Bribery

Dai Bufan had never heard of the Demonic Sect voluntarily offering benefits before.

Had the Demonic Sect taken the two of them for a pair of protective umbrellas or something?

Why didn't the Demonic Sect beg for mercy and bribe him, when he was the one cracking down on them every day?

"It can't be called bribery. They just offered to give us things, and we were too embarrassed to refuse," Meng Jingzhou corrected him.

"Besides, bribery applies to court officials. Old Lu and I are law-abiding commoners."

Lu Yang chimed in as well. "We had to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens to infiltrate the enemy's ranks. We were forced to accept their gifts."

Dai Bufan: "..."

"Forget it, forget it. Here's all the intelligence on the Radiant Sun Sect. You two can look it over."

Dai Bufan shoved a huge stack of files at them and had them read them there. They could return them once they were done, and he could consider it early training for the future hall masters.

He still had plenty of work piling up on his end.

The Ask Dao Sect's next round of recruitment was only a few months away. Considering that they hadn't prepared in advance for the last round and had ended up recruiting two junior brothers who made him worry himself sick every day—Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou—while promising talents like Bai Ming and Lan Ting had been snapped up by other sects, this time Dai Bufan had decided to scout ahead for promising youngsters with excellent character, temperament, and Root Bone.

What he needed to do now was find those people in the intelligence reports from the Vast Sea of Clouds.

There was plenty of intelligence on the Radiant Sun Sect that they couldn't hide, even if they