At a certain point in Yu Kingdom's history, Official Peng's descendants and the Supreme God Cult were one and the same. In other words, unlike what the historical records said, Official Peng's descendants hadn't been wiped out over several generations after the Gao clan ruler died, and the Supreme God Cult hadn't been suppressed by successive rulers ever since the Gao clan ruler's time, either.
Whether Official Peng's descendants had infiltrated and taken control of the Supreme God Cult, or the cult had used them to gain military strength, the former Chief Executive's visit to the Tribunal with a token to seek out followers of the Supreme God hadn't been without purpose. After investigating, the current government concluded that the Supreme God Tribunal didn't have the power to help Gao Hui, and that its members had all been slaughtered afterward.
But the Supreme God Cult had managed to establish a Tribunal after several centuries, which meant there had to be something in it for them. Years of war had already stripped Yu Kingdom's people of their faith. If the Supreme God Cult couldn't sway public opinion, then it must have represented some other force.
The government formed by Lian Qingkong had clearly uncovered only limited information, yet they remained convinced that there was no such thing as "legitimacy." Perhaps the people or tokens that could prove a regime's legitimacy simply lacked the conditions to come into being. Or perhaps they believed that even if such things existed, they wouldn't be enough to change the current situation.
This made Xu Huo somewhat more inclined to believe that Official Peng's Assassin Family might really have survived to this day.
As for the players who had been assassinated, they no longer mattered. Unless the so-called "Imperial Treasure" appeared again, their deaths had no