With the well-connected Zhang Zuolin handling the negotiations, the process naturally went quite smoothly. Publicly, Xu Yue also became a newly promoted Intruder with Fengtian Clique backing.
Thanks to his talents and abilities, his status was higher than that of an ordinary Intruder.
In particular, due to his extremely high burst power and the annihilation of the Sino-Japanese Alliance, Beiyang classified his trump-card ability as restricted intelligence.
While it was not completely secret from outsiders, they would keep the circle as small as possible and limit how much others knew about the ability. At most, people would know that he possessed some unknown but powerful trump card.
As for trump cards, every Intruder had more or less a few of them. Their strengths merely varied.
Just as Xu Yue and Zhang Zuolin finished their "talks" and set the tone, Taiping Dao's intelligence-exchange negotiations also came to an end. Another unbelievable piece of intelligence obtained from Taiping Dao once again greatly boosted Beiyang's morale!
Guang Jing had died again!
Since their side had either escaped afterward or lost consciousness, Beiyang only had a rough outline of the final situation. They only knew from the negotiations that Taiping Dao had some major revelation to disclose, but they had not expected it to be this major!
It turned out that not only Li Lianying had fallen during that mission, but also Guang Jing, whose abilities had yet to fully recover!
Although he had forcibly paid to restore his Rebirth Authority, dying repeatedly before his recovery meant that his loss of strength was already inevitable.
Helping the two of them complete even the most basic guaranteed recovery would once again consume a vast amount of the Qing Court's treasury. At the same time, there was no need to worry about either of them posing