More than ten days after Shi Feixuan had once again failed to warn and persuade Xu Ziling, the weather grew colder and colder. As snow blanketed the land north and south of the Yangtze and the year gradually entered its coldest season, a troublesome little Grandmaster who had wandered from Sichuan to Chang'an, then from Chang'an to Yingchuan, finally wandered back to Yuhang Commandery, home of the Twin Dragons Army.
This time, she had barely returned when Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling, who had also just made it back to Yuhang, invited her to the commandery offices.
Curious, she followed them there. When she discovered that they weren't throwing her a grand welcome or a winter banquet, but instead holding the kind of meeting she hated most, she was naturally displeased. She sat cross-legged in her seat, pouting in a huff, and barely acknowledged the Song Clan's "Heavenly Blade" Song Que, Song Shidao, Song Zhi, and the others when they entered and greeted her.
That was right!
For this meeting, even the Song Clan's leader, Song Que, its young master, Song Shidao, and its second-in-command, Song Zhi, had been urgently summoned from their distant mountain stronghold in Lingnan and rushed here overnight. Along with the Twin Dragons Army's Kou Zhong, Xu Ziling—who had made the urgent journey back from Yingchuan day and night just a few days earlier—and Wanwan, there were more than a dozen people present. Every one of them was a top-ranking figure in either the Twin Dragons Army or the Song Clan.
That alone showed how important and urgent this meeting was.
"Everyone!"
"Ziling should have stayed in Yingchuan to oversee the situation, but..."
At Kou Zhong's signal, Xu Ziling quickly rose to his feet and began speaking with a solemn expression.
"Given how serious this matter