While Han Shuo was making his mark in the Chaos Lands, the Han Family, far away in Shadow City in the Darkness Divine Domain, ran into trouble.
After Han Shuo disappeared from Shadow City, the members of the Han Family gradually withdrew to Berglas Fortress. There, the family developed quietly and no longer involved itself in Shadow City's affairs.
Wallace, the Lord of Shadow City, tacitly allowed the Han Family to leave. He no longer notified them to participate in any of Shadow City's affairs, great or small, effectively excluding them from the governing authorities.
Because the Chaos Lands were so far from Shadow City, news from there rarely reached the city. When the vicious fiends of the Twelve Great Divine Domains had nowhere else to turn, they would head to the Chaos Lands, bringing the latest news from the Twelve Great Divine Domains with them.
But few of those fiends who entered the Chaos Lands ever returned to the Twelve Great Divine Domains. This meant that far more people entered the Chaos Lands than left, so news from there seldom reached the Twelve Great Divine Domains quickly.
The latest news Phoebe, Emily, and the others in the Han Family had heard was that Han Shuo had left Ethereal City. They had no idea what had happened afterward, much less any way of learning about events in the Chaos Lands.
Not only the Han Family, but even Wallace, the Lord of Shadow City, knew nothing about Han Shuo's circumstances in the Chaos Lands. As far as they were concerned, Han Shuo had simply vanished without a trace, and they did not know when he would return to Shadow City.
After all the extraordinary things Han Shuo had done in Shadow City, Wallace began taking steps to weaken the Han Family