Inside the council hall of the Brotherhood, the leader Tong Li was fidgety with apprehension.

Every single presbyter whom he had dispatched into Xiacheng had lost contact and they were all unreachable.

A foreboding dread began swelling inside him.

"Has anything bad happened, perhaps?" he murmured.

A palpable pall of menace and gloom hung over the high council of the Brotherhood in the hall.

"Rest assured that Presbyter Chai ...