That very day, the heads of the Zhou Family, Fu Family, and Zhang Family jointly summoned their families' stewards for a meeting, laying out the severity of the matter in crystal-clear terms. Then, following the plan they had previously discussed, they each singled out three spies and traitors to execute as a warning to the rest.
With the martial prowess and methods of the three family heads, dealing with a few people from within their own clans could not have been easier. They quickly found their targets.
But once they began investigating, they uncovered something major.
Besides Beitang Sheng using high office, generous pay, glory, and wealth to win hearts and tempt members of their clans, another powerful clan had also gotten involved, employing quite a few schemes against Sifang City.
That clan was none other than the Dragon Clan, a later arrival among the Hundred Clans. Of the traitors they had bribed, three out of the nine from these three families alone were theirs. It was utterly mad, and it immediately put the three family heads on guard.
At this time, inside a palace forged from mystic ice, the three family heads sat in their respective chairs. Before them knelt three traitors—one each from the Zhou Family, Fu Family, and Zhang Family.
After interrogation, the three traitors recounted the entire process by which they had betrayed their families and Sifang City.
According to them, the reason they had lost their heads and were willing to betray their families and Sifang City to work for the Dragon Clan was that the Dragon Clan had tempted them with dragon blood. It could improve their physiques and bloodlines, thereby enhancing their martial potential and shattering the limits of martial arts.
The person who had given them the dragon blood was named Long