Chapter 1227: Chapter 1226 Hei Tu The Paocai Nation’s sect master, who had just boasted to the Dragon Country’s sect master about his "Physical Strength Pill," felt extremely awkward. He wished he could slap himself twice. What were you showing off in front of him? Boasting about a single Physical Strength Pill in front of someone with three Replenishing Yuan Pills was truly like a young cow sitting on an air balloon, blowing it out of proportion. "Okay, everyone is here now. So, let’s set off immediately!" Lin Dong issued the order, asking Grey Snake and Red Rat to lead the way as they headed out to encircle the Black Sorcerer Palace. According to Grey Snake and Red Rat, the master of their Black Sorcerer Palace held a ’Black Sorcerer Festival’ every month, and the location changed each time. At the Black Sorcerer Festival, all core members of the Black Sorcerer Palace must be present. The master of the Black Sorcerer Palace would conduct Black Sorcerer rituals at the festival. Besides, the master would reward the meritorious members of the Black Sorcerer Palace and punish those who had made mistakes at the festival. Additionally, she would impart some Black Witchcraft to everyone at the festival. This time, the formal ceremony of the Black Sorcerer Festival was to be held five days later, on an island in Paocai Nation called ’Hibiscus Island,’ according to Grey Snake and Red Rat. Everyone then split up and headed for Hibiscus Island. Soon, they arrived at the port city that led to Hibiscus Island. However, to avoid alerting the enemy, they did not head to Hibiscus Island right away. Instead, Lin Dong formulated a strategy. "Ye Wuyou and I, along with Grey Snake and Red Rat, will first go to the island to scout out the situation. Everyone else, stay at this port and wait for our signal!" "Once you receive our signal, all of you will land on the island and begin a comprehensive encirclement of the Black Sorcerer Palace!" "Yes!" everyone nodded in response. The reason for this was firstly to avoid alerting the enemy. Otherwise, if so many people landed on the island, it would inevitably alert the people of the Black Sorcerer Palace, and there was a very high possibility of them orchestrating a counter-encirclement. Lin Dong and Ye Wuyou going to the island first was to prepare for sabotaging Black Sorcerer Palace members and to scout out the situation. As long as they confirmed that the master of the Black Sorcerer Palace and the core members were present, they could then signal An Zhongshan and others to begin the encirclement. Otherwise, if the master and core members of the Black Sorcerer Palace did not arrive, their hasty invasion would be in vain. Finding another opportunity for such an encirclement would then be difficult! After finalizing this strategy, Lin Dong applied a type of ’witchcraft’ on Ye Wuyou. This witchcraft could hide the Martial Way aura on Ye Wuyou, preventing anyone from recognizing his Half-Step Earth Realm martial artist’s strength. Even Earth Realm martial artists could not detect it. As for Lin Dong himself, his own strength was very formidable, and hiding his aura was too easy; he didn’t need to use the witchcraft meant for hiding auras. Unless he released his aura himself, no one could detect his strength as an Earth Realm martial artist. The two of them briefly disguised themselves and set off following Grey Snake and Red Rat. Soon, they boarded a ship headed for Hibiscus Island. Hibiscus Island was a low-profile residential island, the size of a village, with less than ten thousand inhabitants. According to Grey Snake and Red Rat, Hibiscus Island was one of the Black Sorcerer Palace’s locations. On the island, many people were members of the Black Sorcerer Palace. And the entire island was also controlled by the Black Sorcerer Palace from behind the scenes. "Master Lin, when the time comes, honor yourself. Say that you and Lord Ye are our newly recruited members," said Red Rat at the moment. Lin Dong nodded. The four of them soon arrived at Hibiscus Island. After disembarking, they stepped onto the island of Hibiscus Island. Right upon landing, Lin Dong sensed that many eyes were secretly watching them. However, those looks did not linger for too long. Perhaps it was because the people in the shadows recognized Red Rat and Grey Snake. After getting onto the island, Red Rat and Grey Snake hailed a motorcycle. Red Rat and Grey Snake each took out a token. On Red Rat’s token, the front had the word "Rat" inscribed, and the back featured a blood rat design. On Grey Snake’s token, the front bore the word "Snake," and the reverse side had a pattern of a venomous snake hissing. Upon seeing these two tokens, the "motorcycle driver" trembled with excitement. He hurriedly whispered softly, "Subordinate has seen the Rat Hall Master, Snake Hall Master!" Clearly, he hadn’t expected to ferry the Rat Hall Master and Snake Hall Master of the Twelve Zodiacs of the Black Sorcerer Palace. The two nodded indifferently, saying, "Take us to Blood Cliff!" "Yes." The motorcycle started up, carrying the four, including Lin Dong, towards the so-called ’Blood Cliff’ mentioned by Red Rat and Grey Snake. It seemed that place was no ordinary location. The small three-wheeled motorcycle started and headed toward the Blood Cliff with the four people on board. Soon, they arrived at Blood Cliff. Lin Dong saw a huge bay in front of him. The cape of the bay was enclosed by a cliff shaped like a ’C,’ which was blood-colored. On the shore of the bay, there was a beach. Behind the beach, an area was enclosed, where a row of seaside villas had been built. However, this row of seaside villas was fenced off and not open to the public. Uninformed people might think this was a seaside homestay on Hibiscus Island. But that was not the case. This stretch of seaside villas was property of their Black Sorcerer Hall. This place was accessible only to members of the Black Sorcerer Hall, and even then, only to those with a certain status. Red Rat and Grey Snake, of course, were among them. Both were members of the Twelve Zodiacs of the Black Sorcerer Hall, and each had a villa assigned to them in this seaside villa district. Upon reaching the entrance of the community, guards from the Black Sorcerer Hall were stationed. Red Rat and Grey Snake showed their identity tokens, and the guards let them through without any issues. Just as they entered, suddenly a voice rang out: "Red Rat, Grey Snake, you two have come early too, huh? Hahaha, perfect, there’s a batch of ’offerings’ from Dragon Country coming later today. Let’s check it out together! I hear this batch has an international star!" The speaker was a woman whose body was half-tattooed with witch text, a member of the Twelve Zodiacs. She was the ’Rabbit Hall Master,’ Hei Tu. She was dressed in pirate attire, having been a female pirate before joining the Black Sorcerer Palace. Red Rat and Grey Snake smiled and nodded, Red Rat spoke: "Of course. Hei Tu, call us when it’s time to pick up those ’offerings.’ We’re going to rest in our villas first, as the journey here was quite exhausting." "Okay." Hei Tu smiled and nodded, unable to help but glance at Lin Dong. Although Lin Dong had disguised himself somewhat, he still appeared strikingly handsome. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚 When Hei Tu approached Lin Dong, she licked her lips and touched his cheek, saying: "Red Rat, is this a new member you’ve recruited? He’s really handsome, huh? How about you lend him to me for a few days?" Red Rat quickly said, "Roll, roll, roll, who doesn’t know you, Hei Tu? This person is highly favored by me and is being trained as a disciple. You better not mess with him." He quickly pulled Lin Dong along towards his own villa, keeping Hei Tu further away from Lin Dong. Seeing this, Hei Tu still did not give up, staring at Lin Dong’s retreating figure and licking her lips, murmured: "Heh heh, what does it matter if he’s your disciple, Red Rat? Once I, Hei Tu, set my sights on someone, they can’t escape from my palm." "Besides, I’m only looking to have a bit of fun, not to take his life... "