Little Xu Yi personally carried in stacks of intelligence reports. Raising his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, he said, "Has Golden Peng Fortress gone mad? Choosing this moment to buy people's loyalty. When the Dragon King was at Xiaoyao Sea, plenty of people wanted to arrange a way out for themselves. But now, humph, the entire Jade City has come to curry favor with the Dragon King. Only fools would throw in with Unrivaled King.."
Gu Shenwei was not nearly so optimistic. He picked up the documents and skimmed through them rapidly, then sorted them into piles. Before long, one stack had become three.
Little Xu Yi watched for a while and, feeling that there was nothing for him to do, turned to leave. The Dragon King said to him, "Wait."
Gu Shenwei finished reading and looked up. "The lobbyists come from three sources: Tianshan Sect, Iron Mountain, and Golden Peng Fortress."
Little Xu Yi tapped himself on the head. "What a fool I am. How did I not think of sorting them that way? Let me guess—the thickest stack is Tianshan Sect's, the next is Iron Mountain's, and the thinnest is Golden Peng Fortress's."
Gu Shenwei nodded and picked up a sheet of paper from the top of the Iron Mountain stack. "What's the matter with Shi Qingjue? The details here are rather sparse."
"Oh, Shi Qingjue is only a registrar and doesn't have any special connection with the Dragon King, so he wasn't watched very closely. I'll make new arrangements later."
"Don't." Gu Shenwei tapped lightly on the tabletop twice. "What about you and your sister? Has no one tried to buy either of you?"
"Heh heh. They did, and there were quite a few. But I didn't meet a single one. I stopped every