"Have you made contact?"
Inside the Hall of General Affairs on Heavenly Dragon Peak, Song Jiyuan paced back and forth uneasily, occasionally raising his head to question the deacon waiting outside the door.
"Reporting to the Patriarch, no news has returned from the East Sea. All our messages have vanished like stones sinking into the sea. Every Space Teleportation Array has been shut down—we have completely lost contact with the Soaring Dragon Archipelago.
The clan elders are now speculating..."
"Speculating about what?"
The deacon instinctively shrank his neck. "The elders all believe that the Soaring Dragon Archipelago has fallen."
Hearing this, Song Jiyuan slumped into his chair. What the deacon had said was precisely what he feared.
From the moment Song Tianyuan's Soul Lamp went out, he had known this day would come.
Their youngest Grand Elder, tens of thousands of Clan Cultivators, nearly ten million mortals, and more than seventy percent of the entire clan's resources and holdings had all been lost at once. Since the Brocade Banner had established itself, it had never suffered such a devastating defeat.
Even when the East Sea Fleet had been utterly wiped out before, the Soaring Dragon Archipelago had remained firmly in their hands.
And that had been the key to their rapid recovery.
Now, aside from the family elders who knew the truth, the vast majority of the clan members were still being kept in the dark. They only knew that battles had broken out in the Soaring Dragon Archipelago and that Deputy Clan Head Song Zhexuan had personally led reinforcements there. They did not know the specific battle situation, and remained relatively optimistic, so no unrest had yet arisen within the clan.
Song Jiyuan did not even dare imagine the turmoil that would erupt within the clan if news of