"It's a Pursuit Mission!" Ye Xue said. "A traitor has emerged within our Ye Family. His name is Ye Kuohai. Though he was never part of our Law Enforcement Hall, he used to belong to the Dark Hall. He wasn't anyone particularly high-ranking there, but he still held some secrets. You understand what the Dark Hall means, don't you?"
Ye Xue looked at Ye Xiwen, her gaze bright and piercing.
Of course Ye Xiwen understood what the Dark Hall meant to the Ye Family. What set the Dark Hall apart most from other institutions was that, though its reputation resounded far and wide, very few people had ever truly seen its members. They never recruited openly either. They had their own set of standards for selecting people, and ordinary people simply could not meddle in it. Within the Ye Family, they were also one of the most mysterious organizations.
True to its name, the Dark Hall generally handled matters that the Ye Family could not conveniently reveal to the public: gathering intelligence abroad, managing spies, training undercover agents, assassinations, mercenaries, and countless other things were connected to the Dark Hall. It was an extraordinarily mysterious organization, generally under the direct command of the Ye Family Patriarch.
But because they did so much work that could not see the light of day, the Dark Hall possessed secrets far greater than those of other institutions. Unlike the Law Enforcement Hall, whose secrets would not amount to much even if exposed, once the Dark Hall's secrets were revealed, they might stir up towering waves. For example, if the patriarch of some clan within the Hundred Clans Alliance suddenly died miserably by the roadside, it might well have been the Dark Hall's doing. Such matters were top secret and absolutely could not be leaked.