After wiping out the Purple Pearl Pirate Group's main force of Soul Masters, Zhang Yang and the others did not leave immediately. Instead, once dawn broke, they gathered the commoners who had been trembling in fear after the battle at daybreak.
As the overall commander of the Navy Squad, Zhang Yang first declared his identity as a navy officer, then displayed the heads of Purple Pearl and the others so everyone would understand that resistance would bring no good outcome.
Afterward, a series of temporary policies was established.
No one was allowed to put out to sea to fish for three days.
No one was allowed to move around the island freely for three days. Everyone had to remain at home and await the arrival of the navy's follow-up main force, which would take over the entire island.
Anyone who violated these orders would be treated as an accomplice of the pirates.
Purple Pearl Island was two days' sailing from Vast Sea City, but under urgent orders, the navy's reinforcements reached Purple Pearl Island in only a day and a half.
After a fleet of more than two thousand navy soldiers landed on Purple Pearl Island, they completely took over the island under the officers' command and began questioning and investigating the commoners there.
In addition, the navy dispatched large numbers of personnel to raid the Purple Pearl Pirate Group's headquarters and seize all the stolen goods from the homes of the Purple Pearl Pirate Group's Soul Masters, rescuing the hostages whom the pirates had abducted to Purple Pearl Island.
During this time, Zhang Yang did not remain idle either. He spread out his Kenbunshoku Haki and carefully searched for the whereabouts of those twenty Soul Masters.
Zhang Yang had been right. Those people had indeed gone out to sea