Chapter 505: The Hidden Dragon Returns to the Sea

The salt-laced wind that whipped across the private island was no longer a harbinger of a storm, but a gentle caress, sweeping away the last vestiges of thunder and the metallic scent of conflict. Dawn had broken fully, and the rising sun painted the tranquil ocean in strokes of liquid gold. Ted Jauncy stood on the cliff's edge, not as the fearsome Master Jiang, but simply as a man who had finally reached the end of a long, dark road. The empire his uncle had built on a foundation of sin was...