Because Cheng Honglie had suddenly leaped out regardless of the consequences, Chief Justice Li Yunjī was forced to return to Xuanyuan Hill. The three great sects' plan against the Iron Dragon Sect and Golden Crow Hall was temporarily thrown into disarray. Just as everyone in Great Xia had turned their eyes toward You Province, waiting for the Chief Justice's return, two days earlier, two Iron Dragon Sect deacons had suddenly defected. Within You Province's Righteous Path Tower, they publicly declared that Cloud Master, Great Xia's number-one wanted criminal, was hidden in an underground secret chamber beneath the Iron Dragon Sect's Mysterious Heaven Peak. They called upon all bounty hunters and constables of Great Xia to come to You Province and join forces to execute Cloud Master...
This twist piled peak upon peak, and the world was in an uproar.
The two deacons who had defected from the Iron Dragon Sect were originally locals of You Province. Back when Zhang Tie was still in the Iron Dragon Sect, the two had already joined the sect as disciples. Over the past thirty years, they had risen through accumulated merit to become mountain-gate deacons of the Iron Dragon Sect. Their sudden defection and public declaration at this moment had, in almost an instant, plunged the Iron Dragon Sect into a perilous situation.
According to the two deacons, the reason they had defected was precisely because they had discovered that the Iron Dragon Sect was sheltering and harboring the number-one figure on Great Xia's wanted list. Deeply disappointed by the Iron Dragon Sect's filth-harboring ways and trampling of Great Xia's laws, they had decided to abandon darkness for the light, announce the Iron Dragon Sect's "despicable" and "filthy deeds" to the world, and allow all righteous people under heaven to join in executing Cloud