The Qingzhou governor led the local officials of Qingzhou, marching towards Buyi Town in a grand array. He slammed his official seal down, demolishing the rules enveloping the small town into nebulous shards, gradually breaking down.
This was not his own power, rather it was the authority bestowed upon him by the Great Xia dynasty. It allowed him to tap into a small portion of worldly power.
The group of cultivators was quite used to dealing with this kind of situation. With them taking action, things like not being able to confront the private schoolteacher, or that there was danger lurking in the straw-thatched huts in daylight, were all made rather laughable.
They apprehended the private school teacher, dragged out the wraith hiding in the straw-thatched hut, investigated how many were moving corpses and how many were living beings, studied whether the man transformed into a black dog could be restored... everything was being carried out in neat order.