After asking about a few more details, Huo Hai grew increasingly dissatisfied. This messenger seemed to know very little. He knew nothing about when the offensive would begin, what their exact strength was, or anything else.
It seemed that even the others were not very clear on the matter. Only the upper ranks of the Hidden Emperor knew these things. As for those sent out to deliver messages, they were incomparably loyal to the Hidden Emperor. They only knew to carry out their orders and never asked too many questions about anything else. Even what this messenger knew had been learned during his usual conversations with others.
Faced with such a tightly organized force, Huo Hai truly had a terrible headache. Now, he finally understood who the people hidden in the underground passages near the Drifting Flower Pavilion belonged to. So it had all been the Hidden Emperor's doing.
From his questioning, Huo Hai also discovered that it was not merely this one city that was making moves. Throughout the entire territory of the Drifting Flower Pavilion, the same thing was happening everywhere. Within the major city factions, women with fame and strength were being watched one after another. Some women had even been directly placed under house arrest and forbidden from appearing in public.
This was not the Drifting Flower Pavilion's headquarters. The treatment men enjoyed outside was no worse than that of women. The most gifted women had all been recruited by the Drifting Flower Pavilion. Thus, among those outside, men's overall strength far surpassed women's.
Some Lineage factions had even joined hands with outsiders to keep their own people under guard. Since they had spent a long time making preparations, this sudden move had swiftly achieved remarkably obvious results.
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