A week later.
The troops reached the designated villages and began investigating them. They discovered the strangeness as soon as they sneaked into the village.
There were many people wearing white robes and even the village guards who were responsible for guarding the entrance did the same.
The entire village looked silent as the only people wandering around were the white-robed people. Troops sneak into the village at night, so as not to warn anyone and that turns out to be a great thing.
Because at night they witnessed something that made their minds dumbfounded. A fifty-year-old man who was an ordinary person entered a newly built mansion and came out wearing a white robe. But this time, his body released waves of spiritual energy and at the same time absorbed spiritual energy frantically.
Moreover, the other normal cultivators were in a daze lying in their homes. Some of them were killed, some of them were hypnotized and some of them were actually tied up with the restrictions in place.
The situation was the same in almost all the villages and in every place, there were people wearing white masks who fed the pills to these commoners.
The team captain knew that the situation was not good at all. They immediately left the village and informed Arc of the situation.
Arc suddenly felt his head numb. He was relieved that the crime rate in the villages had been reduced completely but there seemed to be something big going on behind him and he had no idea what it was.
"Capture the leaders of all twenty-one villages. I need them all alive. As for the rest, try to catch them and release the normal cultivators.
If they dared to fight, cripple their cultivation. There was no such thing as being a cultivator overnight and if there was such a thing it would definitely not be a good thing.
It seems like someone is putting together a big plan behind us.
After catching them, place them in isolation, do not let them speak within themselves.
Bring back the leaders as soon as possible."
With that order, the following night, the troops took action and captured the leaders. They placed the rest in captivity and completely sealed their senses within the village. The troops were left to monitor them and the leaders were escorted by Nascent stage cultivators.
The communications tower is also unlocked.
The arc that was supposed to go to the thunder god temple two days later did not even think of leaving until he investigated the matter.
While he waited, something else was going on on the other side of the world.
In this week, church activities increased to new heights in the eastern continent.
And slowly, people reached out to each door and advocated for a guiding church. They preach equality, justice, impartiality that will only be granted after they join the church.
They feel very varied. From what the healer said, Sam's health would improve in about three months.
So, they need to be vigilant for the next three months. But the followers of this church made too much noise.
Watt sent the only shadow mouse he had in the animal's pouch. It was sent to Watt when Sam infiltrated the beast faction. He sent shadow rats into the streets where church followers campaigned door-to-door so they could understand the situation.
When the rat entered the house, he saw the white-robed church member go inside without knocking.
The one in front, held his neck and put the pill into his mouth.
There were two more people inside the house, one of them was a woman who seemed to be in her forties and a son who had just woken up.
They apparently had a party at his resurrection.
But the intruders made it very difficult for them to smile. They forced the same type of pf pill in the mouth of the woman and forced a completely different pill in the mouth of the boy.
After the three of them fainted, they even left a statement.
"It's hard to explain the situation to a fool. So, we take it upon ourselves to show you the right way.
'The 'guides' are the only ones who can lead us into a righteous and just world. Please forgive us."
The rats did not leave the house immediately, but stayed until the three of them woke up.
The first to wake up is a couple. After waking up, they looked dazed but immediately left the house.
After which, the boy also woke up and he also looked dazed.
He seemed to have completely lost his memory.
The next morning, the mouse returns to Watt, who gets the gist of the information through Falck's translation.
He suddenly felt cold, he did not know how the whole church worked, and they could not understand, how it developed so quickly, but now it made sense.
They forced their numbers to grow and for some strange reason, they did not target cultivators, their only targets were ordinary people.
He suddenly thought of something, all the great natural cultivators he felt in this city before were now wearing white robes.
That is, they all belong to the church. He connected the dots and immediately felt a chill run down his spine.
He didn't know what was really going on, but he knew something big was going to happen and it wasn't safe to stay here anymore.
He explained the situation to Philip and Jack and the three decided to move to the imperial capital on the same day.
They made their arrangements and began to move silently at night.
But to their surprise, all the city gates were completely blocked.
The city guards disappeared and all those standing there in their place were white-robed people.
They also noticed the movements of the three and stopped them at the last gate.
"We should immediately go to the Imperial capital. Our friend is not feeling well and we should take him to the healer as soon as possible, can you give way."
Philip said in a very worried tone. Watt and Jack exchanged glances as Watt tied Sam to his back and immediately let out a Silver wind.
The two pulled out methane grenades in both of their hands and shot directly at the four people who were blocking them.
They took out a ferocious beast from their beast pouch and walked up to the sky.
Watt looked down, only to find out that the four people who were in the middle of the explosion and their whole body was blown up recovered quickly, their skeletons were completely intact and only the flesh seemed to be affected by the explosion.
They still had smiles on their faces as they wore other white robes. They did not seem to have any beasts on them, but two of them ran towards them.
"While our two fellow believers follow them and teach them the true way of truth, we will calm the chaos caused by them in the city.
Only a week to go to the big day and we will complete the spread of faith at that time.
The two people were running behind as they flew, they did not even wear footwear as they made long, strong strides.
They used nothing but pure physical strength like savages.
They do not take turns or diversions when chasing.
They hit rocks, boulders, and even trees.
All three took them deep into the forest and this turned out to be futile as they started using the trees as their footholds to jump and even sometimes to try to reach their heights.
The three of them attacked quickly from the front and some attacks even landed neatly which made them observe something.
The bodies of these people are different.
The waves of spiritual energy coming from them gave off the same tremors as those experienced by a Great realm cultivator at his peak.
They could not use any form of elemental attack and could only rely on physical strength. They could not even control the absorption of spiritual energy from manipulating it over their free will.
In reality, they seemed to be unaware of everything related to spiritual energy.
They are completely brainwashed and they don't seem to have any sanity left, their words are calm, but they are completely nonsense.
Last but not least, their healing abilities are very strange.
As long as their skeletons were intact and fused completely, they seemed to have no problem with healing no matter how serious their wounds were.