"He sent several Imperial Guards skilled at infiltration to disguise themselves as martial artists of the rivers and lakes and join this Heavenly Dao Alliance as undercover agents, hoping to gather intelligence on it."
"At first, they did obtain some intelligence on the Heavenly Dao Alliance. But after some time, contact with those Imperial Guards was lost. Zhang Jing suspected that the Heavenly Dao Alliance had discovered their identities as undercover agents and had already killed them."
"But the Cool Prefecture Thousand Households Office has found no evidence that the Heavenly Dao Alliance killed the Imperial Guards."
"This Heavenly Dao Alliance acts meticulously and uses ruthless methods. It is nothing like an ordinary martial faction, and it has several Martial Saint experts. It now poses a threat to Cool Prefecture and Yong Prefecture."
Although Zhang Jing had Grandmaster cultivation, he felt that this matter was already beyond his ability to handle, so he hurriedly reported it to the court.
The Grand Secretaries looked grave and began discussing countermeasures against the Heavenly Dao Alliance in low voices.
Someone proposed sending troops to suppress the Heavenly Dao Alliance directly, but martial factions had many experts. If they simply left, the army would have little room to act.
Someone proposed offering amnesty and recruiting them, but the Heavenly Dao Alliance had come on with such ferocity that its ambitions clearly lay elsewhere.
Others recommended sending several Martial Saint realm experts from the court to probe their strength, establish where the alliance leaders had come from, and discover their purpose in founding the Heavenly Dao Alliance.
But those Martial Saint realm experts were either guarding other vital locations and could not leave, or lacked sufficient strength and might not be able to match the Heavenly Dao Alliance's leaders.
Even the lowest-ranked alliance leader was