The internal unrest involving Chris, a jailer of the Underworld, had been jointly suppressed by numerous jailers.
Yu Ming and the others' escape from the eighteenth floor of the Underworld left Lan Miu extremely agitated. Unable to spare any attention for Chris, Lan Miu had the other jailers temporarily imprison Chris, who still clung to life.
Lan Miu immediately began comprehensive surveillance of every development in the human world, ordering jailers in every country to strengthen their monitoring of all regions. The moment Yu Ming and the others were discovered, they were to report it at once. At the same time, considering the possibility that Yu Ming might have gone to Ling, Lan Miu also had informants in the prison realm of Ling gather important recent intelligence from within Ling.
Fortunately, after searching and investigating the human world for some time, they found no trace of Yu Ming or the others. In the end, news Elizabeth brought back from Ling confirmed that Yu Ming and the others had gone directly to Ling.
However, the near-simultaneous deaths of Ling's three Apostles left Lan Miu deeply shaken.
The Apostles represented Ling's strength. Although creatures at the Apostle level were indeed a tremendous threat to jailers, their relationship was more one of balance. The existence of the Twelve Apostles maintained an internal equilibrium in Ling. If that balance were broken, something even more impossible to stop might occur.
While Lan Miu was discussing important matters in the Underworld with Elizabeth, who had just returned from Ling, Lan Miu suddenly sensed an anomaly appearing in the skies of the prison realm. Lan Miu naturally knew that this phenomenon had been triggered by a jailer training in Ling breaking through the bottleneck to become a jailer.
Anyone who broke through that bottleneck would be forcibly