Chapter 202: The Nation's Secret Order

The roar of the military transport jet engine was a dull thrum in the background, a sound Terry Lu had been intimately familiar with for years. He stood alone in the spartan cabin, gazing out the small porthole at the sprawling, glittering lights of the capital city below. The chaos at Dair Temple, the awe-struck faces of the martial arts world, the broken form of a so-called grandmaster—all of it felt like a lifetime ago, a trivial footnote in a far more significant story. His phone had been...