Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie had gone to such lengths—creating the Heavenly Prodigy Ranking, making their names known across the land, and tying themselves to Shuiyang Prefecture—all so they could infiltrate the Third Prince's inner circle.
The Third Prince's people also knew they would certainly be figures planted within their ranks by the opposing faction. Yet they had no choice but to accept them, because that was one of the rules.
According to the original plan, once the Third Prince's people arrived, they would have their own tightly controlled stronghold and forces from all sides. No matter what, they should have been able to keep one man in check.
Yet before the other side had even arrived, they had already burned, killed, plundered, and committed every evil along the way. They had directly overturned the entire chessboard, then built the environment anew with their own hands.
Under such circumstances, it would be far harder for Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie to infiltrate their residence as easily as before, openly investigate their movements, communicate and report outward, and restrain their power.
It could be said that infiltrating their residence and openly restricting their actions was Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie's greatest use, as well as one of the bargaining chips against the Third Prince.
After all, if they used any other method to so openly place people by their side, the Third Prince's faction would surely refuse and obstruct them with all manner of excuses.
Only by employing this method could they smoothly and properly place people into the residences under the Third Prince's command, thereby allowing the faction opposing him to exert even greater pressure on him.
To a certain extent, the arrangements for Li Chengfeng and Zhao Lie had never been intended, from the very beginning, to bring them