After pondering for a moment, Dongfang Zhao looked at the two people below and asked, "You may be wondering why the Imperial Court *doesn't* extend a helping hand, but instead lets the plague-infected commoners perish on their own!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Changqing and Wei Lan exchanged glances, both maintaining a unified silence.
Seeing this, Dongfang Zhao's expression was calm. "It's actually normal to have such doubts. But, more than two hundred years ago during the plague, the Imperial Court did not sit idly by. In the one hundred and thirty-second year of Great Qin, havoc was first wreaked by Demon Evils, resulting in heavy casualties among the commoners.
Large piles of corpses accumulated, eventually giving rise to the plague.
That year, the Demon-Subduing Division dispatched many experts to eliminate the Demon Evils ravaging Guangyuan Prefecture. Countless Demon Hunters fell in the process, including many Defender Envoys who were guarding their respective regions.
