"So that's why Hua Jinsong, a Fourth Rank, treated Yang Ling so well..."
The Sixth Ranks from Zhao State who had come for the Sixth Rank Top Hundred Battle wore complicated expressions.
At this moment, everything became clear.
"The Iron Clothes Department's reach actually extends this far? They planted the Command Department's Second Branch Master in the Star Sea Fishing Alliance as a spy? And even made him the chief of Raging Tide Fishing Village?"
Xie Zhihu was inwardly shocked.
The Sixth Ranks who came from Star Gazing Academy like him, as well as the disciples of those first-rate sects, suddenly gained a much more concrete understanding of the Iron Clothes Department's methods.
The Fifth-Rank Minor Grandmasters of Raging Tide Fishing Village, along with its disciples at the Sixth Rank and below, all looked at Hua Jinsong with resentment.
Yet Hua Jinsong remained expressionless, without the slightest guilt.
"I never imagined the Command Department's Second Branch Master, who never showed his face, would turn out to be him."
Xu Wenjun wore a very strange expression.
He had been the Command Department's Third Branch Master back then. Having never seen the Second Branch Master appear, he had long harbored suspicions.
But he had never suspected that this Second Branch Master would personally go undercover in the Star Sea Fishing Alliance.
Ji Kongliu and the other branch masters quickly reviewed things in their minds. There seemed to be quite a few other branch masters in the Iron Clothes Department who never appeared in public year-round.
They were probably carrying out missions much like Hua Jinsong's.
Li Ting could not help nodding slightly.
"I considered others, but never thought it would be you. Your ancestors came from the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect. Your roots are impeccable, so how could you..."
"Elder Li,