Release from Prison! The Truth of Mother's Death!

At the entrance of Haicheng First Prison, the prison guard looked at Ye Wudao as he stepped out of the gate and said softly, "Ye Wudao, go out there and live a good life!"

Ye Wudao did not look back at the guard. Remembering his second master's words, he simply replied indifferently, "Do you think I look like a bad person?"

The guard pursed his lips; he was merely following protocol by offering a reminder to Ye Wudao.

He was just a perimeter guard and knew nothing about the situation in Cell No. 1.

He only knew that the prisoner being released today was named Ye Wudao and that he was being released early.

Hearing the guard's silence, Ye Wudao smiled slightly and took a step forward.

In the next second, his entire body soared into the air and flew off toward the distance.

The guard watched Ye Wudao suddenly fly away, his mouth agape, and it took him a long time to regain his senses.

"A... a Grandmaster Realm expert!"

In the current Blue Star, who didn't know about martial arts? Who didn't know that only those in the Grandmaster Realm could fly?

He watched Ye Wudao's figure growing smaller and smaller in disbelief, muttering, "I... I actually just told a Grandmaster Realm expert to live a good life?"

Haicheng, Flower Street, Dragon Chant Tavern.

Flower Street was, as the name suggested, a street entirely dedicated to selling flowers.

Ye Wudao had followed the address given by Qin Tianlong to find the place. The small tavern had only a single storefront, and it took him a long time to locate it.

Ye Wudao looked at the sign hanging above the entrance and muttered softly, "This must be the place!"

He truly could not understand why this man named Ghost Seven would open a tavern in such a location.

In the entire Flower Street, this was the only tavern, and its location was particularly remote; he couldn't imagine anyone coming here to drink.

He pushed open the glass door, which was only wide enough for one person to pass through, and saw the interior of the tavern.

The tavern was small, with only five tables in total, though the decor was quite unique, featuring a dark, modern style.

At the front counter, a middle-aged man was wiping a glass with a white towel.

Hearing someone push the door open, the middle-aged man didn't even look up and said in a hoarse voice, "Sorry! We aren't open yet."

Ye Wudao smiled slightly and said, "I know you aren't open, of course. Nobody comes to a tavern to drink in the early morning, right?"

"I'm here to find someone!"

The middle-aged man looked up at Ye Wudao, his hands never stopping their work, and asked softly, "Who are you looking for?"

Ye Wudao glanced at the middle-aged man and said quietly, "I don't think it's you. I'm looking for Ghost Seven!"

Hearing this, the middle-aged man laughed and said, "I am Ghost Seven!"

Ye Wudao was stunned. He could not sense any aura of cultivation from the middle-aged man.

He had assumed that the Ghost Seven whom Qin Tianlong told him to find must have been a martial artist from the former Azure Dragon Gang.

He had not expected Ghost Seven to be an ordinary person, not even at the Body Forging Realm.

He pursed his lips, looked at the Ghost Seven before him, and spoke again, "The Azure Dragon sees the bright moon!"

Ghost Seven paused for a moment, set his glass on the table, and replied, "The bright moon sees the azure sky!"

After saying this, he looked at Ye Wudao and asked softly, "Are you the Young Gang Leader that Boss Qin mentioned?"

Ye Wudao was taken aback by this and countered, "Young Gang Leader? What's going on?"

"My first master told me to come find you, but he didn't say anything about me becoming some gang leader!"

Ghost Seven smiled and replied, "The Gang Leader told me a while back that if you wanted to be the leader, I would gather the members of the Azure Dragon Gang again."

"If you don't want to be the leader, I just need to provide you with information!"

Ye Wudao nodded; Qin Tianlong had indeed mentioned this to him.

He sat down across from Ghost Seven and asked, "How many people are left in the Azure Dragon Gang now?"

Ghost Seven continued wiping the glass as he replied, "Of the Four Great Protectors, two are dead, one is crippled, and one fled overseas."

"Of the Eight Great Guardians, six are dead, one lost a leg, and one is lying in the hospital."

"The Ten Great Hall Masters all died in battle back then; not a single one remains!"

Hearing this, Ye Wudao rolled his eyes. "The people you're talking about are either dead or crippled. Doesn't that just mean there's nobody left?"

Ghost Seven put down the glass in his hand and smiled. "Am I not a person?"

"Let me formally introduce myself. I am Li Huai, nicknamed Ghost Seven, the strategist of the Azure Dragon Gang."

Hearing this, Ye Wudao had a sudden realization and said, "So you're the strategist. No wonder you don't have any cultivation!"

Ghost Seven shook his head. "It's not that I don't have it; it's that my cultivation was crippled."

"Back in the day, I was at the peak of the Houtian Realm, but after that battle with the Zhang Family, my meridians were shattered. I'll never be able to cultivate again in this lifetime."

Ye Wudao pursed his lips and shook his head. "So, the Azure Dragon Gang in Haicheng is now down to just you?"

Ghost Seven continued to shake his head, saying, "That's not it. The people I mentioned earlier are all veterans of the old Azure Dragon Gang. If you want to rebuild the gang, I have spent these years cultivating some new blood."

"It's just that, without the appointment of a gang leader, these newcomers can only be called gang members!"

"Otherwise, who do you think found those cultivation manuals you asked for?"

"I'm just a mortal now; where would I go to find those manuals for you?"

Ye Wudao nodded slightly and murmured softly, "Reorganize the Azure Dragon Gang..."

In truth, he understood his master's intentions. Qin Tianlong wanted him to rebuild the Azure Dragon Gang and lead it back to the pinnacle of Sea City.

He was not actually opposed to this. With his current strength, he could easily push the Azure Dragon Gang to the number one spot in Sea City.

Never mind Sea City; even becoming the number one force on Blue Star was not out of the question.

Moreover, if the Azure Dragon Gang were reorganized, he wouldn't have to deal with certain trivial matters himself.

He looked at Li Huai and asked, "How many people do you have now?"

Li Huai extended his right hand, clenched his fist, and replied, "Including me, ten people in total!"

"Don't look down on them just because there are only ten. These are people I have carefully selected over the last ten years. Each of them has the cultivation of the Houtian Realm—myself excluded, of course!"

"Quality is better than quantity."

Ye Wudao was somewhat surprised and countered, "Nine Houtian Realm experts—that's quite a significant force in Sea City! Did you never have the thought of reorganizing the Azure Dragon Gang yourself?"

Li Huai smiled and replied softly, "Isn't this bar the new Azure Dragon Gang?"

"Besides, if you have the intention to reorganize, I can gather the old members as well."

"Although there are only a few hundred of them, they all possess the cultivation of the Body Forging Realm, which is also a force not to be underestimated."

Ye Wudao nodded. "Then have them come over this afternoon so I can take a look."

"For now, give me the information."

Li Huai nodded, took out a mobile phone, and handed it to Ye Wudao, saying softly, "This is all the information Elder Qin asked me to collect. All the details on the Ye Family, the Li Family, and the Zhang Family are inside."

"As for the Liu Family, since they are in the Magic Capital, the information I found is limited."

"Additionally, I found something else you might be interested in."

Ye Wudao nodded and began to scroll through the phone.

The information on the phone recorded the four families' spheres of influence, business operations, personnel structures, and asset conditions.

Except for the Liu Family, the information on the three families in Sea City was extremely detailed.

Behind the information on the four families, there was an electronic document titled [Truth Behind the Car Accident].

Seeing this document, he was somewhat surprised and whispered, "You even reconstructed the truth behind my car accident?"

Li Huai shook his head and said, "It's not your accident. You'll see when you look."

Ye Wudao was stunned upon hearing this, and a blurred figure flashed through his mind.

It was a memory lingering from when he was five years old; he could barely recall it now.

He hurriedly opened the electronic document, and when he saw the photo inside, he froze.

The figure from his memory slowly overlapped with the person in the photo.

His hands trembled slightly as he slowly scrolled down the screen.

This electronic document consisted of photos of the original case files from the Public Security Bureau, recording all the investigative materials regarding his mother's car accident case from back then.

The perpetrator was a truck driver who had been drinking, ran a red light, and struck his mother to death.

The truck driver had been sentenced to twenty years in prison.

The preceding materials were all standard, but when he reached the bottom of the file, he froze.

[Hired murder?]

At the very bottom of the file, there was a handwritten investigative opinion.

However, this opinion had been crossed out, and the final conclusion was officially labeled as [Accident].

Ye Wudao's emotions remained turbulent for a long time. He stared at that crossed-out line of investigative opinion and asked in a deep voice, "Where did you get this information?"

Li Huai replied softly, "When I was investigating the Ye Family, I discovered that Ye Zhenshan's wife, 'Li Yanhua,' had transferred a massive sum of three million to someone thirteen years ago."

"I originally intended to investigate whether Li Yanhua was keeping a man on the side."

"I never expected that this investigation would lead to your mother's case. The recipient of Li Yanhua's money was the ex-wife of that truck driver; the truck driver and his ex-wife had a son together."

"However, when we went to investigate the truck driver, we found that he had already died in prison."

"Even so, we still found some clues. A police officer who worked on the case back then suspected that your mother's accident was not an accident, but a case of hired murder."

"It's just that the investigative opinion he wrote back then was quickly dismissed, and the officer was transferred away from the investigative team to the archives room."

"We found this officer a few days ago, and he admitted personally that there were many suspicious aspects to your mother's case back then."

"The most critical point is that, according to the testimony of the truck driver's close friend, the driver was allergic to alcohol and never drank."

"Yet, the truck driver's own statement claimed that he had been arguing with his ex-wife that day, didn't want to live anymore, and therefore drank a lot of alcohol."

"But we investigated, and on the day of the incident, the truck driver was in Sea City, while his ex-wife and child were in their hometown of Chrysanthemum City. Chrysanthemum City is over a thousand kilometers away from Sea City. Even if he had argued with his ex-wife in Chrysanthemum City the day before, it would have been impossible for him to appear in Sea City by the early hours of the next day."

"We had a hacker investigate his phone number and traced the call data from thirteen years ago; we found that he hadn't called his ex-wife at all during those days."

"With such an obvious loophole, the Public Security Bureau didn't investigate it, but instead closed the case hastily."

"Putting it all together, your mother's car accident back then was a case of Li Yanhua hiring a killer. Furthermore, the method of the hired murder wasn't particularly clever; it was simply covered up by the Ye Family and the Li Family."