Despite the increased security and ongoing investigation, the trail had gone cold.
No footprints, no suspects, not even a lingering spiritual residue. The sect's elders, frustrated by the lack of progress and mounting pressure, finally turned their attention back to pending affairs—one of which had sat quietly at the bottom of their docket.
"Outer Court Disciple Han Yu's reassessment."
The name seemed like a joke amidst the recent chaos, but a few elders remembered the decision they had made upon his unlikely return from death. Some had even assumed he'd quietly fade back into obscurity or collapse from residual damage. But since then, Han Yu had not only recovered—he'd been too quiet.
"Well," Elder Xiang said with a sigh, "we may as well cross this off the list."
The time of reassessment.
