Dawn broke.
Wu Manor, noisy through the night, gradually settled back into calm, though faint sobbing could still be heard.
Quite a few people had died last night.
The work of cleaning up the aftermath had only just begun.
Although the enemy had been completely driven back.
Every Wrathful Whale Disciple present wore a grave expression.
It was as though the place lay beneath a suffocating low-pressure front.
Each of them had fury bottled up inside.
Yet nowhere to vent it!
In the past ten years, the Raging Whale Gang's Linhe Branch had never suffered such grievous losses.
Last night, Whale Fortress and Wu Manor had come under enemy attack at the same time.
There was no need to elaborate on Wu Manor's situation.
The circumstances at Whale Fortress had been even more perilous. Its gates had been smashed open by three Iron Zombies wielding Chain Hammers, and a great horde of zombies had poured into the Linhe Branch's core territory.
It had been on the verge of falling at any moment!
Fortunately, under the Inner Hall Master's command, the defending warriors had poured vast quantities of fire oil into the zombie horde.
They relied on blazing flames to stem the corpse horde's assault.
Then Supreme Elder Liao Yong'an emerged from Secluded Cultivation, wielding the mysterious weapon Azure Wave Sword, and slew all three Iron Zombies in one stroke.
Liao Yong'an was one of the Linhe Branch's only two Fourth Order Martial Artists.
This True Qi-tier martial artist normally did not handle the gang's day-to-day affairs. He spent all year in Secluded Cultivation and rarely appeared before others.
But after Branch Master Wei Changfeng had led the main force out on campaign, he had become the pillar holding the branch steady.
Last night, it had also been this Supreme Elder