A few more days passed.
Inside the towering palace at the very center of the Yin Kui Sect.
This was the Yin Kui Sect's Central Main Hall, a place used only when major events occurred.
The Sect Master sat in the seat of honor.
The Grand Elders sat in the secondary seats.
Below them were the Hall Masters and elders, arranged in order...
As for where ordinary members sat?
They could get the hell out to the plaza—or even the slopes farther out—and stand there to await orders.
Was being allowed to listen to the proceedings still not enough for them?
Did they want bicycles too?
In any case.
Everything was an unmistakable display of strict hierarchy.
At present.
Upon the magnificent throne reserved for the Sect Master.
Orsaga sat with one leg crossed over the other, idly tapping the armrest carved with dragons and phoenixes with his fingers.
With every light tap of his finger, bursts of rumbling and tremors periodically rang through the entire palace.
Causing the enormous bronze bell at the very top of the hall, its surface endlessly flowing with dazzling divine radiance, to emit ear-splitting yet profoundly mysterious chimes.
Wave after wave of sound reverberated and surged above the Yin Kui Sect...
Some Yin Kui Sect members who were still entering the Blood Shadow Cave Heaven Secret Realm in orderly succession could not help but raise their heads, falling into silent speechlessness as they watched the clouds being torn apart and ravaged by the sound waves.
Although they had no idea what was happening.
That obvious sense of a storm about to break still filled them with unconscious tension and unease, as though they were ducks being driven onto a perch.
The seemingly chaotic and disorderly bell chimes also resembled some peculiar symphony. They stirred