Chapter 499: The Next Step
Aldrian sipped his tea in the calm atmosphere of the sect, while Sect Master Baek and Baek Jimin did the same. They seemed unaware of the chaos outside the Thorny Flower Garden Sect, but in truth, they had already received reports and updates on the situation.
Then why did they appear so relaxed, as if the chaos had nothing to do with them?
It was because, before sunrise this morning, Aldrian had already captured every traitor within the Thorny Flower Garden’s territory using the memories of Kwon Mira and Joon Suk. He only targeted those who knew about Kwon Mira’s ties to the devils—and those connected to the devils themselves.
After he had disappeared from the sect to heal Sect Master Baek, all the traitors from Kwon Mira’s faction immediately tried to flee. They knew that with Aldrian’s arrival, their lives were at risk, no matter what they had done within the sect.
Because of that—along with Sect Master Baek’s previous purges and Kwon Mira’s killing of several elders loyal to her—the sect lost more than half of its elders, including grand elders at the emperor stage. As a result, the sect was weaker than ever before.
Those who remained and didn’t flee were still loyal to Sect Master Baek but had been forced to compromise after Kwon Mira successfully seized the position of sect master.
The traitors scattered across various territories outside the Thorny Flower Garden and did their best to stay hidden.
Unfortunately for them, with the help of the heavens, Aldrian located each of their positions and teleported them back to the sect, where they were immediately apprehended. Despite their collective strength being greater, they could do nothing but surrender under Aldrian’s power.
Aldrian also eliminated all the devils within the Thorny Flower Garden territory as quickly as possible, a task that was easy for him. He moved like a killing machine—slaughtering devils in one place before teleporting to the next, leaving many corpses behind. He repeated this process over and over until not a single devil remained within the territory.