Leaving Hidden Dragon Island

On June 23rd, after a day of martial law and high tension on Hidden Dragon Island, the first passenger ship to depart at six in the morning was packed to the brim with guests leaving the island. After several hours at sea, it arrived at a pier in Jinhai City.

Stepping onto this land again after more than half a year, Zhang Tie felt a thick, smoldering rage beneath his gloomy exterior.

On December 5th of last year, he had set foot on Hidden Dragon Island and entered Hidden Dragon Hall. After six months of training there, the Zhang Tie of this moment was a completely different person compared to the one who had first arrived.

Just as Zhang Tie had expected, the martial law and search operations conducted by Hidden Dragon Hall and the Long Wind Merchant Group on the island yesterday had yielded nothing—not a single hair was found. Those who had attempted to assassinate him seemed to have all perished underground. Even though everyone knew those people must have had accomplices on the surface, there was nothing anyone could do.

Because those individuals had arrived on Hidden Dragon Island in a decentralized manner, entering in separate batches as unrelated individuals or in small, independent teams, the level of organization exceeded anyone's imagination. If any part of the operation ran into trouble, that segment would automatically detach from the organization like a lizard shedding its tail, making it impossible to trace back to the others.

Under such circumstances, unless Hidden Dragon Hall and the Long Wind Merchant Group could seal off the island and arrest every single outsider for interrogation, it was impossible to identify who the accomplices were.

As for arresting every outsider on Hidden Dragon Island, even if the Long Wind Merchant Group had the strength