Jiang Yu had captured Dan Shu and brought her back, even parading her through the streets of Exalting Sanctum. This was a big deal.
But it also accelerated the Divine Strategy Mansion's operation to close the net on the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus.
Originally, it would have taken some time before they could close the net. But after Dan Shu was captured and paraded through the streets in disgrace, some of the Disciples who knew the inside story grew nervous and began preparing to flee.
Naturally, this change did not escape the well-trained Cloud Knight soldiers, who immediately took action to arrest members of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus.
Panic spread through the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus like a plague, not only proving that Jiang Yu had spoken the truth but also allowing the operation to finish ahead of schedule.
Although the Divine Strategy Mansion had initially imprisoned Dan Shu in the Prison of Deep Seclusion with an attitude of provisional trust-since Jiang Yu was the one who had said it, after all-the reports sent back by the Cloud Knights thoroughly confirmed her identity.
The members of the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus felt pretty aggrieved.
They had imagined fighting the Xianzhou in the shadows, and they had also imagined a desperate battle out in the open against those followers of the Evil Bow. But they had never imagined it would end like this.
Out of nowhere, their leader had been captured by the Divine Strategy Mansion's people.
Then, just as inexplicably, there were Cloud Knights hiding right beside them, leaving them no time even to flee.
The towering edifice they had spent so long building collapsed in a single day. Years of painstaking plotting came to nothing at the crucial moment.
The prisoners from the Disciples of Sanctus Medicus racked