Blood Night

After getting the few pieces of information he wanted, Zhang Tie ran Zhen Xiong through with a single thrust. Looking into Zhen Xiong's disbelieving eyes, Zhang Tie's own gaze glittered coldly. "I never said I wouldn't kill you after you answered my questions!"

He pulled out the assault sword, a string of blood droplets rolling along its blade. Zhang Tie wiped the blade on Zhen Xiong's clothes, opened a drawer in the room, took out a ring of keys, and silently left.

Zhen Xiong's answers could not all have been true, but they certainly could not all have been false either. At the very least, the information he had gained here was better than stumbling around blind. More importantly, Zhang Tie had confirmed one thing—two days before he was attacked and set up on Hidden Dragon Island, a group from the Tianhan City Zhen Family had indeed come to Huaiyuan Prefecture under the pretext of gathering battle qi.

Those people had stayed at the family guildhall in Star-Gazing City for a day before heading to Hidden Dragon Island. After something happened to him, they returned in several batches. Without saying a word, they left Star-Gazing City and Huaiyuan Prefecture...

Zhen Xiong had even found it strange. A few days was nowhere near enough time to gather battle qi.

Zhang Tie sneered inwardly. Those people from the Tianhan City Zhen Family had gone to Hidden Dragon Island to receive and cooperate openly with the scum he had killed. Seeing the plan fail, they had found an excuse to leave the island.

It seemed the Tianhan City Zhen Family had dispatched two forces to Hidden Dragon Island, one in the light and one in the shadows. The ordinary people at the guildhall knew only about the force operating openly. As for the