Outside the Council Hall of the Iron Sword Sect.
Gao Yuanzhao stood solemnly before the cold stone steps, the murderous intent churning in his eyes threatening to spill out. The Earth Fiend aura around him, still unstable from his recent breakthrough, fluctuated uncontrollably.
He could never have imagined that during the months he spent in seclusion breaking through to the Earth Fiend realm, his clan, far away on Changshan Mountain, would suffer a catastrophic disaster—slaughtered to the last soul! And the murderer was none other than the Deputy Captain of the Jingwu Bureau's G Camp, a man named Chen Sheng!
The moment he learned of the tragic news, he felt as if he'd been struck by lightning. Immediately, boundless grief and rage consumed him.
Without a moment's hesitation, he suppressed the roiling emotions that threatened to tear him apart and came straight to the Council Hall, the heart of the sect, to request an audience with the Sect Leader.
