As for the Anti-Demon Faction, its members had either returned to their respective families or gone to the front lines to earn points.
They were basically impossible to command now, with only a nominal presence remaining within the Commerce Association.
In other words, the cultivators who remained were basically unopposed to trading with the Divine Fire Sect.
'This simplifies things,' Xiao Chen thought. 'I no longer need to figure out who's who.'
'I can just catch them all in one fell swoop later. I guarantee none of them will be innocent.'
'And it looks like they're planning to split up, which makes it perfect for me to take them down one by one.'
In truth, with Xiao Chen's strength, he didn't need to be so cautious.
But the appearance of the Spirit-Locking Smoke had been a wake-up call.
The Huidong Commerce Association had backing from the Eastern Domain, with the Golden Dawn Sect providing them with all sorts of strange trump cards.
