Before Jin passed away, the last thing he wanted to see was his organization and disciples tearing each other apart, burning through their living strength before their ideals were fulfilled.

Unity—no matter what conflicts there were, they should be set aside for the time being, to be discussed slowly after the external enemies were dealt with. That was the way he hoped his disciples would get along.

However...

His students, in the end, still disappointed him.

Verbal quarrels had long become commonplace; the Third Legion and the Fourth Legion had even started real firefights on many occasions, seizing territory and wealth in local areas, and at the same time, seizing discourse power.

Vitinya used to care quite a bit about Tang Jin, but once the two of them had massive conflicts of interest, that feeling quickly dissipated.

They even began wooing other fellow disciples and colleagues, constantly expanding their own factions.

Vitinya and the Third Legion extended an olive branch to Mokaka and Tian En, claiming that if they could abolish Tang Jin’s Fourth Legion, then the Hugo Clan and Mokaka herself would gain far more benefits.

Tang Jin, on the other hand, contacted Chen Zaikun and the military, wanting to launch a mutiny within the Third Legion and forcibly strip Vitinya of command.

During this period, the overall situation within the Equality Association could only be described as a complete mess.

They even later got in touch with Yun You, which left Yun You, who was in the enemy camp carrying out assassination missions, feeling both amused and helpless.

The old man had only just left this world, and they had already started fighting among themselves. No wonder that when considering a new leader, he had never thought of making either of these two the First Seat.

Yet all this so‑called infighting was nothing at all compared to what happened in September.

On September 4th, 2079, the Equality Association headquarters in Nest City No. 3 received a message—the First Legion, which was fighting out in the field, had suddenly gone completely missing. Together with the legion’s lord Jiang Wuji, a total of 1.7 million people had all lost contact.

It was as if... they had evaporated from the human world.

The first to receive the news was Chen Zaikun. His troops were the closest to the First Legion, only a few hundred kilometers away, so he rushed to the legion’s station without hesitation.

Whatever could make nearly two million people "evaporate" in an instant had to be either multiple super‑entities, or an extremely large swarm of mutated creatures in the wild.

And if it was their doing, there would inevitably be traces left behind.

But the strange thing was, at the First Legion’s station, Chen Zaikun was unable to find anything at all.

No signs of war, no traces of close combat or even gunfire, and certainly no energy fluctuations.

In other words, the First Legion had disappeared without putting up any resistance.

But... how was that possible?

After the news was relayed back, no one dared believe this was true.

Jiang Wuji was a Tier Five Peak powerhouse, with one foot already stepped into Tier Six. In theory, a Death God like him should have at least some ability to protect himself even when facing Alef Creatures.

What’s more, the First Legion was the very first unit established by the Equality Association. As the "template" and "model" for all other legions, they possessed the best equipment, and their officers were basically all selected from the military, with extremely high levels of discipline and military professionalism.

It was really hard for people to imagine that a unit like this, combined with a peak‑tier powerhouse, could just vanish into thin air.

This was simply too bizarre.

Besides, it was also unlikely to have been done by external enemies.

The reason was simple—recently, Yun You’s assassination operations had turned the mega‑corporations into frightened birds.

They indeed controlled vast wealth, had foundations and influence comparable to a nation, able to sway the economic fate of a Nest City with a flick of the wrist, plunging tens of millions into ruin.

But... this world was fair. Even if they regarded themselves as superior beings, they still had, just like Mortals, only one life.

A life that was not much sturdier than that of a Mortal.

Of course, they could hire bodyguards, even have an entire army serve as their escort, but there would always be times when they were alone; they could not live forever glued to their guards, absolutely inseparable in every moment.

And once they were alone, their life was no longer in their own hands.

After advancing to Tier Five, Yun You, through the Ability [Divine Concealment], could achieve almost one hundred percent invisibility, with near‑infinite duration.

She could completely hide in the target’s shadow, waiting for the other party to expose a flaw.

Under such circumstances, in just a few months, more than several hundred high‑level executives of mega‑corporations, along with their bodyguard Apprentice Death Gods, had already fallen to Yun You’s hand.

Thus, the corporations were now in a state where everyone feared for their life; they simply could not spare the manpower to attack the Equality Association and were only obsessively beefing up their defenses.

After all... if those territories were lost, then so be it; at worst, they could gradually take them back in the future. But if they themselves died, then everything would vanish like smoke.

So, within the Equality Association, the suspicion of "external assassins" could basically be ruled out.

But if it wasn’t done by the enemy, then there was only one possibility left for what could make the First Legion disappear completely.

They had fallen victim to an internal setup—someone launched a sneak attack while Jiang Wuji was completely off guard, only then could they assassinate the marshal.

Once this point was understood, a new wave of quarrels and slanging matches erupted yet again.

Vitinya accused Tang Jin, saying that his legion was clearly also very close to the First Legion and had maintained internal communications all along. So why, after the First Legion met with disaster, did he not detect anything amiss like Chen Zaikun did? Could it be that the Fourth Legion were the traitors?