Three days later.
Zhou Shaocheng visited the Yang Household again.
Yang Wenfeng spoke with him for nearly an hour, settling the reward the Zhou Household had promised.
News of the Zhou Household's second visit naturally reached the Su Household.
As the former dominant aristocratic clan of Moon Lake Commandery, they had eyes and ears everywhere.
Thus, they roughly guessed the Yang Household's decision.
"It seems the Yang Household has chosen to side with the Zhou Household. Send men to watch their movements. Once an opportunity presents itself, kill without mercy. Increase surveillance on all the other aristocratic clans of sixth rank and above as well.
"I want to know every aristocratic clan standing against our Su Household."
"Yes, Household Head."
The Su Household had its own misgivings.
Though driven almost to madness, they still knew that if they slaughtered indiscriminately and set themselves against every lineage, they would truly have no way to survive.
Winning over the great clans that sided with the Su Household by offering benefits, while suppressing those that opposed them, would leave them room to maneuver.
Another five or six days passed.
Yang Shidao and Yang Zhao secretly left the Commandery Seat with their families.
As for the duties of the Commandery Commandant, there was naturally no time to attend to them.
The two dominant powers of Moon Lake Commandery were going to war, and the Yang Household might be destroyed in the process. Who would still concern themselves with the Commandery Seat's everyday affairs?
Though the officials of the Commandery Seat nominally governed Moon Lake Commandery, every one of them greeted the cultivation clans with a smiling face.
The Immortal Officials in the Commandery Seat also belonged to the various lineages. With wind and rain battering them now, they had all returned to their own