When the gate-keeping mystical beast of the Golden Palace showed unusual behavior, the only one who knew the inside story, the Real Miaoyin, was leading people to firmly defend the Inner Imperial Palace.
Outside the palace gates stood thousands of young people in an orderly formation, wearing various types of attire.
Some of those young people were dressed in scholarly long robes, some wore armor, some were in coarse linen garments, and some were half-naked.
Despite their different attires, they all shared a common trait— their facial expressions.
These young people were mostly around twenty years old, with the eldest not exceeding forty.
At an age typically brimming with vitality and energy, they instead appeared with lifeless expressions, their faces stiff and numb, their movements rigid and mechanical.
They looked less like real people and more like puppets.
