Linji City, in the southeast corner of the Inner City.
The Wang Family's estate.
In a side room of the front courtyard, within the grandest residence at the estate's core, Wang Xiongying sat on a bed. His eyes were vacant, a foolish, dazed look on his face.
An old physician with a white beard and hair was taking his pulse. Dressed in a Daoist Robe, he had the transcendent air of an immortal.
The old physician's brow was tightly furrowed, his expression extremely grave.
Nearby, the Wang Family Patriarch, Wang Tingxuan, wore an extremely grim expression.
The Wang Family's latest demon-slaying expedition outside the city had gone exceptionally well.
But just as it was nearing its end, tremors shook the earth's veins in the territory of Five Peaks Ridge, on the edge of the Great Wilderness Mountain Range.
Wang Xiongying and Wang Xiongba had taken the Wang Family's experts and rushed to investigate.
And that was when disaster struck.
