The Misty Cloud Sect.
With the return of Yun Yun, the sect leader, and Yun Shan, the former sect leader, all the elders and disciples finally breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Yet when Yun Yun subsequently announced that the grand elder had betrayed the sect, revealing that he had ambushed her in the Snake-People Tribe's Holy City and had previously lain in wait for her outside, the news sent shock waves through the entire Misty Cloud Sect.
Fortunately, Yun Yun swiftly soothed the disciples and elders, preventing the incident from causing too great an uproar.
Still, it inevitably left its mark.
Precisely for that reason, the Misty Cloud Sect had chosen to lie low and focus on developing itself lately.
Presumably, both Yun Yun and Yun Shan intended to let time gradually wear away the impact of their grand elder's betrayal.
As for Xiao Lin, after returning, he found an opportunity to interrogate Protector Wu.
To be fair, the fellow was quite tight-lipped at first.
But after a round of torture from Xiao Lin, he quickly "laid down his arms and surrendered."
By the end, he had nearly even confessed to mixing mud with his own urine as a child!
All one could say was that Protector Wu's stubbornness had been nothing but a front!
And from Protector Wu's mouth, Xiao Lin learned quite a few of the Soul Hall's secrets.
For instance, the Soul Hall had operations on the other continents beyond the Central Plains as well.
The Northwest Continent was one such example.
Quite a few ordinary branch halls had actually been established there in secret.
These branch halls were generally managed by several protectors-Dou Zong-with numerous Soul Envoys serving beneath them.
The minimum requirement for becoming a Soul Envoy was the Dou Wang realm.
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