"Sea Shark Palace’s ships surround Hero Island, and Helian Ba, the Master of Sea Shark Palace, arrives hand in hand with his sworn brother, the Divine Fire Sect Leader Bai Ting!"
"News that Hero Island holds a secret manual beyond Heaven Rank causes an uproar in the Martial World!"
"How powerful is a Divine Skill beyond Heaven Rank? Even the big boss of Sea Shark Palace spares no effort to seize it!"
"Demon Master Pang Ban appears in Northern Divine Martial Country, presumably seeking Zhu Wushi’s head from the World’s No.1 Building in Divine Martial Country—A battle erupts between the Demon Palace and World’s No.1 Building! Three of the Heavenly Pool Twelve Evil perish, Demon Master Pang Ban is gravely wounded, Zhu Wushi’s whereabouts unknown."
"Conflict reignites between Song and Jin countries, Yue Fei leads the troops in the first battle of Gaojie, the famous warrior Xiao Qiushui joins the army, and rumors say Black Wind Village Chief might also join? True or false?"
Early in the morning, as soon as Jiang Dali entered the Jianghu Forum, he was bombarded with trending posts.
When he saw "Sea Shark Palace’s ships surround Hero Island," he couldn’t help but be astonished.
The actions of Sea Shark Palace were too swift.
He had led his people to the island just yesterday.
Yet today, the ships of Sea Shark Palace appeared just outside the Wild Goose Never Return Sea Area.
"No, it must have been a few days ago when I announced in Sanshui City my intentions to visit Hero Island, Helian Ba must have known the news through Players or secret informers.
It must have been after I landed on the island yesterday that some players who joined Sea Shark Palace leaked the news about the secret manual surpassing Heaven Rank, attracting Helian Ba.
But it seems Helian Ba brought along Bai Ting from the Divine Fire Sect, probably premeditated. Could it be he had been interested in Hero Island for a long time?"
Jiang Dali thought to this point, but was not at all panicked.
In his previous life, he had little contact with Helian Ba and Bai Ting.
He only knew that Helian Ba was the master of Sea Shark Palace.
And that Sea Shark Palace was incredibly powerful, possessing Thirty-Three Layered Palaces, filled with experts.
Helian Ba had once schemed to kill Bai Ting and defeated Guan Yutian, the leader of the Supreme Alliance, nearly becoming the Martial Arts Alliance Hierarch of Yuan Country.
Therefore, the strength of Helian Ba and Bai Ting might even surpass that of the two Island Masters, Long and Mu, by quite a bit.
This strength might not necessarily mean a higher Power Realm.
Rather, it might mean that the martial arts they practiced were far more formidable in combat.
After all, Helian Ba’s Clone Demon Shadow and Divided Heart Palm were indeed famous in the Martial World.
But to think that just these two could take the Divine Skill from him, the Black Wind Village Chief, was still a fool’s dream.
"Now that these two have come seeking, they might just be walking into the blade of my sword. If I were to take the Supreme Mysterious Scripture and go directly back to the mountain village, it might seem as if I, Laozi, am scared of them, going back might still attract covetous sneaks eyeing the Divine Skill. It might be better to strike while the iron is hot, let’s see who dares to covet my Jiang Dali’s possessions again."
Jiang Dali coldly schemed in his heart.
With the Supreme Mysterious Scripture in his hands, even if Helian Ba surrounded the island, or even if he blew up the island, it wouldn’t be taken from him; he could simply airlift himself away.
However, avoiding conflict directly was not Jiang Dali’s style.
Moreover, even though he could escape, his newly recruited subordinates Long and Mu couldn’t.
Losing Hero Island, a unique geomantic treasure site, would also be a great loss.
It should be noted that the main ingredient for Laba Porridge could only be found on Hero Island, utterly unobtainable elsewhere.
Thus Hero Island indeed was a blessed land, not to be lost.
Thus, it was quite necessary to proactively teach Helian Ba and the other a lesson.
Jiang Dali continued to gather information on the Jianghu Forum.
It turned out that Helian Ba’s arrival truly was the masterpiece of Sea Shark Palace’s players.
As the strength of the players grew gradually,
some players had begun to become key figures within various martial factions, garnering more attention.
His leading a large group of players to Hero Island was no secret.
Players from various big factions had already relayed the news back to their respective sects to exchange for intelligence merits.
Some players had even already analyzed and created similar "mountain village version landing strategies."
Helian Ba’s decision to mobilize dozens of ships and send thousands of players from Sea Shark Palace was clearly intended to mimic his actions on the previous day, using manpower to overcome the natural geodetic forces and break through the Wild Goose Never Return fog to land on the island.
But the reason Jiang Dali easily dispelled the fog of the Wild Goose Never Return Sea Area and accurately located Hero Island was not just due to the players.
It was more because he had the advantage of being able to observe from above and find the optimal path from the air.
Sea Shark Palace did not have such an aerial advantage.
Landing on the island still posed a great challenge.
"Let’s let Helian Ba taste the flavor of losing troops and breaking generals first. After I have eaten and drunk my fill, I’ll go out and hammer this old fellow!"
Jiang Dali no longer paid attention to the situation with Sea Shark Palace.
He then browsed and paid attention to hot posts concerning Demon Master Pang Ban and Yue Fei.
The content in these two posts also closely related to his future plans.
Especially Demon Master Pang Ban, an utterly ruthless Demon King.
He would go to such lengths over Yan Jing’an from Cihang Jingzhai, seeking Zhu Wushi from World’s No.1 Building.
This was indeed beyond his expectations.
One could only marvel at the extraordinary women of Cihang Jingzhai.
Yan Jing’an was highly esteemed by Pang Ban.
Even in death, she would have no regrets.
While Demon Master Pang Ban not finding Zhu Wushi in the World’s No.1 Building was not unexpected to Jiang Dali.
In his opinion, Zhu Wushi was surely at the headquarters of the World Association.
Or possibly recuperating in another place arranged by Xiong Ba.