Entering the Top Four

Two Spirit Pagoda staff members who heard the commotion stood anxiously in the corridor.

Seeing Leng Yaozhu walk out, they froze for a moment before an unbelievable, ecstatic joy burst across their faces.

"D-Deputy Tower Master, you've come out of seclusion!"

"Get the car," Leng Yaozhu said in a calm yet authoritative voice. "To the Parliament Building."

"Also, notify all core members of the Reform Faction to hold a meeting in the headquarters' first conference room in half an hour."

"Yes!"

The staff members hurried away, and Leng Yaozhu cast one last look at the door sealed with gold-red patterns. The weeping from within had grown faint, turning into intermittent sobs.

She turned and strode toward the end of the corridor.

The crisp, resolute sound of her high heels striking the ground echoed through the empty hallway, like some kind of proclamation.

It proclaimed the return of the Sky Phoenix Douluo, and it also proclaimed that this imprisoned gentleness had ultimately reached a point where it had to be shattered.

Behind that sealed door, Leng Yulai curled up amidst the books and paper scraps littering the floor, hugging her knees and burying her face deep into the crook of her arm.

Her shoulders trembled violently, and dark soul power rotted away the surrounding furniture into charred holes as it wandered uncontrollably around her body.

"Coming back tonight..." she repeated, her voice hoarse beyond recognition. "Sister said she's coming back tonight..."

She raised her head to look at the sealed door. Darkness and despair intertwined in the depths of her eyes, ultimately settling into a deeper, more paranoid obsession.

"If Sister lies to me..."

She reached out, the dark soul power at her fingertips condensing into a sharp dagger that carved a deep trace into the floor.

"Then I'll drag Sister