"Thank you all for coming all this way to our Holy Puppet Sect. Please take a rest and enjoy some spirit tea. I am the deputy sect master of the Holy Puppet Sect, and I will be overseeing proceedings in this defensive battle. I hope that all of you can assist me in the upcoming battle, and all of you will be rewarded if we can ward off the enemy," the woman in the palace dress said.

"We came here to carry out our mission, so don't hesitate to call on us. What my fellow daoists from the Transient Guild and I are most worried about is the current situation of the Holy Puppet Sect, as well as who our enemies are going to be, when they'll be coming, and how many of them we'll have to face," Qilin 3 said in a direct and straightforward manner.

All of the Transient Guild members, including Han Li, turned to the woman in the palace dress upon hearing this.

"To tell you all the truth, I don't have answers to any of those questions," the woman in the palace dress replied with a wry smile after a brief hesitation.

"What?"

"You don't even know who your enemies are? Is this a joke?"

"We have no intention of fighting a battle that we'll know nothing about!"

"If no one comes to attack the sect, does that mean...