Compared to the fury of the Federation, the feelings of the general populace were more important. As the media agencies continued to report such news, both true and false information continued to be spread. It resulted in widespread fear and terror throughout the entire Federation, across all the planets, amongst both commonfolk and cultivators.
The scale of this incident was too big. Hundreds of thousands of cultivators on a planet, all dead within two hours. An unknown virus against which they had no resistance. The terror that this had ignited rose like a tsunami, erupting across large parts of the Federation.
There were even voices that were speaking out and attributing this to the ascent of the Spirit Inception Era. They called for people to abandon their cultivation and for them to give up the path of cultivation. They called for a return to the power of technology and science.