Yang Ge inscribed a plaque for Wang Dashi with four large characters: "Justice and Fairness."
The inscription beneath read: "Written by Yang Erlang on the sixth day of the second month, Xiping Year Fifteen."
The handwriting was hardly beautiful. In fact, it could even be called ugly.
But Wang Dashi treasured it as though he had found a priceless jewel. The moment he received the plaque, he assigned twenty attendants to guard it in shifts, day and night.
He knew that with this plaque, his journey south would be smooth sailing, whether he dealt with the authorities, ordinary folk, or the outlaws of the greenwood!
After thanking Yang Ge a thousand times over, he boarded a boat and headed south with the plaque, brimming with ambition...
Afterward, Yang Ge returned to his idle, salted-fish existence. Every day, he shuttled between the same two places, drinking tea, playing cards, and feasting on gossip, living his life like a recording on repeat.
Yet he thoroughly enjoyed that seemingly bland, water-clear life!
It was worth mentioning that after the Court joined the campaign against the Five Poisons Cult, the fighting in the southern martial world did not die down. Instead, it showed signs of growing ever fiercer.
The Bright Cult, White Lotus Cult, and Five Poisons Cult—the Three Teachings—fought like a raging blaze. Many old veterans who had vanished from the martial world years ago emerged once more to stir up bloody rain and foul winds, while numerous rising talents won battle after battle and shot to fame. The Three Teachings' battle lines stretched from Jiangzhe all the way to the southwest, and their followers appeared throughout the southern martial world, fighting and killing!
With the Three Teachings fighting so fiercely, the major sects of the Southern Martial World were inevitably dragged in.