After Shangguan Zhongtang finished speaking, he left the reception hall first.
Su Yang also stood up after Shangguan Zhongtang left.
Then Su Yang called Zuo Sheng, who was in a ceasefire.
"Hall Master Zuo, it's time."
Upon receiving the call, Zuo Sheng's expression immediately changed.
At this moment, there were two forces on the coastline.
Both were the seven great assassination organizations of Sang Country, but they were divided into two factions.
One was the Assassination Hall, and the other was the remaining six assassination organizations.
War was imminent.
Sakada Chong was well aware of his actions over the years.
He also knew that the other six assassination organizations had resented him for many years, but he had no other choice.
To survive in this world, he had to act that way.
Otherwise, he would end up like his father twenty years ago.
For Sakada Chong, the seven great assassination organizations had always been in a cooperative relationship, so there was no such thing as affection between them.
Therefore, Sakada Chong felt no guilt in attacking the other six assassination organizations.
He treated his partners and friends as two entirely different people.
At this moment, Sakada Chong's meeting with the people from the other six assassination organizations indeed carried a certain scent of impending conflict in the air.
However, Sakada Chong was unaware of Su Yang's plan and believed that these six assassination organizations would not dare to move against him.
After all, although Sakada Chong had been hostile to the other six assassination organizations over the years, there was a rule among the seven great assassination organizations that none of them could be eliminated.
This was a rule passed down from their fathers, otherwise, Sakada Chong would have already annexed these six assassination organizations long ago.
Unfortunately, Sakada Chong did not know that they were no longer adhering to this rule.
"Hall Master, their gazes towards us are too menacing. Will something happen?"
Someone beside Sakada Chong said to him.
Sakada Chong naturally noticed the unfriendly looks and that the other six assassination organizations had initially lost control and attacked people from the Assassination Hall.
This was something Sakada Chong was aware of.
But Sakada Chong firmly believed that these people were working for Su Yang and would not go against Su Yang's wishes.
He pursed his lips and said, "Don't mind them. They wouldn't dare to defy Boss Su's orders."
Indeed, they wouldn't dare to defy Su Yang's orders, but what Sakada Chong didn't know was that Su Yang's order was to kill Sakada Chong.
Upon receiving the call, Zuo Sheng did not act immediately. Instead, he went to Sakada Chong and looked at him.
"Sakada."
Zuo Sheng called out to Sakada Chong.
Hearing Zuo Sheng's voice, Sakada Chong turned to look at him, then glanced at the ships on the sea.
He found nothing unusual and had not received any information from Su Yang, so he asked Zuo Sheng, "What is it?"
Zuo Sheng was older than Sakada Chong. By seniority, Sakada Chong should have called Zuo Sheng "Uncle."
However, after years of confrontation, Sakada Chong had never called Zuo Sheng "Uncle" again, except when he was not yet the Hall Master.
"Hall Master Zuo, what is it?" Sakada Chong said to Zuo Sheng.
Zuo Sheng looked at Sakada Chong meaningfully and said, "When you were a child, you always called me Uncle. When did you start to change?"
Sakada Chong was surprised that Zuo Sheng would say this to him, but he was not at all guilty.
"It was probably after my father died and I succeeded as the Hall Master of the Assassination Hall. From then on, I stopped calling you by a respectful title."
"May I ask why?" Zuo Sheng looked at Sakada Chong with confusion.
The Sakada Chong before he succeeded as the Hall Master of the Assassination Hall was truly a very, very good junior. Zuo Sheng had always thought highly of Sakada Chong.
Even after Sakada Chong's father died, because Sakada Chong was still competing with his brothers for the position of Hall Master, Zuo Sheng had always helped Sakada Chong to succeed as the Hall Master of the Assassination Hall.
But from that moment on, Sakada Chong truly changed.
He changed a lot.
It was as if his soul had been ripped out and replaced by someone else.
However, it had to be said that after Sakada Chong changed, the development of the Assassination Hall had indeed improved a lot.
Twenty years ago, the Assassination Hall had always been the bottom-ranked organization among the seven great assassination organizations. But after Sakada Chong took over, the Assassination Hall became better and better.
Five years after Sakada Chong succeeded, the Assassination Hall became the leader of the seven great assassination organizations.
This was a qualitative leap.
But at the same time, Sakada Chong became cold-blooded and ruthless, even aggressively pressuring the other assassination organizations, making it almost impossible for them to survive.
So, Zuo Sheng had always wondered why Sakada Chong suddenly changed.
At this epic moment, Zuo Sheng wanted to ask what had caused such a change in Sakada Chong over the years.
Hearing this, Sakada Chong pursed his lips and said, "Some things just happen, there's no why."
Hearing Sakada Chong say this, Zuo Sheng remembered the Sakada Chong with pure light in his eyes that he had seen before, and he felt a sense of unwillingness.
"But any change has a reason. Can you, for the sake of me being your uncle for over a decade or two, tell me why you changed so much?"
Perhaps it was Su Yang's recent arrival that brought up memories from twenty years ago, making Sakada Chong recall the past.
After Zuo Sheng said this, Sakada Chong was also somewhat touched.
The current Sakada Chong did not use respectful language towards Zuo Sheng because Sakada Chong was the leader of the seven great assassination organizations, the most powerful figure.
Regardless of age, Zuo Sheng should have been the one to show respect to Sakada Chong.
But in Sakada Chong's heart, he always remembered that after his father died twenty years ago, when he was competing with his brothers for the position of Hall Master, it was Zuo Sheng who had always supported Sakada Chong.
This was something Sakada Chong had always kept in mind.
Although after succeeding as Hall Master, Sakada Chong had exerted considerable pressure on the Ji Sheng Hall, causing Zuo Sheng a lot of trouble.
However, after the Assassination Hall began to show signs of improvement, Sakada Chong provided some financial feedback to the Ji Sheng Hall.