Touch and Reaction

Zhang Tie's injuries were not severe. After leaving the Island Dragon Cave, he did not immediately return to Hidden Dragon Hall. Instead, under the protection of a large group of experts from the Long Wind Merchant Group, he arrived at the castle he was currently having constructed.

The fact that the people sent by the Long Wind Merchant Group to protect him had actually attempted to collude with outsiders to ambush him—and that a direct descendant of the Huaiyuan Hall was being hunted by a group of experts on Huaiyuan Hall's own territory—was a matter of such gravity that it was enough to trigger a magnitude-ten earthquake.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Tie emerged from underground, he unleashed his Battle Qi Totem without restraint. He knew that this incident was merely the beginning; a greater storm was approaching. Unless this matter was brought to light, he would not be willing to let it go, even if the Long Wind Merchant Group wanted to.

Although the Zhen Family of Tianhan City in Langya Prefecture, Jin-Yun Kingdom, could not compare to the Huaiyuan Hall, they were still a major power that possessed their own city. Zhang Tie's intuition told him that the reason behind whatever scheme the Zhen Family was involved in—daring to collude with others to stir up trouble on the Zhang Family's turf while acting so furtively—must be truly shocking.

Only a handful of people knew about his ability to mass-produce Panacea Potion; why had that information leaked? Why was that piece of trash, Liu Xiang, specifically sent to protect him? These two questions alone filled Zhang Tie with a bone-chilling sense of crisis—a crisis that did not originate from the outside, but from within the Huaiyuan Hall and the Long Wind Merchant Group.

As a direct descendant of the