All under heaven was focused on the Yellow River Assembly.
For every nation with ambitions at the Yellow River Assembly, the contestants from the six great powers of All-Under-Heaven were naturally the main focus.
But the Present World was vast. Not every nation had the intelligence networks needed to keep watch on the world.
In a sense, intelligence-gathering ability was itself a measure of a nation's strength.
Chen Zeqing of Qi State could keep close tabs on the contestants from Qin and Chu, as well as Jing Mu. He could even reconstruct the details of specific battles. In short, any information they had revealed in public could be gathered and pieced together... That alone showed how powerful Qi State was.
For a nation like Zhuang, which was only now advancing from a small state toward becoming a regional power, its military strength might have caught up in some respects, but its ability to monitor the world could not be built overnight.
It required years of work.
In fact, much of Zhuang's intelligence on other parts of the world came from Jing Kingdom or Yujing Mountain.
The current Zhuang Emperor was ambitious, and State Chancellor Zhuang was exceptionally capable and had spared no effort. Naturally, neither was content with that.
But to be realistic, given Zhuang's current strength, extending its intelligence network into the Eastern Domain really was asking too much.
The quickest reports they could obtain were things like, "Qi's Destruction of Yang. Slaughterer leads the Autumn Killing Army into battle; Yang Jiande gives his life for his country," or "Qi and Xia clash at Sword Peak Mountain"...
In short, they were only broad outlines.
Compared with Jing Kingdom's intelligence, Zhuang's reports were certainly simpler and arrived much later.
And even among Dao-Subordinate states, Zhuang was not one of the