The Court's two great intelligence agencies and the martial world's largest intelligence organization charged into motion like bulls stabbed in the backside, bellowing as they joined forces to scour the realm!
Vast numbers of operatives from all three organizations took magnifying glasses to every inch of the eight-hundred-li Grand Canal route from Jiangzhe to Luting County. Every martial artist, mule or horse caravan, and gathering of more than twenty people that had passed through the canal's vicinity during that time came under their scrutiny.
Many innocent martial artists were questioned by Tower Beyond Towers in the morning, only for the Embroidered Uniform Guard to knock on their doors at noon. After talking themselves hoarse to send the guards away, they found the Western Factory slipping up to their doors that night...
In Jianghuai, there was even an amusing tale of all three arriving to investigate a band of mountain bandits calling themselves the Black Cloud Three Hawks. After exchanging glances, they tacitly joined forces to storm the stronghold. The three bandit chiefs rushed out upon hearing the news, only to wet themselves on the spot when the three groups announced their affiliations.
Just about everyone in the martial world who heard this tale could imagine the violent turmoil inside those three chiefs' heads upon hearing the names Embroidered Uniform Guard, Western Factory, and Tower Beyond Towers: What the fuck have I done to deserve all three of you teaming up to kill me? Did I fucking rob an imperial convoy? Even if I did rob an imperial convoy, what the fuck is Tower Beyond Towers doing joining in?
In short, Yang Ge watched the two big shots like a tiger eyeing its prey, the two big shots watched the three organizations the same way, and those three watched every faction