Chapter 87: Heaven-Defying Takes an Apprentice and Refines the Halberd

Xue Rengui, with the Great Revolution Seal, had broken through the pass between the two realms. Li Ji led his troops to kill into the pass and annihilated the remaining defending army. After that, he ordered his soldiers to smash all the temples, Buddha statues, and so on in the city, forcibly entering the homes of the common people to destroy the Buddha statues and replace them all with statues of the Revered Taoist of the Three Pure Ones.

If you want to keep a race obedient, the best way is to destroy their faith.

Li Ji had his soldiers search the city for scriptures, Buddha statues, Buddhist instruments, and so on, and gave orders that anyone hiding these items would implicate their entire family, up to nine degrees of kinship, to serve as a warning to others! With the strict decrees proclaimed, most of the city's residents dared not hide anything; however, a few households were searched out and taken directly to the execution platform.