On the night of April 11th, Wa Emperor Calendar 3586, all was silent in a desolate, sand-covered wasteland somewhere along the western hammer border of the Dragon Emperor Domain...
Twenty minutes earlier, a squad of Dragon Emperor Temple Divine Soldiers equipped with flying wings had just passed overhead. They were from the Dragon Emperor Temple in Western Garden City, the nearest city to this place, and had been ordered to patrol the border.
Over the past few days, the atmosphere in the Dragon Emperor Domain had grown tense. More and more wanted notices were being issued from Dragon Emperor City. Besides Xia Yangming and Shi Zhongyu, the names of Dragon Emperor Temple Divine Generals who had suddenly vanished and could no longer be contacted had also begun appearing on those notices one after another.
In only a few days, the Dragon Emperor Temple's wanted list had grown to twenty-four names. The titles and positions these people had formerly held within the Dragon Emperor Temple had all been removed, uniformly replaced with one designation—spies from the Dark Emperor Temple lurking within the Dragon Emperor Temple.
In response, every temple in the Dragon Emperor Domain that had received orders from above sprang into action. Not only did the Divine Generals and Divine Soldiers of every temple cast their nets far and wide, hunting everywhere for the wanted Divine Generals, but even the common people of every city were mobilized. Added to that were the Star Emperor Temple and Martial Emperor Temple forces that had rushed in from beyond the domain to capture Dark Emperor Temple Divine Generals alive, as well as a number of experts from the Wa Emperor Palace. The entire Dragon Emperor Domain was now an armed camp, with scouts and patrols everywhere. Even this desolate land near the border